Two-handed weapon
Snow Shovel
Useful for clearing away the deepest of snow.
Materials fromAshlands
ShovelSpawnspawn Shovel 1 3Recipe
Beyond level 3 at the Forge of Potential: 
1× Wooden Battle Idol per attempt.
Upgrades by level
| Level | Block | Durability | Station lvl | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 200 | 3 |  5× Finewood 4× Flametal 2× Embers |
| 2 | 1 | 400 | 4 | 1× Finewood10× Flametal |
| 3 | 1 | 600 | 5 | 2× Finewood20× Flametal |
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:
One Snow Shovel, broken down to what you gather (bars smelted from ore, with the coal the smelter burns):
Stats
- Skill
- Farming
- Primary attack stamina
- 5
- Backstab bonus
- ×1
- Block armor
- 1
- Parry bonus
- ×0
- Durability
- 200 (+200 per level)
- Weight
- 2
Snow Shovel in other languages
UkrainianЛопата для снігу
Portuguese BrazilianPá de neve
DanishSneskovl
NorwegianSnøskuffel
FrenchPelle à neige
ItalianPala da neve
GermanSchneeschaufel
SpanishPala de nieve
RussianЛопата для снега
BulgarianСнежна Лопата
FinnishLumilapio
TurkishKar Küreği
PolishŁopata do śniegu
Chinese雪铲
Chinese Trad雪鏟
Japanese雪用シャベル
Korean눈삽
From the game's own localization files (18 languages).
Source: ObjectDB in the files of Valheim 1.0.16 (2026-09-24), prefab Shovel. See how this site reads the game.