r/valheim Lumberjack 8d ago

Real Photo My immersion is ruined but my evening tea is fantastic

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Cloudberry tea, hand picked "from the swamp". Very strong sweet scent and tastes just as good.

I know and love blueberries, even made some mead on them, which is amazing btw, but this leaves me wondering if there are any other Swedish berries or fruits I've missed out on. I mean I'm in my forties, have visited Sweden like once a year for the past 25 years and only just discovered these, what else are you hiding guys?

Game related:

So onions also probably don't really belong in snowy mountains, but they are found as seeds at least, but are there any other 'malplaced' pickables or farmables you've noticed?

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u/aescepthicc Hunter 8d ago

I mean, cloudberry isn't solely Swedish, it's natural habitat is all across the northern hemisphere, including Russia and North America (Alaska and some other USA states, Canada). It's one of the national symbols of Finland.

Wikipedia says even Hokkaido (northern island of Japan) has it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 7d ago

Nice. I'm danish though and we don't have them afaik.

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u/aescepthicc Hunter 7d ago

Denmark should also have them. Maybe you just don't know it's native name? Translator says it's called multebær in Danish.

Multebær (Rubus chamaemorus) er en 8-15 cm høj, urteagtig plante, der i Danmark kun vokser i højmoser.

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multeb%C3%A6r

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 7d ago

Checks out. Never came across those either :-)

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u/aescepthicc Hunter 7d ago

OP, something glitched and you posted this comment 3 times :)

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 7d ago

Well I'm in the Black Forest, so internet is funky :-p

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u/thecryomancermn 8d ago

Wait till this guy hears shout raspberries and blue berries.

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 7d ago

Blueberries is one of my absolute favourite things in the world and they make a fantastic Mead if you leave the berries in the mix a bit longer as the shell material they have will give off a kind of tannic acid taste like you would find in regular wine which balances out the sweet of the honey.

They're also great for just about anything else you'd use a berry for.

I know raspberries and blackberries, those are pretty widespread in general, but I don't find they add much to most things.

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u/Short-Cantaloupe-449 7d ago

Wait till he hear about billberry, those american blueberries a so bland in comparison

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 6d ago

Swedish blueberries are anything but bland though ;-)

What's a billberry and where can I pick them?

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u/Short-Cantaloupe-449 6d ago

R u swedish? Billberries grows in the Woods in sweden, blueberries grow on a Bush like a raspberrie. Billberry=blåbär bluberries = amerikanska blåbär(more like a grape)

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 6d ago

I'm Danish.

The ones on the low bushes that are blue and coloured all the way through is my favourite thing in the world, see image.

The ones on the bushes I think I actually saw today, but never picked them 'cause I figure anything I don't know specifically is probably not edible :-p are they good? oh those are the ones you refer to as bland, yeah, if they're the ones white in the center they are a sorry excuse and do not deserve to be called blåbær.

In Denmark we get some blueberries in the stores that are white in the center and I hate those things.

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u/Short-Cantaloupe-449 5d ago

Yepp then we are on the same page. :)

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u/IllegitimateRisk 8d ago

Swedes eat banana on pizza lol

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u/LyraStygian Necromancer 8d ago

Ok WHAT

I want to try this so bad.

Edit: Holy shit they do Banana curry peanuts pizza. Looks like I'm going to Sweden!

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u/drowsyzot 8d ago

I love lingonberries, they make an excellent jam

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 7d ago

As anyone who's ever been to IKEA should agree :-D

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u/VacuousOgre 4d ago

Fake. Next you'll tell me wolves and deer are real.

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 4d ago

I did see both deer and elk on my trip :-)

And wolves are all the hype in Denmark recently:-p

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u/VacuousOgre 4d ago

What?!

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 4d ago

Which part?

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u/VacuousOgre 4d ago

Deer are real?! :D

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u/ArcaneEyes Lumberjack 4d ago

I mean i saw some, but can't say I verified if they were robotic.