Wolf Meat in Valheim: Drop Rates, the Cooking Station Recipe, and What Cooked Wolf Meat Gives You
Wolf Meat is a Material-type item the Valheim wiki describes as "a basic food source obtained by killing Wolves." Per the item's own infobox, it's listed with a source of Wolf, a usage of Cauldron, Cooking station, a weight of 1.0, a stack size of 20, and a teleport flag of "Yes." Cooking it at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station turns it into Cooked wolf meat — or, per the source, into Coal if left to burn.
What Wolf Meat Is
The infobox for the raw item lists these fields directly:
- Type: Material
- Source: Wolf
- Usage: Cauldron, Cooking station
- Weight: 1.0
- Stack size: 20
- Teleportable: Yes
A full stack of 20 Wolf Meat, at 1.0 weight each, comes to 1.0 × 20 = 20.0 total weight — arithmetic on the item's own two fields, not an estimate. Because its own teleport flag is listed as "Yes," a full stack of Wolf Meat can go through a portal.
The source also states plainly: "When uncooked, it may be used to make the balanced dish Wolf jerky, or the health dish Wolf skewer. When placed on a Cooking station or Iron cooking station, it can be turned into Cooked wolf meat, or Coal if left to burn." That's quoted as written — it's the item's own description of both of its listed usage paths, Cauldron and Cooking station.
This item's page does not classify or locate Wolf beyond naming it as the source creature — where Wolves are found isn't part of this data set.
Where Wolf Meat Drops
The Availability section lists a single drop table, broken out by star tier:
| Creature | 0-star | 1-star | 2-star |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Wolf's drop count doubles at each star tier: 1, then 2, then 4. A 2-star Wolf drops four times as much Wolf Meat as a 0-star Wolf (4 ÷ 1 = 4), and twice as much as a 1-star Wolf (4 ÷ 2 = 2) — computed directly from the table, not estimated.
Filling a full stack of 20 Wolf Meat, computed from these drop counts: a 0-star Wolf (1 each) takes 20 ÷ 1 = 20 kills; a 1-star Wolf (2 each) takes 20 ÷ 2 = 10 kills; a 2-star Wolf (4 each) takes 20 ÷ 4 = 5 kills.
Cauldron and Cooking Station Uses
The Usage section lists four things Wolf Meat can become:
- Cooked wolf meat, made at a Cooking station or Iron cooking station
- Coal, if left on a Cooking station for too long
- Wolf jerky, made using 1x Honey and 1x Wolf meat
- Wolf skewer, made using 1x Wolf meat, 2x Mushroom, and 1x Onion
The source also states plainly: "Cooked wolf meat cannot be used to craft recipes using Wolf meat as ingredient." That's quoted as written — once Wolf Meat is cooked, it drops out of the Wolf jerky and Wolf skewer recipe chains listed above. This item's own data set gives ingredient lists for those two recipes but no further stats for the finished dishes themselves — those aren't part of Wolf Meat's own facts.
Cooked Wolf Meat: Food Stats
The cooked item carries its own description, quoted as written: "A wild taste." Its own infobox lists:
- Type: Food
- Usage: Eating
- Weight: 1.0
- Stack size: 20
- Teleportable: Yes
- Materials: Wolf meat x1
- Health: 45
- Stamina: 15
- Duration: 1200 (seconds)
- Healing: 3 hp/tick
1200 seconds is 1200 ÷ 60 = 20 minutes of buff uptime from a single serving of Cooked Wolf Meat — computed from the item's own duration field. The recipe field lists exactly Wolf meat x1 as the material; no explicit output-quantity field is given in this data set, so whether one raw Wolf Meat yields more than one Cooked Wolf Meat is undocumented here. The cooked item's own "effect" field is also blank in this data set, so any passive effect beyond the listed health/stamina/healing values is undocumented here.
Practical tips
- Raw Wolf Meat's own usage field lists both Cauldron and Cooking station — Wolf jerky and Wolf skewer use it in Cauldron-style recipes, while Cooked wolf meat and Coal come from a Cooking station.
- A full stack of 20 raw Wolf Meat weighs 20.0 (1.0 × 20, computed).
- Wolf drops 1 / 2 / 4 Wolf Meat at 0-/1-/2-star — a 2-star Wolf yields 4x a 0-star Wolf's drop (computed).
- Filling a stack of 20 takes 20 kills of a 0-star Wolf, 10 of a 1-star Wolf, or 5 of a 2-star Wolf (computed).
- Wolf jerky needs 1x Honey + 1x Wolf meat; Wolf skewer needs 1x Wolf meat + 2x Mushroom + 1x Onion.
- Cooking uses Wolf meat x1; leaving it on the Cooking station too long produces Coal instead.
- Cooked Wolf Meat gives 45 health, 15 stamina, for 1200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 3 hp/tick.
- Both the raw and cooked item are flagged teleportable ("Yes").
Running your own Valheim server
Farming a specific star tier of Wolf for a full stack of Wolf Meat goes faster with a group splitting the kills, and a Cooking station's queue empties a lot quicker when several players are feeding it Wolf Meat at once. A dedicated Valheim server keeps that Cooking station, its fuel, and your world's Wolf spawns persistent between sessions, with launch arguments, PvP settings, and any mod configuration staying exactly as your group left them.
Conclusion
Wolf Meat is a Material-type item sourced from Wolf, weighing 1.0 with a 20-item stack (20.0 total for a full stack, computed) and a teleport flag of "Yes." Its usage field lists both Cauldron and Cooking station: raw Wolf Meat crafts into Wolf jerky (1x Honey + 1x Wolf meat) and Wolf skewer (1x Wolf meat + 2x Mushroom + 1x Onion), while a Cooking station turns it into Cooked wolf meat or, if left too long, Coal. Wolf's drop count doubles per star tier — 1, 2, then 4 — meaning a 2-star Wolf yields four times a 0-star Wolf's drop, computed directly from the table. Filling a stack of 20 takes as few as 5 kills of a 2-star Wolf or as many as 20 kills of a 0-star Wolf. The cooked result delivers 45 health and 15 stamina for 1200 seconds (20 minutes), healing at 3 hp/tick, though its exact output quantity per cook and any additional effect are both undocumented in this data set.
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