1st-level transmutation · 2024 version below
Up to ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can use its action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 hit point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day.
The berries lose their potency if they have not been consumed within 24 hours of the casting of this spell.
Cast it and up to ten magic berries appear in your hand. Eating one takes a creature’s action, restores 1 hit point and counts as a full day’s food. The berries stay potent for 24 hours, and anyone can eat them, so you can hand them round the party.
Ten hit points for a 1st-level slot is poor healing in a fight, and nobody should spend actions eating berries mid-combat to recover 1 hit point. Where Goodberry shines is keeping people alive and fed: a berry is enough to bring an ally at 0 hit points back to consciousness, and one cast feeds ten people for a day.
Yes: any healing brings a creature at 0 hit points back to consciousness, and a berry restores 1. The spell says the creature eating it uses its action, which a downed ally can’t do, so most DMs let you use your action to feed the berry to them.
24 hours from the casting. After that they lose their magic and are just berries.
Yes. Cast it before your long rest and the berries are good for most of the next day, and you get the slot back when you finish the rest.
Yes. Each berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day, so one casting can feed ten people or animals.
Yes. In the 2024 Player’s Handbook eating a berry is a bonus action instead of an action, the spell always makes ten berries, and they disappear when the 24-hour duration ends. The healing is still 1 hit point per berry.
| Spell | How it compares |
|---|---|
| Healing Word | 1st level: 1d4 plus your modifier from 60 feet as a bonus action. The better way to pick up a downed ally in a fight. |
| Cure Wounds | 1st level: 1d8 plus your modifier by touch. Far more healing from one slot, all at once, on one creature. |
| Create Food and Water | 3rd level: food and water for fifteen humanoids or five steeds for a day. Feeds more mouths, but it doesn’t heal. |
| Prayer of Healing | 2nd level: 2d8 plus your modifier to up to six creatures after a 10-minute casting. The out-of-combat party heal. |
| Potion of Healing | 2d4 + 2 hit points in one swallow, 7 on average where a berry gives 1. Costs gold instead of a slot. |
| Class | First available | Spellcasting ability |
|---|---|---|
| Druid spells | 1st character level | Wisdom |
| Ranger spells | 2nd character level | Wisdom |
The 2024 Player’s Handbook revised many spells, and the SRD 5.2 carries the new text. What changed from the 2014 version above:
Ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can take a Bonus Action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 Hit Point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day. Uneaten berries disappear when the spell ends.
2024 version from the SRD 5.2. Most tables settle on one edition, so check which one yours uses.
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