{"id":106163,"date":"2025-09-13T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/valheim-how-to-cook-your-way-through-the-cold-nights\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:11:30","slug":"valheim-how-to-cook-your-way-through-the-cold-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valheim-how-to-cook-your-way-through-the-cold-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Valheim: How To Cook Your Way Through The Cold Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valheim-how-to-cook-your-way-through-the-cold-nights.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><span><span>You may have heard of Valheim, a Viking survival game that\u2019s currently available on Steam in early access. Well, if you want to have a fighting chance at living through the many encounters you\u2019ll face, you\u2019ll want to go in armed with the knowledge of how to cook and eat the many foods available to you. The game is a challenging take on surviving in frigid lands swarming with trolls, skeletons, leeches, slimes, and more. You can even summon up huge bosses and take them on! If you\u2019re just getting started, you should check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/02\/04\/how-to-get-started-in-norse-survival-game-valheim\">guide to the early game here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/02\/08\/valheim-how-to-summon-the-elder-and-find-the-swamp\">something\u00a0a little deeper into the experience here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Once you get the hang of the basics of cooking and eating in Valheim, the more advanced fare falls into place easily as you advance through your tech tree and base. At the beginning of the game, it\u2019s likely your only experience with food at all will be from raspberries that you\u2019ve pulled off of nearby bushes. In the game\u2019s opening hour, you can probably expect to take on boars, deer, and necks (lizards). So, you\u2019ve got some raw meat. What\u2019s next?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valheim-how-to-cook-your-way-through-the-cold-nights-1.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p><span><span>First, you need to make a campfire. You probably already have one of those since you\u2019re going to need one to place your bed down and have any kind of encampment. After that, you have to place a cooking rack on top of the fire. Easy enough, right? Clicking on the fire with raw meats and other cookables in your inventory will place them hanging above the fire. Now you need to make sure that you don\u2019t leave the food on the fire for too long. There is an audio and visual cue when the meat is cooked, so be ready to pull it off when it\u2019s done. If you want too long, your meat will become coal. There\u2019s a few specific scenarios where you may actually want to convert your meat to coal, but in general you\u2019re going to want it for eating.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Your character can have three different kinds of food buffs going simultaneously and you should strive to achieve that. Food buffs raise your max hit points, stamina, and regeneration, so you want to have the maximum amount possible to combine with your weapons and armor to enhance your survivability.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Early on, your survivability is going to be at its best with two different kinds of cooked meat (neck and raw) and some berries or mushrooms. As you continue to advance past the Meadow into the Black Forest and the Swamp, you can start making more potent foods like sausages.\u00a0Before you can, you should absolutely consider making a cauldron once you have access to metals. With the cauldron, you can create the foundations for powerful mead. Before you get too deep into the systems that are going to offer up next tier of foods, you want to take advantage of one of the most potent offerings that can come from the cauldron, Queens Jam. With just a few handfuls of blueberries and raspberries, you will be the king of the lower tier zones!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>After you get the hang of cooking, you\u2019ll be whipping up powerful sausage in no time. Unlike many other survival games, you don\u2019t actually *need* to eat in Valheim to survive, but wandering around with your base HP pool is incredibly risky and dangerous, so eating is basically only an\u00a0upside and not a hunger meter that you need to frantically manage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/02\/09\/valheim-how-to-cook-your-way-through-the-cold-nights\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of Valheim, a Viking survival game that\u2019s currently available on Steam in early access. Well, if you want to have a fighting chance at living through the many encounters you\u2019ll face, you\u2019ll want to go in armed with the knowledge of how to cook and eat the many foods available to you. The game is a challenging take on surviving in frigid lands swarming with trolls, skeletons, leeches, slimes, and more. You can even summon up huge bosses and take them on! If you\u2019re just getting started, you should check out our guide to the early game here, and something\u00a0a little deeper into the experience here. 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