Valheim: Increase health points - this is how it works

Looking at your life bar is always elementary in the battles you fight in Valheim. Here, the more health points you have, the better. Read how you can increase the HP bar.

Right nutrition is required: you can get more life points by eating the right food.

The maximum life points depend on the nutrition mechanics. The basic features of this system are explained here.

Valheim: How to increase your health

The way to a longer HP bar is through the right food:

• With +90 HP, the blood pudding is the best HP food in the game.
• This is followed by the lox cake as well as Cooked Snake with +80 HP.
• Prepared Lox Meat and Prepared Snake Meat bring +70 HP each.
• For fish rolls and sausages there are +60 HP each.

This already makes clear how great the progress compared to the base value of 25 health points actually is. This also means that good food becomes more and more important the further you progress in the game. Even with strong armor, you'll be too vulnerable in difficult areas like the plains if you get hit by strong enemies.