Onion
- Weight
- 0.3
- Stack size
- 50
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
A crunchy and spicy taste. Onion is in the Consumables category in Valheim. It weighs 0.3 and stacks to 50. Onion is not crafted. It comes from Pickable Onion.
- Found in
- Pickable Onion
- Used in
- Mead Base: Animal Whispers+4
Eating Onion
Three food slots are active at once, and each refills at half its duration. Meal Planner
Where to find Onion
Also from breakable objects
Furniture, barrels, crates and other props that drop it when destroyed. These only exist inside built locations, so world generation gives them no biome of their own.
How much Onion you need
What that means at the source
| Source | Harvests needed |
|---|---|
| Pickable Onion | 1 |
What Onion is used for
Crafted into
| Item | Crafted at | Quantity | To max quality |
|---|---|---|---|
 Mead Base: Animal Whispers | Mead Ketill | 5 | - |
 Onion Soup | Cauldron | 3 | - |
 Salad | Cauldron | 3 | - |
 Scorching Medley | Cauldron | 3 | - |
 Wolf Skewer | Cauldron | 1 | - |
Built with
| Item | Crafted at | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
 Onion | - | 1 |
 Seed-onion | - | 1 |
Plan Onion into your next meal
The Meal Planner in MetaBot Desktop fills your three food slots, totals health, stamina and eitr, and tells you when to eat again. Pick the dishes your biome can actually cook.
- Health, stamina and eitr totals
- Know when to eat again
- Best meals for each biome
Onion is in the Consumables category in Valheim, and every number on this page is read straight from the game files for the current build. That includes the ones the in-game tooltip shows you and the ones it never does: reach, swing arc, how many hits the combo runs to and what the final one multiplies by.
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Onion FAQ
How do you get Onion in Valheim?
Onion is not crafted. It comes from Pickable Onion.
What are the stats of Onion in Valheim?
They are listed above, at every quality level Onion reaches. Some of those figures come from Valheim's own item tooltip; the rest — reach, swing arc, combo length, what the secondary attack multiplies — are read from the game files, because the tooltip never shows them.
What is Onion used for in Valheim?
The things that consume it number 7, across Crafted into, Built with. That list is the honest answer to whether a stack is worth keeping: something with a single use is worth exactly one project, while something that feeds recipes, a station and a build piece at once is worth a dedicated chest.
How much does Onion weigh in Valheim?
0.3 each, and it stacks to 50 — so a full stack is 15 of your carry limit. It is portal-safe, which means the weight only matters between here and the nearest portal rather than for the whole journey home.
Where do you find Onion in Valheim?
Onion is not crafted. It comes from Pickable Onion.