Ballista
Overview
Ballista is a misc building piece in Valheim, placed with the Hammer. It's built from Black metal, Yggdrasil wood, and Mechanical Spring.
The Ballista has 400 health.
Spawn one directly with the console command spawn piece_turret once cheats are enabled via devcommands.
Defensive structure that shoots missiles at anything that gets in its way.
| Piece ID | piece_turret |
| Category | Misc |
| Health | 400 |
- Command reference
- spawn
Spawn Command
Spawns Ballista. Requires cheats enabled (devcommands).
Build Cost
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Building mechanics
Full reference- Structural support
Wood
- 100 maximum
- 10 minimum support
- Does not support other pieces
- Weather & damage
No rain wear
- pierce: Resistant
- pickaxe: Resistant
- fire: Resistant
- frost: Resistant
- lightning: 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
Placement rules
Check these restrictions before choosing where to build.
- Surface
- Cannot be placed on a tilting surface
- Inside dungeons
- 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)