Lox Meat Pie in Valheim: The Plains Recipe, Cook Time, and Where It Ranks
Lox meat pie is a Plains-tier food in Valheim, built in two stages — an unbaked pie assembled at a Food preparation table, then finished in a Stone oven. It sits close to the top of the Plains food tier for raw health value, and the wiki's own item description sums up the appeal: "Break the crust to release a cloud of fragrant steam. Delicious!" This article covers the exact recipe, the cook and burn timings, the buff numbers, and how it stacks up against the Plains' other headline food.
The Recipe: What Goes Into a Lox Meat Pie
Lox meat pie is a two-step item, and the ingredients only go into the first step. The unbaked lox pie is produced at a Food preparation table from:
| Ingredient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cloudberries | x2 |
| Lox meat | x2 |
| Barley flour | x4 |
That's eight items per unbaked pie. The unbaked version has its own item entry — internal ID LoxPieUncooked, listed as a Material rather than a Food — with the description "Ready for the oven." It carries the same weight and stack numbers as the baked pie (see below), and like the finished pie it can be teleported.
Baking It in a Stone Oven
Once you have an unbaked lox pie, it needs a Stone oven. The source is specific about the timing: the pie cooks in 50 seconds, and if it's left in the oven for 100 seconds, it burns and turns into Coal. Doing the arithmetic, that means the burn point sits exactly twice the cook time — so there's a 50-second window after the pie is ready before it's ruined, which is a more forgiving margin than some Valheim recipes give you. The finished item's internal ID is LoxPie, listed as a Food with usage Crafting, Eating.
On that "Crafting" usage: the source's Usage section notes the baked pie is also an ingredient in something called a Plains pie picnic. The facts sourced for this article don't include a description of what that item does, so this piece won't guess beyond confirming it exists as a recipe that consumes the finished pie.
Stats: Health, Stamina, and How Long It Lasts
The baked Lox meat pie's food buff, as listed in its infobox:
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Health | 75 |
| Stamina | 24 |
| Duration | 1800 seconds |
| Healing | 4 hp/tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack | 10 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
Doing the conversion, 1800 seconds is 30 minutes (1800 ÷ 60 = 30) — a full half-hour buff from one pie. The source doesn't specify the length of a single regeneration tick, so this article won't attach a "per second" or "per minute" total to the 4 hp/tick healing figure beyond what's stated. Both weight (1.0) and stack size (10) match the unbaked version exactly, and both versions are teleportable, so there's no metal-style portal restriction to plan around here.
How Lox Meat Pie Compares
The source's own Notes section is direct about where this pie sits: "Lox meat pie provides the second-highest health gain in the Plains at 75, second to Serpent stew, which provides 80." Running the numbers, that's a 5-point gap (80 − 75 = 5) between the top Plains food for health and this one — Lox meat pie isn't the single best option for a health-focused Plains loadout, but it's close, and it's the runner-up rather than a distant third or lower. The facts sourced here don't include a broader ranking across every Plains food (stamina-focused options, for instance), so treat "second-highest" as specifically a health comparison, not an overall ranking.
Practical tips
- Recipe: 2 Cloudberries + 2 Lox meat + 4 Barley flour at a Food preparation table, then bake in a Stone oven.
- Cook time is 50 seconds; it burns into Coal at 100 seconds — a 50-second buffer either side of "done."
- The buff lasts 1800 seconds, which is 30 minutes.
- Health +75, Stamina +24, healing 4 hp/tick — both the baked and unbaked pie weigh 1.0 and stack to 10.
- Both versions are teleportable, so hauling ingredients or finished pies through a portal isn't a problem.
- Serpent stew edges it out for health at 80 — a 5-point gap, with Lox meat pie in second place.
- The baked pie is also used to craft a Plains pie picnic — undocumented beyond that it exists in the source used here.
Running your own Valheim server
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Conclusion
Lox meat pie is a Plains-tier food built in two stages: an unbaked pie from 2 Cloudberries, 2 Lox meat, and 4 Barley flour at a Food preparation table, then 50 seconds in a Stone oven (with a 100-second burn point, exactly double the cook time). The finished pie gives +75 health, +24 stamina, and 4 hp/tick healing for 1800 seconds — 30 minutes, weighs 1.0, stacks to 10, and can be teleported like its unbaked precursor. For raw health value in the Plains, it's the runner-up: Serpent stew's 80 beats it by 5 points, but nothing else sourced here tops it. It's also listed as an ingredient in a Plains pie picnic, a use this article can't document further from the source at hand.
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