History VideoGame / Valheim

** Lox riding. While a lox at full charge can do a lot of damage, elts you ignore weight limits while riding and puts the player above the range of most enemy weapons, it takes a long time to tame the lox, acquire the materials for the saddle, to get the lox where you want it since they steer like tanks and they don't do too well on terrain that isn't mostly flat, and to get their stamina back up to full (they heal very slowly too). Oh, and "out of reach of most enemy weapons emphatically ''does not'' include Deathsquitoes (at least when they aren't busy sucking your Lox dry).

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: When a player is in a base (determined by having enough "base structures" like workbenches and beds nearby), the game may randomly send a raid at them. There is a variety of different raids, and each has a certain enemy type spawn, usually [[ZergRush in large numbers]], for a short period to lay siege to the player and their base. Stronger and more varied raids are unlocked as the game progresses.

* BeefGate: While it's possible to go to all the biomes from the beginning, it would serve you well to stick to the biomes of the Forsaken you are currently tasked with as the enemies are progressively stronger in the order of the Forsaken quests. Though there are more traditional hindrances to progress, like needing the Swamp Key to get iron, or the Mountains slowly killing you if you don't have frost resistance.

** The club can be crafted straight out of the gate and is likely to be the first purely combat-focused weapon you can access. Although it has no flint/stone variant, maces are craftable once you advance into the metal stages of the game. As they deal blunt damage, they are your best weapon against skeletons. [[spoiler:Surprisingly enough, this weapon is very effective against the third boss, Bonemass, due to its weakness against blunt damage.]]

** Cooking pot allows your character to make recipes, which are unlocked once you've picked up all the ingredients for the recipe at least once. These dishes have longer durations and offer better bonuses than raw berries and vegetables or cooked meat.

** Eyescream is a late game, high stamina food that is very easy to make. And also uses Greydwarf Eyes as its primary ingredient.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Due to peculiarities of the game's engine, ore and stone deposits work like this once unearthed: a giant mass of rock can float in the air supported by a single piece touching the ground, and will instantly burst into a shower of chunks when that piece is destroyed.

* GhostAmnesia: Player character is a dead warrior's soul and doesn't remember their life, at most seeing vague dreams of their life and death.
* GiveChaseWithAngryNatives: Running from a group of enemies into another group of enemies from a different biome can be a way to get rid of at least one group. Sometimes you don't even need to change biomes, such as graydwarves and skeletons in the Black Forest, or golems against anything else in Mountains.

* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: You can't bring ore and ingots through portals, which makes mining much more difficult than gathering other resources. However, they still allow metal equipment, and you can bring materials to make a cart or a boat to transport the metal.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The Mistlands update gave Haldor several new voicelines, most of them insulting or rude or telling the player to stop talking and start buying.

* UnusableEnemyEquipment: Some enemies, such as skeletons, use weapons similar to ones the player can acquire. Those weapons can't be picked up after their death.

* AlienSky: Valheim's sky prominently shows Yggdrasil's giant branches, which are visible both during day and night.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: ''Valheim'''s trolls inhabit the Black Forest biome (though they do wander out of it from time to time), the second biome in the game. They are blue-skinned giants at least eight metres tall, wielding their fists, boulders or entire tree trunks to squish the unwary player. They are also rather distressingly nude. Stronger versions exist [[ColourCodedforYourConvenience in different colors]].

* ZergRush: While in a structure recognised by the game as a "base", it is possible to get raided by enemies. There are a number of different raids and each has a certain enemy or enemy type spawn in large numbers for a short period to attack the player and their base. The raids come in two varieties: story-based raids, which only occur when the boss they are tied to is the next one the player has to kill, and general event raids, which are unlocked halfway through the game and can be triggered indefinitely.

* SelfImposedChallenge: "World modifiers" introduced in Hildir's Request update make the game harder for no benefit other than bragging rights. These modifiers include harder enemies, scarcer resources, harsher death penalty (up to complete permanent loss of items and skills), no portals, and no automap.

* ScaryStingingSwarm: Bees inhabit abandoned buildings in the Meadows. Exploring these buildings without noticing their nests can lead to a quick death (or at least a lot of pain) for a beginning player.

* GlowingEyes: Your character's eyes are solid blue and always glow faintly. Greydwarfs and Greylings also have glowing, colour-coded eyes.

** Spears are one of the cheapest weapons to make in the game, typically costing a third or less of most other craftable weapons in regards to their respective ore. The spear can also be thrown as its special attack, with particularly accurate throws being able to down local wildlife such as deer, boars, or birds; allowing for conservation of arrows for hostiles. The best part? It's one of the earliest unlockable weapons in the game as long as the player finds flint, meaning the player could start leveling up in their spear stat immediately.
** One of the easiest ways to defend a base is to raise a wall/dig a moat around it, utterly befuddling attacking enemies as they won't try to attack them as they would structural walls.

* BladeOnAStick: Spears (one-handed) and polearms (two-handed) are obtained at the flint and early metal stages of the game. They feature good reach and a fast attack speed, and spears can also be thrown, allowing for easy hunting without using having to use precious arrows. Polearms have no other utilities outside of combat though.

** [[BladeOnAStick Atgeirs]] have a special SpinAttack that works great for crowd control. It's also a very efficient way to harvest crops.

** Cooking stations let you roast meat over fire; raw meat cannot be consumed at all. Overcooking meat turns it into coal.

* CookingMechanics: Unlocking the cooking pot allows your character to cook recipes, which are unlocked once you've picked up all the ingredients for the recipe at least once. Cooked food has longer duration and offers better bonuses than raw berries and vegetables. Meat and fish has to be cooked, either by itself or as part of a recipe, to be edible at all; recipes using it again give better bonuses than eating it by itself.

* SoundOfNoDamage: Downplayed. As you gain stronger armor, attacks that once staggered you have their impact sound replaced with a cloth tearing sound as their attacks now only deal even less than one full HP of damage.

* ElementalCrafting: The weapon and armor tiers follow the stereotypical cloth→leather→bronze→iron→precious metals→fantastic metals scheme. Subverted as the ultimate endgame armor so far is [[spoiler:padded iron armor and blackmetal armor does not exist in game]].

** Carts and boats drop their stored items as cargo boxes when destroyed, preventing them from sinking or despawning as they would if dropped directly.

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: You can only have one Forsaken power available at a time, and have to visit the sacrificial stone circle to change it.

** Even [[spoiler:Grey Dwarves]] are said to be this, with a rune stone describing them as the souls of evildoers that clothe themselves in dirt, rags, and branches. Note that they and "traditional" undead are hostile to each other. Oddly, so are the undead-tree Abominations.

** Odin will come check up on you from time to time... [[CreepyGood Probably give you a heart-attack when he does, though.]]