Before you start
- Hildir’s map table read through the Hildir discovery route. Earlier chest returns are not required to enter the tower.
- The Plains equipment and kitchen loop: padded armor, Black metal sword, Draugr fang, ammunition and substantial meals. Stronger later gear is also suitable.
- Finished fire-resistance wine and healing mead; a tested return portal, wood for access construction, and a boat or land delivery route.
Prepare a fight and a construction job
Take the repaired padded helmet, cuirass and greaves, your cape, Black metal sword and Draugr fang with obsidian arrows. Carry a shield you know how to use, but plan to evade the large club attacks. The tower duo is a demanding fight even in Plains gear; later equipment or a prepared group can provide more margin.
Use lox meat pie, wolf skewer and bread as a concrete meal set, with refills. Drink finished fire-resistance barley wine before entering combat and renew it when necessary. It reduces fire damage, while Thungr’s club and other physical hits remain dangerous.
Bring a hammer, axe and plenty of ordinary wood for workbenches, wood stairs or ladders and floor platforms. The exact amount depends on the tower and approach; store extra wood at the staging portal so construction does not consume the last recovery materials.
| Make | Materials per craft | Station |
|---|---|---|
| 1 × Padded helmet | 10 Iron + 15 Linen thread | Forge level 1 |
| 1 × Padded cuirass | 10 Iron + 20 Linen thread | Forge level 2 |
| 1 × Padded greaves | 10 Iron + 20 Linen thread | Forge level 2 |
| 1 × Black metal sword | 2 Fine wood + 20 Black metal + 5 Linen thread | Forge level 4 |
| 1 × Draugr fang | 10 Ancient bark + 20 Silver + 2 Deer hide + 10 Guck | Forge level 2 |
| 20 × Obsidian arrow | 8 Wood + 4 Obsidian + 2 Feathers | Workbench level 3 |
| 1 × Lox meat pie | 1 Unbaked lox pie | Stone oven; wood fuel |
| 1 × Wolf skewer | 1 Wolf meat + 2 Mushroom + 1 Onion | Cauldron level 3 |
| 1 × Bread | 1 Bread dough | Stone oven; wood fuel |
| 1 × Barley wine base: Fire resistance | 10 Barley + 10 Cloudberries | Mead ketill level 1 |
| 6 × Fire resistance barley wine | 1 Barley wine base: Fire resistance | Fermenter |
| 1 × Mead base: Medium healing | 10 Honey + 4 Bloodbag + 10 Raspberries + 1 Dandelion | Mead ketill level 1 |
| 6 × Medium healing mead | 1 Mead base: Medium healing | Fermenter |
| 1 × Workbench | 10 Wood | Hammer; no station required |
Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerValheim Wiki: Zil %26 ThungrEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests
Build access outside the sealed walls
The black-stone walls are unbreakable, and ordinary construction and deconstruction are blocked inside the tower. A pickaxe does not make a ground-level doorway. Exterior access also needs to work on the return trip with a heavy chest.
- Clear the nearby Plains threats and establish a tested recovery portal and wood cache away from the tower fight. Mark the transport landing and a route to Hildir.
- Place a workbench outside, then build wood stairs or ladders and floor landings against the tower’s exterior platforms. Extend workbench coverage with another workbench on a supported landing when you climb beyond range.
- Work upward in short sections, checking structural support and testing a controlled descent. Keep your food active while building; a fall is a real expedition failure.
- Enter through an accessible open balcony or continue to the roof entrance. Watch for guards at the opening and establish a cleared retreat area before descending.
| Make | Materials per craft | Station |
|---|---|---|
| 1 × Portal | 20 Fine wood + 10 Greydwarf eye + 2 Surtling core | Hammer; within workbench range |
| 1 × Workbench | 10 Wood | Hammer; no station required |
Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests
Clear the floors before opening the boss fight
Retreat only into space you have already checked. The stairway helps you create distance; it does not promise that every enemy or projectile will stop there.
- Draw manageable groups onto the floor you have already cleared. Deal with shamans and their fireballs or protective barriers before pushing into more defenders.
- Look down as well as ahead. Traps can be concealed under straw, especially along the route between stairs and doors.
- Clear each upper floor and note any gates obstructing your retreat. Destructible gates can be broken with a weapon; the surrounding stone walls cannot.
- Before entering the bottom arena, use the outside return route to repair and renew food if needed. Leave treasure in marked storage so you enter with room for supplies and the eventual reward.
Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests
Watch the rider while avoiding the club
Take bow shots while distance is available, then use short sword openings after an attack finishes. Return up the cleared stairs before the pair closes the gap; keep enough stamina to make that movement.
Thungr’s death starts the remaining Zil fight. Continue watching fireballs and shields, bait a cast, then close briefly or shoot from a clear angle. Zil can follow up the stairs and even out of the tower, so do not assume the previous retreat point is invulnerable.
Finish Zil and collect the bronze quest chest. Defeating only the large melee opponent does not finish the request.
| Threat | Response |
|---|---|
| Thungr’s regular or delayed swing | Move beyond the club’s reach and wait for the actual strike. A delayed swing can catch an early dodge. |
| Advancing triple club sequence | Retreat into cleared space until all three blows finish. Do not step back in after the first strike. |
| Zil’s fireballs | Keep watching the rider during melee. Move off the projectile line and use cover or distance; fire resistance does not justify standing still. |
| Blue protective barrier | Use this pause to reposition and regain stamina. Resume pressure when it clears rather than spending your whole stamina bar against protection. |
Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Zil %26 ThungrValheim Wiki: Boss strategiesValheim Wiki: Sealed Tower
Extract the chest, eggs and surviving equipment
The bronze hand-in enables its corresponding event under default world-based raid rules. If you die in the tower, arrive through the protected outside portal with food, fire resistance and reserve equipment. Clear your approach to the grave first; carry the recovered gear and the quest chest on separate trips if needed. Repair damaged access sections before bringing the chest down.
- Clear the remaining threats, then take ordinary treasure out separately. The special basement chests contain eggs; put them safely aside for the chicken journey. This is a difficult alternate egg source before Haldor’s post-Yagluth stock.
- Make room for the 200-weight bronze chest, then descend by your built access route. Use the boat or land route arranged earlier; ordinary wood portals still reject the quest chest.
- At Hildir, use the chest from a hotbar slot while facing her. Check the beaded clothing, headwear and basic fireworks now offered for coins.
- If brass and silver were also returned, all three request types are complete. Extra copies of the same chest do not expand her stock again.
Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerValheim Wiki: Hildir%27s chestsValheim Wiki: EventsEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests
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I cannot build a stair inside the tower or mine through the wall.
Build outside using workbench coverage and supported platforms. Use a balcony or roof opening; the interior construction restriction and unbreakable stone are part of this location.
The first boss fell but no bronze chest dropped.
Continue the fight against Zil. The chest is his drop, so Thungr’s death alone is not completion.
The stair strategy is still getting me hit.
Treat stairs as a retreat route, not immunity. Clear the upper floors, keep fire resistance and food active, and watch projectiles. Return with stronger gear if you cannot create reliable openings.
I cannot carry the reward down safely.
Store and transport other loot first, equip Megingjord if available and keep food active. Repair and test the exterior descent before loading the chest.
Sources & checks
- Valheim Wiki: Sealed Tower
Roof/balcony access, unbreakable stone, no interior construction, Fulings/shamans/traps, special-chest eggs and Zil pursuing upstairs.
Community reference · Checked . Substantive indexed reference text and tables inspected on 2026-09-08 UTC; direct Fandom retrieval was unavailable. Exact mechanics remain needs-review against a game build. Preparation and recovery choices are editorial advice, not gameplay observations or a 1.0 compatibility claim.
- Valheim Wiki: Zil %26 Thungr
Club swings and triple advancing attack, fireballs, protective barrier and separate Zil phase; bronze chest drops from Zil. Dedicated ability text describes damage absorption, unlike the generic strategy page calling the shield invulnerability; no exact shield value is adopted here.
Community reference · Checked . Substantive indexed reference text and tables inspected on 2026-09-08 UTC; direct Fandom retrieval was unavailable. Exact mechanics remain needs-review against a game build. Preparation and recovery choices are editorial advice, not gameplay observations or a 1.0 compatibility claim.
- Valheim Wiki: Boss strategies
Geirrhafa cone sidestep and physical/fire options; ranged openings and stair retreat against the tower duo. Its invulnerability description is not adopted; see the dedicated creature reference.
Community reference · Checked . Substantive indexed reference text and tables inspected on 2026-09-08 UTC; direct Fandom retrieval was unavailable. Exact mechanics remain needs-review against a game build. Preparation and recovery choices are editorial advice, not gameplay observations or a 1.0 compatibility claim.
- EIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests
Build exterior platforms/stairs and extend workbench range up the tower; break cave ice barriers and check doors; put a recovered chest on the hotbar and use it while facing Hildir.
Community reference · Checked . Article updated 3 May 2025, directly inspected on 2026-09-08 UTC. Used for exterior workbench/platform access, cave ice and doors, and chest hand-in controls. Older power, food and potion tables are not adopted. This is reference research, not our gameplay test.
- Valheim Wiki: Hildir%27s chests
Each chest weighs 200; ordinary wood portals block them, stone portals can carry them; chest-specific shop unlocks.
Community reference · Checked . Substantive indexed reference text and tables inspected on 2026-09-08 UTC; direct Fandom retrieval was unavailable. Exact mechanics remain needs-review against a game build. Preparation and recovery choices are editorial advice, not gameplay observations or a 1.0 compatibility claim.
- Valheim Wiki: Events
Default world-based Hildir raid prerequisites are the respective brass, silver or bronze chest returned; player-based raids use separate rules.
Community reference · Checked . Substantive indexed reference text and tables inspected on 2026-09-08 UTC; direct Fandom retrieval was unavailable. Exact mechanics remain needs-review against a game build. Preparation and recovery choices are editorial advice, not gameplay observations or a 1.0 compatibility claim.