Frost Blob in Valheim: 50 Health, 100 Frost Damage, and No Wild Spawn at All
The Frost Blob is a Valheim creature you will not stumble across in the wild — the wiki's own spawn table says so directly. It only exists after a player throws a Blob bomb: Frost, at which point it becomes an aggressive creature with 50 health and a single documented ability, a 100-damage Frost area attack. Everything else about it — its resistances, its one guaranteed drop, whether starred versions exist — comes from that same single wiki page, and where that page goes quiet, this guide says so instead of filling the gap.
Frost Blob at a Glance
Internally the game files it as BlobFrost, under the Mountain faction, with 0-star health of 50 and a listed abilities field of Frost AoE — matching the 100 Frost damage figure in its stat block. The wiki's infobox leaves the location field blank entirely: no biome is named as home turf. That lines up with the spawning data further down — this creature doesn't have a home turf, because it isn't meant to spawn on its own.
Behavior: The Same Blob, a Different Element
The wiki states it plainly: "Frost Blobs behave like regular Blobs, except their attack deals Frost damage." That single sentence is the entirety of what this source documents about how it moves, aggros, or attacks — it's a pointer to the base Blob's behavior, not a self-contained description. This dataset doesn't carry the regular Blob's own page, so exactly what "regular Blob behavior" means — attack pattern, aggro range, movement speed — is undocumented here; treat the comparison as a reference you'd need to look up separately, not a complete write-up.
What is confirmed is the one difference the source calls out: the damage type. Whatever a standard Blob's attack deals, a Frost Blob's version of that same attack deals 100 Frost instead.
Weaknesses, Resistances and Immunities
| Category | Damage types |
|---|---|
| Weak to | Blunt, Fire, Lightning |
| Resistant to | Slash, Pierce |
| Very resistant to | Frost |
| Immune to | Poison, Chop, Pickaxe |
Read the Fire and Frost entries together and the pattern makes sense: a creature built out of frost is very resistant to Frost itself and weak to Fire, the opposite element. Blunt and Lightning round out its weaknesses. On the defensive side, Slash and Pierce are merely resisted rather than blocked outright, while Poison does nothing at all.
The two immunities worth noting for anyone testing this in survival mode are Chop and Pickaxe — the damage types tied to woodcutting and mining tools. A Frost Blob simply can't be hurt by either, so a proper weapon is required; tools do not substitute. The source states these as categorical tiers (weak / resistant / very resistant / immune), not as percentage multipliers, so there's no numeric damage modifier documented beyond the tier label itself.
Spawning and Drops: Not a Wild Encounter
The spawn table has exactly one row: "When a Blob bomb: Frost is used," with a listed frequency of 0 and stars marked "No." Read together with the blank location field above, that means there is no ambient spawn chance anywhere on the map — this creature exists only as a direct consequence of a player throwing that specific bomb, and it never appears with 1-star or 2-star variants. That also explains why the infobox only carries a 0-star health and damage figure: there's no starred version to record numbers for.
Its drop table lists a single entry: 1 Crystal at 0-star. The source's drop-table format gives that as a quantity tied to the 0-star tier, without a separate percentage field breaking out drop odds beyond that — so treat it as "one Crystal, guaranteed by this table's own entry," not as a documented percentage chance on top of a quantity roll. Also undocumented in this source: how many Frost Blobs a single Blob bomb: Frost produces, that bomb's own crafting recipe or cost, and whether the resulting creature targets the player who threw it, nearby enemies, or both.
Practical notes on the Frost Blob
- Bring Fire or Blunt. Both are documented weaknesses; either damage type hurts it more than the rest.
- Skip tools entirely. It's immune to Chop and Pickaxe damage, so an axe or pickaxe swing does nothing — use a real weapon.
- Don't bother with Poison. It's immune, full stop.
- Expect one 100-Frost hit at a time, not a combo — the source documents a single AoE ability, no attack chain.
- You will not find one wandering a biome. The spawn table's only entry is "when a Blob bomb: Frost is used" — there's no wild spawn point to farm.
- One Crystal is the whole reward. The source gives no separate drop-chance percentage beyond that quantity, so treat this as incidental loot rather than a farming target.
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Conclusion
A Frost Blob is a 50-health, BlobFrost-tagged Mountain-faction creature with one documented ability — a 100-damage Frost area attack — and one documented behavior line: it acts like a regular Blob, just with Frost instead of whatever the base creature deals. It is weak to Blunt, Fire and Lightning, resistant to Slash and Pierce, very resistant to Frost, and immune to Poison, Chop and Pickaxe. Per the spawn table, it has no natural spawn point at all — its only listed trigger is a player throwing a Blob bomb: Frost, with a spawn frequency of 0 and no star variants ever appearing. Killing one nets 1 Crystal, the sole entry on its drop table. Several practical details — the bomb's own recipe, how many Blobs one bomb creates, and exactly what "behaves like a regular Blob" covers beyond the damage type — are not documented in this source, and this guide has flagged each one rather than guessing.
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