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Repair Windows errors before they cause bigger problemsFix Now →Scan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minuteDriver Scan →A Valheim feast is not cooked in the Cauldron. You craft it at the Food Preparation Table, buy its required spice from The Bog Witch, and place the finished dish with a Serving Tray so that up to ten servings can be eaten from one platter. The steps below cover that full loop, followed by the four feast recipes listed in the Valheim EN reference wiki and how to choose between them.
Feasts use a different crafting station than ordinary food
The most common mistake is trying to make a feast at the Cauldron. The official Bog Witch patch notes, published on Valheim’s Steam announcement page, state: “Uncooked food items are crafted with the Food Preparation Table instead of with the Cauldron.” Feasts follow the same rule, so the Food Preparation Table is the station you need.
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The Cauldron still matters for ordinary cooked dishes. Upgrading it unlocks additional cauldron recipes up to level six, and the Valheim EN reference wiki lists Ashlands dishes among the level-five and level-six recipes. Upgrading the Cauldron does not unlock feasts.
What you need before you start
The Food Preparation Table
The Food Preparation Table is the station for uncooked food, raw fish, bait, and feast crafting. Some food preparations are finished in a Stone Oven instead. The reference lists its build cost as five iron, twenty finewood, and fifteen leather scraps.
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The spice from The Bog Witch
Every feast requires a specific spice that you obtain from The Bog Witch. Buy it before you gather the rest of the ingredients, so you do not carry a full set of components to a station and then find the recipe is blocked.
The Serving Tray
The Serving Tray is the item that turns a crafted feast into a shared, placeable platter. You need it to present the feast to other players or to eat from it over time.
Step-by-step: make and serve a feast
- Gather every ingredient in the recipe you want, including the recipe’s listed items from the stages and biomes they come from.
- Obtain the required spice from The Bog Witch.
- Stand at a Food Preparation Table and craft the feast.
- Place a Serving Tray on a surface, then place the finished feast on the tray.
- Eat from the placed feast. Each feast contains ten servings.
- When every serving is consumed, open the Serving Tray and use its Remove function to clear the empty platter.
Do not dismantle a feast that is only partly eaten. Dismantling it returns nothing, so any servings you have not yet eaten are lost with it.
The four feast recipes and their values
The Valheim EN reference wiki lists four feasts. Each one gives health and stamina, and the two later recipes also give Eitr. Every listed duration is 50 minutes. These are the game’s own values, not real-world nutrition data, and they may change with patches.
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| Feast | Ingredients (as listed) | Health | Stamina | Eitr | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole Roasted Meadow Boar | Two Wolf Skewers; three Onion Soups; four Carrot Soups; one Mountain Peak Pepper Powder | 35 | 35 | Not listed in the reference | 50 minutes |
| Plains Pie Picnic | Three Bread; two Lox Meat Pies; five Cloudberries; one Grasslands Herbalist Harvest | 55 | 55 | Not listed in the reference | 50 minutes |
| Mushrooms Galore á la Mistlands | One Misthare Supreme; three Cooked Seeker Meat; one Yggdrasil Porridge; one Herbs of the Hidden Hills | 65 | 65 | 33 | 50 minutes |
| Ashlands Gourmet Bowl | Three Cooked Asksvin Tails; five Vineberry Clusters; two Scorching Medleys; one Fiery Spice Powder | 75 | 75 | 38 | 50 minutes |
Whole Roasted Meadow Boar
The entry-level option in this list. Its 35 health and 35 stamina are the lowest values in the table, but its ingredients are the most accessible for an early build, since they lean on common cooked dishes.
Plains Pie Picnic
Gives 55 health and 55 stamina, and its ingredients are mostly bread, pies, and berries. It is a practical middle choice when you have the Grasslands ingredients but not yet the Mistlands or Ashlands ones.
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Mushrooms Galore á la Mistlands
Adds 33 Eitr on top of 65 health and 65 stamina. The ingredients come from the Mistlands stage, so you need access to that biome before this recipe is practical.
Ashlands Gourmet Bowl
The highest listed values: 75 health, 75 stamina, and 38 Eitr. Its ingredients come from the Ashlands, and its recipe appears among the higher-level cauldron recipes in the wiki, so plan for the late-game progression it requires.
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How to choose which feast to make
- Start with the ingredients you can reach. A feast you can complete today is worth more than a stronger one you cannot finish.
- Check the biome requirement. The Mistlands and Ashlands recipes depend on items from those stages.
- Compare the values only after availability. Health, stamina, and Eitr figures matter once you can actually build the feast.
- Remember the 50-minute duration. All four listed feasts share it, so duration does not separate them.
There is no single best feast for every player. For most builds, the best option is the strongest feast whose ingredients you can gather and whose spice you can buy from The Bog Witch.
Checking the values in your version
The patch-notes sentence and the station change come from Valheim’s official announcement. The recipe lists, ingredient counts, and stat values come from the Valheim EN reference wiki, which we have not verified against the live game client. Recipes and balance can change with updates, so confirm the ingredient list and stat values in your own game before planning a large build.
The Ashlands Gourmet Bowl and the Mushrooms Galore recipe are both tied to later biomes. If you are early in your playthrough, the Whole Roasted Meadow Boar or the Plains Pie Picnic are the feasts most likely to be within reach.
No physical product is needed to follow these in-game steps.
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