Valheim: How to Get Bloodgold in the Deep North

Bloodgold is the metal that gates almost every high-tier weapon and armor piece in the Deep North, the eighth and final biome added with Valheim 1.0. You do not mine it like Copper or Iron. Instead, you build it from Petrified Tissue harvested off giant trolls, and that means preparing a short chain of materials before the first bar ever appears.

Quick answer: Kill a Gammeltroll so it turns to stone, throw Ember Charges at its ankles to shatter the corpse for Petrified Tissue, then place that Petrified Tissue and Coal in a Blast Furnace and wait about 30 seconds for Bloodgold to come out.

What you need before smelting Bloodgold

Everything funnels into one final action at the Blast Furnace. The two smelting inputs are Petrified Tissue and Coal, and getting Petrified Tissue is the hard part because it requires Ember Charges, which themselves need two separate materials. Here is the full dependency list.

Item	How you get it
Blast Furnace	Crafted with 20 Stone, 5 Surtling Cores, 10 Iron, and 20 Finewood
Coal	Burn any wood in a Charcoal Kiln
Petrified Tissue	Break a petrified Gammeltroll with Ember Charges
Ember Charge	Crafted from 1 Embers and 2 Seal Pelts at a workbench
Embers	Collected automatically from an Eternal Pyre
Seal Pelts	Killing adult Seals along the Deep North coast

Craft Ember Charges first

Ember Charges are the only thing that can crack a petrified Gammeltroll, so build a supply before you go hunting. The recipe is 1 Embers plus 2 Seal Pelts, and a single craft yields 10 charges at your workbench.

Build an Eternal Pyre to produce Embers. It uses a Fader Relic, 10 Stone, and the Stonecutter station, and it is placed with the Hammer. Once built, it generates Embers on its own that you pick up nearby.

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Get Seal Pelts by killing adult Seals along the Deep North ocean. Target grown Seals with whiskers, not pups, since only the adults drop the pelt you need.

Combine 1 Embers and 2 Seal Pelts at a workbench to produce a stack of Ember Charges. Two charges are enough to break a single troll, so a full batch covers several corpses.

Note: The Fader Relic drops from Fader, the boss of the Ashlands. If you already cleared that boss and stored the relic away, dig it out before heading north.

Get Petrified Tissue from a Gammeltroll

The Gammeltroll is the largest creature in Valheim, an ancient troll that roams the open Deep North. It is not a boss, but each hit can drop you in one or two blows, so keep moving and manage your stamina for dodging and blocking.

Find a Gammeltroll wandering the surface and defeat it. Instead of collapsing into loot, its body freezes solid into a Petrified Gammeltroll that no pickaxe or tool can damage.

Throw Ember Charges at the statue’s ankles from close range, then run clear before they detonate. One charge per ankle, so two total, is enough to break the corpse apart.

Collect the Petrified Tissue that drops from the shattered remains. Do not use Ember Charges on a living Gammeltroll, since the damage is not worth it. Save them for after the kill.

Petrified Tissue is very heavy, so you can only carry a limited amount at once. It will not travel through wooden portals either. If your portal network is still all wood, build a stone portal specifically for hauling it home.

Smelt Petrified Tissue into Bloodgold

With Petrified Tissue and Coal in hand, the final step happens at the Blast Furnace. Add both materials to the furnace exactly as you would when smelting other ores.

Place Petrified Tissue into the Blast Furnace as the ore input.

Add Coal as the fuel. Burning any wood in a Charcoal Kiln gives you Coal if you are running low.

Wait around 30 seconds. The furnace finishes the process and produces Bloodgold, which you can then collect. Seeing Bloodgold sitting in the output slot confirms the smelt worked.

What Bloodgold is used for

Bloodgold is the foundation of the Deep North’s endgame gear, feeding into the new Nord weapon line and its armor sets. The crafting loop runs deeper than any earlier metal, often combining Bloodgold with molds and other Deep North materials to produce the final pieces.

As one example, the Frostfire Greataxe is crafted at the Galdr Table and needs 20 Bloodgold, a Nord Greataxe, and a Frostfire Essence. It is also the ingredient behind the Bloodgold Arrow, forged at the Black Forge from 1 Bloodgold, 2 Feathers, and 8 Timberwood for 92 pierce damage.

Because Bloodgold sits at the start of that progression, a steady stock of Petrified Tissue keeps every later recipe within reach. Once your Ember Charge supply and Blast Furnace are set up, each Gammeltroll you find becomes a reliable source of the metal that unlocks the rest of the Deep North.