Neck Tail in Valheim: Raw Stats, the Neck's Drop Table, and Cooking It into Food
Neck tail is a basic food item obtained from killing Necks. The source is direct about its raw state: it's "inedible when raw, but proves a tasty snack if cooked." Cook it on a Cooking station or Iron cooking station and it becomes Grilled neck tail — or, left too long, Coal instead. It also feeds into a Cauldron recipe and a Mead ketill recipe.
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What Neck Tail Is
| Type | Material |
| Source | Neck |
| Usage | Cauldron, Cooking station, Mead ketill |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Stack size | 50 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
The item's own description is short: "Inedible when raw, but proves a tasty snack if cooked." It's filed under the internal ID NeckTail, and its usage line names three destinations for it — a Cauldron, a Cooking station, and a Mead ketill — rather than a single station.
A full stack has real weight. Fifty units at 0.5 weight each comes to 50 x 0.5 = 25 total weight for a maxed-out stack of the raw item — arithmetic worth knowing before you decide how many kills' worth to carry home in one trip.
It's flagged teleportable, so raw Neck tail can travel through an ordinary portal rather than needing a boat run. The source used here does not classify or describe the Neck itself beyond listing it as this item's source — anything about the creature beyond that stays undocumented in this data set.
Getting Neck Tail: The Neck's Drop Table
The source's own drop-table markup for this item reads: {{drop row|item=Neck|0star=70%|1star=2|2star=4|px=50}}. As presented, that gives three figures tied to the Neck: 70% listed against the base (0-star) entry, and 2 and 4 listed against the 1-star and 2-star entries respectively. The source does not spell out in prose whether the 1-star and 2-star figures are quantities, chances, or something else — so beyond the numbers as written, the exact mechanic they describe stays undocumented here rather than guessed at.
| Star level | Listed figure |
|---|---|
| 0-star | 70% |
| 1-star | 2 |
| 2-star | 4 |
No spawn location, behavior, or other detail about the Neck itself is given in this data set — only that it's the listed source of this item.
Cooking It: Grilled Neck Tail and Other Recipes
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Health | 25 |
| Stamina | 8 |
| Duration | 1,200 (seconds) |
| Healing | 2 hp/tick |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Stack size | 20 |
1,200 seconds is 1200 / 60 = 20 minutes of buff uptime from a single serving of Grilled neck tail. The recipe is a straight 1-to-1 conversion — the source's materials line for Grilled neck tail lists Neck tail x1 as the sole input. Its description also changes on cooking: "This savoury, charcoal-grilled meat has a slight aroma of seaweed and grass." The source's effect field for Grilled neck tail is left blank, so any special on-eat effect beyond the health/stamina/healing numbers above is undocumented in this data set.
A full stack of the grilled version weighs 20 x 0.5 = 10 total — lighter than a full raw stack (25) purely because the grilled item's stack size (20) is smaller than the raw item's (50), even though both share the same 0.5 per-unit weight.
Beyond eating it directly, the source lists Neck tail as an ingredient in two named recipes — Minced meat sauce and Mead base: Poison resistance — without giving either recipe's other ingredients or stats here, so what those two items are worth stays outside this data set. Leaving raw Neck tail on a Cooking station too long turns it into Coal instead of Grilled neck tail. And notably, the source states plainly that "Grilled neck tail cannot be used to craft recipes using Neck tail as ingredient" — meaning the cooked version doesn't substitute for the raw item in the Minced meat sauce or Mead base recipes.
Practical tips
- Neck tail is a raw Material, weight 0.5, stack 50, and teleportable.
- A full raw stack weighs 50 x 0.5 = 25, computed.
- The Neck's drop table lists 70% at 0-star and 2 / 4 at 1-star / 2-star — units beyond that aren't specified in the source.
- Cook it on a Cooking station or Iron cooking station; too long on the fire and it becomes Coal instead.
- Grilled neck tail needs just Neck tail x1, a straight 1-to-1 conversion.
- Cooked, it yields 25 health, 8 stamina, 1,200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 2 hp/tick.
- A full grilled stack (20 units) weighs 20 x 0.5 = 10, computed.
- It's also an ingredient in Minced meat sauce and Mead base: Poison resistance.
- The grilled version cannot itself be used as an ingredient in recipes that call for raw Neck tail.
- The cooked item's special-effect field is blank — undocumented in this data set.
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Conclusion
Neck tail starts as a raw Material obtained from Necks — 0.5 weight, a 50-item stack, teleportable, and inedible until cooked, per the source's own description. The Neck's drop table lists 70% at 0-star and 2 / 4 at 1-star / 2-star, though the source doesn't spell out the exact unit behind those last two figures. Cooking it on a Cooking station turns one raw unit into one Grilled neck tail, worth 25 health, 8 stamina, and 1,200 seconds (20 minutes) at 2 hp/tick, in a smaller 20-item stack that still weighs the same 0.5 per unit — computing to 25 total for a raw stack against 10 for a grilled one. It also feeds Minced meat sauce and Mead base: Poison resistance, though the grilled version explicitly cannot be swapped in for the raw ingredient those recipes call for, and overcooking it produces Coal instead. What those two other recipes are worth, and anything about the Neck beyond being this item's listed source, are questions this data set doesn't answer.
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