Carturs Cooking
More from the Cooking skill you already have: better cooks make food with more health, stamina, regen and eitr, and from level 50 perfect meals make you Happy. Inspired by Smoothbrain's Cooking.
About this mod Author’s original text
Cartur's Cooking
More from the Cooking skill you already have. Food remembers who cooked it, and a better cook's food
fills you up more. From level 50 a meal can come out perfect - and a perfect meal makes you Happy.
Inspired by Smoothbrain's Cooking
(retired in 2026), by Smoothbrain and blaxxun-boop -
credit to them for the idea and the design. This is a separate mod written for Valheim 1.0.
What it does
Everything builds on the game's own Cooking skill. There is no second skill to grind, and the game's
own Cooking bonuses - faster cooking and the chance of an extra portion - are kept.
| | |
| --- | --- |
| Better food | Food carries the level of whoever cooked it. At 100 it gives 30% more health, stamina, health regen and eitr. Every level counts. |
| Perfect meals | From level 50 a meal can turn out perfect - the chance is your level minus 50, so 50% at 100. Eating one makes you Happy: 10% faster for 3 minutes. |
| Stacks | Food from different cooks stays in separate stacks - levels are rounded to steps of 5. |
| Kept on death | Cooking is not lowered when you die. |
| Experience | Taking food off a cooking station gives 5 Cooking experience; cauldron and oven meals give 5x the usual. |
The bonus shows on the food's tooltip, and survives logging out with it still in your belly.
Settings
BepInEx/config/com.jekkle.valheim.carturcooking.cfg
| Setting | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HealthBonus | 0.3 | Extra health on food cooked at level 100. 0 = vanilla. |
| StaminaBonus | 0.3 | Extra stamina at level 100. |
| RegenBonus | 0.3 | Extra health regen at level 100. |
| EitrBonus | 0.3 | Extra eitr at level 100. |
| LevelStep | 5 | Cook levels round to steps of this size; different steps stack separately. |
| PerfectLevel | 50 | Level from which meals can be perfect. 0 = never. |
| HappyMinutes | 3 | How long Happy lasts. |
| HappySpeed | 0.1 | Extra speed while Happy. |
| StationXp | 5 | Cooking experience for taking food off a cooking station. |
| CraftXpFactor | 5 | Multiplies the experience for cauldron and oven meals. |
| DeathLoss | 0 | Percent of Cooking lost on death. |
| EnforceVersion | true | On a server, refuse clients on a different version. |
Install it on the server too and its numbers apply to everyone.
Install
r2modman or Mod Manager. Needs BepInEx.
Free, and always will be. If it improved your game you can tip me on Patreon.
Discord — bug reports, install help, and mod requests.
Bug reports get their own thread so nothing is lost in a chat scroll, and requests are voted on.
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Compass and Clock ·
Safe Stamina ·
Follow Command ·
Flooring ·
UI ·
Waste Management ·
Feeding Trough ·
Build Camera ·
Combat Text ·
Farming ·
Mining ·
Sailing ·
Blacksmithing ·
Jewelcrafting
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: