Volture Meat in Valheim: Raw Stats, the Cooked Recipe, and Its Other Uses
Volture meat is a drop from Voltures, and the wiki's own item description doesn't sugarcoat it: "Given that this bird feasts on all kinds of things, you'd better cook its meat before you even think about eating it." Raw, the infobox classifies it as a Material — not Food — weighing 1.0 with a 20-item stack and a teleport flag of Yes. Cook it at an Iron cooking station and it becomes Cooked Volture Meat, worth 70 health and 24 stamina for 1,200 seconds (1,200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes), healing at 6 hp/tick. This guide covers both versions' documented stats, where the raw meat comes from, and what else the source says it's used for.
Volture Meat at a Glance
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Material |
| Source | Volture |
| Usage | Cauldron, Iron cooking station |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack size | 20 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
The infobox's own description, quoted directly: "Given that this bird feasts on all kinds of things, you'd better cook its meat before you even think about eating it." Its internal ID is VoltureMeat. The page's intro text describes it in its own words, too: "Volture meat is a food dropped by Voltures. It can be cooked using an Iron cooking station, but not on a wooden Cooking station, to obtain Cooked volture meat, or Coal if overcooked." That intro calls it a "food," even though the infobox's own type field lists raw Volture meat as Material rather than Food — the two don't fully agree, so both readings are given here rather than picking one.
A full stack is a real carry. Twenty Volture meat at 1.0 weight each comes to 20 × 1.0 = 20.0 total weight for a maxed stack — both figures are this item's own infobox fields, shown here as arithmetic rather than compared to any other item's weight.
Getting Volture Meat
The source's Availability table lists exactly one drop entry: a 0-star Volture, with a listed quantity of 1. The table doesn't include a drop-chance percentage alongside that quantity, so how often a Volture drops it isn't documented here. Beyond naming "Volture" as the source, this page doesn't describe the creature's habitat, behavior, or any higher-star variants — those specifics sit outside what this data set covers, so they're left undocumented rather than guessed at.
Cooking It: Cooked Volture Meat
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Made from | Volture meat x1 |
| Made at | Iron cooking station |
| Health | 70 |
| Stamina | 24 |
| Duration | 1,200 seconds (20 minutes) |
| Healing | 6 hp/tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack size | 20 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
The cooked item's own description, quoted directly: "A chewy and somewhat dry meat. Some seasoning would probably make it taste better, but it'll fill your stomach regardless." Its materials list shows a single Volture meat x1 per Cooked volture meat, with no separate output-quantity field given, so this is presented as a one-for-one conversion rather than a multi-serving batch.
1,200 seconds works out to 1,200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes of buff uptime per serving. The source doesn't state the tick length behind the 6 hp/tick healing rate, so total healing delivered across the full duration can't be computed from what's documented here. The infobox's effect field is also left blank in the source, meaning no additional status effect is documented for Cooked Volture Meat beyond the health, stamina, and healing numbers above.
A full cooked stack weighs the same as the raw one. Twenty at 1.0 weight each comes to 20 × 1.0 = 20.0 total weight, using only this item's own weight and stack fields.
What Else Volture Meat Makes
Beyond the cooking recipe above, the source's Usage section lists two more outcomes tied to raw Volture meat:
- Coal, "if left on an Iron cooking station for too long" — an overcooking result, though the source doesn't give a specific time threshold for what counts as "too long."
- Mashed meat, named as a recipe that consumes Volture meat, without the source specifying the quantity needed or which station it's made at — those details are undocumented here.
The page also states a specific restriction, quoted directly: "Cooked volture meat cannot be used to craft recipes using Volture meat as ingredient." In other words, once it's cooked, it no longer counts toward recipes — like Mashed meat — that call for the raw item.
Practical tips
- Raw Volture meat is a Material (per the infobox), weighing 1.0 with a 20-stack and teleport: Yes.
- It drops from a 0-star Volture, quantity 1 per the source's drop table — no drop-chance percentage is given.
- Cooking needs an Iron cooking station specifically, not a wooden Cooking station, and turns 1 Volture meat into 1 Cooked volture meat.
- Cooked, it gives 70 health, 24 stamina, 1,200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 6 hp/tick — tick length and any extra effect aren't documented.
- Overcooking on the Iron cooking station turns it into Coal instead; the exact time threshold isn't stated.
- It's also an ingredient in Mashed meat, but once cooked it can't be used for recipes that need the raw form.
- A full 20-stack of either version weighs 20.0 (20 × 1.0).
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Conclusion
Volture meat is a Material-flagged drop from a 0-star Volture, weighing 1.0 with a 20-item stack and teleport: Yes. Cooked at an Iron cooking station, one raw Volture meat becomes one Cooked Volture Meat, delivering 70 health and 24 stamina for 1,200 seconds (20 minutes) at 6 hp/tick healing. Overcook it and it turns to Coal instead; raw, it's also an ingredient in Mashed meat, though once cooked it can no longer be used for recipes that need the raw form. Drop chance, the Volture's habitat and behavior, the overcooking time threshold, the healing tick length, and Mashed meat's exact recipe are all left undocumented by the source used here.
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