Editorial Policy & Content Standards

Valheim Wiki is an independent, unofficial guide written and maintained by the Valheim Wiki Editorial Team. This page explains where our information comes from, what we publish, and what we deliberately choose not to publish. It exists because a reference site is only useful if readers can judge how much trust to place in it.

Who is behind the site

We are a small team of long-time Valheim players. Every guide has a named author, a version stamp, and a last-reviewed date. Questions and corrections reach the editors directly at [email protected]; the correction form is the fastest way to flag a specific number or sentence. We read every report and reply when a change is made.

What we publish

Three kinds of content, each with a different bar for publication:

• Guides and explainers. Original long-form articles written by editors from playing the game — boss strategies, progression routes, building mechanics, multiplayer setup. These are researched, structured, and updated when the game changes.
• Verified reference data. Item stats, crafting costs, creature values, trader inventories and world-generation rules, derived from the game's own data tables and presented with the numbers a player actually needs to make a decision.
• Interactive tools. A world-seed map and seed library with measured placement data, build-cost and gear calculators, a boss checklist and a seed reader. These compute answers from measured data rather than repeating text.

Where the numbers come from

Structured values are extracted from a Jötunn dump of Valheim 1.0 game data, then cross-checked in-game and against the official patch notes published by Iron Gate Studio. Placement and distance rules for locations are not taken from a third-party wiki: we sample generated worlds with our own world generator and report the measured distribution, including variant-level differences rather than an averaged figure that the game does not have. When a value cannot be verified, we say so on the page instead of filling the gap with an estimate.

Official changelogs are transcribed in our updates section with a link back to the source. Our own original text, diagrams, screenshots and measured tables are © the Valheim Wiki editorial team; Valheim names, artwork and assets remain the property of Iron Gate Studio and Coffee Stain Publishing.

How we curate and maintain the site

Publishing more pages is not a goal. A page earns its place only if it tells a reader something they could not get from a list or a single line of data. We review the site structure on a regular schedule and measure every section against real reader interest:

• Pages that have never drawn a single search impression and add no unique information are retired. Their records are folded into a curated index page, and their old addresses redirect to it so existing links and bookmarks keep working.
• Duplicate or near-duplicate entries are merged. We do not keep dozens of pages that differ only by a cosmetic variant or a name suffix.
• Pages we are not willing to stand behind are kept out of the sitemap and out of internal navigation. We do not use mass-generated filler to inflate page counts.
• After each game patch we re-check affected numbers, refresh the version stamp and update the last-reviewed date on the guides it touches.

The result is a deliberately smaller site than the raw game data would allow: long-form guides, a curated database of verified entries, and tools, rather than a page for every internal asset name.

Automation and AI disclosure

Automation is used to extract and validate structured game data, generate world maps from measured seeds, and run consistency checks across the database. It is not used to mass-produce articles. Long-form guides are written and reviewed by editors; machine assistance, where used, is limited to drafting aids, translation support and mechanical validation, and the result is checked against the game before publication. We do not republish scraped guides or machine-translated filler as original content.

Advertising and editorial independence

Advertising, where enabled, is clearly separated from editorial content and does not influence which games, items or strategies we cover, the numbers we report, or the order of results in our tools. Affiliate links are disclosed on the relevant pages and in our affiliate disclosure. Third-party advertising is disabled while the site is under review for advertising programme eligibility.

Corrections

If a value is wrong, tell us which page and which value, and — if you have it — the in-game screenshot or patch note that shows the correct figure. We verify the report against the game before changing anything, then update the page and its last-reviewed date. Substantive corrections are noted on the page so later readers are not left comparing two unexplained numbers.