Fiddlehead

Fiddlehead is a curly red fern that grows in the Ashlands biome.

Acquisition

• Fiddlehead grows on bushes found all over the Ashlands biome, but you’ll most frequently find some around various Ashlands ruins
• You can’t farm Fiddlehead, but once picked, a bush respawns after 300 minutes

Fiddlehead is a curly red fern that grows all over the Ashlands biome. It can be hard to spot against the biome’s background, but it’s most frequently found around various abandoned Ashlands structures. A single Fiddlehead bush produces 3 Fiddlehead and respawns after 300 minutes.

Uses

• Raw Food
• Ingredient in food or crafting recipes
• Asksvin Taming

Food

When eaten raw, Fiddlehead provides 30 extra health, 30 extra stamina, and increases your health regeneration by 1 hp/tick for 15 minutes. Since you can’t grow Fiddlehead yourself, and it’s used in a number of advanced recipes, it’s not advisable to eat it raw.

In case you do need to eat a Fiddlehead, you can do so by right-clicking it in your inventory. As a meal, it can be combined with two other foods, but you can’t eat more than one Fiddlehead at a time. Fiddlehead’s effects start out at full power, but are lowered as time goes on. When the buff has been active for 50% of its duration, or 7.5 minutes, you’ll be able to eat another Fiddlehead and refresh its effects.

Cooking & Crafting

Fiddlehead’s main use is an ingredient in some of the most high-tier cooking recipes. And if you have a taste for magic, it can also be used to craft a particular staff. The Recipes section has the full list.

Taming

You can feed Fiddleheads to wild Asksvin in order to tame them. This will not only grant you easy access to Asksvin Tails, Asksvin Bladders, and Asksvin Hides, it will also provide you with a trusty mount that’s immune to lava damage.

Taming Asksvin

Asksvins are high-tier creatures found in one of the hardest biomes, and as such, they’re not easy to tame. While you can trap them in various ways, the most practical way is to just do it out in the wild.

Grab some Fiddlehead, then sneak up on an Asksvin and throw the Fiddlehead on the ground near it. Once the Asksvin notices you (a yellow dot appears over its head), it will eat the food and the taming process will begin. It takes 30 minutes to fully tame an Asksvin, and in total you will need 3 Fiddlehead to complete this process. If you get too close during this and the Asksvin becomes aggressive (a red exclamation mark appears), you should run away and let it calm down.

You will need to remain within 64 meters of an Asksvin without drawing its aggro while it’s being tamed, so a Brew of Animal Whispers that doubles the taming speed is advisable. During this time, there’s a decent chance you’ll get attacked by various Ashlands monsters, so make sure you’re ready to fight them.

Once an Asksvin is tamed, you’ll be able to ride it to safety using an Asksvin Saddle (Flametal x6, Linen Thread x20, Morgen Sinew x4), and then start breeding them for their resources.

Recipes

Here’s what you can do with all the Fiddlehead you find.

Helpful Tips

• Since you can’t grow Fiddlehead yourself, you should mark its locations on your map.
• Once exhausted, a Fiddlehead bush will respawn after 300 minutes, or just over two in-game weeks.