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Charcoal Kiln

The build cost, comfort value, and health for Charcoal Kiln in Valheim, plus its prefab ID for the spawn console command.

Overview

Charcoal Kiln icon

Charcoal Kiln is a crafting building piece in Valheim, placed with the Hammer. It's built from Stone and Surtling core.

The Charcoal Kiln has 1500 health.

Spawn one directly with the console command spawn charcoal_kiln once cheats are enabled via devcommands.

Useful for turning any kind of wood into coal.

Piece IDcharcoal_kiln
CategoryCrafting
Health1500
Command reference
spawn

Spawn Command

Spawns Charcoal Kiln. Requires cheats enabled (devcommands).

Build Cost

More Crafting

Processing & production

Full reference

3 entries

Charcoal Kiln
Input
1 ×Wood
Output
1 ×Coal
Time

15 sec

Keep the smoke outlet clear

Fuel & capacity

No added fuel

25 input capacity

Times are base processing times while the station can operate. Wind, blocked smoke, shelter, skills, and world settings can change actual production.

Building mechanics

Full reference
Charcoal Kiln
Structural support

Stone

  • 1000 maximum
  • 100 minimum support
Weather & damage

No rain wear

  • blunt: Resistant
  • slash: Resistant
  • pierce: Resistant
  • chop: Resistant
  • fire: Immune
  • frost: Immune
  • poison: Immune
  • spirit: Immune
  • Needs protection from Ashlands ash
  • Heavy snow can damage weakly supported pieces

Support depends on contact geometry and the pieces underneath. Maximum support is not a safe height in meters. Damage multipliers are before other game effects.

Build materials

Required crafting station

Item entry

Placement rules

Check these restrictions before choosing where to build.

Water
Cannot be placed in water
Support
Cannot be placed on wood
Surface
Cannot be placed on a tilting surface
Inside dungeons
Not allowed
Game data source

The full settings include internal fields and inactive defaults. The sections above explain the values relevant to gameplay.

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