Enter the Sealed Tower and defeat Zil & Thungr

Before another attempt, check three things: a usable outside recovery portal, a descent you can retrace, and the supplies for the specific blocker above. If the grave and chest need separate trips, recover your equipment before loading the reward. This route uses the research scope stated in the sources; it does not claim a new gameplay test or a guaranteed safe stair strategy.

Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerValheim Wiki: Zil %26 ThungrEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s questsValheim Wiki: Hildir%27s chests

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.

Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerValheim Wiki: Zil %26 ThungrEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Older footage · checked Oct 11, 2026 · before Valheim 1.0 (September 2026)

2:52–3:34 · 42 sClimb the outside of a Sealed Tower with ladders and stairs

2:52–3:34Climb the outside of a Sealed Tower with ladders and stairs

Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Sealed TowerEIP Gaming: How to complete Hildir’s quests

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.

1. Draw manageable groups onto the floor you have already cleared. Deal with shamans and their fireballs or protective barriers before pushing into more defenders.
2. Look down as well as ahead. Traps can be concealed under straw, especially along the route between stairs and doors.
3. Clear each upper floor and note any gates obstructing your retreat. Destructible gates can be broken with a weapon; the surrounding stone walls cannot.
4. 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

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.

Mechanics sources: Valheim Wiki: Zil %26 ThungrValheim Wiki: Boss strategiesValheim Wiki: Sealed Tower

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. At Hildir, use the chest from a hotbar slot while facing her. Check the beaded clothing, headwear and basic fireworks now offered for coins.
4. 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