Valheim’s brutal wilderness is a procedurally generated world. When you start a new game, you can either have the game generate a random string of text from which to generate the environment you play in, or manually enter a code to generate a specific seed.
Every Valheim map that is generated has the same basic ingredients – spawning altars for each of the Valheim bosses, and the same assortment of treacherous biomes – but where those features end up, and what the lay of the land looks like, depends on the seed you put in when you start a new world.
These seeds are useful for more than just starting your first Valheim world; you can load into different worlds – including those hosted on Valheim dedicated servers – with the same character. Conveniently, you’ll also carry over your skill progression and your entire inventory.
So instead of traipsing across mountains and sailing the seven seas to find and retrieve iron and bronze, you can simply load into a more convenient Valheim seed, fill your boots with bountiful resources, and then log back in to your original Valheim save file where you’re safe at home, ready to smelt it all into the best weapons and armour.
Valheim Seeds list
The best Valheim seeds are:
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Our seed, it turns out, is brilliant if you want to take on several bosses without sailing for miles. Eikthyr and Moder alters are a stone’s throw from spawn, with The Elder a short journey south. The island above houses the Bonemass boss, and when you finally want to venture north, it’s a straight shot in your longboat.
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This ‘potential speedrunner seed’ has the first three Valheim bosses, plus the trader, very close to spawn. With plenty of variance in biomes next to the spawn, you will have your pick of resources from the off.
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This seed, found by u/IamJustJunior, generates four out of five bosses on a huge, U-shaped starter island. There are plenty of mountains, swamps, and plains within reach. The first boss is a stone’s throw away from spawn, and all of them are on the starter island – except for Moder, who is on an island to the south.
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This seed generates a lot of bosses very near to spawn, and the Trader and Yagluth are just over a small channel on an island to the southeast. You can take the long way around your island to reach them all if you don’t want to get your feet wet.
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This seed is convenient for adventures as well as mining; near Bonemass, there’s a black forest biome stuffed with copper right next to a swamp full of crypts for mining iron, allowing you to set up a nearby camp that covers both crucial resources. Moder is a little further away than they were in previous game versions, but hopping on a boat with your fellow warriors is all part of the viking experience.
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This seed spawns you on the shore of a giant lake surrounded by meadows, with helpful channels into the ocean. This would be a scenic spot to get out your building tools and create a picturesque stronghold. The trader is pretty close, but the bosses are a little further afield, so it’s perfect if you’re looking for more of an adventure.
Looking for a different kind of Valheim seed? If you’re a budding farmer seeking info on the type of seed you plant in the ground, and have somehow read this entire article without realising you’re in the wrong place, here’s the lowdown: you can plant carrot, turnip, and tree seeds using the Cultivator; once you harvest a carrot or turnip, you can replant it to acquire more seeds. Ancient seeds can’t be planted; they’re used to summon The Elder in the Black Forest.
Got it? Good. Those are the best Valheim seeds we’ve come across so far. If you want to fly around in God mode and survey the land for yourself once you’re in, you’ll need Valheim console commands and cheats.
