Farming

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Farming is much more than a humble downtime activity in Valheim. It unlocks a huge variety of different foods and potions. You should build a farm early and start cultivating yummy vegetables that will feed your adventuring habit. Honey is also a must. One cannot be a Viking without mead.

We recommend replanting trees around your base otherwise you might end up deforesting the entire area. You will get plenty of seeds, so just make sure you don’t plant them too close together and your orchard will be full in no time.

Once you reach the swamp, make sure to grab some turnip seeds and start building up a large supply of tasty root vegetables. Turnips can be cooked into a fantastic stew.

Table of Farmables

Item Name	Type	Comes From	Biome	Used In
Honey	Mead	Beehive	Any	Every mead, Serpent Stew
Barley	Food	Barley (in Fuling Camps)	Plains	Barley Flour, Fire Resistance Barley Wine
Carrot	Food	Carrot Seed	Meadows, Black Forest, Plains	Carrot Soup
Carrot Seeds	Food	Seed Carrot (in Black Forest)	Meadows, Black Forest, Plains	Planting Carrots
Turnip	Food	Turnip Seed	Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp, Plains	Turnip Stew
Turnip Seeds	Food	Seed Turnip (in Swamp)	Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp, Plains	Planting Turnips
Flax	Material	Flax (in Fuling Camps)	Plains	Linen Thread
Beech Seeds	Wood	Beech Tree	Meadows, Plains	Planting Beech Trees
Birch Seeds	Wood	Birch Tree	Meadows, Black Forest, Plains	Planting Birch Trees
Acorns	Wood	Oak Tree	Meadows, Black Forest, Plains	Planting Oak Trees
Fir Cone	Wood	Fir Tree	Meadows, Black Forest, Plains	Planting Fir Trees
Pine Cone	Wood	Pine Tree	Meadows, Black Forest, Plains	Planting Pine Cones

How to Farm

Farming is unlocked with a Cultivator. It requires Bronze to craft and you will need some seeds to get started. Once you have these materials, set out some space for your farm and cultivate the land.

You will want to replant crops as seed crops to replenish your supply of seeds. Carrots and Turnips can be planted as Seed Carrots or Seed Turnips which will yield 3 seeds.

Replant 1/3 of your harvest as seeds to maintain your total crop supply and replant more than 1/3 to increase your supply.

Make sure you protect your farms. Monsters are obsessed with carrots for some reason and will invade your farms and destroy everything — a single greydwarf can ruin your whole harvest.

Here’s the step-by-step:

Prepare the area
Build a workbench and enclosure
Cultivate the soil
Enclose the farm in fences or stakewalls
Plant everything

And a quick video of me making a new farm:

How to Raise Bees

Bees can be a little tough to come by but they’re fabulous. These little critters will help you make the core ingredient in every Viking’s favorite beverage — mead.

You will need to find some Queen Bees by searching abandoned structures in the Meadows of Black Forest (needs confirmation). Once you have some, you can construct beehives. We always place our beehives on something elevated like a fence or wood pole 1m, but that’s not a requirement.

Make sure the bees aren’t too close or they will be unhappy. You can always check on your bees by pressing E on their hive. Once they’re placed, you just have to wait for them to make honey.

Beehives can hold 4 honey. Beehives produce 1 honey every 20 minutes.