Valheim Staff of the Wild: Crafting, Stats, and How the Summoned Root Works

 

    The Staff of the Wild is an Elemental magic weapon that doesn't hit anything itself — it summons a stationary creature called Root to do the fighting. The wiki's own flavor text sets the tone: "Ancient natural forces lie curled and dormant within this staff, ready to be unleashed." This guide works entirely from the wiki's own infobox and upgrade table: crafting costs at all four quality levels, the staff's own combat stats, and the separate combat profile of the Root it summons — with every gap the source leaves open called out explicitly, not filled in with a guess.

 

What the Staff of the Wild Is

 

    It's crafted at a Galdr table, requiring crafting level 2 and repair level 2 — modest requirements compared to some magic gear. It's a two-handed weapon, weighs 0.3, and the wiki files it under "Magic weapon" usage. Casting it costs 55 Eitr per the infobox — the source doesn't document a separate cast cooldown or the projectile's travel speed/range, so treat casting frequency as gated purely by your own Eitr pool and regen, not by a fixed cooldown timer the wiki states. The source also doesn't say where to farm the four crafting materials (Ashwood, Fiddlehead, Celestial feather, Jade) — undocumented here, so check each material's own page for that.

 

Crafting Cost by Quality Level

 

 

    The wiki's upgrade table lists a separate material cost for each of the four quality levels: Quality 1 costs 15 Ashwood, 10 Fiddlehead, 3 Celestial feather, 1 Jade; Quality 2 costs 5 Ashwood, 2 Fiddlehead, 3 Celestial feather, 1 Jade; Quality 3 costs 10 Ashwood, 4 Fiddlehead, 6 Celestial feather, 2 Jade; Quality 4 costs 15 Ashwood, 6 Fiddlehead, 9 Celestial feather, 3 Jade. Add those four columns up and taking the staff from nothing to Quality 4 costs 45 Ashwood (15+5+10+15), 22 Fiddlehead (10+2+4+6), 21 Celestial feather (3+3+6+9), and 7 Jade (1+1+2+3) in total, across the four separate crafts/upgrades.

 

Damage, Durability, and Handling

 

 

    The infobox lists a base 20 Blunt and 20 Poison, each rising 20 per quality level — and the upgrade table confirms the arithmetic exactly: Quality 1 = 20/20, Quality 2 = 20+20 = 40/40, Quality 3 = 40+20 = 60/60, Quality 4 = 60+20 = 80/80. Durability climbs too, from 200 at Quality 1 up through 250, 300, and 350 at Qualities 2 through 4 — a flat +50 per level each time (250−200 = 50, 300−250 = 50, 350−300 = 50). Beyond the damage figures, the staff carries a parry bonus of 2, a −5% movement speed penalty while wielded, 3 adrenaline, and 48 block armor. None of these secondary stats are documented as scaling with quality — only Blunt/Poison damage and durability are shown changing across the four levels.

 

What the Summoned Root Actually Does

 

 

    Casting the staff summons Root, a Player-faction creature with 250 health (0-star). Its listed attack deals 70 Blunt, 40 Poison, 20 Chop, and 20 Pickaxe damage in one hit — four damage types totaling 150 raw damage points before any target's armor or resistances (70+40+20+20 = 150) — plus 40 knockback and a 4x backstab multiplier. It also carries a 10% chance to immobilize its target for 10 seconds. Root is resistant to Fire and immune to Poison, Chop, and Pickaxe damage. On duration, the wiki states it twice with slightly different precision: the general weapon page says roots "last up to 25 seconds," while Root's own page says they "stay between 23 and 25 seconds before disappearing" — both figures are quoted here as the source states them, rather than reconciled into one invented number. Per the source, up to 10 roots can be spawned at once, they cannot move, and they automatically attack all enemies within range. The wiki also specifically notes that other creatures don't attack roots directly, though roots "can intercept projectile or receive collateral damage" — so they're not perfectly safe from splash effects even without being targeted.

 

Practical notes on the Staff of the Wild

• Damage and durability scale with quality; parry, movement penalty, adrenaline, and block armor do not — per the source, only Blunt/Poison and durability are shown climbing across Quality 1–4.
• Maxing it out (Quality 1→4) costs 45 Ashwood, 22 Fiddlehead, 21 Celestial feather, and 7 Jade total, computed by summing the four per-level costs.
• A single Root hit combines four damage types for 150 total raw damage (70 Blunt + 40 Poison + 20 Chop + 20 Pickaxe), plus a 4x backstab multiplier if it lands on an unaware target.
• Roots can't move and can't be targeted directly by other creatures, but the wiki notes they can still take collateral or intercepted-projectile damage.
• Cast cooldown, projectile speed/range, and material farming locations are undocumented in this source — don't assume specifics beyond the 55 Eitr cost.

 

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Conclusion

 

    The Staff of the Wild is a two-handed, Elemental magic weapon built at a Galdr table (crafting/repair level 2) that trades direct damage for a stationary summon. Its own Blunt and Poison damage scale identically, 20/20 at Quality 1 up to 80/80 at Quality 4, with durability climbing from 200 to 350 in flat +50 steps, all for a total material cost of 45 Ashwood, 22 Fiddlehead, 21 Celestial feather, and 7 Jade across the four upgrades. Its summon, Root, hits for a combined 150 raw damage across four damage types with a 10% immobilize chance and a 4x backstab multiplier, while sitting immune to Poison, Chop, and Pickaxe damage and resistant to Fire. What the source doesn't say — cast cooldown, projectile range, material farming spots — is called out above rather than guessed at, so treat this as the full documented picture, not the full mechanical one.

 

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