Valheim Trinkets: Every Recipe, Effect, and Adrenaline Cost

Valheim's Call to Arms update added a new layer of customization on top of armor and weapons. Trinkets are accessories that grant short bursts of extra power, from faster swimming to flat health gains, but they only fire once you have built up enough Adrenaline. This guide breaks down how the system works and lists every Trinket recipe in the game.

How Adrenaline and Trinkets Work Together

Unlike armor, Trinket effects do not run constantly. Equipping one unlocks Adrenaline, a resource shown as an orange bar in your HUD and introduced in the Call to Arms patch. Once the bar reaches 100, the equipped Trinket activates automatically.

You build Adrenaline by being active in combat or by using certain magical staves. The full list of actions and their point values:

• Activate a Forsaken Power: +10
• Block with a Weapon or Tower Shield: +2
• Parry: +5
• Parry with the Carapace Buckler: +10
• Dodge an Attack: +5
• Stagger an Enemy: +3
• Hit an Enemy with a Weapon: +1 to +3 (depending on weapon and attack type)
• Hit an Enemy with a Bomb: +2 (main projectile only)
• Trollstav: +12 per use
• Dead Raiser: +10 per use
• Staff of Protection: +5 per use
• Dundr: +5 per use
• Staff of Embers: +3 per use
• Staff of the Wild: +3 per use
• Staff of Fracturing: +3 per use
• Staff of Frost: +1 per hit

A few details are worth remembering. Unequipping a Trinket does not wipe your Adrenaline, so you can swap builds without losing progress. The bar drains slowly when you stop being active, losing between 1 and 4 points per second, and the fuller the gauge, the faster it bleeds out. The meter also keeps charging while a Trinket effect is already running, so chaining procs during long fights is possible.

Where to Craft Trinkets

Most recipes can be built at a basic Level 1 Forge. Four endgame Trinkets, Pulsating Earrings, Resounding Shackle, Jormundling, and Brimstone, require the Black Forge instead.

Full Trinket List

Heart of the Forest

• Materials: 5x Bronze, 5x Ancient Seed, 1x Greydwarf Shaman Trophy
• Effect: +25% Health Regen
• Duration: 60 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 50

Bronze Pendant

• Materials: 5x Bronze, 1x Bear Trophy, 3x Ruby
• Effect: +25% Stamina Regen
• Duration: 60 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 50

Iron Brooch

• Materials: 5x Iron, 5x Ancient Bark, 1x Leech Trophy
• Effect: +50 Health, +20 Armor
• Duration: 30 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 65

Nimble Anklet

• Materials: 5x Iron, 5x Withered Bone, 1x Surtling Trophy
• Effect: +50 Stamina, +15% Movement Speed
• Duration: 30 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 60

Fins of Destiny

• Materials: 5x Chitin, 5x Serpent Scale, 1x Serpent Trophy
• Effect: +50% Swim Speed, -80% Swim Stamina Use
• Duration: 120 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 10

The cheapest activation cost in the game, which makes long ocean crossings far less punishing.

Wolf Sight

• Materials: 5x Silver, 5x Wolf Fang, 1x Fenring Trophy
• Effect: +20 Bow Skill, +20 Spear Skill, +10% Pierce Damage
• Duration: 30 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 55

Crystal Heart

• Materials: 5x Silver, 5x Crystal, 1x Stone Golem Trophy
• Effect: Slight resistance to Blunt, Slash, and Pierce (75% damage taken)
• Duration: 50 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 80

Bracelets of the Brave

• Materials: 5x Black Metal, 5x Lox Pelt, 1x Lox Trophy
• Effect: +100 Health, +20 Club Skill, +10% Blunt Damage
• Duration: 60 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 85

Evasion Mantle

• Materials: 5x Black Metal, 10x Linen Thread, 1x Fuling Berserker Trophy
• Effect: -50% Block Stamina Use, +50% Parry Bonus, +20 Dodge Skill
• Duration: 120 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 60

Pulsating Earrings

• Materials: 5x Carapace, 5x Refined Eitr, 1x Gjall Trophy
• Effect: +25% Eitr Regen
• Duration: 60 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 65
• Crafted at: Black Forge

Resounding Shackle

• Materials: 5x Refined Eitr, 5x Scale Hide, 1x Mandible, 1x Seeker Trophy
• Effect: +100 Stamina, +10% Slash Damage
• Duration: 60 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 75
• Crafted at: Black Forge

Jormundling

• Materials: 5x Flametal, 5x Refined Eitr, 1x Bloodstone, 1x Fallen Valkyrie Trophy
• Effect: +100 Eitr, +20 Elemental Magic Skill, +20 Blood Magic Skill
• Duration: 60 seconds
• Adrenaline Cost: 70
• Crafted at: Black Forge

Brimstone

• Materials: 5x Flametal, 5x Sulfur, 1x Molten Core, 1x Morgen Trophy
• Effect: +100 Health, +100 Stamina
• Duration: N/A (instant)
• Adrenaline Cost: 100
• Crafted at: Black Forge

Brimstone is the only Trinket without a duration. The boost lands the moment it triggers and that is the entire effect, so it works best for clutch moments rather than as a sustained buff.