Use Trollstav without trapping yourself with the summon
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Trollstav creates a hostile troll through a damaging fiery arrival. It can attack you, other players and tame animals, so summon only outdoors away from the base and the recovery route. Prepare two eitr foods, health recovery and a separate combat weapon; move away from the impact and watch the troll’s target. The normal cap is two, upgrades do not raise it, and this is not a replacement for a friendly skeleton companion.
A Bloodstone, 3 smelted Flametal, 15 Charred bone and a Troll trophy. Keep the trophy from Black Forest troll hunting; it is not a Fallen Valkyrie trophy.
An outdoor target with space for the arrival and a cleared retreat to a distant protected portal. Keep players, pets, livestock and valuable structures away from that area.
The official notes through 1.0.20 do not confirm Trollstav’s current crafting cost, resource cost, two-troll limit or targeting rules. The older figures below remain reference values. The 1.0 release increases durability for Mistlands and Ashlands gear without supplying per-item values.
A current-build test must check the cast cost, active-summon limit, hostile targeting and dungeon restriction with the client version and world settings recorded. Kingy has not performed it. Treat the summon as hostile, retain a separate weapon and retreat route, and do not test it beside pets, players or valuable structures.
Craft the base Trollstav at Galdr 2. Charred enemies supply the bones; use the fortress loot route for a Bloodstone and the furnace route for Flametal bars. For a missing Troll trophy, hunt a Black Forest troll in open terrain with your established ranged kit, keeping clear of its swings; a trophy is not a guaranteed result of each kill.
The reference base cost is 120 eitr and 60% of current health. For example, the listed percentage would leave 40 of 100 current health before other effects. Use the actual requirement shown for your character, and do not enter the experiment with just enough health to stand. The cast’s percentage cost and the damage around the arrival are separate hazards.
Eat two different eitr foods and one health food from the loadout guide, fill the bar and prepare healing and eitr recovery. If using a protective barrier, cast it early enough to recover its health and eitr cost before summoning. Do not repeatedly pay blood costs while enemies are closing.
On screen: At the Galdr Table's Craft tab, just after a Staff of the Wild is made, the player selects Trollstav: its card reads "Summons a raging beast to cause death and destruction", lists its stats and four ingredient icons above the Craft button.
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Use an open outdoor battlefield with no friendly structures or animals in the impact area or the troll’s likely path. A summon arrives as a fiery meteor, can damage the surroundings and start fires, then remains a hostile creature. A target just outside your portal room is therefore a poor place to cast.
An isolated enemy group or the defended interior of a fortress can be a useful target, provided you can see where the summon will land and leave the area afterward. The ordinary fortress guide supplies a reliable breach and recovery route; a troll is an optional source of disruption, not a guaranteed complete clearance.
Trollstav is blocked inside dungeons. Use your normal spells in Putrid Holes or Lord Reto’s tomb. Do not begin an indoor fight expecting the summon to become available once you have enough eitr.
The reference qualifies the cap by loaded/rendered creatures, so it is not a promise that only two trolls can exist anywhere in a world. Do not use travel or unloading as a cleanup method. Mark any summon you leave behind as a hazard before another player enters the area.
Check all three foods, the current eitr and health bars, your exit lane and the absence of friendly creatures near the target. In multiplayer, make sure everyone is clear before casting.
Aim at the chosen outdoor location and cast once. Move away from the impact area and recover health while keeping the emerging troll in view. Do not approach it as if you had summoned a Skelett.
Let it engage enemies while you maintain distance and a clear exit. If it turns toward you, move away from the base and the portal rather than drawing it into the recovery camp.
Decide whether a second summon improves the situation before spending another large blood cost. Two is the normal active limit at base quality, and upgrading does not increase it. A cap warning is a reason to stop casting, not a reason to empty the eitr bar.
“The Grappling Hook and the Trollstav! - Valheim” by LegendaryWaffle · Sep 26, 2026 · Valheim 1.0 (uploaded Sep 26, 2026, after the 1.0.10–1.0.12 hotfixes); patch number not shown
The troll attacks all other creatures except other Summoned Trolls, including its caster and tame animals. It does not behave like a friendly skeleton companion. Keep it away from your army and mount as well as the base.
Do not assume a short timer will remove it. When the other enemies are gone, either defeat the troll from a recoverable position or leave the marked area clear of visitors. Frost is a useful damage choice against the summoned creature; it is immune to fire. Use the existing Staff of Frost in controlled bursts and save stamina to evade its melee strikes or thrown stones.
Collect loot only once the site is clear. If the fight exceeds your remaining food or durability, use the distant exit and resupply. Keep the troll away from that exit; repair structures after the creature is dealt with, not while it is attacking them.
Keep Trollstav as a situational tool. It does not award Blood magic experience through casting or the troll’s attacks in the inspected reference. Use protection and friendly skeletons for their appropriate roles, rather than spawning hostile trolls to train the skill.
Respawn, eat and Rest, and equip the stored armor and ordinary weapon. Bring replacement meads and sufficient eitr food if the recovery weapon is a staff.
Approach by the known route and locate the troll before moving toward the tombstone. Defeat it from space or draw it away, then retrieve equipment during an opening and leave to re-equip safely.
If the camp was damaged, rebuild the shelter and bed, explicitly claim the bed and verify the spawn point, then restore the portal. Re-establish the reserve before another summon attempt.
That is its hostile behavior. Move it away from the base, use the separate weapon to deal with it, and choose a more isolated site next time.
The cast says Blocked inside a cave.
Trollstav cannot be used inside dungeons. Fight with the normal kit or withdraw; more eitr does not remove the restriction.
I upgraded the staff but cannot summon more trolls.
Upgrades do not increase the normal two-troll active cap. Clear the existing threat rather than repeatedly casting or trying to treat an unloaded troll as gone.
The fight is over but I cannot collect loot safely.
The troll remains hostile. Clear it with a suitable weapon or retreat, mark the danger and return supplied; the end of its first fight does not make it friendly.
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Sources · 9official · community · checked 19 Oct 2026 · Research-based
Iron Gate: official Steam announcements through Patch 1.0.20 ↗Published 1.0 launch and subsequent patch changes through 1.0.20: trophy drops, Ashlands spawns, player-base pieces and world-save fixes. No current recipe, breeding, portal or summon test.official ·
Valheim Wiki: Trollstav ↗Base recipe and Galdr 2, damaging fiery arrival, hostile troll, two-troll cap unchanged by upgrades, dungeon restriction, attacks/resistances and render-distance qualification.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Blood magic ↗Trollstav listed base cost 120 eitr and 60 percent of current health; summon duration is not a short timed expiry.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Blood magic %28skill%29 ↗Trollstav and Summoned Troll do not award Blood magic experience. Other summon and shield skill mechanics are handled in their separate guides.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Bloodstone ↗Fortress chest gemstone source for Dundr and Trollstav; ordinary portal compatibility.community ·
Valheim Wiki: Troll trophy ↗Trollstav ingredient is an occasional drop from Black Forest trolls; not a guaranteed trophy per kill.community ·
EIP Gaming: Magic overview ↗Dundr reload consumes eitr; roots provide temporary area control; Trollstav costs and hostile summon distinguish it from Dead Raiser.community ·
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