Rotten Meat
- Weight
- 0.5
- Stack size
- 20
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
There are maggots crawling in the meat. It smells awful. Rotten Meat is in the Consumables category in Valheim. It weighs 0.5 and stacks to 20. Rotten Meat is not crafted. It comes from Vile (Plains), Morgenhole Pile.
What Rotten Meat does
You don't feel so well and can't hold your food down.
- Health regeneration -100%
- Stamina regeneration -100%
- Movement speed -50%
- 1 damage every 2 s
Where to find Rotten Meat
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.
Where Rotten Meat generates in the world
- Plains: 3,000 m to 8,000 m from the centre of the world
Every Valheim world is generated from its seed, so no page can say where anything is. What is fixed for every seed is the conditions above: the ring a biome is confined to, and the ground a node will accept.
What Rotten Meat is used for
Built with
| Item | Crafted at | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
 Rotten Meat | - | 1 |
Plan Rotten Meat down to the last ore
The Crafting Planner in MetaBot Desktop expands any gear into every raw material, conversion and station it needs, at the quality you want. Add a whole loadout and get one shopping list.
- Raw materials for any quality
- Smelting and station chain included
- Saved plans for your next trip
Rotten Meat 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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Rotten Meat FAQ
How do you get Rotten Meat in Valheim?
Rotten Meat is not crafted. It comes from Vile (Plains), Morgenhole Pile.
What are the stats of Rotten Meat in Valheim?
They are listed above, at every quality level Rotten Meat 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 Rotten Meat used for in Valheim?
The things that consume it number 1, across 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 Rotten Meat weigh in Valheim?
0.5 each, and it stacks to 20 — so a full stack is 10 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 Rotten Meat in Valheim?
Rotten Meat is not crafted. It comes from Vile (Plains), Morgenhole Pile.