Chest

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

Overview

Chest is a furniture building piece in Valheim, placed with the Hammer. It's built from Wood.

The Chest has 100 health.

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

A good place to store any items you don't need to carry with you.

Piece ID	piece_chest_wood
Category	Furniture
Health	100

Command reference: spawn

Spawn Command

Spawns Chest. Requires cheats enabled (devcommands).

Build Cost

Wood×10

More Furniture

Building mechanics

Full reference

Chest

Structural support: Wood
100 maximum
10 minimum support
Does not support other pieces
Weather & damage: Rain wears exposed pieces down to 50% health
blunt: Resistant
slash: Resistant
pierce: Resistant
chop: Resistant
pickaxe: Resistant
fire: Resistant
frost: Resistant
poison: Immune
spirit: Immune
Needs protection from Ashlands ash
Heavy snow can damage weakly supported pieces
Storage & fuel: 10 storage slots
5 columns × 2 rows

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

Wood×10

Required crafting station

Workbench

Item entry

Chest

Placement rules

Check these restrictions before choosing where to build.

Water: Cannot be placed in water
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.

Download full game settings (JSON)