Valheim: How to Cook and Place Feasts

Feasts are large, shareable meals in Valheim that grant long-lasting boosts to health and stamina, with the late-game dishes also adding Eitr. Unlike normal food, you cannot eat a Feast straight from your inventory. Each one has to be cooked at a Food Preparation Table and then placed on the ground or a table using a Serving Tray before anyone can take a bite.

Quick answer: Craft a Food Preparation Table, buy a Serving Tray and spices from the Bog Witch, cook a Feast at the table, then equip the Serving Tray and place the Feast down to eat from it.

What you need before cooking a Feast

Two pieces of gear are mandatory. Both require reaching the Swamp biome, since that is where Iron and the Bog Witch are found.

Food Preparation Table — crafted with 5 Iron, 20 Finewood, 15 Leather Scraps, and a nearby Workbench. It must be placed under a roof.
Serving Tray — bought from the Bog Witch for 140 Coins. It is the only way to put a Feast down so it can be eaten.

Once the Food Preparation Table is placed, you learn every Feast recipe at once. Individual recipes only become craftable after you have gathered all of their ingredients, including the required spice.

Find the Bog Witch for spices and the Serving Tray

The Bog Witch is an NPC trader who sits inside a hut ringed by protective totems that keep hostile creatures out. You can walk into the hut freely, but you need Coins to buy anything. Her location is randomized, so you have to search the Swamp biomes in your world to find her.

A large cauldron icon appears on your map once you get close to her hut, marking the way in. Beyond the Serving Tray, she sells the herb blends that every Feast needs. Each blend she sells stays locked until you defeat the boss tied to its biome, and buying a blend gives you five of them at a time.

Spice	Unlocks after defeating
Woodland Herb Blend	The Elder
Seafarer’s Herbs	A Serpent
Mountain Peak Pepper Powder	Moder
Grasslands Herbalist Harvest	Yagluth
Herbs of the Hidden Hills	The Queen
Fiery Spice Powder	Fader
Seasoning of the Gourd	Kall Fimbulbringer

Cook the Feast

Gather the four ingredients for the Feast you want, including its spice. Each recipe combines two or three prepared foods from a biome plus one herb blend from the Bog Witch.

Stand next to the roofed Food Preparation Table and interact with it to open the cooking menu. Select the Feast you want to make.

Confirm the craft. The finished Feast goes into your inventory, but it cannot be eaten there — you still need to place it with the Serving Tray.

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Place and eat the Feast

Put the Serving Tray on your hotbar and equip it, or right-click it in your inventory. It works like the Hammer and only spends durability, so placing Feasts never uses up the tray itself.

Open the Serving Tray’s build menu. The first two tabs place regular food and Mead as decoration, while the third tab holds Feasts. Select the Feast tab and choose the dish you cooked.

Place the Feast. Despite the tray’s description, it does not require a table — you can set it on any flat surface, including bare ground outdoors.

Walk up to the placed Feast and interact with it. If you have an open food slot, your character takes a bite and gains the buff for 50 minutes. A placed Feast holds 10 servings, so you or your party can keep eating from the same dish.

Before anyone eats, you can remove a placed Feast with the Serving Tray and it returns to your inventory. Once even a single bite is taken, removing or destroying it deletes it and returns nothing.

Every Feast recipe and its buffs

Every Feast lasts 50 minutes and gives equal amounts of health and stamina. Feasts made from Mistlands, Ashlands, and Deep North ingredients also add Eitr.

Feast	Ingredients	HP / Stamina	Eitr
Whole Roasted Meadow Boar	2 Cooked Deer Meat, 5 Cooked Boar Meat, 4 Dandelion, 1 Woodland Herb Blend	35 / 35	—
Black Forest Buffet Platter	3 Deer Stew, 5 Thistle, 4 Queen’s Jam, 1 Woodland Herb Blend	35 / 35	—
Swamp Dweller’s Delight	8 Sausages, 4 Bloodbag, 2 Turnip Stew, 1 Woodland Herb Blend	35 / 35	—
Sailor’s Bounty	5 Cooked Fish, 4 Thistle, 2 Cooked Serpent Meat, 1 Seafarer’s Herbs	45 / 45	—
Hearty Mountain Logger’s Stew	2 Wolf Skewer, 3 Onion Soup, 4 Carrot, 1 Mountain Peak Pepper Powder	45 / 45	—
Plains Pie Picnic	3 Bread, 2 Lox Meat Pie, 5 Cloudberries, 1 Grasslands Herbalist Harvest	55 / 55	—
Mushrooms Galore á la Mistlands	1 Misthare Supreme, 3 Cooked Seeker Meat, 1 Yggdrasil Porridge, 1 Herbs of the Hidden Hills	65 / 65	33
Ashlands Gourmet Bowl	3 Cooked Asksvin Tail, 5 Vineberry Cluster, 2 Scorching Medley, 1 Fiery Spice Powder	75 / 75	38
Northern Morning Fare	3 Cooked Moose Meat, 5 Poteitr, 2 Oat Flour, 1 Seasoning of the Gourd	85 / 85	43

Healing scales with the tier as well, running from 2 hp per tick on the Meadow Boar up to 7 hp per tick on the Northern Morning Fare. A Feast is rarely the single best food for any biome, but its long duration and repeat servings make it strong for long trips. You can also stack different Feasts to keep three buffs active at once.

Confirm the buff is active

You know a Feast worked when the buff appears in your active food slots and your maximum health and stamina rise by the listed amounts for 50 minutes. The placed Feast also shows its remaining servings when you highlight it, and its model visibly shrinks as portions are eaten, changing appearance at six, three, and zero servings left. When it reaches zero, use the Serving Tray’s Remove option to clear the empty platter.