At Black forge level 2, craft an Asksvin saddle from six Flametal, twenty Linen thread and four Morgen sinew. Apply it to a tamed adult, use Interact to mount, and steer with the camera while walking or sprinting. Practise on solid ground first. Mounted Asksvin can cross lava, but the creature’s lava immunity does not protect a player who dismounts or loses the mount there.
A spare tamed adult, a protected breeding pair or reserve eggs, and accepted feed for the mount.
Black forge level 2, six smelted Flametal, twenty Linen thread and four Morgen sinew for the saddle.
Three foods, rested recovery equipment, a cleared practice area and a known route back to solid ground. Keep your own gear usable if riding ends unexpectedly.
Connect a Black forge cooler to the Black forge to reach level 2. The Mistlands station guide supplies that forge and extension; an unextended level-1 Black forge is insufficient.
Smelt Flametal ore in the Blast furnace and reserve six bars for this craft. Use the flametal route rather than improvising a lava mining trip for the saddle. Grow Plains flax and spin twenty into twenty Linen thread with the Spinning wheel from the Plains production chain.
Recover four Morgen sinew from Morgen encounters on Ashlands ground or in Putrid holes. Take manageable fights with your established Ashlands kit: clear other enemies, leave room to evade the roll and attack during a recovery opening. A confined hole is not the required source if surface fights are more recoverable. Bring the sinew home before continuing exploration.
Craft the saddle at the level-2 forge. The saddle itself can travel through ordinary portals. Allocate one to a spare adult, keeping your breeders and reserve eggs protected.
Black forge10 Black marble + 10 Yggdrasil wood + 5 Black coreHammer; within workbench range
Black forge cooler5 Iron + 5 Copper + 4 Black marbleHammer; within black forge range
Blast furnace20 Stone + 5 Surtling core + 10 Iron + 20 Fine woodHammer; within artisan-table range
Flametal1 Flametal ore + 2 CoalBlast furnace
Spinning wheel20 Fine wood + 10 Iron nails + 5 Leather scrapsHammer; within artisan-table range
Put the saddle in a hotbar slot, aim at the tamed adult and activate that slot to attach it. Aim at the saddled animal and use Interact to mount. Use your current controller or keyboard bindings and the displayed interaction prompts.
Use forward movement to start walking and backward movement to stop. Practise in a cleared enclosure or open patch of solid ground. Hold the steering control shown by your riding hints while turning the camera toward the intended route; on default mouse controls this is the right mouse button. Direction keys alone do not turn the animal. It cannot reverse, so leave room to turn.
Practise starting, stopping, turning and dismounting before leaving the safe area. Use short sprints and watch the mount’s stamina and health. Riding skill improves sprint performance over time; a new rider should not plan a route around a veteran rider’s pace.
You cannot attack while riding an Asksvin. If a fight becomes necessary, reach solid ground with a foot retreat before dismounting. Do not learn the dismount binding at the edge of a lava pool.
Older footage · checked Oct 11, 2026 · before Valheim 1.0 (September 2026)
On screen: The Asksvin Saddle at the Black forge, saddling a tamed Asksvin in a walled pen, riding through Meadows with on-screen run and mouse-steering hints, then the Riding skill (animal speed and stamina drain) in the skills list.
Check the guide’s version notes before following older footage.
Asksvin are immune to lava damage and can carry a mounted rider across it. They are only resistant to ordinary fire damage, not immune to every Ashlands threat. Enemies can injure or kill the mount, and a dismounted rider is exposed to the lava directly.
Before crossing, inspect the far landing and choose a short route with room to climb onto solid ground. Start with a healthy mount and recovered stamina, and avoid crossings that end among enemies or against a steep bank. Turn back early if the landing becomes unusable; do not stop in lava to fight or remove the saddle.
Fire resistance mead helps with fire damage but does not make direct lava contact safe. Keep Basalt bombs and the temporary-platform escape method available when travelling near lava; those platforms are temporary and are not a promise that a fall or mount death can be rescued.
Treat a lava crossing as a route choice with a possible equipment loss. A tame mount is useful transport, not an invulnerability effect or an automatic solution to a hostile landing.
A home-hatched Asksvin can be ridden outside the Ashlands. Move eggs and a saddle through the portal, hatch and grow the animal at the destination, then practise the local route. This uses documented egg transport and does not depend on getting a live adult through a portal or onto a ship.
Riding ignores the rider’s carried weight, but plan cargo you can manage if forced to walk. Keep the hauling and recovery route usable on foot, especially around slopes, water and enemy territory.
Dismount on solid ground inside a secure enclosure and close it before leaving. Tamed animals can become involved in fights; do not assume a dismounted Asksvin will remain harmlessly parked while enemies approach. Feed it and allow passive healing in safety before the next trip; food is not an instant combat heal.
Use the displayed saddle-removal interaction if you want to move the equipment between adults. Store it with replacement gear after use when the pen is exposed to attack, and maintain the separate cold egg reserve.
If the mount is badly hurt, leave combat for solid ground and the cleared retreat while you still have control. If you must dismount, do so where you can fight or run on foot. Keep dangerous enemies away from the breeding enclosure.
After a player death, eat and equip the recovery kit before returning through the safe portal. Inspect the death site from defensible ground. A living mount near the site may help only after you can reach and mount it safely.
If the Asksvin dies, it does not respawn as a mount. Recover accessible equipment only after the area is controlled; inspect the site for the saddle rather than assuming anything dropped in lava can be retrieved. Recraft it if recovery is not practical.
Restore the nursery and hatch a reserved egg, or use another protected adult. Repair the failed enclosure or choose a safer route before risking the replacement. Do not take the last breeding animal on the same unrecoverable journey.
Handle all three ingredients and check that the Black forge has a connected extension and shows level 2. The craft requires Flametal bars, not ore, and Linen thread, not raw flax.
The animal runs in the wrong direction.
Turn the camera toward the intended route and practise at a walk. It cannot reverse; create turning room instead of backing toward an obstacle.
The mount is hurt despite crossing lava.
Lava immunity does not cover enemy attacks or all fire damage. Reach solid ground, disengage and feed the animal in safety; do not dismount into lava to defend it.
The mount or saddle was lost at an inaccessible site.
Preserve the surviving breeding line and use stored eggs for a replacement. Recraft the saddle if necessary; a corpse or item marker in lava does not establish a safe recovery route.
Valheim Wiki: Asksvin ↗Ashlands habitat, accepted plant foods, powerful structure-damaging attacks, night-only two-star spawns, eggs, growth, lava immunity, fire resistance and no player attacks while mounted.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Taming ↗Calm and fed taming in the player’s active area, yellow/pink heart cues, first taming tick removes night despawn, breeding and passive healing. Precise Asksvin breeding distances/timers/caps are omitted because general and species pages differ.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Asksvin egg ↗Portal-compatible eggs, stacks of twenty for storage, single eggs under shelter near heat for hatching, thirty-minute incubation and star-quality mapping.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Asksvin saddle ↗Six Flametal, twenty Linen thread and four Morgen sinew; hotbar attachment, Interact to ride and saddle removal.community ·
PCGamesN: mount controls ↗Forward starts, backward stops, and held right mouse steers toward the camera with default mouse controls.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Riding ↗Camera-direction steering, walk/sprint, no reverse, mounted stamina and riding-skill effects; carried weight does not prevent riding.community ·
Something Awful: Asksvin riding controls discussion ↗Forward movement starts, backward movement stops, and the mouse steering control is held while turning the camera. Default keys are expressed as configurable actions.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Lava ↗Severe direct lava damage, mounted Asksvin traversal and temporary Basalt bomb platforms. Fire resistance does not make a dismounted player immune to lava.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Morgen ↗Ashlands surface and Putrid hole enemy, Morgen sinew drops and rolling/melee attacks.community ·
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