Where to Find Yggdrasil Wood in Valheim and What You Can Build With It

Late-game Valheim throws plenty of shiny new gear at you, but most of it sits behind one stubborn material: Yggdrasil Wood. This guide covers where the stuff grows, the axe you will need, and every recipe that asks for it.

Where Yggdrasil Wood Spawns

Yggdrasil Wood is harvested from Yggdrasil Shoots, the pale, oversized trees that only grow inside the Mistlands biome. Pack a portal stone and a tolerance for thick fog before heading out, because the Mistlands does not hand out free lumber.

The Axe Requirement

Regular axes will bounce off a Shoot like a twig off a brick wall. You need a Blackmetal Axe or anything sharper. Anything below that tier simply cannot fell the tree.

To forge the Quality 1 Blackmetal Axe at a Level 4 Forge, gather:

• 6 Fine Wood
• 20 Black Metal
• 5 Linen Thread

If grinding Black Metal sounds painful, console commands can spawn the axe or the wood directly. Useful for test servers and creative builds.

What You Can Craft With Yggdrasil Wood

Yggdrasil Wood is a key ingredient for some of the strongest tools, weapons, and stations in the game. Every recipe below assumes Quality 1.

Weapons and Tools

• Black Metal Pickaxe: 3 Yggdrasil Wood, 25 Black Metal
• Jotun Bane: 5 Yggdrasil Wood, 15 Iron, 3 Bilebag, 10 Refined Eitr
• Carapace Spear: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 4 Carapace, 2 Mandible
• Himminafl: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 15 Refined Eitr, 5 Silver, 2 Mandible
• Demolisher: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 20 Iron, 10 Refined Eitr
• Staff of Embers: 20 Yggdrasil Wood, 4 Surtling Core, 16 Refined Eitr
• Staff of Frost: 20 Yggdrasil Wood, 4 Freeze Gland, 16 Refined Eitr
• Staff of Protection: 20 Yggdrasil Wood, 4 Blood Clot, 16 Refined Eitr

Crafting Stations and Buildings

• Sap Extractor: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 5 Black Metal, 1 Dvergr Extractor
• Black Forge: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 10 Black Marble, 5 Black Core
• Eitr Refinery: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 20 Black Marble, 5 Black Metal, 5 Black Core, 3 Sap
• Galdr Table: 20 Yggdrasil Wood, 10 Black Metal, 5 Black Core, 5 Refined Eitr
• Rune Table: 5 Yggdrasil Wood, 10 Black Marble, 10 Refined Eitr
• Ballista: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 10 Black Metal, 3 Mechanical Spring
• Dvergr Spiral Left Stair: 5 Yggdrasil Wood, 2 Copper
• Dvergr Spiral Right Stair: 5 Yggdrasil Wood, 2 Copper
• Dvergr Stakewall: 8 Yggdrasil Wood, 8 Iron
• Dvergr Sharp Stakes: 5 Yggdrasil Wood, 2 Iron
• Wisp Torch: 1 Yggdrasil Wood, 1 Wisp
• Yggdrasil Wood Stack: 50 Yggdrasil Wood

Stockpiling early pays off, because the Eitr Refinery alone will eat through a respectable pile before you have your first staff equipped.