BreathOfTheCauldron
Season prepared foods with different ingredients, discover hidden perfect pairings, and create improved variants.
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Breath of the Cauldron
Cook normally. Season experimentally.
Breath of the Cauldron expands Valheim's cooking without replacing its existing recipes.
Cook food as usual, then return to the Cauldron and season prepared dishes with different ingredients.
Each seasoning belongs to one of four categories:
- Sweet — improves Health
- Spicy — improves Stamina
- Meaty — improves Health regeneration
- Thick — increases food duration
Most combinations provide a small, predictable improvement.
But some dishes have hidden Perfect Pairings.
Find the right ingredient and you'll create a special + version with a stronger, hand-tuned bonus.
Supported foods
Version 0.1.0 includes:
- Carrot soup
- Deer stew
- Turnip stew
- Black soup
- Onion soup
- Serpent stew
How to use
- Cook a supported food normally.
- Open the Cauldron.
- Switch to the Season tab.
- Select the prepared food.
- Add a seasoning ingredient.
- Experiment.
The game will tell you the seasoning category of an ingredient.
It will not tell you the Perfect Pairing.
Food families
By default, different variants of the same food cannot be stacked together.
For example, eating Carrot soup prevents you from also eating Sweet carrot soup or Sweet carrot soup +.
This behavior can be disabled in the configuration.
Configuration
Allow Multiple Variants Of Same Food
Default: false
When enabled, base, seasoned, and Perfect Pairing variants of the same food may be eaten together.
Languages
- English
- Russian
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: