Locations
Big Rock Clearing — Valheim Location
Big Rock Clearing world-generation rules in Valheim 1.0: how many copies a world places, the biome and altitude it needs, its spacing and footprint, and how far the nearest copy sits from spawn.
Mystery Black Forest Verified 1.0
The map centres the first copy it finds in the world on screen. If the name comes up struck through, this world has no room for it — type your own seed and the map looks again.
Nearest copy over 600 sampled worlds generated by our world map: closest seen 1,002 m, typical 1,642 m, and in 9 worlds out of 10 within 2,414 m — straight-line from the spawn area.
How it generates
| Prefab | Per world | Biome area | Altitude | Min spacing | Footprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BigRockClearing unique | 10 | Median | above 5 m | ≥ 2,000 m | 15 m radius |
- Biome area — “Median” means the zone and all eight of its neighbours must share the biome, so it never generates on a biome border; “Everything” may place anywhere inside the biome.
- Footprint is the exclusion radius the generator keeps clear around the piece, not the size of the structure you walk into.
- Per world counts placement attempts, so a number here is an upper bound — terrain checks decide how many actually land (see the sampled-worlds figures above). unique is a separate flag: the table checks it once before placement begins, to skip re-rolling these on a world that already exists, and it does not cap the attempts a fresh world makes.
- Centre band: 1,000–∞ m from the centre .
- Terrain tolerance — the generator allows up to 2 m of height change across the footprint (no minimum) .
Where to find it
Other mystery placements
Find one in your world
The interactive map generates your world from its seed and marks every one of these, or use the seed finder to search for a world that places them the way you want.
Common questions
- How many "Big Rock Clearing" does one Valheim world place?
- A fresh world makes 10 placement attempts for Big Rock Clearing.
- Where does Big Rock Clearing spawn?
- Big Rock Clearing generates in Black Forest, under the “Median” rule — the zone and all eight of its neighbours must share the biome. Altitude: above 5 m. It is limited to 1,000–∞ m from the centre of the world centre.
- How far is the nearest Big Rock Clearing from spawn?
- Measured over 600 sampled worlds, the closest copy was 1,002 m from the spawn area, the typical distance was 1,642 m, and in 9 worlds out of 10 it sat within 2,414 m. All distances are straight-line.
- How much space does Big Rock Clearing need to generate?
- The generator keeps a 15 m exclusion radius clear around each placement and requires at least 2,000 m to the nearest similar placement, with terrain varying by no more than 2 m across the footprint. The exclusion radius is clearance the terrain must offer, not the size of the structure you walk into.