Valheim is one of the best survival games to combine Viking lore with vast landscapes and fierce mythical foes. To experience everything the game has to offer, you must monitor your character’s health at all times, ensuring they get enough food, sleep, and water to stay in fighting shape.
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Part of this entails cooking various foods that will bestow your character with powerful buffs to give them an edge in combat and exploration. From mead-soaked meat to honey-glazed carrots, these are the best Valheim food combinations that will give you the boost you need to conquer the tenth Norse world.
8 Grilled Neck Tail With Carrot Soup: A Tasty Homemade Meal
A great option for early-game Valheim food combinations, Grilled Neck Tail with Carrot Soup can be made using simple ingredients found easily in the starting areas of the game. The meat of this dish comes from “necks,” amphibious four-eyed green creatures you’ll find near water in Meadows biomes.
Alone, Grilled Neck Tail will give you +25 health and +8 stamina, but you can enhance its potency further by incorporating Carrot Soup into this dish. Comprised of just three carrots and one mushroom, this tasty concoction will provide you with an additional +15 health and +45 stamina.
7 Cooked Lox Meat With Queens Jam: Sweet And Savory
This next recipe is a bit more advanced, requiring you to have an upgraded Iron Cooking Station rather than a basic one. Once you have the station crafted, you’ll need to collect meat by hunting the shaggy-haired reptilian Lox in Plains biomes before cooking it over an open flame.
While you’re at it, go ahead and gather as many raspberries and blueberries as you can find from the Meadows and Black Forest biomes, respectively. Combining these two fruits in a cauldron will yield four Queens Jam, raising your health by +14 and stamina by +40.
6 Cooked Serpent Meat With Honey: A Slimy Smattering
Who doesn’t love the smell of spit-roasted serpent meat in the morning? Assuming you already have both an Iron Cooking Station and an upgraded vessel, head for the high seas while keeping an eye out for sea serpents. These aggressive enemies are prone to attacking ships traveling across Valheim’s oceans and can put up quite a fight.
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However, if you can manage to kill a sea serpent, you’ll be rewarded with one of the best meats in the game that can be cooked to raise its potency even more. By default, Cooked Serpent Meat grants +70 health and +23 stamina; by combining it with honey from nearby beehives, you can tack on an additional +8 health and +35 stamina.
5 Fish Wraps With Turnip Stew: Surf And Turf Done Well
Another relatively easy recipe to prepare, Fish Wraps with Turnip Stew relies on readily available ingredients that will put that old fishing rod of yours to good use. First, you’ll need to gather raw fish before placing them in a cauldron to cook; combine two Cooked Fish with four barley flour, and voilà, you have Fish Wraps.
Eating this meal will increase your health and stamina by +70 and +23, respectively. If that wasn’t enough, you can assign Turnip Stew to your second-course slot by combining turnips and boar meat (Meadows biomes) using a level two cauldron.
4 Queens Jam With Cooked Boar Meat: Put Those Leftovers To Work
If you still have some leftover Queens Jam and Cooked Boar Meat from the previous recipes, you can combine them to discover an entirely new food combination in Valheim. This recipe calls for eight raspberries, six blueberries, and at least one piece of boar meat cooked over an open flame.
While raspberries and boars are easy enough to find, blueberries are a bit trickier as they only spawn in the Black Forest biome or random barrels outside ruined towers. Together, these two meals will give your character a combined +44 health and +50 stamina.
3 Sausages And Minced Meat Sauce: Hearty Does It
If you’re ever feeling especially carnivorous, this next food combination should hit the spot while boasting an impressive +95 health and +31 stamina recovery for 1,500 seconds. The main portion of the meal is Sausages, which can only be cooked at a level two cauldron using boar meat, thistle, and entrails (dropped by slain draugrs in Swamp biomes).
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For the Minced Meat Sauce, you’ll need more boar meat as well as one neck tail and one carrot per serving. The great thing about this recipe combination is that both items share one common ingredient and can be crafted using just a cauldron.
2 Fish N' Bread With Tasty Mead: Speedy Stamina Recovery
Next up, Fish N' Bread with Tasty Mead can be a useful food combination for maintaining your character’s stamina during tense boss fights. To craft Fish N’ Bread, you’ll need one anglerfish (found in the surrounding waters of the Mistlands biome) and two bread doughs (produced from barley flour using a level four cauldron).
Additionally, the Tasty Mead recipe calls for ten honey, ten raspberries, and five blueberries. When combined, these two recipes will net you +30 health, +90 stamina, and +300 percent stamina regeneration for ten seconds at the cost of -50 percent health regen.
1 Misthare Supreme And Major Healing Mead: HP In A Pinch
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Misthare Supreme and Major Healing Mead are among the best Valheim food combinations for topping off your Viking’s health bar. The first step is cooking a Misthare Supreme using a level five cauldron to mix three Jotun puffs, two carrots, and one hare meat before throwing it all in a stone oven.
To wash this delicious dish down with a Major Healing Mead, you’ll need to cook a Major Healing base using ten honey, four blood clots, and five royal jellies. Afterward, place the concoction into a fermenter (crafted from 30 fine wood, five bronze, and ten resin) until it’s ready. When consumed, this meal grants a whopping +210 health and modest +28 stamina.
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