Tool

Hammer

With this to your hand, you can raise high halls and mighty fortifications.

Block

parry ×1.5

Attack stamina

Weight

Max level

Materials fromMeadows· in the developers' Meadows test kit

Item IDHammerSpawnspawn Hammer 1 3

Recipe

Crafted atyour inventory (no station)

Repaired at Workbench.

Beyond level 3 at the Forge of Potential: 1× Wooden Battle Idol per attempt.

Upgrades by level

Level	Block	Durability	Materials
1	10	100	3× Wood 2× Stone
2	10	200	1× Wood 1× Stone
3	10	300	2× Wood 2× Stone

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 3:

Stats

Skill: Crafting
Primary attack stamina: 5
Knockback: 10
Backstab bonus: ×4
Block armor: 10
Parry bonus: ×1.5
Durability: 100 (+100 per level)
Weight: 2

Hammer in other languages

SwedishHammare

UkrainianМолот

Portuguese BrazilianMartelo

HungarianKalapács

FrenchMarteau

ItalianMartello

SpanishMartillo

RussianМолот

RomanianCiocan

BulgarianЧук

FinnishVasara

IcelandicHamar

TurkishÇekiç

LithuanianPlaktukas

CzechKladivo

SlovakKladivo

PolishMłot

DutchHamer

Portuguese EuropeanMartelo

Chinese工具锤

Chinese Trad錘子

Japaneseハンマー

Korean망치

Thaiค้อน

AbenakiMalto

CroatianČekić

Georgianჩაქუჩი

LatvianĀmurs

From the game's own localization files (29 languages).

Source: ObjectDB in the files of Valheim 1.0.16 (2026-09-24), prefab Hammer. See how this site reads the game.