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Why do you need a Valheim food guide? Because in Valheim, food has just as much importance as it does in other survival games, even if it’s not immediately apparent. Though you will never starve to death from not eating in Valheim, or suffer any negative effects or debuffs, you will have very little health and stamina if you don’t, and you won’t recover hit points as quickly.
So even though not eating can’t kill you, food is monumentally important to your survival in Valheim. Eating the right Valheim food will raise your maximum hit points and increase your stamina, sometimes dramatically, which will let you tackle more dangerous areas and challenges. In many cases, having your stomach full of good food is even more important than the armor you’re wearing and the shield you’re carrying.
Though the Hearth & Home update is bringing changes to how Valheim food works, and nerfing some dishes, what you eat is always going to be a vital part of playing the game and overcoming its challenges. If you want to conquer Valheim, your journey begins in the kitchen. Here’s why food is so important, how it works, and what meals you should be cooking.
Best food
Best Valheim recipes list
Before we get deeper into the best Valheim recipes, cooking, and equipment, here’s a quick list of the best food to eat, and some notes explaining where to gather the ingredients.
| Food | Ingredients | Equipment | Biomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrot soup | Carrot x3, mushroom x1 | Cultivator, Cauldron | Meadows, Black Forest |
| Sausages | Entrails x2, Raw meat x1, Thistle x4 | Cauldron | Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp |
| Serpent Stew | Cooked serpent meat x1, Honey x2, Mushroom x1 | Raft/ship, Cooking Station, Beehive, Cauldron | Meadows, Ocean |
| Lox meat pie | Barley flour x4, Cloudberries x2, Cooked Lox meat x2 | Cooking station, Cauldron, Windmill | Plains |
| Blood pudding | Bloodbag x2, Barley flour x4, Thistle x2 | Windmill, Cauldron | Dark Forest, Swamp, Plains |
| Fish wraps | Cooked fish x2, Barley Flour x4 | Fishing pole, Cooking Station, Windmill, Cauldron | Meadows, Plains |
Carrot soup: Carrots can be grown from carrot seeds using the cultivator tool.
Sausages: The entrails needed are dropped by Draugrs, found primarily in the Swamp but also certain Meadow biomes, in abandoned villages.
Serpent stew: Serpents spawn in the Ocean biome, and serpent meat must be cooked on the cooking station before it can be used for stew.
Lox meat pie: Lox are creatures found in the Plains biome, and cloudberries also only grow in the Plains.
Blood pudding: Bloodbags are dropped by leeches, which you’ll find in watery regions of the Swamp biome. Barley flour can be created using the windmill with barley, which can be found on the Plains near fuling villages. You can also plant barley with the cultivator, but only in the Plains biome.
Fish wraps: Fish can be caught with a fishing pole (or by hand, if you’re fast). Raw fish will need to be cooked at the cooking station first.
Best food combos
Best Valheim food combos for max health, stamina, and healing
If you’re looking for the best food combinations, here’s a table showing the best combos if you’re looking for the biggest boost to your maximum health, an increase to your stamina, or the fastest healing rate.
| Max Health | Stamina | Healing rate |
|---|---|---|
| Base Health (25) | Base Stamina (90) | Base healing rate (1) |
| Lox Meat Pie (80) | Lox Meat Pie (80) | Lox Meat Pie/Fish Wraps (4) |
| Blood Pudding (90) | Fish Wraps (90) | Honey (5) |
| Serpent Stew (80) | Serpent Stew (80) | Serpent Stew (4) |
| Max Health: 275 | Stamina: 340 | Healing rate: 13 |
How your stomach works
How your Viking stomach works
It’s important to know how your stomach works in Valheim before you decide what to cram into it. If you’re confused by the words “You can’t eat more raspberries” popping up on the screen after eating only a single raspberry, you’re not alone.
Your stomach has three slots for food, like a little inventory, but you can only fit a single item of food into each slot. You also can’t fill those slots with more than one of the same type of food. For example, you can have one cooked meat, one mushroom, and one raspberry in your three stomach slots at the same time, but you can’t have two or three raspberries (or any other duplicate food items) in there at once. When all three stomach slots are filled with different foods, you cannot consume a new food item until at least one of them has been digested (its icon will begin to blink and the words “You could eat another bite” will appear on the screen).
You’ll also see a narrow bar next to your stomach slots, above the fork icon. It shows a color-coded health regeneration duration of each item food in your stomach. Above, you can see the bottom of the bar is silver, showing my base health regeneration. The light brown bar represents the sausages, the little red segment is the raspberry, and the darker brown bar at the top is the cooked meat. For more on that, let’s get to what the food is doing in your stomach.
How food works
How Valheim food works
Each item of food modifies three things:
- Your maximum health
- Your stamina
- Your rate of healing (hp/tick)
With no food in your stomach, your base health is a mere 25, your stamina is 90, and you heal at a rate of 1 hp/tick, or hit point per tick (a tick being 10 seconds). Each item of food has a score for health, stamina, rate of healing, and duration. Here’s an a comparison of three different foods you can get early on in Valheim, starting with cooked meat (raw meat from a boar, deer, or wolf cooked over a fire at a cooking station) when your stomach is empty.
| Food | Health | Stamina | Hp/Tick | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked meat | 40 | 30 | 2 | 1200 |
| Sausages | 60 | 40 | 3 | 1600 |
| Honey | 20 | 20 | 5 | 500 |
Eating cooked meat will instantly raise your maximum health to 65 (your base health of 25 + 40), though it won’t immediately fill that extended health bar. You’ll need to wait as your healing bar rises to fill it, though cooked meat’s hp/tick of 2 means you will heal that amount twice as quickly as you would without food. So, your health will increase 2 hp every 10 seconds until it reaches max. Cooked meat will also raise your max stamina from 90 points to 120 points. Finally, the benefits of cooked meat will last for 1,200 seconds, which is 20 minutes.
Not bad, but compare that to a superior food consumed on an empty stomach, like sausages, which will increase your max hp by 60 (giving you 85 hp), give you 3hp regeneration per tick, and add 40 to your stamina, giving you 130.
One more example: honey. It only raises your max health and stamina by 20 points, and the effects only last for 300 seconds (5 minutes) but it raises your healing to 5 hp/tick, very important if you want to fill your max health up quickly.
So, what happens when you eat cooked meat, sausages, and honey at the same time? Now we’re talking, because all those effects stack. Your maximum hp will rise to 145 (base 25+40+60+20), your stamina will raise to 180 (base 90+30+40+20), and your healing will be a juicy 10 hp/tick, healing 10 hit points every 10 seconds (2+3+5). Not only can you take much more damage, but you can run longer, fight harder, and heal much faster. And that’s why food is so dang important in Valheim.
Basic foods
The best fuss-free food in Valheim
No need to cook them, just pick them up and eat them.
Note: Honey requires a queen bee and a beehive, and carrots require carrot seeds and a cultivator to plant them. Cloudberries are found on the Plains biome, so you may not encounter them until late in the game.
| Food | Max Health | Stamina | Healing | Duration | Biome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberries | 10 | 20 | 1 | 600 | Meadows |
| Blueberries | 15 | 20 | 1 | 600 | Black Forest |
| Mushroom | 15 | 20 | 1 | 600 | Meadows, Black Forest |
| Yellow mushroom | 20 | 20 | 1 | 600 | Black Forest, Swamp (in caves) |
| Honey | 20 | 20 | 5 | 300 | Meadows, Mountains (in old houses) |
| Carrot | 15 | 15 | 1 | 600 | Black Forest (as seeds) |
| Cloudberries | 15 | 25 | 1 | 800 | Plains |
Cooking Station foods
The best Valheim cooking station recipes
A cooking station can be crafted over a campfire or hearth using 2 wood. Multiple cooking stations (up to 6) can be placed over the same fire. To catch fish, it’s best to have a fishing rod and bait which you can buy from Haldor, the Valheim trader.
| Food | Health | Stamina | Healing | Duration | Ingredient |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked meat | 40 | 30 | 2 | 1200 | Raw meat |
| Grilled neck tail | 35 | 20 | 2 | 1000 | Neck tail |
| Cooked fish | 45 | 25 | 2 | 1200 | Fish |
| Cooked serpent meat | 70 | 40 | 3 | 2000 | Serpent meat |
| Cooked lox meat | 70 | 40 | 3 | 1600 | Lox meat |
Cauldron recipes
The best Valheim cauldron recipes
To craft a cauldron, you’ll need to mine 10 tin. A cauldron must be placed over a fire or hearth to cook. Cooking food in the cauldron is instant, but you must have an empty slot in your inventory for the finished dish to be placed in.
Note: Sausages require entrails, which are dropped by draugr. If you’re not ready to visit the Swamp biome, draugr can sometimes be found in Meadows, too, though typically in Meadows biomes located on different continents that your starter island. The abandoned villages the draugr inhabit in the Meadows are a bit safer than the Swamp if you’re looking to harvest entrails. Turnips, meanwhile, can be grown from seeds found in the Swamp biome. Turnips cannot be eaten raw by players (though they can be fed to boars).
| Food | Health | Stamina | Healing | Duration | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen’s jam | 30 | 40 | 2 | 1200 | Raspberries x8, Blueberries x8 |
| Carrot soup | 20 | 60 | 2 | 1500 | Carrot x3, Mushroom x1 |
| Sausages | 60 | 40 | 3 | 1600 | Entrails x2, Raw meat x1, Thistle x4 |
| Serpent stew | 80 | 80 | 4 | 2400 | Cooked serpent meat x1, Mushroom x1,Honey x2 |
| Turnip stew | 50 | 60 | 2 | 1600 | Turnip x3, Raw meat x1 |
Late-game recipes
The best late-game recipes in Valheim
A late-game item can be crafted once you’ve defeated Valheim’s 4th boss, Moder. That item is a windmill, and it’ll allow you to create barley flour using barley, a resource found in the Plains biome, which can then unlock a few new recipes for your cauldron. Note that barley can only be grown in the Plains.
| Food | Health | Stamina | Healing | Duration | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood pudding | 90 | 50 | 4 | 2400 | Bloodbag x2, Barley flour x4, Thistle x2 |
| Fish wraps | 60 | 90 | 4 | 2400 | Cooked fish x2, Barley flour x4 |
| Lox meat pie | 80 | 80 | 4 | 2400 | Barley flour x4, Cloudberries x2, Cooked lox meat x2 |
| Bread | 40 | 90 | 2 | 1800 | Barley flour x10 |
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