Two-handed weapon
Dead Raiser
Sacrifice a bit of blood to raise the dead. Upgrade the skull to spawn multiple skeletons, and increase your blood magic to make them stronger.
Materials fromMistlands· in the developers' Mistlands mage test kit
StaffSkeletonSpawnspawn StaffSkeleton 1 4Recipe
Beyond level 4 at the Forge of Potential: 
1× Black Marble Battle Idol per attempt.
Upgrades by level
| Level | Block | Durability | Station lvl | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 | 200 | 1 |  10× Bone Fragments 16× Refined Eitr 4× Skeleton Trophy |
| 2 | 48 | 250 | 2 | 5× Bone Fragments8× Refined Eitr2× Skeleton Trophy |
| 3 | 48 | 300 | 3 | 10× Bone Fragments16× Refined Eitr4× Skeleton Trophy |
| 4 | 48 | 350 | 4 | 20× Bone Fragments32× Refined Eitr8× Skeleton Trophy |
Upgrade cost per level = materials per level × (level − 1), and × 4 at level 4 (Piece.Requirement.GetAmount in the game code). Station level = recipe level + level − 1.
Total cost
Craft it and upgrade to level 4:
One Dead Raiser, broken down to what you gather (bars smelted from ore, with the coal the smelter burns):
Stats
- Skill
- Blood magic
- Primary attack eitr
- 100
- Primary attack health cost
- 4,000% of health
- Backstab bonus
- ×1
- Block armor
- 48
- Parry bonus
- ×2
- Block force
- 20
- Movement speed
- -5%
- Tool tier
- 5
- Durability
- 200 (+50 per level)
- Weight
- 0.3
Dead Raiser in other languages
SwedishGravskändarens skalle
UkrainianПідіймайло
Portuguese BrazilianInvocador de mortos
DanishDødsopstænder
NorwegianDødsmaner
HungarianHalottkeltő
FrenchÉveil des morts
ItalianAnima-defunti
GermanTotenbeschwörer
SpanishLevantamuertos
RussianВоскрешатель
RomanianCrescătorul de Martalogi
BulgarianМъртвозовец
FinnishRaadonkäskijä
IcelandicSæringastafur
TurkishÖlü Kaldıran
LithuanianMirusiųjų prikėlėjas
CzechVyvolávač mrtvých
PolishOżywiciel
Chinese招魂之杖
Chinese Trad死亡呼喚者
Japanese死体起こしの杖
Korean데드레이저
Thaiกระโหลกอัญเชิญ
From the game's own localization files (25 languages).
Source: ObjectDB in the files of Valheim 1.0.16 (2026-09-24), prefab StaffSkeleton. See how this site reads the game.