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While surviving and making the most of your Viking life in Valheim, you will come across various status effects. These effects can be to your benefit, but many can be quite harmful. With so many status effects, it can be hard to know what each one does. Fortunately, we are here for you.
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In this guide, we are going to go over every status effect in Valheim, as well as what it does. This will be separated by positive and negative effects, as well as other categories like armor effects and those that don't fit into any category. Additionally, we will mention the main source of each effect.
Positive Status Effects
Positive effects will be to your benefit, meaning that you want to have one. Below, you can check out every beneficial status effect.
Status Effect
Description
How To Obtain
Duration
Feather Fall
- Fall speed capped at 5 m/s
- Fall damage decreased by 100%
Wear the Feather Cape
As long as you are wearing the Feather Cape
Fire
- Decreased Wet Timer quicker (you will dry quicker)
- Removes Cold and Freezing
Stand near Campfire
As long as you remain near a fire source
Magic Barrier
Depending on your magic skill, block anywhere from 200 to 700 damage
Equip the Staff of Protection
60 to 120 minutes, depending on the staff's quality
Rested
- +50% Health Regeneration
- +100% Stamina Regeneration
- +50% XP Gain
- +100% Eitr Regeneration
After sleeping and waking, you will receive this effect
Duration depends on your comfort level
Resting
- +200% Health Regeneration
- +300% Stamina Regeneration
- +300% Eitr Regeneration
Sleep in a bed
This will last while you are sleeping, and after 20 seconds, turns into Rested
Shelter
- Enabled you to have the Resting Effect (if you lay in bed)
- Prevents Freezing and Wet
Remain indoors, with at least 80% roof cover
As long as you remain indoors
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Negative effects have an undesirable outcome, that you will want to avoid as often as possible.
Status Effect
Description
How To Obtain
Duration
Burning
Take damage over time
Take fire damage
5 seconds (unless you enter fire again)
Cold
- -50% Health Regeneration
- -25% Stamina Regeneration
Remain outdoors during the night (no nearby fire)
Lasts until you get near a fire or the morning begins
Encumbered
You are unable to :
- jump
- run
- block
- dodge
- recover stamina
Your walk speed will drastically decrease
Go over your maximum carrying capacity
Remains if you don't drop any items
Freezing
- -100% Health Regeneration
- -60% Stamina Regeneration
- 1 Damage per second
- Resistance to Fire Damage
Explore the Mountain biome (without preventative Mead)
- This can also occur while fighting Modor and during the Drake event as well
As long as conditions remain, but you can negate this with Armor effects, mead, or a simple campfire.
Frost
-100% Movement Speed (Decays over time)
Take frost damage
Duration depends on the health you lose
Lighting
Take instant lightning damage
Lightning
This is instant, but the visual effect lasts for 3 seconds
Poison
Pure damage over time (ignores defenses)
Take poison damage
The duration depends on the enemy
- Poison Resistance Mead only resists potential poison, rather than negating already-active poison.
Slimed
- -50% Movement Speed
- Weak to Fire
Be targeted by The Queen's spit attack
A few seconds
Smoked
2 damage per second
Stand in smoke
Remains until you leave the smoky area
Stagger
Stuns
Take physical or lightning damage until you reach the most amount of possible stagger
- This is dependent on the amount of damage, with strong attacks causing more stagger.
Stagger decreased at the rate of 20% per second.
Tarred
- -50% Movement Speed
- Weak to Fire
Enter a tar pit
10 seconds
Wet
- -25% Health Regeneration
- -15% Stamina Regeneration
- Resistance to Fire
- Weak to Frost
- Weak to Lightning
Submerge in water or get rained on
This will remain until you get out of the wet situation, when a timer will count down to when you become dry
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Armor effects will last as long as you have the specified armor on.
Armor
Description
Notes
Root Armor Set
- Bow skills +15
- Weak to Fire
- Resistance to Poison and Pierce Damage
- All individual items have Fire Weakness
- The mask alone provides Poison Resistance
Fenris Set
- Resistance to Fire
- Resistance to Frost
- Fist skills +15
Wearing just the coat will provide Frost Resistance
Troll Set
Sneak skill +15
Eitr Weave Set
- +100% Eitr Regeneration
- Resistance to Frost
- Feather Fall
Individually, the hood, robe, and trousers provide Eitr Regeneration, while the Cape provides Frost Resistance and Feather Fall
Lox Cape
Resistance to Frost
Wolf Chest Armor
Resistance to Frost
Wolf Fur Cape
Resistance to Frost
Fishing Hat
Fishing and Swimming skills +20
Wishbone
Highlights hidden things around you
Wisplight
Clears mist in a 10-meter radius around you
Megingjord
Increase carry weight +150
read moreMead & Wine
There are three drinks that provide resistance effects, which you can see listed below.
- Fire Resistance Barley Wine
- Frost Resistance Mead
- Poison Resistance Mead
To make these three drinks, you will need to first make the base at a cauldron. With the base in hand, head to the Fermenter and make the drink of choice. All three will last 600 seconds, which is ten minutes.
Misc.
Lastly, we have miscellaneous effects that don't really fit into one category.
Status Effect
Description
How To Obtain
Duration
Corpse Run
- -75% Stamina used while Jumping
- -75% Stamina used while running
- Strong Resistance to Blunt, Slash, and Pierce Damage
- +10 HP/sec
- +150 Carrying Capacity
This happens after you die, meant to aid in retrieving your dropped items.
50 seconds
No Skill Drain
No XP Loss
Applied when dying
10 minutes
Puke
- Disable Heath and Stamina Regeneration
- Deal 1 Damage/sec
- Vomit a consumed food
Eat Bukeperries
15 seconds
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