Valheim Yggdrasil Porridge: Recipe, Stats, and How Its Eitr Stacks Up
The Valheim wiki's flavor text calls Yggdrasil porridge "made with sap from the great tree" — and says "even a mouthful imparts a warm glow to your whole body." It's a Mistlands-tier food cooked at a level 5 Cauldron, carrying 27 health, 13 stamina, and 80 Eitr over a 1,500-second duration, with healing listed at 3 hp per tick. Per the wiki's own notes, that 80-Eitr figure is the second-highest Eitr gain anywhere in the Mistlands, trailing only Seeker aspic. Everything below comes from the wiki's infobox, recipe, and notes; where that source is silent, this article says so rather than guessing.
Yggdrasil Porridge at a Glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Food |
| Made at | Cauldron (level 5) |
| Health | 27 |
| Stamina | 13 |
| Eitr | 80 |
| Duration | 1,500 seconds |
| Healing | 3 hp/tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
The infobox also lists a stack size of 10 and marks the item usable for both crafting and eating. Every one of these fields comes straight off the wiki's infobox for this item; none of it is estimated.
The Recipe: Sap, Barley, and Royal Jelly at a Level 5 Cauldron
The wiki's recipe is produced at a level 5 Cauldron from:
- Sap x4
- Barley x3
- Royal jelly x2
The wiki's own notes confirm this batch yields one Yggdrasil porridge, describing it as "a 2:1 ratio of jelly to porridge" — two Royal jelly spent for one finished serving. The source doesn't specify what materials the level 5 Cauldron upgrade itself requires beyond naming the station, so treat that upgrade cost as undocumented here.
The wiki's Usage section also names Yggdrasil porridge as a crafting ingredient in "Mushrooms galore á la Mistlands." The facts sourced for this article don't include that dish's own quantity requirement or its full recipe, so how many porridge that feast actually needs is undocumented here rather than assumed.
Doing the Math on the 1,500-Second Buff
The infobox states the duration as 1,500 seconds. Doing the conversion: 1,500 ÷ 60 = 25 minutes of the full 27/13/80 buff from one serving. Healing is listed as 3 hp per tick; the source doesn't state how long a "tick" is in seconds, so the total healed over the full 25 minutes is undocumented here rather than something this article will back into with an assumed tick rate.
Weight is worth the arithmetic too. Each porridge weighs 1.0, and the stack size is 10, so a full stack comes out to 10 × 1.0 = 10.0 weight units in your inventory. It's also flagged teleportable, so a batch cooked at a Mistlands outpost can be carried home through a portal without issue.
Where Porridge Ranks: Eitr and the Royal Jelly Trade-off
The wiki states this plainly, and it's worth quoting rather than paraphrasing: "Yggdrasil porridge provides the second highest eitr gain in the Mistlands at 80, second to Seeker aspic at 85." Doing the arithmetic on that gap: 85 − 80 = 5 Eitr separates the two foods — porridge isn't far behind the top slot, but it isn't the top slot either.
The same notes section draws a second comparison, on Royal jelly specifically: "Two pieces of Royal jelly yields two Seeker aspics (a 2:2 ratio of jelly to aspic), whereas two pieces of Royal jelly yield only one Yggdrasil porridge (a 2:1 ratio of jelly to porridge)." Working that ratio out, porridge returns 1 ÷ 2 = 0.5 finished servings per Royal jelly spent, while Seeker aspic returns 2 ÷ 2 = 1 finished serving per Royal jelly spent. That means the same Royal jelly stockpile makes 1 ÷ 0.5 = 2 times as many Aspic servings as porridge servings — porridge is the more Royal-jelly-hungry recipe for a smaller Eitr number. The facts sourced here don't include Seeker aspic's own health or stamina figures beyond the 85-Eitr comparison the wiki draws directly, so any broader "which food is better overall" claim stays undocumented in this source.
Practical tips
- This recipe requires a level 5 Cauldron — the wiki's recipe listing names that station tier for Yggdrasil porridge specifically.
- Budget double the Royal jelly if porridge is your Eitr food of choice — the wiki's own math shows it takes 2 jelly per serving versus 2 jelly for two servings of Seeker aspic.
- 80 Eitr is only 5 short of the biome's best (85) per the wiki's notes — a fine choice if Sap and Barley are easier for you to gather than more Royal jelly.
- A full stack of 10 weighs 10.0 (10 × 1.0) — budget inventory space accordingly on a supply run home.
Running your own Valheim server
Farming four Sap, three Barley, and two Royal jelly for a single Cauldron batch is a multi-trip Mistlands errand, and it only pays off if the base with your level 5 Cauldron is still standing when you log back in. A gamever Valheim server keeps that world persistent for up to 10 players, with one-click backups before a Royal jelly run and automatic updates so nobody's cooking on a mismatched patch.
Conclusion
Yggdrasil porridge is a Mistlands-tier food made at a level 5 Cauldron from Sap x4, Barley x3, and Royal jelly x2, yielding one serving with 27 health, 13 stamina, and 80 Eitr over 1,500 seconds (25 minutes), healing 3 hp per tick. Per the wiki's own notes, that 80 Eitr sits just 5 points behind Seeker aspic's 85, the highest in the biome — and the same source shows Royal jelly stretches half as far here as it does in Aspic: 2 Royal jelly makes 1 porridge (a 0.5-per-jelly return) versus 2 Aspic (a 1-per-jelly return). What the source doesn't cover — the level 5 Cauldron's own upgrade cost, the length of a healing "tick" in seconds, and the Mushrooms galore á la Mistlands recipe's own porridge requirement — is left as an open gap rather than filled with a guess.
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