Turnip Stew in Valheim: Recipe, Stats, and the Swamp's Best Stamina Food
A bowl of Turnip Stew adds 18 health and 55 stamina for 1,500 seconds — 25 minutes — with 2 hp healed per tick. The wiki calls it "a [[Swamp]]-tier [[food]]," cooked at a level 2 Cauldron, and its Notes section singles out one number specifically: it provides "the highest stamina gain in the Swamps at 55." This guide walks through the full stat block, the two-ingredient recipe behind it, where it fits into further crafting, and the fields the source leaves undocumented.
Turnip Stew at a Glance
The wiki's infobox gives a full stat block for the item, along with its in-game description, quoted directly: "Nutritious and restorative."
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Health | +18 |
| Stamina | +55 |
| Duration | 1,500 seconds (25 minutes) |
| Healing | 2 hp per tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack size | 10 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
The infobox also lists it as Teleportable: Yes, so a stocked-up player doesn't need a boat run just to carry food between bases. At 1.0 weight and a stack of 10, a full stack costs the same 10 weight as ten individual servings, making it cheap to haul a swamp-run's worth of meals in one trip.
The Recipe
The source is precise about the station and ingredients. Quoted directly: "Turnip stew is produced at a level 2 Cauldron with: 1 Boar meat, 3 Turnip." So the full recipe is:
- Boar meat x1
- Turnip x3
The station requirement is a level 2 Cauldron, meaning the base level-1 Cauldron isn't enough; it needs at least one upgrade before this recipe becomes available. The facts JSON doesn't specify which particular upgrade item unlocks level 2, or where the two ingredients themselves are sourced, so both details are undocumented here and worth checking separately before planning a base around them.
Why It's Worth Cooking
The wiki's Notes section states plainly: "Turnip stew provides the highest stamina gain in the Swamps at 55." That's stated as the ceiling for the entire biome, not a relative claim against one or two named competitors. Paired with the 25-minute duration and a 10-item stack, one Cauldron session can produce enough stew to cover a long stretch of Swamp exploration or a sustained round of ore-hauling without needing to re-cook mid-run.
Turnip Stew also isn't just a finished meal — the source lists a second usage beyond eating: it's a crafting ingredient for Swamp dweller's delight. The facts JSON doesn't include Swamp dweller's delight's own recipe or stats, so exactly how many Turnip Stews that follow-up dish needs, and what it adds on top, is undocumented here and would need its own lookup.
The 18 health and 2 hp/tick healing are modest next to the 55 stamina figure, consistent with a stamina-focused food rather than a tank food — built for players who need to keep swinging a pickaxe or sprinting through Swamp muck rather than ones prioritizing raw HP.
The Duration in Context
The infobox lists duration as 1,500 seconds. Converted to a unit you'd actually plan around: 1,500 ÷ 60 = 25 minutes — enough to cover a full Swamp excursion without needing to re-eat partway through.
The healing rate is listed as 2 hp per tick, but the source's own infobox template leaves its "effect" field blank (| effect = in the raw wikitext) and never specifies how long a "tick" lasts in seconds, so the total hit points regenerated across the full 25-minute buff can't be computed from this data alone — that figure is undocumented and shouldn't be estimated from a tick length pulled from elsewhere. The infobox also carries no buy/sell price fields at all, meaning there's no confirmed vendor price for Turnip Stew in this source, and no secondary status effect beyond the health, stamina, and healing already listed above.
Practical tips
- 18 health, 55 stamina, 1,500 seconds (25 min) — the full stat line, straight from the infobox.
- Cook it at a level 2 Cauldron with 1 Boar meat and 3 Turnip.
- Teleportable — listed as Yes in the infobox.
- Highest stamina gain in the Swamps, per the wiki's own wording — the biome ceiling, not just a strong option.
- Also usable as a crafting ingredient for Swamp dweller's delight — its own recipe and stats aren't covered by this source.
- 1,500 seconds = 25 minutes (1,500 ÷ 60); tick length in seconds, buy/sell price, the Cauldron upgrade needed for level 2, and where the ingredients themselves come from aren't covered here — treat all four as unconfirmed until checked elsewhere.
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Conclusion
Turnip Stew is a Swamp-tier Cauldron food — level 2 Cauldron, 1 Boar meat + 3 Turnip — that delivers +18 health, +55 stamina, 1,500 seconds (25 minutes, from 1,500 ÷ 60) of duration, and 2 hp of healing per tick. The wiki calls out its stamina figure specifically as the highest available in the Swamps, and it doubles as a crafting ingredient for Swamp dweller's delight, making it worth stockpiling for more than just its own buff. The tick length behind the 2 hp/tick figure, its buy/sell pricing, the specific Cauldron upgrade that unlocks level 2, where its ingredients are sourced, and Swamp dweller's delight's own recipe are all undocumented in this source and worth checking separately before planning around them.
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