Valheim Achievements Guide: All 53 Unlocks in 1.0 (2026)

This Valheim achievements guide exists because the game shipped without any for more than five years. Iron Gate held them back for the full 1.0 release, and now that the Deep North update is live, Steam's own stats page confirms exactly 53 of them. What follows lists every one, confirmed straight from Steam rather than guessed from a wiki, and groups them by what they actually ask of you instead of dumping all 53 in one flat list.

TL;DR: Valheim has 53 achievements as of the September 9, 2026 1.0 release. 8 are tied to defeating each Forsaken boss, including the new Deep North finale Kall Fimbulbringer. The rest split across building, crafting, cooking, exploration, survival, and a handful of hidden story unlocks. A few, like The Toughest Viking, require hard difficulty specifically.

How many achievements does Valheim have? (quick answer)

53, confirmed directly from Steam's own achievement stats page. That's up from zero during Early Access: achievements were one of the features Iron Gate deliberately saved for the full 1.0 launch rather than rolling out gradually, alongside the Deep North biome, PS5 and Switch 2 support, and full crossplay. All 8 bosses have their own achievement, including Kall Fimbulbringer, the Deep North's new final boss.

Key Takeaways

• 53 total achievements, confirmed from Steam's stats page, not a secondhand estimate
• 8 boss achievements, one per Forsaken kill, ending with the new Kall Fimbulbringer unlock
• Several achievements are hidden, meaning Steam doesn't show a description until you've earned them
• The Toughest Viking and The Master Hunter specifically require hard difficulty, not just clearing the content
• Two combo achievements, Kings and Queens of Valheim and Child of Odin, only unlock after you've already earned several others first
• Our Valheim boss order guide covers the summon method for every boss achievement on this list, including the new Kall Fimbulbringer fight

The 8 boss achievements

Every Forsaken boss has its own kill achievement, and Steam hides the description on all 8 until you've earned them, standard practice for story-adjacent unlocks. In progression order: Eikthyr, The Elder, Bonemass, Moder, Yagluth, The Seeker Queen, Fader, and Kall Fimbulbringer. That last one is new with the Deep North: a Jotun frost giant reached only after a full gauntlet rematch against the previous seven. If you need the exact summon items and fight patterns for any of them, our Valheim boss order guide covers all 8 in the same progression order.

Three more achievements sit right alongside the boss list and change how you're expected to fight them:

Stronger Together: kill a boss together with a friend. Lone Wolf: kill a boss entirely solo. These two are mutually exclusive on the same kill, so you'll need at least two separate boss fights across a playthrough (or two characters) to land both. The Viking: defeat all 8 bosses on any difficulty, the baseline "beat the game" achievement that doesn't require hard mode.

Caption: The Deep North's aurora-lit nights are as much a part of the biome's identity as its bosses. Kall Fimbulbringer's achievement is the newest of the 8 boss unlocks.

GODEEPER: Want the exact summon items and attack patterns for Kall Fimbulbringer specifically? Valheim Boss Order: All 8 Bosses & How to Summon Them →

Building and construction achievements

Six achievements track what you build rather than what you kill. The Homesteader: build a house, the very first one most players unlock. The Architect: build a village, a step up in scale from a single structure. The Builder: build 500 pieces total, a count that adds up faster than it sounds once you're placing floor tiles and wall segments piece by piece. Mighty Halls: raise a very tall structure. Top of the World: build something very high up, a different condition from Mighty Halls since it's about altitude, not the structure's own height. The Carpenter: build everything, meaning every placeable building piece in the game at least once, which makes it one of the two most time-consuming achievements on the list alongside The Toughest Viking.

Caption: Mid-build in the Plains biome. The build-menu prompts on screen are the same tools that eventually chip away at The Builder's 500-piece count.

Crafting, cooking, and gathering achievements

This is the largest single group, and most of it happens naturally over a long playthrough rather than needing a dedicated grind session. The Lumberjack: cut down 500 trees. The Farmer: harvest 500 crops. The Forager: pick 250 berries and 250 mushrooms. The Beekeeper: harvest 500 honey. The Cook: cook 100 dishes. No Adventuring On an Empty Stomach: eat 500 items of food. The Trophy Collector: collect all trophies, meaning one drop from every enemy and boss type that has one.

Three achievements ask for full-roster completion rather than a raw count: The Blacksmith (craft every kind of weapon), The Artisan (craft every kind of item), and The Master Chef (cook every kind of dish). Pair those with The Gourmet (eat every kind of edible item) and you've got four separate "one of everything" checklists running at once if you're going for full completion. Our food buff guide is a faster way to hit The Master Chef and The Gourmet together, since most of its recipes are ones you'd cook anyway for the stat boosts.

Caption: A crafting station lit up mid-use. The 1.0 patch added new crafting stations alongside the 40-plus weapons and four armor sets that came with the Deep North.

Exploration and hunting achievements

The Hunter: kill every kind of creature. The Master Hunter: kill every kind of creature on hard difficulty specifically, a separate condition from The Hunter rather than an automatic upgrade. The Fisherman: catch every kind of fish. A Catch Worthy of Njord: catch a four-star fish, a rarer catch than just landing every species once. The Explorer: travel far in all four directions, which almost certainly means a trip into the Deep North or Ashlands at some point given how the world map is laid out. The Pathfinder: travel far in all four directions without using a map, the harder version of The Explorer's same underlying condition. The Sailor: sail far enough to circle the world twice. The Captain: sail far enough to circle the world while manning the helm the entire time, a stricter version of The Sailor's distance requirement.

Survival and difficulty achievements

The Survivor: survive for 30 consecutive days. Comfort is King: reach a comfort level of 20, the game's highest comfort tier, which takes a well-decorated base rather than just a roof over your head. Are You Alright?: die in every way possible, an achievement that rewards experimentation (or bad luck) rather than skill. The Tough Viking: defeat all 8 bosses on normal difficulty or higher. The Toughest Viking: defeat all 8 bosses on hard difficulty specifically, the single hardest completion requirement on the list alongside The Carpenter, since it means running the entire boss ladder again under harder rules even if you already beat it once on normal.

Combo and hidden achievements

Two achievements only unlock after you've already earned a set of others. Kings and Queens of Valheim: requires The Viking, The Hunter, The Artisan, The Master Chef, The Carpenter, and The Explorer already completed. Child of Odin: requires The Toughest Viking, The Master Hunter, The Survivor, and The Pathfinder already completed, meaning it's gated behind hard-difficulty achievements specifically, not just any six.

A handful of achievements show no public description on Steam at all until earned: I Have Arrived!, The First of Many, Accidents Happen, Obliterated, That Can't Be an Accident, The Legends Are True, The Treasure Hunter, No Time For Snoozing, and The Chosen One. Steam hides these to avoid spoiling story beats or specific triggers, so this guide isn't going to guess at what unlocks them. If you're chasing full completion, expect to stumble into most of these naturally rather than needing a guide for them specifically.

Step-by-Step: a sensible completion order

1. Play through normally for your first batch: The Homesteader, The Lumberjack, The Cook, and the early boss kills all fire from ordinary progress. Don't plan around them, just play.

2. Farm the counting achievements alongside normal progression: You're already cutting trees, harvesting crops, and picking berries while building a base, so The Lumberjack, The Farmer, and The Forager mostly finish themselves over a full playthrough rather than needing a dedicated grind.

3. Pair up for at least one boss kill if you're playing with friends: Stronger Together only needs one co-op kill, so knock it out on whichever boss your group is tackling together anyway rather than treating it as a separate task.

4. Chase the "craft everything" and "build everything" achievements once your base is settled: The Blacksmith, The Artisan, The Master Chef, and The Carpenter all need a full roster of items or pieces, which is far easier to track once you're not also fighting for survival.

5. Save hard difficulty for after your first full clear: The Tough Viking only needs normal difficulty or higher, so beat the game once on normal first, then run the boss ladder again on hard specifically for The Toughest Viking and The Master Hunter once you understand every fight.

6. Treat the combo achievements as a checklist, not a target: Kings and Queens of Valheim and Child of Odin both unlock automatically once their prerequisite achievements are done, so don't chase them directly, just track what's still missing from the six or four they depend on.

Tips for a faster completion run

Check your comfort level before assuming Comfort is King is broken. Level 20 comfort needs a genuinely decorated interior, several comfort-boosting furniture pieces stacked in one room, not just a bed and a fire.

Don't skip the weapons tier list before chasing The Blacksmith. Crafting every weapon type is the same amount of work whether you know which ones are actually worth using in a real fight or not, so you may as well learn the good ones while you're at it.

Related Reading

• Valheim Iron Farming Guide: Crypts, Keys & Portals (2026): Valheim iron farming happens in Sunken Crypts, unlocked by a key only The Elder drops.
• Valheim 1.0 Release Date: Deep North Update: what actually shipped with the September 9 launch.
• Valheim Best Seeds 2026: Codes for Fast, Rich Starts: Valheim best seeds worth trying now: HHcLC5acQt clusters bosses near spawn. But the 1.0 Deep
• Valheim Base Building Guide: Comfort, Wards, Portals 2026: Valheim base building guide: comfort system point values, structural stability's color warnings, and portal rules
• Valheim Complete Guide Hub: the full site index for bosses, biomes, and base building.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many achievements does Valheim have? 53, confirmed directly from Steam's own achievement stats page as of the 1.0 release on September 9, 2026. That count includes all 8 Forsaken bosses, up from 7 before the Deep North update added Kall Fimbulbringer.

Did Valheim have achievements before 1.0? No. Achievements were one of the features Iron Gate held back for the full 1.0 release rather than adding piecemeal during Early Access, alongside PS5 and Switch 2 support and the Deep North biome.

What's the hardest Valheim achievement to get? The Toughest Viking (defeat all 8 bosses on hard difficulty) and The Carpenter (build everything) are the two most time-consuming, since both require touching content across every biome in the game rather than one specific skill.

Are there hidden achievements in Valheim? Yes. Several achievements, including all 8 boss-kill unlocks and a handful of others like Obliterated and The Legends Are True, show no public description on Steam until you've earned them, which is standard for story or spoiler-adjacent unlocks.

Do you need to play on hard difficulty for 100 percent completion? Yes. The Toughest Viking and The Master Hunter both specifically require hard difficulty, so a normal-difficulty playthrough alone can't reach full completion no matter how much content you clear.

What does Kings and Queens of Valheim require? It's a combo achievement: you need to have already earned The Viking, The Hunter, The Artisan, The Master Chef, The Carpenter, and The Explorer first, then it unlocks on top of them. Chase the individual six before expecting this one.

Can you get achievements in Valheim co-op? Yes, and several are explicitly built around it. Stronger Together requires killing a boss with a friend, which is the direct opposite condition of Lone Wolf, so you can't complete both in the same boss fight.

References

• Valheim on Steam: official store page, price, and current version.
• Valheim achievements on Steam: the primary source for this guide's full achievement list and count.
• Iron Gate AB: developer's official site.
• r/valheim: official community subreddit.