The Valheim Map: Markers, Biomes & Points Of Interest

The Valheim map is your best window into the world

The Valheim map is the most important tool you have for tracking everything you’ve done so far in the game.  You can clearly see areas that you’ve visited before as well as places you have yet to explore. The map will record everywhere you’ve been on this game world/server by revealing the biome tiles of the areas you have covered. Places you haven’t been will remain under the misty fog of war.

You can bring up your map by pressing ‘M’ and zoom in and out using the middle mouse. 

Exploring the Valheim map

Whenever you enter a new game world, you start with a blank map clouded by the fog of war. As you travel, you will uncover the ground you traverse and your immediately visible area. The area that becomes uncovered on the map will reflect your current biome.

As you explore and more of the map becomes exposed, you will visually identify the biomes.

• Meadows: Pale green dotted with trees
• Black Forest: Dark green many trees
• Swamp: Brown and spotted with water
• Mountains: White and rocky
• Plains: Pale yellow and browns
• Mistlands: Obscuring white streaks over woodland
• Ashlands: Red and Black rocky area

Using the Valheim map to avoid danger

The Valheim map can be extremely beneficial when you are exploring new areas. Due to the look-ahead nature of how the map reveals biome tiles, you can get a heads-up on dangerous terrain and biomes that you might be running or sailing towards. This is especially helpful when sailing and it can be hard to slow and turn the boat at short notice. Save yourself and your crew from surprise Deathsquito attacks by giving a wide berth around that upcoming Plains biome.

Uncovering Points of Interest in Valheim

As you explore, you will happen across points of interest in Valheim. Coming within 300 meters of a point of interest will place its white icon on your map, with its name displayed underneath. These can be boss spawning areas or Haldor the trader.

A vital marker that you should note on your map is a thin, white bed-like marker that indicates your current respawn point. When you claim a bed, you will set this bed as your current respawn point, and the corresponding icon will appear at this location on the map.

The only other automatically deployed marker is the player’s death marker. Whenever you die in Valheim, the map will display your gravestone, which will persist until you return to loot the items you dropped.

Using custom markers on the Valheim map

There are custom map markers for you to use to mark your own places of interest. With the Valheim map open, you will see the markers in the bottom-right. Choose one of the five markers and double click on the map where you would like the marker to appear.

Once you place the mark, you can name it whatever you like. We highly recommend keeping it simple, “copper” or “cave.” If you have cleared out the point of interest, you can click on the mark again to put a red X on it, letting you know that you have already discovered and cleared that point.

Viking cartography

Once you get used to the controls, the Valheim map is highly intuitive. You’ll find yourself making use of it often, especially once you’re up to the hunt for Yagluth or Haldor. So get your map out frequently to make sure you haven’t missed something important and to keep yourself out of (unwanted) trouble!