How to Build and Use Bonfires

This is a guide on building the Bonfire structure from the Valheim game. Read more to find out what you need to build the Bonfire and how to use it!

How to Build a Bonfire

Bonfire
Crafting Station	N/A
Materials	・Ancient Bark x5 ・Core Wood x5 ・Fine Wood x5 ・Surtling Core x1

How to Get Required Materials

Item Name	How to Get	Spawn Code
Ancient Bark	Obtained from Ancient Trees in the Swamp biome or from chests inside Sunken Crypts.	ElderBark
Core Wood	Chop Pine trees in the Black Forest biome.	RoundLog
Fine Wood	Chop Birch trees.	FineWood
Surtling Core	Obtained from Burial Chambers and Surtlings.	SurtlingCore

How to Use a Bonfire

You place the bonfire on the ground and it creates warmth and comfort, as well as wards away wetness when you're in its radius. Take note that bonfires do not extinguish even when it's raining.

It's bigger than the campfire and harder to fit in a house, as well as more difficult to place cooking stations on it but it is possible.

A technique we've found that works is to build a platform around the bonfire (alternatively you could dig the bonfire in a hole), and placing the cooking station and cauldron on the platform a bit over the fire. It's hard but you'll know you succeeded if you're able to put meat on the cooking station, or if the cauldron has soup.

Valheim Related Guides

List of Buildings (Structures)

List of Buildings (Structures)

Misc

Crafting

Building

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