Eating is one of the most important parts of staying alive in Valheim. You journey will come to an end sooner rather than later if you don’t try to eat something and raise your stats. You will have to eat in Valheim in order to raise your maximum health and stamina levels. Not only will eating certain foods change these levels, some will have other effects.
How to Eat Food
Once you have gotten your hands on something to eat in Valheim, it’s time to figure out how to eat it! One of the first pieces of food you will acquire will probably be raspberries. Once you have them in your inventory, simply open it up using the TAB key by default and right-click on the food item.
If you hover your mouse over the item for a second you will see a tooltip for the item appear. This tooltip will show you how much health and stamina you will gain from consuming the food item. If you were to eat the raspberry for example, your maximum health would be raised by 10 points and your stamina would be raised by 20 points for 600 seconds. You will also regain 1 health a second.
You can eat three different types of food at one time. Once one of the food sources has expires you can consume a different type of food in order to gain a different level.
Can You Die of Hunger in Valheim?
Eating in Valheim will raise your maximum level or health and stamina and help you regain more health. So if you don’t eat will your character succumb to hunger? The answer is no. If you do not eat anything in Valheim your character will never starve to death. Although, not eating will lower your maximum health and thus make it easier to defeat you. The lowest your health will drop is 25HP.
Be careful, although not eating will not cause you to perish, it will make you an easy target for the enemies of Valheim. As you can see in the image above, the character has eaten 3 advanced types of food in the game and achieved a maximum health of 209 hit point. Not so bad just from eating a couple of meals hey?
Eating Raw Meat
Valheim is not like Minecraft or Ark in this sense. If the player defeats an animal like a deer or boar they will receive raw meat. (defeating Necks will award the player neck tails). Once the player has this raw meat they unfortunately cannot be eaten in their raw state. The player will have to cook these meats over a campfire using a cooking station. For more information on cooking meat over a campfire click here.
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