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Finding great food is a constant struggle inValheim,and if you’re still making your way through the early game, you’re probably getting tired of hunting Boars and Necks every time you get peckish.
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Thankfully, there is a way to farm your own food passively in the game, and it all starts with the humble Carrot. Here’s how you can find this amazing early-game food and start growing your own.
Finding Carrots
Before starting your very own Carrot farm, you’ll need to find some in the wild. While you walk through the Black Forest,watch out for white flowers with puffball blooms of petals.These are actually wild Carrot Seeds growing on their own! Just interact with them, and grab the seeds that pop out.
Before you try and grow the seeds,you should probably find around six to eight of these plants,but the more you find, the faster your farm will start producing excess Carrots.
Starting Your Farm
After you’ve found a decent number of seeds,you’ll need to try and craft the Cultivator.This rake-like tool can be built at a Forge with fiveBronzeand five Core Wood, both of which can be harvested from the Black Forest. Naturally, this means you’ll need aSmelter and a Charcoal Kilnbefore building this item.
Once you’ve built the Cultivator, approach your soon-to-be farmland and open the build menu like you would with a Hammer. Select “Cultivate” and start hoeing away at the dirt. If it’s working, it should turn a dark brown color. If you have the Carrot Seeds in your inventory,you should be able to select a “Carrot” option.With that selected, start planting Carrots on the cultivated ground.
Don’t forget to build walls around your crops! Enemies have an annoying habit of destroying them.
For your Carrots to grow, they need two things:enough space to grow and nothing above them.If they’re lacking one, they will turn a darker color until the problem is solved. If the problem can’t be solved, the Carrot will not mature, and the seed will be lost.
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Once they’ve fully matured, you’ll be able to interact with them to dig up one Carrot per crop, and once you do, you should unlock the Cultivator recipe for Seed-Carrots. For those,you plant a Carrot and will get three Carrot Seedswhen you harvest the mature flower. This means you’ll want to dedicate at least a third of your Carrot harvest to growing new seeds.
Farming Carrots Efficiently
If you want to maximize the space you have available, you’ll have to try and plant your Carrots as close together as possible without preventing them from growing. A good rule of thumb is toleave around 3/4 of one in-game building unit between crops horizontally and one in-game unit between crops vertically.This will let you fit 10 Carrot crops in a three-by-one area, and this spacing also works for Carrot Seeds.
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Using Your Carrots
Carrots serve as a decent stamina food on their own, butthey really shine when paired with other ingredients from the Meadows.Carrot Soup takes only one Mushroom and three Carrots to make at the Cauldron, but it gives you a whopping 45 stamina. It’s a similar story withDeer Stewand minced Meat Sauce. All use Carrots and common ingredients to make foods that can easily carry you through the Swamps.
