Every crafting station in Valheim has a work range and a set of station levels. The work range is how close you need to stand for the station to count. Each recipe is tied to a station level, so the level of the station decides which items you can make there. This guide goes through the stations in the order you are likely to meet them, with the item count for each level and a few examples.
Work range at a glance
| Station | Work range (metres) |
|---|
| Workbench | 20 |
| Cauldron | 20 |
| Forge | 20 |
| Stonecutter | 20 |
| Artisan Table | 40 |
| Food Preparation Table | 20 |
| Mead Ketill | 20 |
| Black Forge | 20 |
| Galdr Table | 20 |
| Forge of Potential | 10 |
The Artisan Table has the widest range at 40 metres. The Forge of Potential has the shortest at 10 metres. Every other station works within 20 metres.
Workbench
The Workbench is the busiest early station, with 41 items at level 1 and 31 at level 2. Levels 3 and 4 add only a handful of items each, all of them arrows or shields.
| Level | Items | Examples |
|---|
| 1 | 41 | Rag Tunic, Rag Trousers, Wood Arrow, Flint Axe, Bile Bomb |
| 2 | 31 | Leather Tunic, Leather Trousers, Fenris Coat, Lox Fur Jacket |
| 3 | 3 | Obsidian Arrow, Poison Arrow, Bone Tower Shield |
| 4 | 2 | Frost Arrow, Needle Arrow |
Cauldron
The Cauldron makes food and has the most levels of any station, up to level 7. Level 6 offers the most dishes with 9, and level 4 the fewest with 2.
| Level | Items | Examples |
|---|
| 1 | 7 | Boar Jerky, Carrot Soup, Cooked Egg, Deer Stew |
| 2 | 6 | Black Soup, Onion Soup, Sausages, Serpent Stew |
| 3 | 3 | Eyescream, Wolf Jerky, Wolf Skewer |
| 4 | 2 | Blood Pudding, Fish Wraps |
| 5 | 7 | Fiery Svinstew, Mushroom Omelette, Salad, Yggdrasil Porridge |
| 6 | 9 | Lingonberry Juice, Mashed Meat, Oatmeal, Pancakes |
| 7 | 7 | Fish Soup, Meat In Bread, Seal Meat Soup, Smoked Moose Meat |
Forge
The Forge covers metalwork from Bronze upward. Level 1 has 31 items and each later level has fewer than the one before.
| Level | Items | Examples |
|---|
| 1 | 31 | Bronze Plate Tunic, Bronze Atgeir, Bronze Axe, Huntsman Bow, Bronze |
| 2 | 23 | Iron Scale Mail, Iron Greaves, Padded Cuirass, Wolf Hide Chestpiece |
| 3 | 12 | Silver Arrow, Silver Knife, Frostner, Black Metal Shield |
| 4 | 7 | Black Metal Atgeir, Black Metal Axe, Black Metal Sword, Porcupine |
Level 2 includes Vilebone Cage and Vilebone Drapes. Level 3 includes Crystal Battleaxe and Flesh Rippers. Level 4 includes Vilebone Maulclaws.
Stonecutter
The Stonecutter has a single level with a single item.
Artisan Table
The Artisan Table has the widest work range, 40 metres, and a small list of items.
Food Preparation Table
The Food Preparation Table has one level, and it holds 28 items. These are mostly large prepared dishes.
Other examples are Whole Roasted Meadow Boar, Mushrooms Galore á la Mistlands and Hearty Mountain Logger's Stew.
Mead Ketill
The Mead Ketill also has one level. It holds 21 items, all of them mead and barley wine bases.
Other bases include Mead Base: Lingering Eitr, Mead Base: Minor Eitr and Mead base: Ratatosk.
Black Forge
The Black Forge is where the item counts get largest. Level 4 holds 70 items, more than any other station level in this guide. Level 2 is the smallest step, with only 3.
| Level | Items | Examples |
|---|
| 1 | 33 | Carapace Breastplate, Carapace Greaves, Bloodgold Arrow, Himminafl, Jotun Bane, Skull Splittur |
| 2 | 3 | Black Metal Bolt, Asksvin Saddle, Moose Saddle |
| 3 | 17 | Flametal Breastplate, Breastplate of Ask, Berserkir Axes, Ash Fang, Ashen Cape, Ripper |
| 4 | 70 | Cast: Breastplate of the Protector, Cast: Chestpiece of the Vanguard, Thunderblood Atgeir, Frostfire Atgeir, Cast: Nord Atgeir, Bleeding Berserkir Axes |
Level 1 also includes Carapace Arrow and Charred Arrow. Level 3 also includes Flametal Greaves and Trousers of Ask. Level 4 also includes Cast: Trousers of the Protector and Cast: Trousers of the Vanguard.
Galdr Table
The Galdr Table covers staves and magic-focused armour. Item counts shrink from level to level, ending with a single item at level 4.
| Level | Items | Examples |
|---|
| 1 | 9 | Eitr-weave Robe, Eitr-weave Trousers, Eitr-weave Hood, Feather Cape, Sealbreaker, Staff of Embers, Staff of Frost, Staff of Protection |
| 2 | 8 | Robes of Embla, Trousers of Embla, Hood of Embla, Asksvin Cloak, Staff of Fracturing, Staff of the Wild, Dundr, Trollstav |
| 3 | 7 | Cast: Robes of the Caller, Cast: Headdress of the Caller, Cast: Northern Vengeance, Cast: Echo Spike, Cast: Spirit Caller, Cast: Lightning Strike |
| 4 | 1 | Cape of the Caller |
Level 3 also includes Cast: Trousers of the Caller.
Forge of Potential
The Forge of Potential has a work range of 10 metres, the shortest of any station. Stand close to it when you use it.
Written from the game data of Valheim 1.0.17, last updated October 10, 2026.
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