Black Soup in Valheim: A Swamp-Tier Stew for 50 Health and 17 Stamina

 

    Every food in Valheim is a trade-off between health, stamina, and how long the buff lasts. Black Soup is a Swamp-tier food that adds 50 health and 17 stamina for 1,200 seconds, cooked from three ingredients most players are already carrying by the time they reach the Swamp. The wiki's own in-game description calls it "a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity" — this article breaks down what that balance actually costs to cook and what it delivers once it's in your stomach.

 

What Black Soup Is

 

 

    The wiki states plainly that "Black soup is a Swamp-tier food." It's made at a Cauldron, its usage type is listed simply as Eating, and its infobox flags it as teleportable: Yes. It weighs 1.0 per unit and stacks up to 10 in a single inventory slot, so a full stack tops out at 1.0 × 10 = 10 weight of carried food.

 

The Recipe: Bloodbag, Honey, and Turnip at Cauldron Level Two

 

 

    The wiki is specific about the cooking requirement: "Black soup is produced in a level 2 Cauldron with: Bloodbag x1, Honey x1, Turnip x1." A base-tier Cauldron isn't enough on its own — it has to be upgraded once before this recipe unlocks. The three ingredients are:

 

• Bloodbag x1
• Honey x1
• Turnip x1

 

    That's a one-to-one-to-one recipe: no bulk ingredients, no filler, one of each once the Cauldron sits at level 2. The Black Soup wiki page itself doesn't state where to farm Bloodbag, Honey, or Turnip — that's undocumented by this source, so check each ingredient's own page rather than assuming a location here.

 

The Numbers: Health, Stamina, Duration, and Carrying It

 

 

    The infobox lists a duration of 1200, which the wiki records in seconds. Converting that: 1200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes — a full 20-minute buff window from a single bowl. Alongside that duration, Black Soup adds +50 health and +17 stamina to your pools, plus a listed healing rate of 3 hp per tick.

 

    That last figure is where the source runs out of detail: the wiki gives the healing rate as "3 hp/tick" but doesn't state how long a tick is, so the total passive healing delivered across the full 20-minute duration is undocumented here — there isn't enough information in this source to multiply it out honestly. What is documented is the shape of the trade: high health, moderate stamina, and 20 minutes before you need to eat again — plus the same weight of 1.0 and stack size of 10 covered above, both of which apply per-serving regardless of how the buff itself plays out.

 

Quick reference

• Swamp-tier food, cooked at a level 2 Cauldron.
• Recipe: Bloodbag x1 + Honey x1 + Turnip x1.
• Adds +50 health and +17 stamina.
• Duration is 1200 seconds — 1200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes.
• Healing rate is listed as 3 hp/tick; tick length is undocumented, so total healing delivered isn't calculable from this source.
• Weight 1.0, stack size 10, and it is teleportable.
• Ingredient farming locations for Bloodbag, Honey, and Turnip aren't covered on this recipe page.

 

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Conclusion

 

    Black Soup is a Swamp-tier food cooked at a level 2 Cauldron from Bloodbag, Honey, and Turnip — one of each, no bulk ingredients. It trades toward health over stamina, adding +50 health and +17 stamina for 1,200 seconds (20 minutes), with a passive 3 hp/tick healing rate whose total output the wiki doesn't spell out. It's light to carry at 1.0 weight, stacks to 10, and it is teleportable. What the recipe page doesn't cover is where to actually farm the three ingredients, so budget a separate check on each one before you plan a Cauldron run around it.

 

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