Fuling: How to Fight, Farm & Raid Fuling Villages in Valheim's Plains

What Makes Fulings So Dangerous

Fulings are the goblin-like rulers of the Plains and the main reason new arrivals end up on a miserable corpse run. Don't let their size fool you: they hit like a truck, move faster than you expect and almost never come alone. A 0-star Fuling hits harder than most Mountain enemies, and a 2-star can one-shot an unprepared Viking.

Smart, social and sharp-eared

Fulings live in organized villages with Shamans and Berserkers, grow crops, post sentries in towers and patrol in groups. Their hearing is unusually sharp: chopping trees or mining near a camp brings them running. Their chatter and laughter often give them away first, so listen when exploring.

Lore

"Fuling" roughly means "ugly one" in Swedish, and their internal game ID is simply "Goblin." Plains Runestones reveal that they worship Yagluth, a long-dead king whose remains form the Plains boss altar.

Fuling Variants: Know What You're Fighting

Three Fuling types roam the Plains, and each needs a different approach.

Standard Fulings

The most common type spawns with one of four weapons:

• Club (33%): 85 Blunt, 2-second cooldown.
• Sword (33%): 85 Slash, 2-second cooldown.
• Spear (17%): thrown at 20 m/s with 14-meter range every 4 seconds, and they never run out.
• Torch (17%): 45 Blunt plus 45 Fire, and applies Burning damage over time.

Each also wears a random armor piece worth 60 armor and has a 33% chance to carry a Wood Shield.

Fuling Berserkers

These troll-sized enforcers guard villages and Stonehenges. Their club hits for 130 Blunt in a 4-meter, 70-degree arc. Their rage attack, triggered within 6 meters on a 20-second cooldown, is three consecutive full-damage ground slams, each stepping forward.

The club also deals 100 Chop and 40 Pickaxe damage, so it flattens nearby structures, workbenches and portals instantly.

Fuling Shamans

Shamans are the squishiest Plains enemy and never spawn with stars, but ignoring them is the biggest mistake you can make. Their attacks:

• Protect: a shield on all allies within 6 meters that absorbs up to 100 damage, lasting up to 40 seconds (40-second cooldown). It effectively doubles every nearby Fuling's durability.
• Fireball: 20 Blunt plus 100 Fire at range, with Burning.
• Melee poke: 100 Blunt.

Always kill the Shaman first.

Where Fulings Spawn and When to Expect Them

Day vs night

• Day: up to 2 Fulings spawn uncommonly anywhere in the Plains, starred variants included.
• Night: up to 5 spawn very commonly, also with stars, and despawn at dawn.

That jump is why veterans sleep through every Plains night.

Fixed spawns

Fuling Villages, Outposts and Ruins have one-time spawn points, the core of Black Metal Scrap farming because village Fulings can have stars. Berserkers appear uncommonly in villages and at up to 3 spawn points around Stonehenges. Shamans appear uncommonly in villages, never with stars.

Raids and post-Yagluth spawns

• "The horde is attacking!": up to 8 Fulings, 2 Berserkers and a Shaman, no stars.
• "They were bros, man.": starred Fulings (at least 1-star), which can be devastating.

After you defeat Yagluth, Fulings also spawn uncommonly at night in most biomes.

Drops and Farming Black Metal Scrap

Black Metal Scrap is the only metal that cannot be mined from deposits: it comes from Fulings and Plains chests. Drops double with each star:

• Standard Fuling: 1 at 0 stars, up to 4 at 2 stars.
• Berserker: 3-4 at 0 stars, up to 12-16 at 2 stars.
• Shaman: 1, plus 1 Bukeperries.

Hauling it home

Black Metal Scrap weighs 10, stacks to 30 and cannot go through portals, so sail it home. It smelts into Black Metal at the Blast Furnace, not the regular Smelter, for the whole Black Metal tier.

Coins, trophies and totems

• Coins: standard Fulings have a 25% chance at 5-9 Coins; Berserkers always drop 5-19 and Shamans have a 25% chance at 20-39. Stars raise the payout, so village raids get lucrative.
• Trophies: 10% for Fuling and Fuling Shaman Trophies, 5% for the Fuling Berserker Trophy.
• Fuling Totem: 10% from Berserkers, and 50% on altars near village bonfires. You need 5 to summon Yagluth.

Raiding Fuling Villages for Barley and Flax

Villages are the only source of two essential crops, and both grow only in the Plains:

• Barley: patches of 12 plants yielding 2 each (24 per patch). Grind it into Barley Flour at the Windmill for high-tier foods.
• Flax: patches of 11 plants yielding 2 each (22 per patch). Spin it into Linen Thread at the Spinning Wheel for Padded Armor.

Harvest with your weapon

Instead of pressing E on each plant, swing a weapon at them. Any hit harvests Barley and Flax and the crop is auto-picked up, so you can slash through a patch mid-fight. Sheathe your weapons near your own farm for the same reason.

Other village loot

• Plains chests
• Tanning Racks, which break into 6 Leather Scraps, 5 Flint and a Deer Hide
• Fuling Totems on bonfire altars (50%)

A large village yields dozens of Black Metal Scrap, starter Barley and Flax, totems for Yagluth and a pile of Coins.

Advanced Tips and Exploitable Weaknesses

Water and trenches

Fulings are terrible swimmers. Lead them across a river, natural or dug, and they crawl through the water as easy bow targets. A moat around a Plains outpost is one of the best defenses against both wandering Fulings and raids.

They also handle elevation badly. Fulings often miss the edge of a ditch until they fall in, and a trench two walls deep holds them for easy bow kills. Hilltops and gullies give you the same edge.

Village quirks

• Fulings often get stuck inside their huts or on top of towers, unable to reach you. Throw Ooze Bombs onto the structure to poison them.
• Use huts as cover from Spear Fulings while you fight the melee ones.

Growth faction wars

Growths, the tar blobs around Tar Pits, attack Fulings on sight. Kite a nearby camp into Growth territory and let them weaken each other. It is risky, since a Growth's slow mid-fight is usually fatal, but it saves health and resources when it works.