Trol
Massive brute strength. Towering over others, at peace with the Black Forest — but fire burns a Trol 50% harder than anyone else.
The Trol is the hauling and smashing race. It starts as the answer to Valheim's inventory weight problem and ends with you at two and a half times normal size, wielding a felled log as a two-handed weapon.
Base kit (tier 1)
- 20% larger than a human, natively.
- +200 max carry weight.
- +3 armour per boss defeated, scaling continuously with your tier.
- 4th stomach slot, from the start — no boss required.
- Weakness — Kindling. Fire finds you where nothing else does: every burn lands for
50% more damage than it would on anyone else (
TrolConfig.FireWeaknessMultiplier), and no armor or resistance changes that.
Progression
| Boss | Unlock |
|---|---|
| Base | +20% size · +200 carry weight · +3 armour per boss · 4th stomach slot |
| Eikthyr | Increased XP for physical labour and blunt combat — Clubs, Unarmed, Axes, Pickaxes, WoodCutting |
| The Elder | Rock Throwing · +10% passive health regeneration |
| Bonemass | +5% size · +50 carry weight · +10 club/unarmed damage · +10 rock damage |
| Moder | True Form (H) |
| Yagluth | +5% size · +50 carry weight · +10 club/unarmed damage · +5 rock damage · 5th stomach slot |
| The Queen | Log Weapon — grab a felled log while in True Form and wield it · True Form size increased to 2.5× |
| Fader | Wielded trees instantly smash through the toughest Ashlands materials |
Controls
| Key | Action | Available from |
|---|---|---|
| G | Throw Rock | The Elder |
| H | True Form | Moder |
| E | Grab Log (look at a felled log while in True Form) | The Queen |
All three are rebindable from BepInEx's Configuration Manager.
Mechanics worth knowing
Carry weight
By the Yagluth tier you are carrying +300 over baseline before any gear, belts or buffs. Mining runs stop being round trips, and building projects stop being logistics puzzles. For a lot of players this alone is why they pick the race.
Rock Throwing (The Elder)
Hurl a boulder for heavy physical damage. It scales with your tier: +10 at Bonemass, +5 more at Yagluth. Because it is physical rather than elemental it stays relevant deep into the game, and it gives the Trol the ranged option the rest of its kit lacks.
Stomach slots
The Trol is the only race that gets more normal food slots rather than a different diet.
| Tier | Slots |
|---|---|
| Base | 4 |
| Yagluth | 5 |
The 4th slot needs no boss at all - it is there from your very first meal as a Trol. Five simultaneous foods (from Yagluth on) is a very large effective health and stamina pool, and it stacks with everything else the race does.
True Form (Moder)
Transform into your true Trol shape. On its own it is a size and power increase. At The Queen tier it becomes considerably more: True Form size jumps to 2.5×, and the Log Weapon unlocks.
Log Weapon (The Queen)
While in True Form, look at a felled log and press E (a crosshair prompt confirms it) to grab it and wield it as a massive two-handed weapon. You can also throw it.
At the Fader tier those wielded trees smash instantly through the toughest materials in the Ashlands, which turns the ability from a novelty into a genuine traversal and mining tool.
Skill XP
The Eikthyr tier boosts XP for the skills the race actually uses — Clubs, Unarmed, Axes, Pickaxes and WoodCutting. It is a labour-and-blunt package, not a general multiplier, and it lines up exactly with what a Trol build wants to be doing anyway.
Stations
War Totem
A troll's head on a core-wood post (1 Round Log, 1 Forest Troll trophy) that hires warbands for coin — five group slots, filled from a fixed roster, no discount applied to the price the way the Dvergar's trader-kin bank gets one. It is race locked: the totem was the first station in the mod built that way, and only a Trol can raise one.
| Warband | Price | Members | Needs Yagluth's drop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greydwarf Patrol | 400 | 4 Greydwarf, 1 Shaman, 1 Elite | No |
| Troll | 700 | 1 Troll | No |
| Staff Troll | 900 | 1 summoned Troll | No |
| Fuling Patrol | 1,400 | 4 Goblin, 1 Shaman, 1 Brute | Yes |
| Fuling War Band | 2,000 | 4 Goblin, 4 Goblin Archer | Yes |
Using Yagluth's drop on the totem unlocks the two Fuling bands. A hired warband is tamed, heals itself, carries no loot, and never returns once it falls — a dead band is money spent. Unlike every other race station, the totem has no density limit of its own; nothing currently stops you raising more than one.
Trol's Hammer
A second builder's hammer — 1 Core Wood, 2 Fine Wood, at a Workbench — that builds everything the ordinary hammer builds, out of the same materials, just 20% larger. Any race can craft it, not only Trol; it is the one item in this section that is not race locked at all.
See Stations for every race's chain side by side.