Onion Soup in Valheim: Recipe, Stats, and Second-Best Stamina in the Mountains
A bowl of Onion Soup adds 20 health and 60 stamina for 1,200 seconds — 20 minutes — with 1 hp healed per tick. It's a Mountains-tier food cooked in a level 2 Cauldron, and the wiki is direct about where it ranks: "the second-highest stamina gain in the Mountains at 60, second to Eyescream at 65." This guide covers the full stat block, the single-ingredient recipe behind it, why the wiki calls it the easier pick despite the lower number, and the fields the source leaves undocumented.
Onion Soup at a Glance
The wiki's infobox gives a full stat block for the item:
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Health | +20 |
| Stamina | +60 |
| Duration | 1,200 seconds (20 minutes) |
| Healing | 1 hp per tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack size | 10 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
In-game item description, quoted directly from the source: "Deliciously rich."
The infobox also lists the item's usage as "Crafting, Eating" — Onion Soup isn't just eaten on its own, it's also a listed ingredient elsewhere (more on that below). "Teleportable: Yes" plus a stack size of 10 at a weight of 1.0 each means a full stack is cheap to carry through a portal to a Mountains outpost in one trip.
The Recipe
The source is precise about the station and the recipe. Quoted directly: "Onion soup is produced in a level 2 Cauldron with: Onion x3." So the full recipe is just:
- Onion x3
That's the entire ingredient list — one item, three of it, at a level 2 Cauldron. No monster drops, no secondary forage item, no upgrade beyond the Cauldron's second tier.
Second-Best in the Mountains
The wiki's Notes section states it plainly: "Onion soup provides the second-highest stamina gain in the Mountains at 60, second to Eyescream at 65." Doing the arithmetic on that gap: 65 − 60 = 5 stamina — Eyescream beats Onion Soup by exactly 5 points, not by a wide margin.
The same Notes section immediately follows up with the trade-off: "Onion soup makes up for providing less stamina than Eyescream by being much easier to obtain, only requiring one growable item." That's the wiki's own framing, not a guess — the entire recipe is three of a single farmable crop, cooked at a level 2 Cauldron, against whatever Eyescream's own ingredient list requires (not detailed in this source). For a base that already has an onion patch going, that 5-stamina gap is a small price for a much simpler supply chain.
Duration, Crafting Use, and What's Undocumented
The infobox lists duration as 1,200 seconds. Converted to a unit you'd actually plan around: 1,200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes.
Onion Soup also shows up as an ingredient elsewhere: the source lists it under "Crafting" as a component of Hearty Mountain logger's stew. The source doesn't give that recipe's full ingredient list or stat block here, so treat the stew itself as a separate, undocumented item for now rather than assuming its stats from Onion Soup's own.
Beyond that, the infobox includes no buy or sell price and no secondary "effect" field beyond the health, stamina, and healing figures already listed — both are blank in the raw source data, so there's no confirmed vendor price and no additional status effect to report.
Practical tips
- 20 health, 60 stamina, 1,200 seconds (20 min) — the full stat line, straight from the infobox.
- Cook it at a level 2 Cauldron with just 3 Onion — the whole recipe.
- Second-highest stamina in the Mountains (60, vs. Eyescream's 65 — a 5-point gap: 65 − 60 = 5), per the wiki's own wording.
- Much easier to obtain than Eyescream, per the source — one growable item instead of a longer ingredient list.
- 1,200 seconds = 20 minutes (1,200 ÷ 60).
- Also listed as a crafting ingredient for Hearty Mountain logger's stew — that stew's own stats aren't covered by this source.
- Buy/sell price and any secondary effect aren't documented here — treat both as unconfirmed until checked elsewhere.
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Conclusion
Onion Soup is a Mountains-tier Cauldron food — level 2 Cauldron, just 3 Onion — that delivers +20 health, +60 stamina, 1,200 seconds (20 minutes, from 1,200 ÷ 60) of duration, and 1 hp of healing per tick. The wiki ranks it second in Mountains stamina behind Eyescream's 65 (a 5-point gap), but frames that gap as a fair trade for a recipe that needs only one growable item. It's also listed as a crafting component of Hearty Mountain logger's stew, though that item's own stats aren't covered by this source. Its buy/sell price and any secondary effect remain undocumented and worth checking separately before relying on either.
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