Ancient Seed Item ID

Held against your ear, you hear tiny whisperings within...
An Ancient Seed is a rare drop from Greydwarf Brutes, Greydwarf Shamans, and crows attacking Greydwarf nests, plus dungeon chests. Three Ancient seeds are required to summon The Elder, Valheim's second boss, on his Forsaken Altar.
Overview
Ancient Seed is a forsaken offering item in Valheim. Its in-game item ID is AncientSeed, which you can drop into the console with spawn AncientSeed to give yourself one — append a number like spawn AncientSeed 50 to spawn a stack.
In the in-game data it is tagged as Item drop and Forsaken offering.
The spawn command requires cheats — enable them with devcommands after opening the console.
| Item ID | AncientSeed |
| Category | Item drop |
| Subcategory | Forsaken offering |
- Command reference
- spawn
Command Builder
Spawns one Ancient Seed at your location.
Example Commands
Spawns one Ancient Seed at your location.
Spawns five Ancient Seed at your location.
Spawns twenty Ancient Seed at your location.
Stats
| Type | Miscellaneous |
| Weight | 1 |
| Stack size | 50 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
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Dropped by
Used in recipes
Biomes via creature drops
Possible chest loot at
- Dev House 31 source definition; DevHouse3 / piece_chest_blackmetal (1) (location prefab). Serialized stack ranges: 1–1. Conditions and weights are in the source tables; content is not guaranteed.
- Dev House 41 source definition; DevHouse4 / piece_chest_blackmetal (1) (location prefab). Serialized stack ranges: 1–1. Conditions and weights are in the source tables; content is not guaranteed.
Game data source
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