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.

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:

• 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, or equal Health, Stamina, and Eitr 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.

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.

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.

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

• The best food for increasing Health is Piquant Pie at +105 Health.
• The best food for increasing Stamina is Roasted Crust Pie at +100 Stamina.
• The best food for increasing Eitr is Marinated Greens at +95 Eitr.
• The best foods for increasing HP/tick are increase HP/tick by 6 and can all be found in the Ashlands biome. They are:
  • Cooked Asksvin Tail
  • Cooked Bonemaw Meat
  • Cooked Volture Meat
  • Fiery Svinstew
  • Mashed Meat
  • Piquant Pie

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.

Valheim Cooking Recipe List

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.