How to Build the Barber Station in Valheim and Change Your Look

Spending hundreds of hours staring at the same scraggly Viking can wear on anyone. The Barber Station fixes that, letting you swap hairstyles and beards without rerolling a character. The catch is that the recipe is gated behind a specific merchant, so you need to do some traveling before the scissors come out.

Finding Hildir, the Key to the Barber Station

The whole process starts with Hildir, the docile Dvergr merchant added in Patch 0.217.14. Unlike her brother Haldor, who hides in the Black Forest, Hildir sets up shop in the Meadows biome. You do not need to complete any of her quests to access the station, just locate her camp and talk to her once.

On the map, her location is marked by a small T-shirt icon. Expect to travel roughly 3,000 to 5,100 meters out from the world seed center before it appears.

Crafting Recipe and Materials

Once you reach Hildir, purchase the Barber Kit from her shop for 600 Coins. With the kit in your inventory, head to a Workbench and combine the following:

• 1x Barber Kit
• 10x Fine Wood
• 5x Bronze Nails
• 5x Troll Hide

If your coin pouch is light, trolls and fulings drop currency reliably, and dungeon chests usually have a few stacks tucked inside. You can also sell valuables like Amber, Rubies, and Silver Necklaces to either Haldor or Hildir for a steady income.

Available Hairstyles and Beards

Once the station is placed, interact with it to open the styling menu. The cuts on offer are:

Hair Styles

• Braids of Strength
• Gathered Locs
• Loose 2
• Loose 3
• Merchant's Braid
• Shaved and Braided
• Short Locs
• Single Bun 2

Beard Styles

• Bushy
• Neat
• Royal 3
• Spiky

Beyond picking a style, you can also adjust Hair Tone and Blondness with the in-menu sliders, so your Viking does not have to commit to whatever palette they spawned with.

A Note on the Chair

The Barber Station originally featured a chair that looked oddly modern for a Norse setting. Players were vocal about it on Twitter, and Iron Gate's Senior Developer Jonathan Smårs eventually updated the design to match the rest of the game's aesthetic. A rare case of a haircut starting a redesign.