Valheim Magmafish: Where to Catch It, Hot Fishing Bait, and the Fishing Hat

 

    The Magmafish is a small, easy-to-miss catch tucked into Valheim's Ashlands update — a passive fish you can't just scoop out of any pond, and one the wiki describes with a line of in-game flavor text worth quoting exactly: "Some say this fish lays its eggs directly in molten lava!" It's filed under item ID fish11, type Fish, source Fishing, and it has a specific bait requirement that gates it behind a bit of prep work before you can reel one in. Here's everything the wiki's own entry documents about it — what it is, how to catch it, and what it's actually good for.

 

What a Magmafish actually is

 

    Per the wiki, Magmafish "are passive creatures (fish) found in the waters of the Ashlands biome." That's the entire habitat description the source gives — it doesn't narrow things down to a specific sub-zone or body of water inside Ashlands, so treat "anywhere in Ashlands' waters" as the documented scope rather than assuming a more precise spawn pocket exists. As a passive creature, it won't fight back or flee aggressively the way a hostile Ashlands mob would; it's a fishing target, not a combat encounter.

 

How to catch one: Hot Fishing Bait

 

 

    You can't catch a Magmafish with ordinary bait. The wiki is specific here: they "can be caught with a fishing pole using Hot fishing bait which can be made at the Food preparation table by combining 20 Fishing bait and a Charred Warrior trophy." Break that down and the recipe is two ingredients at one station:

 

• 20 Fishing bait
• 1 Charred Warrior trophy (the drop the wiki links as "Warrior trophy" off the Charred Warrior enemy)

 

    crafted at the Food preparation table. The source doesn't say how many Hot Fishing Bait a single craft yields, so don't assume it's a 1:1 conversion of those 20 bait into a specific bait-count without checking that separately — that detail is undocumented here. What is documented is the gate itself: you need a Charred Warrior kill under your belt (for its trophy) before you can even attempt this fish, on top of owning a fishing pole.

 

What Magmafish is actually used for

 

 

    The infobox lists Magmafish's usage as "Decoration" and "Cooking." The wiki's raw entry doesn't spell out a specific cooking recipe that consumes a Magmafish, so what dish (if any) it feeds into beyond generic "Cooking" usage is undocumented — don't take "Cooking" as proof of a named recipe until that's confirmed elsewhere. What is spelled out directly is a crafting requirement: Magmafish are "needed to craft a Fishing hat." The source doesn't list how many are required for that hat, or what else goes into it alongside the fish, so treat the full Fishing hat recipe as undocumented beyond "it needs at least one Magmafish."

 

    The infobox's raw template also carries blank buy = and sell = fields, meaning the source itself doesn't record a trader buy or sell price for Magmafish — as far as this entry documents, it isn't a tradeable commodity at a merchant.

 

Stats, its one line, and the trophy

 

 

    The infobox gives three concrete item stats: weight per level of 2.0, a stack size of 10, and it's flagged teleportable ("teleport: Yes") — meaning, unlike some Valheim materials, you can Portal a stack of Magmafish through rather than hauling them out on foot or by boat. "Weight per level" scaling means individual catches can weigh more than the base 2.0 depending on the fish's level, but the source doesn't give a level-to-weight table or say what levels are possible for this specific fish, so exact carry-weight per catch beyond that base figure is undocumented.

 

    The Notes section adds one more detail worth quoting verbatim: Magmafish "has a unique line: 'Please lay me to rest by the fire...'" — flavor dialogue tied to the fish specifically. The wiki's gallery also references a "Magmafish trophy" image, confirming a trophy exists for this creature, though the source doesn't carry that trophy's own stats (wall size, crafting requirements, or where it's obtained beyond implicitly being a drop from catching the fish) — those specifics are undocumented here.

 

Kill a Charred Warrior first — you need its trophy, not just Fishing bait, to make the Hot Fishing Bait that actually hooks a Magmafish. Bring a Portal along on the trip, since a stack of these is flagged teleportable. And don't expect a named recipe or a trader price for it — the source lists "Cooking" as a generic usage with no specific dish, and both buy and sell fields are blank.

 

Running your own Valheim server

 

    If you're pushing into the Ashlands as a group, catching Magmafish and the rest of that biome's fishing pool goes faster with everyone logged into the same persistent world instead of waiting on whoever's PC is hosting. A dedicated server keeps your Food preparation table, trophies, and fishing pole loadout exactly where you left them, and you get the same admin console access — for testing spawns by internal ID, adjusting PvP for a group Ashlands push, or backing up the world before a risky biome dive — that you'd have on a self-hosted game. None of that requires setting up the server hardware yourself if you don't want to; a managed host handles that part while you just log in and fish.

 

Conclusion

 

    The Magmafish comes down to one gate and a handful of stats: you need Hot Fishing Bait — 20 Fishing bait plus a Charred Warrior trophy, made at the Food preparation table — before you can catch one at all, and once you do, it's a teleportable, stackable-to-10 item needed for the Fishing hat, with cooking and decoration listed as its other uses. Several specifics beyond that (the exact Fishing hat recipe, Hot Fishing Bait's craft yield, and the trophy's own stats) simply aren't in the source yet, so treat those as open questions rather than assumptions.

 

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