- Possible drops
1 ×Thistle- Health & tool
Pick by hand
- Regrowth / next stage
4 h
Thistle Item ID

Beautiful but prickly.
Thistle is a glowing white flower picked at night in the Black Forest and Swamp. It is used in Sausages, Mountain-tier meads (Frost resistance, Poison resistance), and several alchemy recipes.
Overview
Thistle is a material item in Valheim. Its in-game item ID is Thistle, which you can drop into the console with spawn Thistle to give yourself one — append a number like spawn Thistle 50 to spawn a stack.
In the in-game data it is tagged as Item drop and Material.
The spawn command requires cheats — enable them with devcommands after opening the console.
| Item ID | Thistle |
| Category | Item drop |
| Subcategory | Material |
- Command reference
- spawn
Command Builder
Spawns one Thistle at your location.
Example Commands
Spawns one Thistle at your location.
Spawns five Thistle at your location.
Spawns twenty Thistle at your location.
Stats
| Type | Material |
| Weight | 0.1 |
| Stack size | 50 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
Related Items
Acorn
Amber
Amber Pearl
Ancient bark
Ancient Seed
Barley
Barley flour
Beech seeds
Bilebag
Birch seeds
Black metal
Black Metal Missile
Black metal scrap
Blood clot
Blood pudding
Bloodbag
Bloodgold Missile
Blue mushroom
Blueberries
Boar jerky
Boar meat
Bone fragments
Bread
Bread dough
Bronze
Bronze nails
Bukeperries
Carrot
Carrot seeds
Carrot soup
Gathering & resource nodes
Full reference1 entry
| Resource source | Possible drops | Health & tool | Regrowth / next stage |
|---|---|---|---|
Pick by hand | 4 h |
Destruction tables list possible drops, not guaranteed totals. Weights describe relative selection within a table. Tree, log, and rock-section drops are separate stages; resource modifiers can change yields.
Used in recipes
Black Forest Buffet Platter5 required; +1 per upgrade level
Blood pudding2 required; +1 per upgrade level
Mead base: Frost resistance5 required; +1 per upgrade level
Mead base: Poison resistance5 required; +1 per upgrade level
Sailor's Bounty4 required; +1 per upgrade level
Sausages1 required; +1 per upgrade level
Used to build
Possible chest loot at
- Dev House 31 source definition; DevHouse3 / piece_chest_blackmetal (1) (location prefab). Serialized stack ranges: 1–1. Conditions and weights are in the source tables; content is not guaranteed.
- Dev House 41 source definition; DevHouse4 / piece_chest_blackmetal (1) (location prefab). Serialized stack ranges: 1–1. Conditions and weights are in the source tables; content is not guaranteed.
Game data source
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