- 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 |
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
The full settings include internal fields and inactive defaults. The sections above explain the values relevant to gameplay.
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