Food
Food is the real difficulty curve in Valheim. Eat nothing and your character sits at 25 health, while everything else in the game assumes you have food running. The tables below cover raw ingredients, cooked dishes and the finished meals that actually matter in a fight.
Cooking Stations
You cook at a short chain of stations, and each one picks up where the last leaves off.
| Station | Image | What It Does | What It Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooking Station | Raw meat and fish into their simple cooked form. | A fire burning underneath it. | |
| Iron Cooking Station | The same job for the meat a wooden rack refuses, asksvin tail and volture among them. | A fire underneath, and iron from the Swamp. | |
| Cauldron | The main pot: stews, soups, sausages, jerky and most mid to late dishes. | A fire underneath, and its own upgrades for the later recipes. | |
| Food Preparation Table | Assembles uncooked pies, bread dough, feasts and the advanced dishes. | Nothing cooks here; it only prepares. | |
| Stone Oven | Bakes what the preparation table made into finished food: pies, bread, stuffed mushrooms. | An artisan table in range, and wood to keep it lit. |
For the strongest food the usual flow is to gather the ingredients, prepare the uncooked version at the Food Preparation Table, then bake it in the Stone Oven.
Three Slots, Stacking Buffs
You can run three dishes at the same time, and the health, stamina and eitr from all three stack. A good combination pushes a single stat well over 200 and gives you a strong total across the board.
The buff starts decaying the moment you eat, rather than holding full strength until the timer ends. Eat the same dish again while it is still active and both its strength and its duration refresh, so one stack can cover a long trip.
Until one of the current three finishes digesting, the game refuses a fourth different dish. That stops you from treating a stack of pies like a healing potion.
Maximum health also sets your stagger threshold, so shield builds prioritise high-health food while dodge and stamina builds lean the other way. Eitr only comes from food, which means a mage is only a mage while the right greens or pies are running.
Best Food by Role
| For | Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most health | Meat In Bread | 110 health | |
| Most stamina | Oatmeal | 115 stamina | |
| Most eitr | Fish Soup | 105 eitr | |
| Biggest all-round | Oatmeal | 239 across the three stats | |
| Longest lasting | Whole Roasted Meadow Boar | 3000 seconds |
The strongest dishes are usually two steps deep: an advanced pie needs an uncooked version first, and that version in turn needs a working farm or a reliable hunting route.
Notes
- Three different foods can be active at once, and their bonuses stack.
- The buff decays steadily from the moment you eat.
- Eating an active dish again refreshes it to full strength and duration.
- A fourth different dish is refused until one of the current three runs out.
- You cannot starve, but running on 25 health is extremely dangerous.
- Maximum health decides how much damage you can take before you stagger.
- Food left too long on a Cooking Station or in the Stone Oven burns and becomes useless.
All Item Categories
All Food
Raw Meats
| Name | Image | Effect | Duration | Weight | Stack | Location | Crafting Materials | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asksvin Tail | - | - | 1 | 20 | - | spawn AsksvinMeat
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| Bear Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | - | spawn BjornMeat
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| Boar Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | Boar | - | spawn RawMeat
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| Bonemaw Meat | - | - | 10 | 50 | Bonemaw | - | spawn BoneMawSerpentMeat
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| Chicken Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | - | spawn ChickenMeat
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| Deer Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | Deer | - | spawn DeerMeat
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| Hare Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | Hare | - | spawn HareMeat
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| Lox Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | Lox | - | spawn LoxMeat
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| Moose Meat | - | 20 min | 1 | 20 | Moose | - | spawn MooseMeat
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| Neck Tail | - | - | 0.5 | 50 | Neck | - | spawn NeckTail
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| Raw Fish | - | - | 1 | 20 | Fishing rod | - | spawn FishRaw
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| Rotten Meat |
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15 seconds | 0.5 | 20 | Putrid Hole | - | spawn RottenMeat
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| Seal Blubber | - | 20 min | 1 | 20 | Seal | - | spawn SealBlubber
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| Seeker Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | - | spawn BugMeat
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| Serpent Meat | - | - | 10 | 50 | Serpent | - | spawn SerpentMeat
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| Volture Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | Volture | - | spawn VoltureMeat
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| Wolf Meat | - | - | 1 | 20 | Wolf | - | spawn WolfMeat
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Eggs
| Name | Image | Weight | Stack | Location | Crafting Materials | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asksvin Egg | 1 | 20 | Asksvin | - | spawn AsksvinEgg
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| Egg | 1 | 20 | - | spawn ChickenEgg
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| Volture Egg | 1 | 20 | Volture | - | spawn VoltureEgg
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Crops
| Name | Image | Health | Stamina | Duration | Weight | Stack | Location | Crafting Materials | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barley | - | - | - | 0.2 | 100 | Fuling Village in the Plains | - | spawn Barley
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| Carrot | 10 | 32 | 900 seconds | 0.3 | 50 | Farming Carrot seeds | - | spawn Carrot
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| Flax | - | - | - | 0.2 | 100 | Fuling Village in the Plains | - | spawn Flax
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| Onion | 13 | 40 | 900 seconds | 0.3 | 50 | Farming Onion seeds | - | spawn Onion
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| Turnip | - | - | - | 0.3 | 50 | Turnip seeds | - | spawn Turnip
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Foraging
| Name | Image | Health | Stamina | Eitr | Effect | Duration | Weight | Stack | Location | Crafting Materials | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mushroom | 20 | 20 | - | - | 600 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | - | - | spawn MushroomBlue
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| Blueberries | 8 | 25 | - | - | 600 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Blueberry bushes in the Black Forest | - | spawn Blueberries
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| Bukeperries | - | - | - |
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15 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | - | spawn Pukeberries
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| Cloudberries | 13 | 40 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Plains | - | spawn Cloudberry
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| Dandelion | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | 50 | Meadows | - | spawn Dandelion
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| Fiddlehead | 30 | 30 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Gathered in the Ashlands | - | spawn Fiddleheadfern
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| Fresh Seaweed | - | - | - | - | - | 0.5 | 50 | The Bog Witch | - | spawn FreshSeaweed
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| Honey | 8 | 35 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.2 | 50 | Beehive | - | spawn Honey
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| Jotun Puffs | 25 | 25 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Gathered in Mistlands and farmable | - | spawn MushroomJotunPuffs
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| Lingonberries | 35 | 35 | - | - | 15 min | 0.1 | 50 | Lingonberry bushes in the Deep North | - | spawn Lingonberry
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| Luminous Larva | 30 | 30 | - | - | 10 min | 0.2 | 50 | Winding tunnels | - | spawn GlowWorm
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| Magecap | 25 | 25 | 25 | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Gathered in Mistlands and farmable | - | spawn MushroomMagecap
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| Mushroom | 15 | 15 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | - | spawn Mushroom
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| Raspberries | 7 | 20 | - | - | 600 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Raspberry bushes in Meadows | - | spawn Raspberry
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| Royal Jelly | 15 | 15 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 |
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- | spawn RoyalJelly
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| Smoke Puff | 15 | 15 | - | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Found in the Ashlands | - | spawn MushroomSmokePuff
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| Thistle | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | 50 |
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- | spawn Thistle
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| Toadstool | - | - | - |
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15 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | The Bog Witch | - | spawn MushroomBzerker
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| Vineberry Cluster | 30 | 30 | 30 | - | 900 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | Ashlands | - | spawn Vineberry
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| Yellow Mushroom | 10 | 30 | - | - | 600 seconds | 0.1 | 50 | - | spawn MushroomYellow
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Uncooked Recipes
Cooked Food
All Categories
Subcategories
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Pages in category "Food"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 423 total.
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- Valheim:Asksvin Hide
- Valheim:Asksvin Neck
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- Valheim:Asksvin Saddle
- Valheim:Asksvin Skull
- Valheim:Asksvin Tail
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- Valheim:Barley Flour
- Valheim:Barley Wine Base: Fire Resistance
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- Valheim:Basic Fireworks
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- Valheim:Bear Meat
- Valheim:Bear Paw
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- Valheim:Bell Fragment
- Valheim:Berserkir Mead
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- Valheim:Black Core
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- Valheim:Black Marble Battle Idol
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- Valheim:Black Metal
- Valheim:Black Metal Battle Idol
- Valheim:Black Metal Pickaxe
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- Valheim:Black Metal Scrap
- Valheim:Black Soup
- Valheim:Blood Clot
- Valheim:Blood Pudding
- Valheim:Bloodbag
- Valheim:Bloodgold
- Valheim:Bloodgold Battle Idol
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- Valheim:Bloodstone
- Valheim:Blue Fireworks
- Valheim:Blue Jute
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- Valheim:Blueberries
- Valheim:Boar Jerky
- Valheim:Boar Meat
- Valheim:Bone Fragments
- Valheim:Bonemaw Meat
- Valheim:Bonemaw Tooth
- Valheim:Bread
- Valheim:Bread Dough
- Valheim:Brew of Animal Whispers
- Valheim:Bronze
- Valheim:Bronze Battle Idol
- Valheim:Bronze Nails
- Valheim:Bronze Pickaxe
- Valheim:Bronze Protection Idol
- Valheim:Bukeperries
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- Valheim:Candle Wick
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- Valheim:Carrot Seeds
- Valheim:Carrot Soup
- Valheim:Casting
- Valheim:Celestial Feather
- Valheim:Ceramic Plate
- Valheim:Chain
- Valheim:Charcoal Resin
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- Valheim:Charred Cogwheel
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- Valheim:Cloudberries
- Valheim:Coal
- Valheim:Coins
- Valheim:Cooked Asksvin Tail
- Valheim:Cooked Bear Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Boar Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Bonemaw Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Chicken Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Deer Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Egg
- Valheim:Cooked Fish
- Valheim:Cooked Hare Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Lox Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Moose Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Seal Blubber
- Valheim:Cooked Seeker Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Serpent Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Volture Meat
- Valheim:Cooked Wolf Meat
- Valheim:Copper
- Valheim:Copper Ore
- Valheim:Copper Scrap
- Valheim:Coral Cod
- Valheim:Corewood
- Valheim:Corked Vial
- Valheim:Crown Jewel
- Valheim:Crystal
- Valheim:Cultivator
- Valheim:Cured Squirrel Hamstring
- Valheim:Curious Axe Head
- Valheim:Cyan Fireworks
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- Valheim:Dandelion
- Valheim:Dead Pulp
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- Valheim:Deer Meat
- Valheim:Deer Stew
- Valheim:Dragon Egg
- Valheim:Dragon Tear
- Valheim:Draught of Vananidir
- Valheim:Draumyx
- Valheim:Dvergr Extractor
- Valheim:Dvergr Tankard
- Valheim:Dyrnwyn Blade Fragment
- Valheim:Dyrnwyn Hilt Fragment
- Valheim:Dyrnwyn Tip Fragment
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- Valheim:Fader Relic
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- Valheim:Fenris Claw
- Valheim:Fenris Hair
- Valheim:Fiddlehead
- Valheim:Fiery Spice Powder
- Valheim:Fiery Svinstew
- Valheim:Finewood
- Valheim:Fir Cone
- Valheim:Fire Resistance Barley Wine
- Valheim:Fish 'n' Bread
- Valheim:Fish Soup
- Valheim:Fish Wraps
- Valheim:Fishing Rod
- Valheim:Flametal
- Valheim:Flametal Battle Idol
- Valheim:Flametal Ore
- Valheim:Flametal Protection Idol
- Valheim:Flax
- Valheim:Flint
- Valheim:Fragrant Bundle
- Valheim:Freeze Gland
- Valheim:Fresh Seaweed
- Valheim:Frost Resistance Mead
- Valheim:Frostcore
- Valheim:Frosted Sweetbread
- Valheim:Frostfire Essence
- Valheim:Frozen Branch
- Valheim:Fuling Totem