Bear Meat in Valheim: Drop Rates, the Cooking Station Recipe, and What Cooked Bear Meat Gives You
Bear Meat is a Material-type item the Valheim wiki describes as "This fatty meat was once meant to sustain a body through hibernation." Per the item's own infobox, it's listed with a source of Bear and Vile, a usage of Cooking station, a weight of 1.0, a stack size of 20, and a teleport flag of "Yes." Cooking it at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station turns it into Cooked bear meat — or, per the source, into Coal if left on too long.
What Bear Meat Is
The infobox for the raw item lists these fields directly:
- Type: Material
- Source: Bear, Vile
- Usage: Cooking station
- Weight: 1.0
- Stack size: 20
- Teleportable: Yes
A full stack of 20 Bear Meat, at 1.0 weight each, comes to 1.0 × 20 = 20.0 total weight — arithmetic on the item's own two fields, not an estimate. Because its own teleport flag is listed as "Yes," a full stack of Bear Meat can go through a portal.
The source also states plainly: "Unlike other meats, it is not used in any Cauldron recipes." That's quoted as written — this item's only listed processing path is a Cooking station or Iron cooking station, not the Cauldron.
Where Bear Meat Drops
The Availability section lists drop counts for two creatures, broken out by star tier:
| Creature | 0-star | 1-star | 2-star |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Vile | 2 | — | — |
Bear's drop count roughly doubles per star tier: 2, then 4, then 8. Vile's row lists only a 0-star value of 2 — the source's own table shows a dash for Vile's 1-star and 2-star columns, so those two figures are undocumented here, not zero.
Filling a full stack of 20 Bear Meat, computed directly from these drop counts: a 0-star Bear (2 each) takes 20 ÷ 2 = 10 kills; a 1-star Bear (4 each) takes 20 ÷ 4 = 5 kills; a 2-star Bear (8 each) takes 20 ÷ 8 = 2.5, rounded up to 3 kills, since a kill can't be fractional. A 0-star Vile (2 each) also takes 20 ÷ 2 = 10 kills — the only Vile figure the source provides.
This item's page does not classify or locate Bear or Vile beyond naming them as the two source creatures — where either one is found isn't part of this data set.
Cooking Bear Meat
The source states: "When placed on a Cooking station or Iron cooking station, Bear meat can be turned into Cooked bear meat, or Coal if overcooked." The cooked item's own recipe field lists exactly Bear meat x1 as the material — no explicit output-quantity field is given in this data set, so whether one Bear Meat yields more than one Cooked Bear Meat is undocumented here.
The cooked item carries its own description, quoted as written: "Tastes like victory." Its own infobox lists:
- Type: Food
- Usage: Eating
- Weight: 1.0
- Stack size: 20
- Teleportable: Yes
- Health: 40
- Stamina: 13
- Duration: 1200 (seconds)
- Healing: 2 hp/tick
1200 seconds is 1200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes of buff uptime from a single serving of Cooked Bear Meat — computed from the item's own duration field. The cooked item's weight and stack size (1.0 and 20) and its teleport flag ("Yes") match its own raw form's fields, per the same infobox data.
Practical tips
- Raw Bear Meat only cooks at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station — the source states it's not used in any Cauldron recipes.
- A full stack of 20 raw Bear Meat weighs 20.0 (1.0 × 20, computed).
- Bear drops 2 / 4 / 8 Bear Meat at 0-/1-/2-star; Vile's source only lists a 0-star value of 2 (1- and 2-star are undocumented, not zero).
- Filling a stack of 20 takes 10 kills of a 0-star Bear or Vile, 5 of a 1-star Bear, or 3 of a 2-star Bear (computed, rounded up).
- Cooking uses Bear meat x1; overcooking it produces Coal instead.
- The exact number of Cooked Bear Meat produced per raw piece isn't stated in this data set.
- Cooked Bear Meat gives 40 health, 13 stamina, for 1200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 2 hp/tick.
- Both the raw and cooked item are flagged teleportable ("Yes").
Running your own Valheim server
Farming a specific star tier of Bear or Vile for a full stack of Bear Meat goes faster with a group splitting the kills, and a Cooking station's queue empties a lot quicker when several players are feeding it at once. A dedicated Valheim server keeps that Cooking station, its fuel, and your world's Bear and Vile spawns persistent between sessions, with launch arguments, PvP settings, and any mod configuration staying exactly as your group left them.
Conclusion
Bear Meat is a Material-type item sourced from Bear and Vile, weighing 1.0 with a 20-item stack (20.0 total for a full stack, computed) and a teleport flag of "Yes." Bear's drop counts scale by star tier — 2, 4, then 8 — while Vile's source only documents a 0-star value of 2, leaving its 1- and 2-star figures undocumented rather than zero. Filling a stack of 20 takes as few as 3 kills of a 2-star Bear or as many as 10 kills of a 0-star Bear or Vile, computed directly from those drop counts. Cooking it at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station — never a Cauldron, per the source — turns Bear meat x1 into Cooked Bear Meat, or Coal if left too long; the exact output quantity per cook isn't given in this data set. The cooked result delivers 40 health and 13 stamina for 1200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 2 hp/tick, and it too is flagged teleportable.
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