Without a doubt, the biggest and most exciting part of the Valheim 1.0 update is the addition of the game's newest biome: the Deep North. This frozen tundra is filled with new enemies, resources, and challenges. If you're looking for all the info on what the Deep North holds, including how to find it in your world, our guide is your perfect, frigid tour guide. So let's get started!

How to Find the Deep North

Of course, before you can start plundering the Deep North for its riches, you need to find it! In Valheim, biome locations aren't exact because of procedural generation. However, you can always find the Deep North at the northernmost reaches of your world. But first, you need to make sure you have a ship. If you do, you can set sail toward due north. You'll have to navigate your way through the ocean and skirt around plenty of islands. You shouldn't have any trouble knowing that you're getting close to the Deep North, as you'll see more floating sheets of ice in the water, and the environment will become more snowy. Eventually, you'll make landfall on the Deep North's frozen shores.

Key Points of Interest (POIs) in the Deep North

There is plenty to discover in the Deep North of Valheim, but there are some locations that you'll be visiting more than others. These points of interest have some of the most valuable resources and/or challenges to discover.

The Winding Tunnels

One location you'll regularly return to in the Deep North is the Winding Tunnels dungeon. This network of chambers underground can have entrances all over the Deep North. Deep pits or even certain buildings can have holes that lead into them. Inside, you'll find plenty of resources and challenging enemies. That is, if you can successfully navigate the tunnels' many twists and turns. Make sure you go in with a reliable light source. Additionally, leaving something to mark the areas you've already traveled through can make returning to the surface much easier. The biggest appeal of the Winding Tunnels is finding various molds. These can be molds for weapons or armor, which can be crafted into casts. With casts, you can create some of the game's most hard-to-get gear for additional bragging rights among friends and some powerful buffs.

Mörkhalla

Speaking of molds, one mold you can find by defeating enemies is the Mould: Intricate Key, namely from Eyeless Ones (50% drop rate) and Elakings (20% drop rate).  If you craft this key, first by making the Cast: Intricate Key with the mold and 5x Bloodgold at a level 4 Black Forge, then processing it with Liquid Frost in a Frost Foundry, or get lucky enough to loot its finished form from a Hexen, you can use it to open and enter Mörkhalla. This massive, towering dungeon spawns randomly within the Deep North, and it's locked unless you have that key. Once you find Mörkhalla and enter, you'll have to work your way from the tower's top to its bottom. Along the way, you'll need to do some tricky platforming, loot some chests, and fight plenty of the Deep North's nastiest beasts. If you make it to the bottom, you can smash the Malicious Ice. Doing this will cause a Jotun Invasion to take place in your world. You can see it marked on your map, and completing the event will reward you with Malicious Blood, which is a necessary ingredient for summoning the Deep North's final boss Kall Fimbulbringer. You'll need 3x Malicious Blood to summon Kall, which means you also must defeat 3 Jotun Invasions on your map.

Ancient Altars

Finally, if you're hoping to create the strongest weapons that the realm of Valheim has ever seen, you'll need some Frostfire or Thunderblood Essence. These magical resources are only dropped by Fallen Warriors, and these warriors can only be found at Ancient Altars. Like many things in Valheim, these altars don't have a designated spawn point. They'll appear randomly throughout the Deep North, but they are in a fixed location from the moment your game world is created. When you do happen to find one, you can summon as many Fallen Warriors as you like for an offering of three Memorial Coal per warrior.

All Resources Found in the Deep North

Looking to get all the goodies the Deep North offers? Here are all the available Valheim resources you can find in the Deep North biome.

Timberwood

Found when harvesting Timber trees, snow-covered branches, old logs, roots, destructible objects, and some enemies. It can be found in renewable form via planted Timberwood trees.

Petrified Tissue

Found by using Ember Charges on Petrified Gammeltrolls.

Lingonberries

Found throughout the Deep North's forests.

Kale Seeds

Found throughout the Deep North via wild Seed Kale plants and barrels/granaries in villages.

Oat Seeds

Found inside barrels and from wild Oat plants. Higher chance of finding barrels within villages.

Poteitr Seeds

Found inside barrels and from wild Poteitr plants. Higher chance of finding barrels within villages.

Ice

Dropped by enemies, from breaking apart ice sculptures with Ember Charges, or harvesting glossy chunks of ice with a pickaxe.

Frostcore

Found within the Winding Tunnels.

Memorial Coal

Found within the Winding Tunnels, Mörkhalla, and dropped by Krigen.

Solryth

Found within Mörkhalla.

Ancient Coins

Found within Mörkhalla.

Frostfire Essence

Dropped by Fallen Warriors summoned at Ancient Altars.

Thunderblood Essence

Dropped by Fallen Warriors summoned at Ancient Altars.

Luminous Larva

Found within the Winding Tunnels.

Long Claws

Dropped by the Eyeless One.

Elaking Hair Bundle

Dropped by Elaking.

Frozen Branch

Dropped by Barka.

Intricate Key

Crafted from molds dropped by Eyeless Ones (50%) and Elakings (20%), with multiple other steps described above. Otherwise, the Intricate Key can only be looted in its final form from Hexen as a rare drop.

Leather Straps

Dropped by Krigen. Malicious Blood Obtained by completing the Jotun Invasion event.

Moose Hide

Dropped by Moose.

Moose Meat

Dropped by Moose.

Moose Sinew

Dropped by Moose.

Mold: Hood of the Vanguard

Dropped by Krigen or found within the Winding Tunnels.

Mold: Chestpiece of the Vanguard

Dropped by Krigen or found within the Winding Tunnels.

Mold: Trousers of the Vanguard

Dropped by Krigen or found within the Winding Tunnels.

Mold: Headdress of the Caller

Dropped by Hexen or found within the Winding Tunnels.

Mold: Robes of the Caller

Dropped by Hexen or found within the Winding Tunnels.

Mold: Trousers of the Caller

Dropped by Hexen or found within the Winding Tunnels.

Nornathread

Dropped by Hexen.

Seal Blubber

Dropped by Seals.

Seal Pelt

Dropped by Seals.

All Creatures Found in the Deep North

Looking to meet all the creatures and mobs the Deep North offers? Here are all the available Valheim creatures and enemies, friend and foe, that you can find in the Deep North biome.

Seals

Location Near water and ice floes throughout the Deep North. Drops

• Seal Pelt
• Seal Blubber
• Seal Trophy

Moose

Throughout the Deep North. Can be used as a mount. Drops

• Moose Meat
• Moose Hide
• Moose Trophy
• Moose Sinew

Shadow

Location Within the Winding Tunnels and North Village or anywhere outdoors in the Deep North at night.

Gammeltroll

Location Throughout the Deep North.

Greydwarf

Location Throughout the Deep North. Drops

• Greydwarf Eye
• Wood
• Resin
• Greydwarf Trophy
• Snowball
• Ice

Barka

Location Throughout the Deep North. Drops

• Barka Trophy
• Frozen Branch

Skeleton

Location Throughout the Deep North. Drops

• Skeleton Trophy
• Bone Fragments
• Ice

Eyeless One

Location Within the Winding Tunnels Drops

• Eyeless One Trophy
• Long Claws
• Mold: Intricate Key

Elaking

Location Within the Winding Tunnels Drops

• Elaking Hair Bundle
• Elaking Trophy
• Mold: Intricate Key

Krigen

Location The bottom floor of Mörkhalla. Drops

• Mold: Chestpiece of the Vanguard
• Mold: Hood of the Vanguard
• Mold: Trousers of the Vanguard
• Memorial Coal
• Krigen Trophy
• Leather Straps

Hexen

Location The bottom floor of Mörkhalla. Drops

• Mold: Robes of the Caller
• Mold: Headdress of the Caller
• Mold: Trousers of the Caller
• Nornathread
• Intricate Key
• Hexen Trophy

Fallen Warrior

Location Summoned at Ancient Altars using Memorial Coal. Drops

• Frostfire Essence
• Thunderblood Essence

Kall Fimbulbringer

Location Within the Aesir Passage. Only summonable after following a series of steps. Drops

• Sacrificial Blood
• Crown Jewel