Bukeperries in Valheim: The Food-Reset Berry, Explained

 

    Bukeperries — filed as "Pukeberries" in the game's own item ID — are one of the few Valheim consumables you eat on purpose to feel worse. The wiki's own description sums up the intent: they allow "the consumer to quickly evacuate any misplaced meal and start anew." In practical terms, that means Bukeperries exist purely as a food-buff reset button: eat one, lose one active Food effect, and get on with respeccing your loadout instead of waiting out a buff's timer.

 

What Are Bukeperries in Valheim?

 

    Per the wiki's infobox, Bukeperries are classed simply as Food — item ID Pukeberries — with a listed usage of "Clearing active Food Buffs." The stat sheet is short: weight 0.1 and a max stack of 50, so a full stack weighs 50 × 0.1 = 5.0 in inventory weight, computed directly from those two fields. The infobox also flags them as teleport: Yes — this item's own record, nothing compared against any other item — meaning Bukeperries can pass through a Portal without the restriction placed on ore and a handful of other materials.

 

    Notably, the sourced infobox lists no buy price, no sell price, and no crafting materials for Bukeperries. That's not an omission on this article's part — the wiki entry simply doesn't carry those fields for this item, which lines up with it being an enemy drop rather than something you buy, sell, or craft.

 

 

The Feeling Sick Effect: What Happens When You Eat One

 

    Eating a Bukeperries inflicts the game's Feeling Sick status, described on the wiki as: "You don't feel so well and can't hold your food down." The infobox lists the effect at a flat 15-second duration, with three penalties applied for that whole window:

 

• Health regen: -100%
• Stamina regen: -100%
• Movement speed: -50%

 

    The wiki's Description section adds the mechanic that actually does the resetting: "For 15 seconds, it disables health and stamina regen, halves movement speed, and every 2 seconds it deals 1 damage and undoes one consumed Food." That's the whole trick — every 2-second tick strips one active Food buff, alongside a small direct-damage hit, until the 15 seconds run out or you run out of buffs to strip.

 

    The same source is direct about the trade-off: "The effect is useful to remove active food without having to wait past theirs expiration times. It can be used to quickly switch between active foods. However, the removed foods are wasted and the player remains vulnerable during the puke." In other words, this is a deliberate downgrade you accept in exchange for speed — the food you strip out doesn't come back, and you're weaker for the full 15 seconds while it happens.

 

 

Where to Get Bukeperries

 

    The Availability section on the wiki lists exactly two drop sources, both shaman-type enemies:

 

• Drops from Fuling shaman
• Drops from Greydwarf shaman

 

    That's the full extent of what the sourced page documents — it does not give a drop percentage or chance for either enemy, and it does not state a spawn biome or location for either shaman type on this item's own page. Rather than guess at either number, this article leaves both undocumented: if you need Bukeperries, the confirmed method is defeating one of those two named enemies, with no further detail available from this source on how reliably they drop it.

 

 

Notes, Alternatives, and Trivia

 

    The wiki's Notes section names one substitute: "Eating Rotten meat has the same effect as eating Bukeperries and serves as a late game alternative." That's stated as this item's own documented alternative, not a comparison invented for this article — if you're past the point of hunting shamans for Bukeperries specifically, Rotten meat is the sourced fallback with the identical Feeling Sick effect.

 

    The Trivia section also explains the name itself: "Bukeperries is Spoonerism for 'Puke Berries', being a berry that will make you puke." That etymology lines up with everything above — a berry whose entire purpose is making your character's stomach (and food buffs) empty out fast.

 

Quick tips: Only eat a Bukeperries when you actually want to lose a food buff — the 15-second Feeling Sick window drops your health regen, stamina regen, and movement speed all at once, so don't pop one mid-fight. Since the wiki lists no purchase price or crafting recipe, plan on farming Fuling shaman or Greydwarf shaman kills specifically if you want a personal supply. And remember the swap is one-way: the wiki is explicit that "the removed foods are wasted," so only clear a buff you're actually replacing.

 

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Conclusion

 

    Bukeperries are a narrow-purpose item: eat one, trigger Feeling Sick for 15 seconds, and use that window's food-clearing tick to wipe your current buffs and start over — at the cost of -100% health regen, -100% stamina regen, -50% movement speed, and the food you clear being gone for good. They come from two documented sources, Fuling shaman and Greydwarf shaman, with no drop rate or location given beyond that; Rotten meat is the wiki's own stated late-game alternative if farming shamans isn't practical. Know the trade-off going in, and Bukeperries do exactly one job well.