VALHEIM.TOOLS
Deep North tierTwo Handed Weapon

Nord Knucklechains

Wrap your fists in the hardest of metals, to ensure your foes feel the strength behind your blows.

Nord Knucklechains is a two-handed fist weapon with no bench recipe of its own: Cast: Nord Knucklechains is poured at a level 4 Black Forge from 20 Bloodgold, 2 Long Claws and one Mould: Nord Knucklechains, then hardened into the finished weapon at a Frost Foundry, which burns Liquid Frost for 50 seconds to do it. It deals 114 blunt, blocks for 5, trains Unarmed and multiplies backstab damage by 6. The primary is a two-swing chain at 14 stamina with double damage on the last hit, and the secondary is a kick at 20 stamina that applies four times the knockback and six times the stagger. It upgrades to quality 4 and 400 durability, gaining 8 damage a level, which the item data lists as slash rather than blunt.

Attacks
Primary
Chain2 swings, last hit 2x
Stamina14
Knockback20
Hitbox2 m range, 25° arc, 1 height, 0.2 ray
Multitargetdamage drops per extra target
Secondary
Stamina20
Knockback80
Stagger6x
Hitbox2 m range, 25° arc, 1 height, 0.3 ray
Multitargetdamage drops per extra target
Combat modifiers
Backstab6x
Parry bonus6x
How it's made

No bench makes this outright. The station recipe below only upgrades it; the piece itself is cast from a mould and hardened at a Frost Foundry.

2. Pour the cast at a level 4 Black Forge
3. Harden it at the Frost Foundry

50 seconds burning Liquid Frost turns the cast into the finished Nord Knucklechains. Upgrades then happen at the Black Forge, level 5 and up.

Upgrade recipe
Station Black ForgeLevel 4

Listed at the Black Forge for upgrades only; the base amounts are what the cast above already cost. Per-level costs are in the table below.

Past quality 4, the Forge of Potential will take it one level further for 1 Iron Protection Idol plus 45 Bloodgold and 22 Timberwood. No other station asks for the idol.

Upgrades
MaterialQuality 2Quality 3Quality 4Total
Bloodgold10204090
Mould: Nord Knucklechains1
Timberwood5102045
Station levelBlack Forge 5Black Forge 6Black Forge 7

Each quality level adds 8 damage and 50 durability. Quality 2 costs the per-level amount, quality 3 twice that and quality 4 four times, so the last level is more than half of the total.

Used in2
Spawn command

With devcommands enabled, this drops Nord Knucklechains at your feet. The ID is case sensitive; the last number is the amount.

Item ID: FistGold · see the spawn command or all console commands and IDs