Valheim Fishing and Cooking Guide

The nutrition bar

In the lower left corner of your HUD you will find your nutrition and life display. This is divided into three components:

• Three slots for food: Here you can see the food that is currently being actively eaten by you. You have to fill the slots with three different types of food
• Duration of the food: Here you can see how long the food lasts and works
• Life energy: Shows the points of your life energy. Can't fall below 25, so you won't starve. The more life energy, the better stamina

When you hover your mouse over the nutrition, an info box pops up, giving you various info about the nutrition, such as the duration, how much health and healing power the nutrition provides, and how much stamina you get from it.

Fishing and hunting

Successful fishing in Valheim

In order to fish in Valheim, you need the fishing rod, which you can buy from the merchant Haldor, because it cannot be made at the workbench. You can find Haldor in the Black Forest - he is not so easy to find, but as soon as you discover him, he will be marked with a small bag on the map.

The cost of the fishing rod is 350 gold. For 10 gold you should also buy a bunch of bait directly, so that you are successful in fishing in any case. Tip: In the meantime, you can find the fishing rod in the depths of the Frost Caves with a lot of luck and patience. You can also catch fish by hand, but this is very difficult and time-consuming.

Now find a good place to fish and attach a bait to the fishing hook and cast the line into the water. Keep in mind that the further you cast the line, the more stamina you will need to reel it in. So eat enough food beforehand or be careful not to cast the line too far. Another way to catch the fish is to walk backwards from the shore to the land and pull the fish in.

Successful hunting in Valheim

In Valheim you can hunt all kinds of animals. For example, wild boars are a good source of leather scraps that you can use for crafting and building. You are most likely to find wild boars in forests in the Meadows biome. If you need an overview of the different biomes, you can discover the most important characteristics of the biomes in Valheim here Note, however, that especially wild boars are very aggressive in a group and do not find attacks funny at all. If you have enough leather together, you can craft a bow to open the hunt for deer.

As soon as you have a bow or a spear, you can start hunting - except for the wild boars, which you can kill with a club and your bare fists. Another hunting tip: especially with deer, you should sneak as soon as you spot them. They can smell you and will quickly run away if they sense danger. You have one advantage over deer: you can usually hear them before you see them.

Utensils for cooking and grilling

Once you have collected enough raw meat and fish, you can prepare delicious dishes with various utensils that will enhance your character with their buffs:

• Campfire: The campfire builds the base for the cooking station and the cauldron
• Cooking station: The cooking station is placed above the campfire and you can put raw meat, snake meat or nix tail in it to cook or grill it
• Cauldron: The cauldron is made with tin and can further enhance already made dishes with the addition of barley flour and other ingredients

Mead making and the stone oven

Thanks to various dishes you already get useful buffs that support you in the battles and life in Valheim, but one thing should not be underestimated: the mead. You can make it by putting honey and other ingredients in the cauldron to make a base, which in turn goes into a fermentation barrel. Depending on which ingredients you use, you will have resistance to frost, poison or fire after drinking the mead.

Note: You don't need honey for fire resistance mead, only barley and berries. Note that mead takes almost two days to ferment, so produce it in advance.

The stone oven is used in Valheim for various dishes such as bread or lox meat pies. The disadvantage to the stone oven is that you need all sorts of resources and must be far advanced in the game to be able to make it at all. For the crafting you need the following resources:

• 15x Iron
• 20x Stone
• 4x Surtling Cores

To produce iron, you need to explore the sunken crypts in the Swamp, find scrap iron there, and place it in the furnace to produce iron. Surtling cores can be found in the Black Forest in burial chambers and farmed from Surtlings in the Swamp.

Once you have all the resources, you will need a crafting table. This in turn requires Dragon Tears, which you can collect in the Mountains after defeating the Dragon Mother Moder. The stone oven is then placed near the crafting table and can be fired with 10 wood.

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