Valheim Food and Cooking Guide

Our Valheim Food and Cooking Guide will tell you how Food works, how Cooking works, and the best Food and Cooking Recipes in the game!

How Valheim Food Works

Valheim Food is necessary for increasing your Health, Stamina, Eitr, and Health Regeneration. Unlike other survival crafting sims, Valheim doesn’t have a hunger or thirst management system. Instead, food functions more as a means of health management. You can eat up to three pieces of food at a time, and depending on what you eat, your maximum health will increase and you will heal over time.

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Without Food, you’ll be limited to a paltry 25 Health, 50 Stamina, and 0 Eitr — hardly enough for a Viking warrior on a rampage. That can be the difference between victory and defeat in mid-to-late game scenarios.

Every piece of Food has 7 key stats:

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• Weight – How heavy a piece of Food is. If you want to carry Food with you, you’re going to have to manage its Weight.
• Stack Size – How many pieces of the same Food can fit in one square of your Inventory or a Chest.
• Health – How much the Food increases your maximum Health.
• Stamina – How much the Food increases your maximum Stamina.
• Eitr – How much the Food increases your maximum Eitr, Valheim’s equivalent of Mana. Take note, characters have 0 Eitr by default, so you won’t be able to use magic without at least one piece of Food that provides Eitr.
• Duration – How long the Food lasts, in minutes. Food’s beneficial effects gradually deteriorate throughout the Duration.
• HP/Tick – How much Health regeneration the Food provides per “tick” of the game.

Food tends to be divided into four types based on which stat gets the biggest benefit, indicated by the color of the fork on the Food’s icon in your Inventory:

• White – Equal Health and Stamina gain.
• Red – Higher Health gain.
• Yellow – Higher Stamina gain.
• Blue – Higher Eitr gain.

You can eat up to three pieces of food at a time, and depending on what you eat, your maximum health will increase and you will heal over time. Eventually, these bonuses go away — even ones that affect your maximum health — but these edible helpers can boost you for ten to twenty minutes at a time if you’re lucky.

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Where to Find Food in Valheim

There are two places to find Food in Valheim:

• Growing in the wild
• Taken from enemies or Animals as loot.

How to Clear Your Food Bar in Valheim

You can clear out your Food Bar by eating Bukeperries, a special Food item that drops from certain monsters such as Greydwarf Shamen in the Black Forest. Bukeperries will cause you to vomit, removing any stat bonuses you have and allowing you to eat different Food.

Alternatively, you can wait for the Food timers to run out naturally. You can replace an item on your Food Bar when the icon is flashing in the last few minutes of its duration.

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Best Food in Valheim

There is no one “best Food” in Valheim; rather, you want to have the best Food for the situation. You also have to consider that some Food will be simply unattainable — you can’t use something made of ingredients from the Mistlands if you haven’t visited there yet.

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Regardless, here are the best Foods for four key stats:

• The best Food for increasing Health is Misthare Supreme at +85 Health.
• The best Food for increasing Stamina is Fish n’ Bread at +90 Stamina.
• The best Food for increasing Eitr is Seeker Aspic at +85 Eitr.
• The best Foods for increasing HP/tick are Misthare Supreme, Honey Glazed Chicken, and Meat Platter, all of which provide +5 HP/tick.

I gotta get what to make these!?

How Valheim Cooking Works

You can eat Food raw, but Valheim Cooking will always provide you with greater benefits in terms of stats. Cooked Food is always preferable to raw Food.

There are three kinds of Cooking in Valheim:

• Grilling – Cooking Food at a Cooking Station over a fire. You have to wait a certain amount of time for each piece of Food to Cook.
• Cauldron – Complex recipes have to be Cooked in the Cauldron. Strangely, Cooking in a Cauldron is often faster than Grilling.
• Baking – Baked Foods often have to be Cooked in the Cauldron first and then baked in an Oven.

Just look at those numbers. Totally worth smelting this tin.

Valheim Cooking Recipe List

Food	Weight	Stack Size	Health	Stamina	Eitr	Duration	HP/Tick	Cooked At	Ingredients
Black Soup	1	10	50	17	0	20m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 2	x1 Bloodbag, x1 Honey, x1 Turnip
Blood Pudding	1	10	25	75	0	30m	2hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 4	x2 Thistle, x2 Bloodbags, x4 Barley Flour
Blueberries	0.1	50	8	25	0	10m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Boar Jerky x2	0.5	20	23	23	0	30m	2hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 1	x1 Boar Meat, x1 Honey
Bread	0.5	20	23	70	0	25m	2hp/tick	Stone Oven	x1 Bread Dough
Bukeberries	0.1	50	0	0	0	15s	0	N/A	N/A
Carrot	0.3	50	10	32	0	10m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Carrot Soup	1	10	15	45	0	25m	2hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 1	x1 Mushroom, x3 Carrots
Cloudberries	0.1	50	13	40	0	15m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Cooked Boar Meat	1	20	30	10	0	20m	2hp/tick	Cooking Station	x1 Boar Meat
Cooked Deer Meat	1	20	35	12	0	20m	2hp/tick	Cooking Station	1 Deer Meat
Cooked Egg	1	20	35	12	0	20m	2hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 1	x1 Egg
Cooked Fish	0.5	20	45	15	0	20m	2hp/tick	Cooking Station	x1 Raw Fish
Cooked Lox Meat	1	20	50	16	0	20m	4hp/tick	Iron Cooking Station	x1 Lox Meat
Cooked Wolf Meat	1	20	25	15	0	20m	3hp/tick	Cooking Station	x1 Wolf Meat
Deer Stew	1	10	45	15	0	25m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 1	x1 Cooked Deer Meat, x1 Blueberry, x1 Carrot
Eyescream	0.5	10	21	65	0	25m	1hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 3	x3 Greydwarf eyes, x1 Freeze Gland
Fish n’ Bread	6	10	30	90	0	30m	3hp/tick	Stone Oven lvl 5	x1 Anglerfish, x2 Bread Dough
Fish Wraps	1	10	70	23	0	25m	4hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 4	x2 Cooked Fish, x4 Barley Flour
Grilled Neck Tail	0.5	20	25	8	0	20m	2hp/tick	Cooking Station	x1 Neck Tail
Honey	0.2	50	8	35	0	15m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Honey Glazed Chicken	1	10	80	26	0	30m	5hp/tick	Stone Oven lvl 5	x1 Chicken Meat, x3 Honey, x2 Jotun Puffs
Lox Pie	1	10	75	24	0	30m	4hp/tick	Stone Oven lvl 4	x2 Cloudberries, x1 Lox Meat, x4 Barley Flour
Meat Platter	1	10	80	26	0	30m	5hp/tick	Stone Oven Lvl 5	x1 Seeker Meat, x1 Lox Meat, x1 Hare Maet
Minced Meat Sauce	1	10	40	13	0	25m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 1	x1 Boar Meat, x1 Neck Tail, x1 Carrot
Misthare Supreme	1	10	85	25	0	25m	5hp/tick	Stone Oven Lvl 5	x1 Hare Meat, x3 Jotun Puffs, x2 Carrots
Muckshake	1	10	16	50	0	20m	1hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 2	x1 Ooze, x2 Raspberries, x2 Blueberries
Mushroom	0.1	50	15	15	0	15m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Mushroom Omelette	1	10	28	85	0	25m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 5	x3 Eggs, x3 Jotun Puffs
Onion	0.3	50	13	40	0	15m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Onion Soup	1	10	20	60	0	20m	1hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 2	x3 Onion
Queens Jam x4	1	10	14	40	0	20m	2hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 1	x8 Raspberries, x6 Blueberries
Raspberry	0.1	50	7	20	0	10m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Salad x3	1	10	26	80	0	25m	3hp/tick	Unknown	x3 Jotun Puffs, x3 Onion, x3 Cloudberries
Sausages x4	0.5	20	55	18	0	25m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 2	x4 Entrails, x1 Boar Meat, x1 Thistle
Seeker Aspic	1	10	28	14	85	30m	3hp/tick	Cauldron Lv 5	2 Seeker Meat, 2 Magecap, 2 Royal Jelly
Serpent Stew	1	10	80	26	0	30m	4hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 2	x1 Mushroom, x1 Cooked Serpent Meat, x2 Honey
Stuffed Shroom	1	10	25	12	75	25m	3hp/tick	Stone Oven lvl 5	x3 Magecap, x1 Bloodclot, x2 Turnip
Turnip Stew	1	10	18	55	0	25m	2hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 2	x1 Boar Meat, x3 Turnip
Wolf Jerky x2	0.5	20	33	33	0	30m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 3	x1 Wolf Meat, x1 Honey
Wolf Skewer	0.5	20	65	21	0	25m	3hp/tick	Cauldron lvl 3	x1 Wolf Meat, x2 Mushroom, x1 Onion
Yellow Mushroom	0.1	50	10	30	0	10m	1hp/tick	N/A	N/A
Yggdrasil Porridge	1	10	27	13	80	25m	3hp/tick	Cauldron Lv 5	x4 Sap, x3 Barley, x2 Royal Jelly

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And that’s the end of our Valheim Food and Cooking Guide. If you need more help, please consult our other guides, and watch out for trolls.

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