How to quickly improve your weapon skills.
Find Big rock in nature! You heard right, this is the first step in creating your Training Dojo to improve your weapons. Then level the ground around it with your hoe, so that you can build a ground around it and then an entire house / workout room, as you want to call it. Place a campfire there, a workbench as well, and your setup is ready. Remember to make any type of hole in the ceiling so that the smoke from the fire doesn't end up damaging you.
After doing all of the above, be sure to eat the best combination of food you have, to increase your stamina gauge. The bigger the better, so don't be stingy with the edibles you have.
Now for the fun part (not really). Unsheathe the type of weapon you want to increase its stat for and just start hitting that rock. Keep doing this until you are ALMOST out of endurance. Why stop? This is because your weapon skills will not be increased if you do not expend stamina when using your weapon, so even though you can continue to attack without stamina, but more slowly, the hits will not actually register. in your level stat. Attack the boulder, stop when the stamina is almost exhausted, wait a second or two for the gauge to be full again, rinse and repeat. You can do the same for every type of weapon in the game, including bows, but be sure to create arrows if you run out.
The above method is indeed quite boring, but it's not about being fun or not, it's just the best and fastest way to actually improve your weapon skills. You can of course level them up regularly while playing the game, but if you're in a rush for a certain guy this is the way to go. Your jumping and running skills fall into the same category, so if you want to see how you can easily increase them as well, be sure to check out our guide here.
Valheim is available now via Steam Early Access.