Valhali · 19 October 2026 · 17:56 to 00:20 server time

Iron and the Haunted Mansion

Six Vikings raid a haunted mansion in the swamp, where Petteri goes through three graves, then turn the Swamp Tree into an ironworks. By midnight everyone who wanted iron has it, and Beacon Hill has made the first silver. Replay the night on the map, or step through it one moment at a time.

The map of the night

Map of the Valhali world around the session's routes

Step through the night

Press play to replay the whole night, or step through its moments. Click any marker on the map for its story. Drag this panel by its top line, or fold it away with −.

00:22
Replay

Each line is one player's path. Gold rings are story moments and skulls are deaths. The fog clears 50 m around everywhere someone went, tonight or in an earlier week.

17:56 – 21:03

Before the mansion

spira was on first, and the others came in one by one. Before the crew met at Spuggeli's Crossing, the night had already sent Vikings to the far north, the far south and back to last week's graves.

  1. Four deaths in seven minutes

    spira has the server to himself on the mountain south of Beacon Hill. He kills three wolves in seven seconds, then the pack kills him. With no bed to wake in, he comes back at the spawn stones with nothing on him: a Greydwarf Shaman's poison kills him 30 seconds later, a boar and a Greydwarf 50 seconds after that. He takes the portal back north, and on the mountain the cold finishes him at 18:42.

  2. North

    Uggeli goes through the bonemass portal alone and heads north, about 800 m farther than anyone has been. He finds a dungeon he will come back to, picks 58 cloudberries and turns a ruined house into a hut with a bed.

  3. Two weeks in the south

    PiÑa logs in where he logged off on 5 October, about 1.9 km south of Spuggeli's Crossing. He spends 40 minutes there mining tin, with Greydwarf mages for company.

  4. A boat for PiÑa

    Uggeli builds a Karve at Spuggeli's Crossing, and he and Sfin sail it south to fetch him. By 20:55 they are home with PiÑa and 40 tin ore.

  5. Unfinished business

    Four minutes after logging in, Petteri is back where he died for the fifth time in 25 minutes last week, and takes that grave home. Then he plants 25 turnips at Spuggeli's Crossing, harvests 12 at Beacon Hill and at 20:57 cooks Turnip Stew.

  6. Five at the Crossing

    For the first time tonight, five of them stand together at Spuggeli's Crossing. Crusherina has already died once at the bonemass portal, eight minutes after logging in. Sfin makes the crew's first trinket at the forge, a Heart of the Forest: “It pulsates with fragments of ancient life.” Remember it. At 21:03 they take the portals to the swamp and on to the bonemass portal.

21:03 – 21:42

The haunted mansion

About 750 m south-east of the bonemass portal stands what the crew calls the haunted mansion: stone floors, iron walls, a green torch, sunken-crypt chests and a pile of bodies that keeps sending out Draugr. Everyone came. Three of them died there.

  1. Petteri first

    Petteri arrives first and kills four Draugr in 19 seconds.

  2. Five seconds

    Crusherina arrives at 21:08:12, and a Draugr kills her five seconds later. PiÑa lasts 68 seconds before one Draugr arrow takes him.

  3. Moving in

    With the Draugr still coming, Uggeli starts building inside: two workbenches, new floors, doors, and at 21:19 a bed for himself. A second bed, at 21:21, goes to PiÑa.

  4. Sfin falls

    Two Draugr blows kill Sfin at 21:19:58. Twelve seconds later Petteri is in his grave. More on that below.

  5. Hugin

    Petteri tries to talk to Hugin twice. Then he shoots him.

  6. spira, at last

    spira arrives after 13 portals in 12 minutes: the East portal twice, the elder portal, home, and at last the swamp. He kills a Draugr, and at 21:31 Skeleton Mages and Draugr kill him near the bonemass portal. Petteri goes through his grave too.

  7. Taking it apart

    By 21:40 the crew has hit the mansion's floors, beams and walls 1,147 times, 215 of them on the iron walls, Petteri most of all (415). He also kills 23 of its Draugr, leeches and mages, more than everyone else together.

  8. The scrap stays

    Scrap iron can't go through a portal, so the mansion's scrap stays behind: Uggeli and PiÑa leave 37 pieces in a chest at the bonemass portal. If there is going to be iron tonight, it will be made in the swamp.

21:16 – 21:50

The case of the borrowed trinket

In Uggeli's words, Petteri “accidentally” stole things from Sfin's grave in the haunted mansion. Petteri was the only Viking who didn't die tonight, which left him plenty of time for other people's graves.

  1. The trinket

    At 20:58 Sfin makes the crew's first trinket, a Heart of the Forest. At 21:19:58 he dies in the mansion with it in his bag.

  2. Twelve seconds

    At 21:20:10 Petteri opens Sfin's grave. For a minute and a half he takes things out one at a time and puts them back: troll leather, the assassin's tunic, a battleaxe, the bow, 58 bone bolts, the bear claws, the crossbow. Only the Heart of the Forest stays in his bag.

  3. A snack

    At 21:23:16 he eats one of Sfin's horse sticks straight out of the grave.

  4. Previous form

    At 21:16 he had already been through PiÑa's grave: 13 horse sticks out and back in two seconds. At 21:32 he goes through spira's: his Black Metal Shield, Frostner, his Wishbone and 558 coins come out and go back. Three graves in 17 minutes.

  5. The owner

    At 21:27 Sfin opens his own grave and gets 338 of his 340 things back. Missing: one horse stick and the trinket.

  6. The copy

    At 21:37 Petteri makes a Heart of the Forest of his own at Spuggeli's Crossing and puts it on an item stand. At 21:47:49 he drops Sfin's on the floor, and Sfin picks it up twelve seconds later. After some more swapping, each has his own by 21:50.

  7. It works

    At 22:43 and 22:45, fighting the crew's first Obsidian Golem, Petteri's trinket goes off: the first time anyone's has.

Graves Petteri opened
GraveTimeWhat happened
PiÑa21:1613 horse sticks out, and back in two seconds
Sfin21:20the trinket kept for 27 minutes; one horse stick eaten
spira21:32shield, mace, Wishbone and 558 coins, all put back

Verdict

Borrowing, with intent to copy. Petteri kept Sfin's trinket for 27 minutes, until he had one of his own, and put everything else back. The horse stick is gone for good. “Accidentally” stays in quotes.

21:32 – 23:47

The Swamp Tree ironworks

The Swamp Tree is the crew's name for the swamp camp. Scrap iron can't ride a portal, so the iron industry went there, in Crusherina's words “concentrated in the Swamp Tree for now”. She and Sfin ran it for two hours.

  1. A troll kills Crusherina at the Swamp Tree
  2. Two minutes later she puts up the first smelter. Petteri kills the troll at 21:35
  3. Sfin and Crusherina start feeding it scrap and coal
  4. A forge
  5. Crusherina and Uggeli go for surtling cores: two dungeons east of the swamp, 56 cores in 11 minutes
  6. Five more smelters in 16 seconds: six in a row
  7. The first Iron Sword and Iron Buckler. Uggeli takes them at 22:40
  8. Three charcoal kilns
  9. The second pair. Crusherina drops it for PiÑa at Spuggeli's Crossing at 22:45
  10. Sfin makes himself an Iron Mace
  11. The third pair goes into the corner chest, for Spenglerian
  12. Crusherina puts on the crew's first full iron armour: helmet, scale mail and greaves
  13. An iron battleaxe for herself
  14. Sfin starts taking tin bars out of the smelters: the 34 tin ore he left here last week
  15. Crusherina sets off from Spuggeli's Crossing with eight tin bars, on foot
  16. About 5 km and 24 minutes later she finds the tin already there, and makes 16 bronze: half of it her tin, half the camp's
  17. The last coal goes in: 751 loads tonight
  18. A fletcher's table
Iron gear from the Swamp Tree forge
GearSmithFor
Iron Sword and Iron BucklerCrusherinaUggeli
Iron Sword and Iron BucklerCrusherinaPiÑa
Iron MaceSfinSfin
Iron Sword and Iron BucklerCrusherinaSpenglerian, in the corner chest
Iron Helmet, Scale Mail and GreavesCrusherinaCrusherina
Iron battleaxeCrusherinaCrusherina

265 iron bars came out of the smelters and 195 went into gear, which leaves 70: exactly Crusherina's count. The smelters also made 96 copper and 34 tin bars. Coal fed to them: Crusherina 391 loads, Sfin 360.

22:06 – 23:11

Silver

While the Swamp Tree made iron, Petteri went up the mountain 450 m east of Beacon Hill and came back with the crew's first silver.

  1. Up

    Petteri drinks a frost resistance mead and takes the portal to Beacon Hill. Wolves take him down to 15 health on the way east, and he kills a troll at 22:18.

  2. The mountain

    Up top he collects obsidian and freeze glands, kills a drake hatchling and a wild grizzly, and at 22:25 the crew's first Stone Golem.

  3. Silver

    At 22:26:57, the crew's first silver ore.

  4. The Obsidian Golem

    An Obsidian Golem takes Petteri down to 36 health before he kills it at 22:44:31, the crew's first. His Heart of the Forest goes off twice around the fight.

  5. Three seconds

    Uggeli has just arrived with the crew's first Iron Sword and Iron Buckler, fresh from the Swamp Tree. He draws them mid-fight at 22:44:36, lands two hits, and a Greydwarf Brute kills him three seconds later. It is the night's last death.

  6. Down the mountain

    Uggeli collects his grave, and the two of them carry the ore down to Beacon Hill.

  7. Smelter, take two

    Petteri puts up a smelter at Beacon Hill, hits it seven times, and Uggeli takes it down 45 seconds later. The second one goes up 25 m away at 22:58.

  8. The first silver bar

    At 23:00:30 the first silver bar comes out, and there are nine by 23:10. Uggeli builds a charcoal kiln next to the smelter.

22:53 – 00:19

The storehouse

In Uggeli's own words, he “started organizing chests”. That meant a storehouse at Beacon Hill, 98 chests and 49 signs, some of them rewritten more than once.

  1. BLACK HOLE, the first sign
  2. Rocks, then Rock, then ROCKS
  3. The ROCKS sign becomes WOOD, and seven seconds later the WOOD sign becomes ROCKS
  4. BETTER WOOD becomes CORE AND FINE WOOD, later CORE FINE ANCIENT WOOD
  5. COPPER LED. Eight seconds later: COPPER LEAD. There is no lead in Valheim
  6. LEATHER, then LEATHER AND WOOL, LEATHER HIDE WOOL, LEATHER HIDE PELT and, at 23:42, LEATHER HIDE PELT WOOL
  7. RAW ORE, and ten seconds later RAW ORE SCRAPS
  8. Four signs say WEAPONS. A minute later all four say WEAPONS SHIELDS
  9. HONEY, FOOD, MEADS, then MEAT
  10. SADDLES
  11. BOWS ARROWS, which becomes BOWS eight seconds later
The storehouse
Chests built98
Signs49
Sign texts written57
Things Uggeli put into chests tonight, more than he took out1,938
Round logs among them499

The crew

Glory and shame

Server rule: you may bring an old character and old gear, and the others may tease you for it. Gear that helps the whole server is exempt, and a wolf cape is borderline because it keeps the cold away.

Spenglerian was away in Frankfurt on a quest of his own: recording drivers' brainwaves and physiology at the SimRace Expo, to tell their states of mind apart. An Iron Sword and an Iron Buckler wait for him in the corner chest at the Swamp Tree.

Sfin

Stoker, trinket-maker and grave victim

5.0 h online23 kills1 death

Good at
Keeping a fire going: 360 loads of coal into the Swamp Tree smelters, and 169 iron, 66 copper and 23 tin bars out.
Bad at
Graves. He died once, and Petteri was in his within 12 seconds.

Glory

  • Made the crew's first trinket, a Heart of the Forest, and got it back.
  • Two hours at the smelters with Crusherina, and an Iron Mace of his own at 22:49. Also a Bone War Pike and an assassin's tunic.
  • Hung the crew's first fairy lights: three at Spuggeli's Crossing at 20:56, more at Beacon Hill after midnight.
  • Sailed south in Uggeli's new Karve to bring PiÑa home.

Shame

  • Died in the haunted mansion to two Draugr blows. Petteri went through his grave and ate one of his horse sticks.
  • A minute after dying he made the crew's first Muckshake. The game says it “wakes you up”.
  • 11 falls for 111 damage.

Uggeli

Pathfinder, storekeeper and sign-writer

5.3 h online71 kills1 death

Good at
Finding things: the far north, 58 cloudberries and the dungeon with 50 surtling cores. 1.3 km² of the night's 1.85 km² of new ground was his.
Bad at
Spelling in a hurry: COPPER LED, fixed eight seconds later to COPPER LEAD.

Glory

  • Ran about 800 m farther north than anyone had been, and turned a ruined house up there into a hut with a bed.
  • Built a Karve and sailed south with Sfin to bring PiÑa home.
  • Moved into the haunted mansion while the Draugr were still in it: workbenches, floors, doors and two beds. Then 32 of the 56 surtling cores.
  • Last to die tonight, after three weeks of dying first.
  • The long walker again: 41 km, the most. Also 442 pieces built, his best ever (the old best was 136).

Shame

  • Drew the crew's first Iron Sword mid-fight and died three seconds later. The sword was 15 minutes old.
  • His first sign says BLACK HOLE. He also swapped the ROCKS and WOOD signs, seven seconds apart.
  • Took 457 hits, his most ever.

PiÑa

Tin miner, builder and the voice of help

3.7 h online20 kills1 death

Good at
Building: 272 pieces, five times his old best (52), most of them walls, gates and torches on the west side of Spuggeli's Crossing.
Bad at
Reading labels: at 21:56 he ate a Bukeperry straight out of a chest. The game says it “allows the consumer to quickly evacuate any misplaced meal and start anew”.

Glory

  • Came back after two weeks stranded 1.9 km south of base and mined tin there alone for 40 minutes. 40 tin ore came home in Uggeli's Karve.
  • Got an Iron Sword and Iron Buckler from Crusherina, and claimed a bed in the haunted mansion.
  • Made the crew's first horse meat skewers.

Shame

  • One Draugr arrow killed him 68 seconds after he reached the mansion.
  • Pressed “help” 1,312 times, beating his own record of 1,034.

Petteri

Golem-slayer, farmer and grave-borrower

2.6 h online67 kills0 deaths

Good at
Staying alive: no deaths, 67 kills, the crew's first Stone Golem and first Obsidian Golem.
Bad at
“Heights (and anything else involving 3D space/navigation)”: 34 falls for 424 damage, ten of them in the mansion. His old record was 22.

Glory

  • First into the haunted mansion: four Draugr in 19 seconds, 23 kills there and 415 blows on its walls and floors.
  • The crew's first silver at 22:26 and the first silver bar at 23:00.
  • Collected last week's grave four minutes after logging in.
  • The farmer: 25 turnips planted and a Turnip Stew.
  • Named three tame grizzlies at Beacon Hill: Reiska, Spira and Troll.

Shame

  • Went through three graves in 17 minutes. Kept Sfin's trinket for 27 minutes and ate one of his horse sticks out of the grave.
  • Tried to talk to Hugin twice, then shot him.
  • Hit his own new smelter seven times before Uggeli took it down.

Crusherina

Smith of the Swamp Tree

3.1 h online42 kills4 deaths

Good at
Smithing: three Iron Swords, three Iron Bucklers, a full iron set, an iron battleaxe and 16 bronze, all at the Swamp Tree forge.
Bad at
Arriving: she died at the bonemass portal eight minutes after logging in, and five seconds after reaching the haunted mansion.

Glory

  • Built the Swamp Tree ironworks: six smelters (five of them in 16 seconds), three charcoal kilns, a forge and a fletcher's table.
  • Iron for everyone who wanted it, including the sword and buckler waiting for Spenglerian in the corner chest. Her count of 70 iron left is exactly right.
  • The first Viking in full iron armour, at 23:00.
  • 391 loads of coal into the smelters, the most, and 24 of the 56 surtling cores.

Shame

  • Four deaths in 39 minutes before the ironworks: at the bonemass portal, in the mansion, in the swamp on the way back, and to a troll at the Swamp Tree.
  • The tin run: eight tin bars carried about 5 km on foot, to find the Swamp Tree's smelters already making tin from Sfin's ore. At least the bronze needed both.
  • Made a Loincloth of the Bear (“It covers all the important bits, but not much else”), wore it for 26 seconds and put it in a chest.

spira

Wolf-hunter, cook and portal tourist

1.7 h online32 kills5 deaths

Good at
Cooking: 30 sausages, 10 horse soups and 6 minced meat sauces, 46 dishes, his best night.
Bad at
Waking up: with no bed, he woke at the spawn stones and died twice more within 94 seconds of the first death.

Glory

  • Had the server to himself for the first hour and killed three wolves in seven seconds: 14 wolves and a wild grizzly in all.
  • Looked after his animals: tame wolves petted 30 times, grizzlies 7 and the razorback twice.
  • 30 of the night's 79 sausages.

Shame

  • Four deaths in seven minutes: wolves, a shaman's poison, a boar and a Greydwarf, then the cold.
  • 13 portals in 12 minutes to find the crew, the East portal twice.
  • Reached the mansion at 21:27 and was dead near the bonemass portal at 21:31, with Petteri going through his grave.

The numbers

Tonight in numbers

Night 5's titles, its records and every Viking's numbers. Ties share a title. The Leaderboards add up every night, and the record book keeps the best ones.

Tonight's titles

Records and new leaders

5 more in the record book

Badges earned tonight

Every Viking, tonight

◆ leads (gold: the more the better; ember: the more the worse) wooden spoon: last placeClick a column to sort

Combat & bosses

Monsters slain, beasts hunted, and the hits that did it.

Combat & bosses, n5
Uggeli (top)71 (top)11 (top)26061.4
Petteri675255144.8
Crusherina42 (last)016382.1
spira321 (last)84 (top)153.3
Sfin234 (last)84 (last)48.3
PiÑa (last)20112283.9

Deaths & mishaps

Every way a Viking has met the ground, the sea or the business end of something.

Deaths & mishaps, n5
spira (top)53172 (top)24
Crusherina442650
PiÑa142751
Sfin111630
Uggeli111 (top)4574
Petteri0 (top)342281

Gathering & hauling

Wood, ore and stone, and who keeps the furnaces fed.

Gathering & hauling, n5
PiÑa (top)61986585526
Crusherina496780 (last)00
Uggeli478 (top)18813 (top)6434
Sfin12080210
Petteri76 (top)188 (top)673 (top)203
spira (last)12 (last)60 (last)00

Building, crafting & exploring

Walls raised, roads laid, gear made, and new ground under the boots.

Building, crafting & exploring, n5
Uggeli (top)442 (top)175 (top)40.9 (top)1.19
PiÑa272 (last)1915.30.04
Sfin205723.90.17
Crusherina144821.20.37
Petteri75417.50.09
spira (last)146 (last)9.2 (last)0.00

Miscellany

Everything else worth counting.

Miscellany, n5
Uggeli (top)5.3379160
Sfin5.0 (top)41360
PiÑa3.7290 (last)0 (top)1,312
Crusherina3.1290 (last)00
Petteri2.620 (top)1580
spira (last)1.7 (last)170 (top)390