Onion

Onions are a basic Mountain-tier food that will increase your health by 13, stamina by 40, and health regeneration by 1 hp/tick for 15 minutes. They’re also used in several advanced recipes.

Acquisition

• Onions are grown from Onion Seeds found inside abandoned buildings in the Mountain biome
• It takes 2-3 in-game days for Onions to fully grow

Onion is surprisingly one of the hardest foods to obtain in Valheim. Mostly because it doesn’t naturally grow anywhere in the game. In order to start growing Onions, you will need to go into the Mountain biome. There, look for abandoned buildings like broken down huts, towers, and stone circles. These structures often have chests inside. Open those chests and occasionally they will contain Onion Seeds. This is far from a guaranteed drop and you will need to get lucky to find some seeds.

When you have those Onion Seeds, you’ll be able to start planting them with the Cultivator tool. Just make sure you’re then planting some of your Onions back as Seed-onions to create a steady supply of seeds. If you’d like to learn more about farming in Valheim, be sure to consult our general farming guide.

How to Farm

Onions can grow in the following biomes:

• Meadows
• Black Forest
• Plains
• Ashlands (Shield Generator required)

Finding your initial Onion Seeds might be hard. But once you do have them, you’ll be able to farm Onions just like you did with the other basic crops like Carrots and Turnips. Plant the seeds to grow Onions, and then plant those Onions back as Seed-onions to get more seeds and create a steady supply. You’ll get 3 Onion Seeds from a single Seed-onion.

Uses

• Raw Food
• Ingredient in food or Mead
• Plant to grow Onion Seeds
• Boar Taming

Food

While they’re better saved for advanced recipes, if you eat a raw Onion, it will increase your health by 13, stamina by 40, and health regeneration by 1 hp/tick for 15 minutes. To eat an Onion, you can right-click its icon in your inventory. It can be eaten together with up to two other food types for a total of three food buffs, but you can’t eat more than one Onion at once.

When you eat an Onion, it will provide its full benefits as a buff. This buff will weaken with time. When its duration is down to 50% or in other words 7.5 minutes, the buff icon will begin to flash and you’ll be able to eat another Onion and refresh the buff.

Cooking & Brewing

Onion is an ingredient in some pretty potent foods and a Mead that you will definitely want to have if you want to tame some animals. The Recipes section has the full list.

Farming

With how difficult it is to find your first Onion Seeds, you never want to run out. To avoid it, you can plant some of your Onions as Seed-onions with the Cultivator tool. One Onion produces 3 Onion Seeds this way, creating a steady supply of seeds.

Taming

While there are definitely more abundant foods you can use for it, Onions can also help you tame boars, giving you easy access to Boar Meat and Leather Scraps.

Taming Boars

In order to tame a boar, start by creating a pen, preferably surrounded by a Roundpole Fence, in a safe location. Find some boars nearby and when they spot you, lead them to the pen. Trap them inside by either closing the pen’s gate or placing the final piece of the fence, then move away so that the boars lose aggro (the red exclamation mark above them disappears).

The next part is a bit tricky. You need to approach the boars so that they notice you (a yellow dot appears above them), but don’t yet become aggressive. When they’re in this state, throw an Onion inside the pen. The boars will eat the Onion and you’ll see yellow hearts above them. This means they’re in the process of being tamed. In this state, boars can still attack you, so move away from them, but not too far. For the taming process to work, you need to be in the vicinity of the pen and the boars must not be attacking you. It takes 30 minutes to tame a boar. If done right, you’ll need a total of 3 Onions to tame a boar. You can also use the Brew of Animal Whispers to double the taming speed.

Once tamed, you can start breeding and farming your boars, provided you have at least two of them.

Recipes

Here’s what you can do with all your Onions.

Recipe	Ingredients	Purpose
Onion Soup	Onion x3	Max Health +20 Max Stamina +60 Regeneration +1hp for 20 minutes
Wolf Skewer	Wolf Meat Mushroom x2 Onion	Max Health +65 Max Stamina +21 Regeneration +3hp for 25 minutes
Salad x3	Jotun Puffs x3 Onion x3 Cloudberries x3	Max Health +26 Max Stamina +80 Regeneration +3hp for 25 minutes
Brew of Animal Whispers x6	Onion x5 Carrot x10 Pungent Pebbles	Double taming speed for 10 minutes

Helpful Tips

• The buildings where Onion Seeds can spawn in the Mountains include abandoned huts, crumbling towers, and stone circles
• When farming Onions, having a fence around them will prevent random monsters from wandering in and destroying your crops
• If you don’t want to run out of Onions, make sure to plant every third one as a Seed-onion