Keep your shield up, and use the hallways as choke points.Ĭollect bone fragments, find (edible) yellow mushrooms, and keep an eye out for valuables like amber, coins, and rubies. Use your torch against them all to set them on fire. Skeletons, poisonous rancid remains (green skeletons), and skeleton-spawning evil bone piles are everywhere. Image: Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain Publishing via Polygon It reminds us where we’ve been.) Fighting a skeleton in a burial chamber. Equip your torch, and start opening doors. Inside of a burial chamber, there’s a central room from which one to three hallways branch away. Use your map to mark burial chamber locations and track the ones you’ve cleared, too. When skeletons start attacking you as you explore a black forest biome, you’ll know that you’re close to a burial chamber, whose entrances look like a stone-lined tunnel or doorway leading underground. Finding a burial chamber location The entrance to a Valheim burial chamber. Eat something to get your health up, too.

Repair your tools, weapons, and armor at a workbench. The only place (for now) you’ll find surtling cores is in the black forest biome inside burial chambers - mini dungeons scattered throughout the map.īefore you head out to find your first burial chamber, craft several torches (1 wood, 1 resin), which will help you see inside of the underground labyrinths. Locate burial chambers and surtling cores In this Valheim guide, we’ll explain where to find surtling cores in the black forest biome and talk a little about how many you’ll need.

And for those, you’ll need surtling cores. You’ll be learning to make bronze soon, but first you’ll need to build a charcoal kiln and smelter. After you defeat Eikthyr, you’ll head into the black forest biome. Valheim is all about finding resources to make the next technological leap.

Valheim smelter