Bonesack is considered the first major hurdle that players must overcome in Valheim . He himself and the swamp in which he resides are especially a great challenge for newcomers. However, one player has decided to build a really cool fortress right where Bonesack lives.
Who is the boss? Bonesack is the third boss of the game. The living mass of bones and decay spits poison and summons skeletons and slimes to support him. The boss can be found in the swamp. We explain the swamp biome in detail in the MeinMMO guide.
The difficulty with Bonesack is that he is the first enemy players meet in Valheim that uses true boss mechanics like poison. Newcomers must therefore prepare for him, brew mead with poison resistance, and pack the right weapons. Because Bonesack is, to make matters worse, also resistant to most damage types.
Is Bonesack the toughest boss in Valheim? While the final boss Yagluth is actually a bit tougher, you usually encounter him only after over 100 hours in the game, so you are already significantly more experienced. Bonesack is the first “wall” that players encounter and is thus considered such a great challenge.
In fact, he is so tough that some players demanded a nerf for him – but the developers just made him even harder.
This is the fortress: Now one player has thought that Bonesack is not so bad – and his altar actually looks pretty cool. The altar of the boss is a huge skull with a green, glowing goo inside.
The player named Drauglord has taken the skull as a basis and built a fortress of stone around it. This fortress contains a throne room, storage, armories, and a dormitory.
Everything is kept in green colors, thanks to special torches, and adorned with skulls and trophies. Even the head of the last boss, a giant skeleton with a rusty crown, hangs above the back door. He shows all of this in an epic video:
Fortress of Helvegr – Survival (WIP) from r/valheim
Crazy Builds in Valheim and their Creative Builders
What the Vikings are still building: Valheim players continue to amaze the community with their creativity. Just before the fortress in the swamp, another player built a monument for the Nordic god Heimdall on a mountain peak.
Another player preferred to dedicate himself to his own village, which could also exist in the world of Valheim. He didn’t want a huge longhouse or an imposing fortress, but to create something idyllic. He spoke to MeinMMO in an interview about how he achieved that:
How do you achieve something like that? Such builds require a lot of time and patience, especially if you want to gather the resources yourself. Builders often state that they accomplished everything “without cheats.”
Valheim offers the possibility to enter creative mode via admin commands. In our guide, we explain to you how the admin commands work in Valheim and how to use them. But even with “cheats”, building such a huge fortress can take many hours – without cheats, the construction takes days.
However, it is precisely this that drives players in Valheim. Many love to express their creativity and create their home in the world – even if it takes longer. For these players, the building system is the reason they play so much. This is also explained to us by one of these avid players in an interview: That’s how you still have fun in Valheim after 267 hours
