Moose and Seal Cooking in Valheim 1.0: The Deep North's New Dishes
Valheim exited Early Access on 2026-09-09 with the 1.0 "Deep North" update, and Iron Gate's own release notes name a small batch of new food built specifically around the biome's two new meat sources: Moose and seals. Per the official notes, Moose Meat turns into Cooked Moose Meat and Smoked Moose Meat, while Seal Blubber turns into Cooked Seal Blubber and Seal Meat Soup — and a Smoker, described as a new Cauldron extension, is the station built to hold the smoked recipe. The patch notes name the dishes, their meat sources, and the station; they do not publish ingredient counts or food stats for any of it, so this article is built strictly from what Iron Gate actually said, with every missing number flagged as undocumented rather than guessed.
The New Moose Dishes: Cooked Moose Meat and Smoked Moose Meat
The official notes list two Moose-based dishes new to 1.0: Cooked Moose Meat and Smoked Moose Meat. Both are sourced from Moose Meat, which the notes attribute to the Moose — Deep North's large new creature. That is the full extent of what the primary source states about these two dishes: their names and their raw ingredient. The notes do not give a recipe (how many Moose Meat, or what else, a Cauldron or Smoker consumes to produce either dish), nor do they publish any food stats — health, stamina, healing rate, or duration. All of that is undocumented in this source; treat any specific number you see elsewhere for these two dishes as unverified against Iron Gate's own announcement.
The New Seal Dishes: Cooked Seal Blubber and Seal Meat Soup
The same notes list two seal-based dishes: Cooked Seal Blubber and Seal Meat Soup. Both are sourced from Seal Blubber, credited to seals as the drop source. Again, that's the complete set of facts the primary source provides — two dish names and one raw ingredient, tied to one creature type. Ingredient counts, whether Seal Meat Soup needs anything beyond Seal Blubber, and every stat a serving of either dish would give are undocumented here. Don't assume a specific ingredient list for Seal Meat Soup — this source doesn't state one.
| Dish | Raw ingredient | Source creature | Recipe / stats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked Moose Meat | Moose Meat | Moose | Undocumented |
| Smoked Moose Meat | Moose Meat | Moose | Undocumented |
| Cooked Seal Blubber | Seal Blubber | Seal | Undocumented |
| Seal Meat Soup | Seal Blubber | Seal | Undocumented |
The Smoker: 1.0's New Cooking Station Extension
Iron Gate's notes describe a new station, the Smoker, as an extension to the existing Cauldron. The notes tie the Smoker directly to the smoked recipe line, which on current evidence means at least Smoked Moose Meat. What the source does not give: the Smoker's exact build cost, what materials it requires, where it must be placed relative to the Cauldron, or whether any other 1.0 dish besides Smoked Moose Meat requires it. All of that is undocumented in the official notes as read for this article — if you need the Smoker's crafting cost today, that's a gap this primary source doesn't fill.
Practical tips
- Deep North's 1.0 patch notes confirm four new dishes: Cooked Moose Meat, Smoked Moose Meat, Cooked Seal Blubber, and Seal Meat Soup.
- Moose dishes come from Moose Meat (dropped by Moose); seal dishes come from Seal Blubber (dropped by seals) — per the source, that's the pairing, not a guess.
- The Smoker is a new Cauldron extension; the notes tie it to the smoked recipe line but don't publish its build cost or placement rules.
- No recipe (ingredient counts) or food stat — health, stamina, healing, duration — is published in the official 1.0 notes for any of these four dishes. Treat specific numbers you find elsewhere as unverified until Iron Gate or a wiki page confirms them.
- Pulled Bear is also new in 1.0, per the same notes, though it isn't part of the Moose/Seal pairing this article covers.
- Deep North is described by Iron Gate as the game's final biome, released as part of exiting Early Access.
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Conclusion
Valheim 1.0's Deep North update adds four confirmed new dishes — Cooked Moose Meat, Smoked Moose Meat, Cooked Seal Blubber, and Seal Meat Soup — built from two new raw ingredients, Moose Meat and Seal Blubber, sourced from Moose and seals respectively. A new Smoker station, described as a Cauldron extension, supports the smoked recipe line. Pulled Bear rounds out the update's new meat dishes, per the same notes. What Iron Gate's official release notes do not publish for any of this is just as important: no ingredient counts, no build costs, and no food stats for a single one of these dishes. That's the honest state of the primary source as of 1.0's launch — anything more specific belongs to a future wiki pass, not this announcement.
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