If you've played this type game before one thing that maybe throwing you off with Valheim is that your max health (and stamina) is based on the quality of food (and how recently you consumed it) that you are using. When you pock up a new resource all the recipes it can be used in are added to your list and its quite hard to miss. You do spend much more time in this game with basic tasks like hunting, gathering, cooking, mining, and smelting than in some other games of this type but its presented in a way that makes sense and actually increases immersion for some players.