Whether you want to maintain your stamina and strength or tame and raise boars for food and leather, planting and growing carrots is a valuable skill in Valheim. These healthy snacks boost your energy and serve as a way to make friends with wild boars.
In this article, we’ll teach you how to plant carrots in Valheim and show you how to get the most out of them.
Although planting carrots in Valheim is simple, you will need more than just carrot seeds. Obtaining the necessary equipment is a little complicated, but we will guide you through the process.
Required objects
- Carrot seeds: You can’t eat carrots without carrot seeds. Seeds can be found in the Black Forest biome. When you are in the Black Forest, look for blue flowers and you will get a handful of carrot seeds.
- Grower: This is the tricky part of planting seeds. You might think that just digging a small hole and planting the seeds is enough. In Valheim, however, planting carrots requires a cultivator. With a cultivator the soil is prepared for planting. A cultivator isn’t simply something you stumble upon in the game; you will have to make one yourself.
How to make a cultivator
To make a cultivator, equipment and materials are required:
- workbench
- Forge
- Wood core x 5
- Bronze x 5
workbench
A workbench in Valheim is used to craft different items, repair your equipment, or build a shelter. Building a workbench is simple; You need Wood x 10. You can collect wood by picking up branches from the ground. Our recommendation is to make a Stone Ax (Wood x 5, Stone x 4). It may take a little longer, but you will be able to cut down trees much faster with the axe. Plus, you’ll probably need additional wood later.
In addition to wood, you will also need to build a hammer to make a workbench. The Hammer requires Wood x 3 and Stone x 2. Once you have built the Hammer, the workbench recipe will appear:
- Switch to the Hammer.
- Tap the middle button or mouse wheel.
- Go to the Crafting tab.
- Tap “Workbench.”
- Find space to build it.
- Shortly after making the workbench, you will need to build a shelter for it.
Forge
A Valheim forge is where you forge and repair your tools and weapons. After building a workbench, a forge is one of the first structures you will need in the game.
This is what you need to build a forge:
- A workbench.
- Charcoal x 4: Obtained by overcooking meat or placing firewood in an oven. You can also find it in chests.
- Copper x 6: Obtained by mining and smelting copper ore. Before mining copper, you will have to defeat Eikthyr, the first boss monster. By defeating him, you will take his antlers, which you will need to make a pickaxe. Additionally, you can access the Burial Chambers, where you will find the Surtling Cores. To build a foundry, you need five Surtling cores and 20 stones. Smelt copper ore into six copper bars needed for forging.
- Stone x 4: Pick it up from the ground in the Meadows biome.
- Wood x 10: Cut down trees or collect branches from the ground.
wood core
Obtain Core Wood by cutting down pine trees in the Black Forest biome.
Bronze
Bronze is a combination of copper and tin. Tin can be found in the Black Forest and can be mined with a hammer or pickaxe. Create bronze by combining two copper bars and one tin bar in the forge.
Once you combine copper and tin and get wood core, you will unlock the cultivator recipe.
How to plant carrots
- Touch a slab of grass and use the cultivator to prepare the ground for carrot seeds.
- Once the soil is ready, right click with your mouse and select the carrot seeds. One carrot seed is equivalent to one carrot. Since plants require space to grow, don’t plant them too densely.
- After you have planted the seeds, check to see if they are overcrowded.
How to protect carrots
Since wild boars and other animals enjoy eating and destroying your crops, it is a good idea to build a fence around them. You will need 1 wood for a round post fence, which is enough to protect your crops. You can also build a picket wall, which will require Wood x 4.
How to harvest carrots
Once the carrots have grown, harvesting them is easy. Simply walk over to the carrots and tap “E” on your keyboard. If you have several rows of carrots, hold the letter “E” as you walk over the vegetables.
When harvesting carrots, it is good to save some. They are called “seed carrots” and replanting one will give you three carrots. We recommend replanting every third carrot to keep your supplies growing.
Additional FAQs
How long do carrots take to grow in Valheim?
It takes about three in-game days for carrots to grow in Valheim. This is between 65 and 90 minutes. You have to wait until they are fully grown; otherwise, you will not be able to harvest them.
What are some popular carrot recipes in Valheim?
Fresh Carrots
You can consume carrots as a quick snack to improve your health and stamina. This will take up one to three spaces in the stomach.
Carrot soup
By preparing and eating carrot soup, you will increase your stamina and health for longer.
Here are the ingredients:
· Carrot x 3
· Mushroom x 1: Collect mushrooms in the meadows or in the Black Forest biome.
1. You will need to make a cauldron to make the soup. This requires a workbench, which you have already created to make the cultivator, and Tin x 10. Collect tin in the Black Forest biome and smelt it.
2. Make a bonfire with Stone x 5 and Wood x 2. You can pick up stones from the ground or extract rocks with a pickaxe. Find wood by cutting down trees or collecting branches.
3. After you have placed the cauldron on the campfire, stand near it and touch the letter “E”.
4. Tap “Carrot Soup” from the list.
5. Tap “Create” to start creating it.
6. Wait until ready. You will receive a cup of carrot soup.
Here’s the breakdown of carrot and carrot soup consumption:
· Carrots: Maximum Health – 15, Stamina – 15, Heal – 1 HP, Duration – 600.
· Carrot Soup: Maximum Health – 20, Stamina – 60, Healing – 2HP, Duration – 1500.
Although carrots are a great snack to quickly boost your strength, making carrot soup will maintain your health and stamina for longer.
Where can I find carrot seeds in Valheim?
Carrot seeds can be found in the Black Forest biome. Look at the forest floor and look for bright blue flowers.
In addition to collecting them in the Black Forest, once you have planted and harvested carrots, you can use them as seeds. They are “carrots with seeds” and by replanting one of them you will get three new carrots.
Up your game with carrots
Planting and harvesting carrots in Valheim allows you to improve your health and stamina and tame wild boars. Although planting and harvesting are simple, the difficult part can be obtaining the necessary equipment. In addition to learning how to plant carrots in Valheim, we hope you enjoyed learning more about the game itself.
Have you ever played Valheim? Did you find it difficult to plant carrots? Tell us in the comments section below.
