Valheim is a Viking-inspired survival journey game where you battle against various mythical creatures and construct settlements to protect yourself against various dangers. In order to protect yourself from these lurking dangers, you need to strengthen your settlements as you level up. The Stone Cutter is amongst the most essential crafting stations in Valheim as it unlocks the ability to create stone buildings, weapons, and other stone structures. This guide has everything you need to know to unlock the Stone Cutter, gather resources for it, and build stone buildings in Valheim.
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Unlocking Stone Cutter In Valheim
The Stone Cutter can be crafted using a Workbench at your base and collecting the following resources:
- Smelted Iron Bars x 2
- Wood x 10
- Stone x 4
Once you have gathered these resources, the blueprints for the Stone Cutter will unlock in the Crafting menu. With all the resources in hand, you can simply place the Stone Cutter in any vacant area of your base. Do keep in mind that you need to place the Stone Cutter in the area range where you wish to construct or upgrade stone buildings.
Requirements For Unlocking Stone Cutter In Valheim
Before you can craft the Stone Cutter in Valheim; you need to take care of the following:
- Unlocking Iron
- Crafting a Smelter
- Access to an open area in your base to construct the Stone Cutter
- While not necessary, reliable tools like the Iron Pickaxe will go a long way in making stone construction easy for you.
Let’s quickly have a look at all these.
How To Unlock Iron
To get your hands on iron in Valheim, you need to defeat the second boss in the game, “The Elder”. This is recommended because The Elder holds the key to Sunken Crypts which is the best place to obtain iron scraps. You will, however, have to keep up with the challenges of the Swamps to get to this location.
How To Melt Scrap Iron
You need a Smelter in your base to melt the scrap iron into iron bars. All you need to do is approach the Smelter and place the scrap iron into it, the machine will melt the scraps into an iron bar.
Recommended Tools For Stone Construction
It is also recommended to have reliable tools for handling stones. Iron Pickaxe is ideal for working with different kinds of rocks in Valheim. You also want to keep a hoe for stone construction.
Creating Stone Buildings In Valheim
Once you have obtained the Stone Cutter in Valheim, you will automatically get access to various stone constructions such as walls, stairs, arches, and more. You need to spend a specific amount of stone requirements for each structure and directly place them in a vacant space in your base. You can also replace the old wooden buildings with stone constructions by simply dragging them over the wooden building.
Not only does the stone construction give you the creative liberty to design a building straight out of your imagination but it also gives you great protection from enemies and extreme climate.
Here are all the stone structures along with their building requirements that get unlocked after you obtain the Stone Cutter.
| Structure | Requirements |
| Stone Arch | Stone x 4 |
| Stone Pillar | Stone x 5 |
| Stone Wall 1×1 | Stone x 3 |
| Stone Wall 2×1 | Stone x 4 |
| Stone Wall 4×2 | Stone x 6 |
| Stone Stair | Stone x 8 |
| Stone Floor 2×2 | Stone x 6 |
Another useful item that you may want to keep with you at all times is the Wishbone – this makes finding Iron, Silver and buried treasures that much easier.