How to Defeat The Queen in Valheim - Valheim Guide - IGN (2024)

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Valheim has many tough bosses to defeat, and the Queen in the Mistlands may pose the biggest challenge yet. She is the sixth main boss of Valheim, and requires a lot of preparation and concentration if you want to win. She even has her own arena separate from the open world, and you'll have to break the seal on it before you can fight her. This guide will teach you how to unlock the boss fight and the best tips for defeating her.

How to Locate the Queen

Finding the Queen shouldn’t be a huge challenge, as long as you can find a glowing red Vegvisir in the Mistlands. This stone will register the Queen’s position on your map.

The best way to find the Vegvisir is by exploring Infested Mines. These dungeons usually have one somewhere, but come prepared with your best food and weaponry as they’re full of deadly Seekers.

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How to Summon the Queen

When you have the Queen’s location on your map, travel there and make sure you place a portal back to your base in case you die. Summoning her isn’t actually done in the same way as the rest of the bosses, but you will need a certain item to fight her.

Rather than summoning the Queen, you’re opening the door to her Dvergr prison. She was locked away by the inhabitants of the Mistlands, and the only way to get inside is with a Sealbreaker.

To find the Sealbreaker, you’ll need nine Sealbreaker Fragments. These are found within Infested Mines. They’re encased in what looks like glass, and require you to hit them before you can pick them up. Infested Mines will usually only have a couple of them, so you may need to find quite a few of these dungeons before you can get all nine pieces.

When you find all nine, make sure you’ve crafted a Galdr Table and head there to create the Sealbreaker. Here's the recipe for the Galdr Table.

  • 20 Yggdrasil Wood
  • 10 Black Metal
  • 5 Black Core
  • 5 Refined Eitr

When you have the Galdr Table, create the Sealbreaker and head to the bosses’ location to open the door with it.

How to Defeat the Queen

Now comes the hard part. If you’ve come this far, you should know the drill by now when it comes to Valheim bosses. You’ll want to bring your best food, weapons, armor and potions if you want to stand a chance against the Queen.

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You should also equip a Feather Cape. The Queen's arena is very vertical with many sets of stairs leading upwards. With a Feather Cape, you can safely jump to the lower floors without taking damage.

The Queen has a huge health bar of around 12,500, and deals very high damage. Her scythe-like appendages will slice right through you if you don’t dodge roll or block with a shield. She also summons her brood of Seekers to swarm you. She will always roar before she summons them, so that’s your sign to prepare for a wave of Seeker enemies.

It’s highly recommended to craft one of the new staffs and bring food that grants Eitr, such as Seeker Aspic. The Staff of Embers is particularly good at clearing waves of Seekers in just a few casts. It can also burn the Queen while you take care of her brood.

Fighting the Queen on her own isn’t too difficult if you can nail the dodge/block timing. You should have time for a couple hits with your weapon between her melee attacks. Make sure you have Healing Mead in case you need a quick heal. The Queen will also burrow into the ground and emerge at different parts of the arena. It's worth keeping a Wisplight equipped so you can see her a bit more clearly.

Another good item to use is Poison Resistance Mead, as the Queen will eventually start spewing poison at you. This poison isn't very damaging, but if it racks up your health can quickly be drained while you struggle with her constant waves of Seekers. Make sure you avoid the pool of poison on the ground after the Queen does this attack.

Of course, fighting her with some friends will increase your chances of success as one of you can distract her while the others hit her from behind. If you're solo, kiting her around and using your staff and other ranged weaponry is your safest option, though it may be quite a slow process.

After a long, arduous fight, defeating the Queen will reward you with her trophy which you can place back at the spawn altar. The Queen's power will grant you increased mining speed and 100% boosted Eitr regeneration.

This power is particularly useful if you want to continue using staffs, which is very likely to be an effective strategy in future Valheim content. The staffs are some of the most powerful weapons in the game, and being able to cast more is very helpful.

And if you fancy fighting the Queen again, you can place 3 Seeker Soldier trophies on the altar at the top of her arena. This will restart the battle, so you can do it all over again and get another Queen trophy to display on your wall.

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FAQs

How do you fight The Queen in Valheim? ›

If you're solo, kiting her around and using your staff and other ranged weaponry is your safest option, though it may be quite a slow process. After a long, arduous fight, defeating the Queen will reward you with her trophy which you can place back at the spawn altar.

What is Queen weak to Valheim? ›

As the final boss in the game, she is quite difficult. The Queen does not have any weaknesses that you can exploit. In terms of armor and weapons, it's imperative that you have the best.

What is the best weapon to fight The Queen Valheim? ›

To take on The Queen, the final boss of Valheim, you'll want to wield the mighty Krom Longsword. This beast of a blade is one of the most powerful weapons available to Viking warriors in the 10th world. Forged from Ancient Bark, Fine Wood and Black Metal Scraps, the Krom Longsword deals a whopping 80 slash damage.

What do you need to fight The Queen? ›

You need poison resist & pierce resist (root chest, potion) to mitigate a lot of her damage, the best foods you can make, and then just dance around the walls/columns/etc to disrupt her charge attack and to avoid her while you drop a seeker or two, then like any other boss, in and stab, out and avoid, repeat.

What is the key to The Queen Valheim? ›

Sealbreaker is an item, constructed on the Galdr table from nine Sealbreaker fragments. It is a key to the entrance of The Queen.

What is the easiest boss in Valheim? ›

It should come as no surprise that the first boss in Valheim is the easiest to take down, and players will find Eikthyr in the relatively safe Meadows. While Eikthyr may be able to shoot electric bolts from his antlers, they tend to be easy enough to dodge for anyone with solid reflexes.

What is the hardest creature in Valheim? ›

Although Fader is statistically the toughest boss, as it is the current final boss of the game, the relative difficulty of the bosses isn't dictated by how late into the game they are. In fact, it is largely dictated by how big of a jump in difficulty the boss' biome is from the last.

What does The Queen drop? ›

Majestic carapace is an item dropped by The Queen. It is required to build the Artisan press.

How to defeat The Queen Valheim on Reddit? ›

Always keep a bubble up! Use fire staff on queen, keeping her on fire helps with seeing her in the dark. Keep your distance and fire off at her from one of the 4 corners of the area I've mentioned, this means whenever she charges you, you can either ascend or descend the area and use verticality so she can't hit you.

What does The Queen bee do in Valheim? ›

Players will get a little Honey and possibly a Queen Bee for their troubles. Once the Queen Bee drops, players will unlock the crafting recipe for a beehive. This calls for 10 Wood and 1 Queen Bee.

Is the Queen Hard Valheim? ›

The Queen takes the form of a horrifying Seeker Matriarch. It has a special and distinctive appearance compared to other seekers encountered in the game. While slaying this monster is incredibly difficult, it is not impossible. However, battling The Queen requires Valheim players to bring their very best.

How do you fight Surtlings Valheim? ›

Projectiles can be parried, staggering the surtling for some time and allowing you to close the distance for melee attacks, and possibly pushing them into water. While they take damage from water, rain does not affect them. Before the Ashlands update, Surtlings were very common and the only inhabitants of Ashlands.

How do you fight Moder in Valheim? ›

Even though Moder is weak to fire, poison is a better way to whittle away her health consistently, and poison arrows hit harder than fire arrows. It's not advised to try taking her on in melee combat as all of her attacks are capable of savaging you in one hit when taking the full brunt of them.

How do you fight Deathsquito Valheim? ›

How to deal with Deathsquitos? If you have a decent shield, Parry (block just before they hit) will stun them long enough to smack em. If you don't have a shield that strong, you probably shouldn't be there. They circle you then swoop in, shoot them with bow as they approach.

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