Deer Meat in Valheim: Drop Rates, the Cooking Recipe, and What Cooked Deer Meat Delivers
Deer Meat is a basic Material-type food the Valheim wiki describes plainly: "Deer meat is a basic food obtained by killing Deer." Per the item's own infobox it carries a source of Deer, 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 deer meat — or into Coal if it's left on too long.
What Deer Meat Is
The raw item's infobox lists these fields directly:
- Type: Material
- Source: Deer
- Usage: Cooking station
- Weight: 1.0
- Stack size: 20
- Teleportable: Yes
A full stack of 20 Deer 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. Its teleport flag is listed as "Yes," so a full stack can go through a portal.
The raw item's own description field is left blank in this data set — unlike the cooked version below, which does carry one — so no flavor text for raw Deer Meat is documented here.
Where Deer Meat Drops
The Availability section lists a single source creature, broken out by star tier:
| Creature | 0-star | 1-star | 2-star |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer | 2 | 4 | 8 |
The count doubles at each star tier: 2, then 2 × 2 = 4, then 4 × 2 = 8.
Filling a full stack of 20 Deer Meat, computed directly from these drop counts: a 0-star Deer (2 each) takes 20 ÷ 2 = 10 kills; a 1-star Deer (4 each) takes 20 ÷ 4 = 5 kills; a 2-star Deer (8 each) takes 20 ÷ 8 = 2.5, rounded up to 3 kills, since a kill can't be fractional.
This item's page does not classify or locate Deer beyond naming it as the source creature — where Deer are found isn't part of this data set, so no biome or region is stated here.
Cooking Deer Meat
The source states plainly: "Unlike most other foods made from meat, Deer meat has to be cooked on a Cooking station first to be crafted into other foods." That's quoted as written — it's the specific mechanic the source calls out for this item.
The cooked item's own recipe field lists exactly Deer meat x1 as the material. No explicit output-quantity field is given in this data set, so whether one raw Deer Meat yields more than one Cooked Deer Meat is undocumented here. Left on the Cooking station too long, the source states raw Deer Meat instead turns into Coal.
Once cooked, the source lists two further recipes that use Cooked deer meat as an ingredient: Deer Stew and Whole roasted Meadow boar. This data set only documents that Cooked Deer Meat feeds into those two recipes — it doesn't give either dish's own stats, so none are claimed here.
Cooked Deer Meat's Food Stats
The cooked item carries its own description, quoted as written: "All that running paid off." Its own infobox lists:
- Type: Food
- Usage: Crafting, Eating
- Weight: 1.0
- Stack size: 20
- Teleportable: Yes
- Health: 35
- Stamina: 12
- Duration: 1200
- Healing: 2 hp/tick
1200 (the duration field) works out to 1200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes of buff uptime from a single serving, following Valheim's standard seconds-based food-duration convention — the source's own field doesn't spell out the unit label, so that conversion is stated here as arithmetic on the number given, not as a directly quoted unit. 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. The infobox's effect field is left blank in this data set, so no additional buff beyond the health, stamina, and healing numbers above is documented here.
Practical tips
- Raw Deer Meat only cooks at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station — the source states it has to be cooked there before it can go into any other recipe.
- A full stack of 20 raw Deer Meat weighs 20.0 (1.0 × 20, computed).
- Deer drops 2 / 4 / 8 Deer Meat at 0-/1-/2-star — the count doubles per star tier.
- Filling a stack of 20 takes 10 kills of a 0-star Deer, 5 of a 1-star Deer, or 3 of a 2-star Deer (computed, rounded up).
- Cooking uses Deer meat x1; overcooking it produces Coal instead. The exact yield per cook isn't stated in this data set.
- Cooked Deer Meat feeds into Deer Stew and Whole roasted Meadow boar — their own stats aren't part of this data set.
- Cooked Deer Meat gives 35 health, 12 stamina, for 1200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 2 hp/tick, with no additional effect documented.
- Both the raw and cooked item are flagged teleportable ("Yes").
Running your own Valheim server
Farming a specific star tier of Deer for a full stack of Deer Meat goes faster with a group splitting the kills across the map, and a Cooking station's queue clears a lot quicker when several players are feeding it fuel and raw meat at once. A dedicated Valheim server keeps that Cooking station, its fuel stock, and your world's Deer spawns persistent between sessions, with launch arguments, PvP settings, and any mod configuration staying exactly as your group left them.
Conclusion
Deer Meat is a Material-type item sourced from Deer, weighing 1.0 with a 20-item stack (20.0 total for a full stack, computed) and a teleport flag of "Yes." Its drop count doubles by star tier — 2, 4, then 8 — so filling a stack of 20 takes anywhere from 3 kills of a 2-star Deer up to 10 kills of a 0-star Deer, computed directly from those drop counts. Cooking it at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station turns Deer meat x1 into Cooked Deer Meat, or Coal if left too long; the exact output quantity per cook isn't given in this data set. The cooked result delivers 35 health and 12 stamina for 1200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 2 hp/tick with no extra effect documented, and it feeds further into Deer Stew and Whole roasted Meadow boar.
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