Mead is an important part of Valheim. Once you master the art of brewing Mead, your journey through the Tenth World will become much smoother, as you’ll be able to better heal your Viking and better prepare for many of the challenges ahead. This guide will tell you all you need to know about Mead and how it works in Valheim.
Mead Basics
Valheim is pretty generous with its definition of Mead. It groups things like wine, tonics, and concoctions under the same umbrella. This makes it easier for us to craft all our potions using the same mead-brewing system.
Meads and Mead derivatives available in Valheim are varied in what they do. Some, like the Medium Healing Mead, are straightforward potions that restore your health, stamina, or Eitr. Others will help you in combat, like the Poison Resistance Mead that naturally raises your resistance to poison. And then there are Meads that provide short and medium-length buffs. There’s Mead of Troll Endurance that increases your max carry weight, Tonic of Ratatosk that makes jumping easier, Brew of Animal Whispers that helps you tame wild beasts, and more.
In the Tenth World if you can drink it, it’s a Mead.
How to Drink Mead
Once you have some Mead in your inventory, you can use it by right-clicking it. You can also assign it to your hotbar and then press the associated button to quickly drink the Mead even in combat. This is especially useful for the healing Meads.
After you drink a particular Mead, you won’t be able to drink another one for a while. For Meads with a set duration, this cooldown is equal to that duration. You’ll be able to drink a new buffing Mead immediately after the previous one’s effects run out.
The big exception there are the healing, stamina, and Eitr Meads. These tend to work fast, but then have an extended cooldown during which you can’t use another Mead of the same type. Important to note here is that this cooldown is shared between various tiers of Mead. This means that if you drink a Minor Healing Mead, you won’t be able to drink a Major, Medium, or Lingering Healing Mead for the next 2 minutes. The same principle applies to stamina and Eitr meads.
Watch this cooldown when drinking healing Mead.
How to Brew Mead
Brewing Mead in Valheim is a multi-step process we describe in great detail in our How to Brew Mead guide. But in short, you will need to set up a Mead Ketill over a working campfire, and at least one Fermenter. You’ll be able to build these after you’ve obtained some of the resources found in the Black Forest biome.
When you first build a Mead Ketill and interact with it, you’ll have access to several basic Mead recipes. You unlock all the others automatically when you pick up some of the ingredients needed to brew the more advanced Meads.
Consult the Ketill for what you need, then combine those ingredients into a Mead Base for your Mead. When you have the Mead Base in your inventory, interact with an empty Fermenter. This will place the Mead Base inside and start the fermenting process. It takes 2 in-game days for Mead to ferment. After these two days interact with the Fermenter again and you’ll get your Mead.
A nice basic Valheim brewery.
Full Mead List
Below you’ll find a full list of all Meads available in the game. Keep in mind that while the game classifies the Love Potion as a Mead, you can’t actually brew it and simply have to buy it from the Bog Witch.
We hope this guide helped you better understand the role of Mead in Valheim. If you have any additional questions about how Mead works in the game, don’t hesitate to ask.
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