Valheim Hard Antler: How to Get

A workbench is essential to crafting tools and weapons throughout the game.
A workbench is essential to crafting tools and weapons throughout the game. / Photo Courtesy of Iron Gate

Valheim Hard Antlers are very important resources to progress throughout the game. However, they cannot be just crafted or found anywhere, they have one specific source.

Here is how to get Hard Antlers in Valheim.

Valheim Hard Antler: How to Get

Hard Antlers can only be found once you defeat Eikthyr, a large stag with electrifying antlers and chains, and the first boss
Eikthyr, Valheim's first boss, can be summoned in the meadows. / Photo Courtesy of Iron Gate

Hard Antlers can only be found once you defeat Eikthyr, a large stag with electrifying antlers and chains, and the first boss of the game. You can summon Eikthyr using summoning altars, found throughout the meadows. Once you summon and defeat Eikthyr, he is guaranteed to drop three hard antlers.

Hard Antler Use

Hard antlers are used to craft the Antler pickaxe, a tool important to the progression of the game. You need an Antler pickaxe to mine copper ores, which will be stronger than other opening-game materials and tools and can be used to create stronger weapons and tools. You can craft the Antler pickaxe with hard antlers at a workbench.