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Chopping Block

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

Overview

Chopping Block icon

Chopping Block is a crafting building piece in Valheim, placed with the Hammer. It's built from Wood and Flint.

The Chopping Block has 100 health.

Spawn one directly with the console command spawn piece_workbench_ext1 once cheats are enabled via devcommands.

Workbench

Piece IDpiece_workbench_ext1
CategoryCrafting
Health100
Command reference
spawn

Spawn Command

Spawns Chopping Block. Requires cheats enabled (devcommands).

Build Cost

More Crafting

Building mechanics

Full reference
Structural support

Wood

  • 100 maximum
  • 10 minimum support
  • Does not support other pieces
Weather & damage

Rain wears exposed pieces down to 50% health

  • pierce: Resistant
  • chop: Weak
  • frost: Resistant
  • 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

Upgrades station

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)