Valheim Food & Mead Guide: Best Foods, Buffs, Durations, Locations & more

In Valheim, food and mead offer a number of unique buffs and bonuses, including bonus health, stamina, and more, with each lasting for different durations as well based on their type!

From berries to cooked meals, and wine to meads, Valheim has plenty of foods to consider before your next journey.

To get you prepared for the challenges ahead, here’s our full Valheim food guide going over all of the buff information for each, and where you can find the necessary ingredients by biome.

All Valheim Foods by Biome

Like other materials and items in Valheim, food is unlocked as players progress through each boss and unlock better access to new biomes - while some staple foods are available in multiple biomes.

With that, here’s a full breakdown of all Valheim foods and their biomes.

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The Meadows

• Boar Jerky
• Cooked Boar Meat 
• Cooked Deer Meat
• Grilled Neck Tail
• Honey
• Mushrooms
• Raspberries

Black Forest

• Blueberries
• Boar Jerky
• Carrot Soup
• Cooked Deer Meat
• Cooked Fish
• Deer Stew
• Honey
• Minced Meat Sauce
• Queen’s Jam

Swamp

• Black Soup
• Carrot
• Carrot Soup
• Cooked Fish
• Cooked Serpent Meat
• Deer Stew
• Muckshake
• Mushroom
• Queen’s Jam
• Sausages
• Serpent Stew
• Turnip
• Turnip Stew

Mountain

• Black Soup
• Cooked Serpent Meat
• Eyescream
• Onion
• Onion Soup
• Sausages
• Serpent Stew
• Turnip Stew
• Wolf Skewer

Plains

• Blood Pudding
• Bread
• Cloudberries
• Eyescream
• Fish Wraps
• Lox Meat Pie
• Onion
• Onion Soup
• Serpent Stew
• Wolf Skewer

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All Valheim Food Buffs (Health, Stamina, and Duration)

Valheim foods offer two main stat buffs but with varying levels of strength and for different amounts of time.

• Black Soup - 50 Health, 17 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Blood Pudding - 25 Health, 75 Stamina, 1800 Seconds
• Blueberries - 8 Health, 25 Stamina, 600 Seconds
• Boar Jerky - 23 Health, 23 Stamina, 1800 Seconds
• Bread - 23 Health, 70 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Carrot - 10 Health, 32 Stamina, 900 Seconds
• Carrot Soup - 15 Health, 45 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Cloudberries - 13 Health, 40 Stamina, 900 Seconds
• Cooked Boar Meat - 30 Health, 10 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Cooked Dear Meat - 35 Health, 12 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Cooked Fish - 45 Health, 15 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Cooked Lox Meat - 50 Health, 16 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Cooked Serpent Meat - 70 Health, 23 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Cooked Wolf Meat - 45 Health, 15 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Deer Stew - 45 Health, 15 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Eyescream - 21 Health, 65 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Fish Wraps - 70 Health, 23 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Grilled Neck Tail  - 25 Health, 8 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Honey - 8 Health, 35 Stamina, 900 Seconds
• Lox Meat Pie - 75 Health, 24 Stamina, 1800 Seconds
• Minced Meat Sauce - 40 Health, 13 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Muckshake - 16 Health, 50 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Mushroom - 15 Health, 15 Stamina, 900 Seconds
• Onion - 13 Health, 40 Stamina, 900 Seconds
• Onion Soup - 20 Health, 60 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Queen’s Jam - 14 Health, 40 Stamina, 1200 Seconds
• Raspberries - 7 Health, 20 Stamina, 600 Seconds
• Sausages - 55 Health, 18 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Serpent Stew - 80 Health, 26 Stamina, 1800 Seconds
• Turnip Stew - 18 Health, 55 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Wolf Jerky - 33 Health, 33 Stamina, 1800 Seconds
• Wolf Skewer - 65 Health, 21 Stamina, 1500 Seconds
• Yellow Mushroom - 10 Health, 30 Stamina, 600 Seconds

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All Valheim Mead Buffs (Effects, Cooldowns)

It's not only foods in Valheim that matter, though, as you can get plenty of benefits from your favorite alcohols as well!

• Fire Resistance Barley Wine - Resistance to Fire Damage for 600 seconds.
• Frost Resistance Mead - Resistance against Freezing effects and Frost Damage for 600 seconds. 
• Medium Healing Mead - Restores 75 Health over 10 seconds. Cooldown - 120 seconds.
• Poison Resistance Mead - Resistance to Poison and reduces Poison effect duration for 600 seconds.
• Tasty Mead - Restores 300 Stamina over 10 seconds at the cost of 50 Health. 

Best Valheim Food Combos

When getting ready for a big fight or big adventure in Valheim, you’ll want to get the maximum out of your food stores. This means using a combination of the most effective foods by type, with different combinations offering more Stamina or more Health depending on your needs.

With up to 3 foods being stackable at the same time, you can really get some massive benefits with proper planning!

Where possible, using Serpent Stew will always be the strongest food for extra Health, offering 80 Health, the most in the game, and Lox Meat Pie, offering 75 Health, the second-most in the game, being a nice boost as well.

For Stamina, players will want to lean on Bread which offers 70 Stamina, the most in the game, and Eyescream, which offers 65 Stamina.

With most of the powerful foods lasting for 20-30 minutes, just make sure to keep your eye on the shortest duration foods in your combos so you can replace them when they fall off.

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