Kingers Feast

Kinger's Feast

A cooking and brewing overhaul for Valheim – from the first wild leek in the Meadows to the Yule table in the Deep North.

> A personal mod. I build Kinger's Feast for my partner and me to play together, so it changes often – sometimes daily – and > comes without support. You are welcome to try it: start a new world, keep backups, and know that removing it from a world > takes its items with it.

> AI usage. Made with Claude, Anthropic's AI model, under my direction: I decide what goes in and how it should play, > Claude writes the code. Some of the sounds were made with Suno or ElevenLabs. Every version goes through an automated > in-game world test of several hundred checks and through our own co-op play before it is released.

Features

• 550+ new items: wild herbs, mushrooms, berries, fruit trees, nuts, roots, fish dishes, breads, pies, sauces, jams, soups and stews for every biome, plus extra drops from boars, deer, necks, bears, wolves, lox, serpents, hares, moose, seals and frost trolls.
• Over 55 meads in tiers around the vanilla meads: carry weight, speed, wet immunity, trophy luck, fishing, regeneration, resistances, skills, more or fewer creatures around you, coins from every kill and more. Each mead icon shows its family symbol and rank dots, so similar bottles are easy to tell apart. Meads are drunk like vanilla meads (no food slot), and only one mead per family is active at a time.
• New stations and tools: a clay oven for early roasting, drying and baking (unlocked by your first hazelnuts), a hand quern for grinding meal, flour, spice and salt, and a seed pouch to plant berry bushes, fruit trees, wild herbs and mushrooms anywhere – they bear again after every harvest. Their falling logs, split logs and stumps are tinted to match each fruit tree.
• Logical cooking: doughs at the food preparation table and then into the oven, soups in the cauldron, meat and fish on the spit, mead bases in the mead ketill and then the fermenter.
• Cookbook stand: build it at a workbench, search by dish, ingredient or station, and see what a recipe makes, where it is made, and what goes into it. Cooking, milling and fermenting conversions are included, as are mead effects.
• Smokehouse and drying rack: a small thatched smokehouse smokes six pieces of meat or fish at once over a slow wood fire – nothing burns, and bacon, smoked venison, böckling and varmrökt lax come out as two pieces instead of one. The drying rack (a northern hjell) needs no fire: stockfish, dried meat, fruit, mushrooms and malt dry on it by themselves, as long as no rain falls on it. Both show what hangs on them.
• The sea: mine a Leviathan for salt, barnacle meat, kelp, sea cucumbers and the rare Leviathan pearl. Every vanilla fish has its own dish – including Böckling, Inlagd sill and Surströmming.
• Feasts for every biome, placed with the serving tray, plus seasonal ones: Julbord (December), Midsommarbord (June) and Kräftskiva (August).
• Weather and night: wild plants grow back with the sky above them. Mushrooms, moss and marsh plants shoot up in rain and mist; berries, nuts, fruit and meadow herbs ripen in the sun; frost numbs all but the plants of the mountains and the far north. Crayfish and the glowing moss of the Mistlands show themselves only at night. Look at a picked plant to see what it is waiting for.
• Hideouts and finds: some plants only grow against tree trunks, at the foot of trees or beside rocks. Crypts and caves hold pickable finds, world chests carry a little of the mod's food, and there are forager's caches and magpie nests to discover.
• Visible wild finds: small custom loose items and pickable models are enlarged to at least 0.3 m across; larger models keep their original size.
• Lucky finds: in every biome, one in fifty harvests or so of certain wild plants and fruit trees yields something the gods have touched – Idun's golden apple, an elf-ring cep, Sif's gold among the rye. Eaten raw, it is as good as the best food of the next land and lasts 40 minutes. It cannot be planted, cooked or found in chests.
• New animals: the pale, spotted tryffelsvin of the Meadows and the Black Forest leaves you alone unless you strike it – tamed, fed and kept near trees it digs up summer truffles. The shy tjäder (capercaillie) of the Black Forest hides ground nests under firs and pines and lays eggs once tamed. The white snöhare of the Mountains is faster than you are; its pelts make a cloak against the chill of the night. In the Deep North, colonies of pingvin waddle along the flat shores, reindeer roam the snow, and fryslings come out at night.
• Varietal honey: five hives that only thrive in their own biome, each with its own honey. The strong meads ask for it.
• Dvergr traders: every kind of dvergr – craftsmen, mages of fire, ice and healing, crossbowmen and the dvergr of the Ashlands and the Deep North – trades goods that fit its trade, with four rare goods each.
• Hildir takes cooking requests and then sells spices from the far south, kitchen wear and feast clothes. Haldor sells a chef's hat (Cooking +20) once you know your way around a cauldron.
• Secret recipes: the best dishes and meads are learned from recipe scrolls – found in chests, bought, earned or taken from the great bosses.
• Northern lanterns: build the iron lantern posts of the Deep North – one burns blubber oil, the blue rime lantern burns the embers of fryslings. The hooded lantern finally has a recipe.
• Kitchen decor with comfort: drying herbs, a leek braid, strings of sausages, a smoked ham, a copper pot and a spice shelf.
• Legendary tools: Fellir, the felling axe, and Njord's rod.