building-ideas

[worthy vortex]

Nice floor, what's the lava looking thing between the black marble columns?

is that raised ground that you framed?

[languid narwhal]

@worthy vortexThat is the top of the hexagonal gate. Used the shift E key to put it in the graound so only the top is showing

@worthy vortex

hope this pic helps

@worthy vortex here is the floor now done

[worthy vortex]

Oh, cool! Yeah I wouldn't have guessed

Thanks for explaining 🙂

Looks great, very unique

[languid narwhal]

THanks lot of wasted hours lol

I have 2300 hours in this game

[worthy vortex]

Time in flow making art is never wasted IMO

[silk yarrow]

How is this even?! Gizmo mod? How to light chandeliers?

[stable fiber]

For those of you that build in the mountains on survival mode, do you move there during your mountain run or afterwards?

[noble gazelle]

can be either and can depend on what materials you want to use in the build

[languid narwhal]

@silk yarrow you dont have to light anything Its made using the flame swords. There are 16 of them on item stands. Hope that helps

[spice flicker]

Thanks for sharing this picture, kinda want to try and use it for inspiration 🤔

[silk yarrow]

Was this all created in creative mode?

[silk yarrow]

Very nice, did you draw this yourself?

[upper plinth]

I mean he has been playing the world for over 8k days so most likely not

[languid narwhal]

I did this with no mods or creative mode This was done in standard

Valhiem

[silk yarrow]

This is terrible 😮😨😱.

[onyx lotus]

What should i do at the back of my house?

[lilac barn]

Garden!

[safe lance]

My new lighthouse

[heavy tiger]

Awesome

[safe lance]

thanks

[safe lance]

Nighttime view of the Lighthouse from a boat

New dock and lighthouse in same pic

[lapis relic]

Share some of my buildings and statues.

[quiet grail]

this reminds me of moon wells in warcraft 3

[heavy tiger]

Woaaah very nice

[rare nebula]

Not as impressive as some of the other beautiful builds, but I really wanted a small water house and by the Gods I would get one

[granite dew]

Didnt know the spiral stairs can function like that!

[rare nebula]

Me neither xD. But the spiral wouldn't be functional so I had to improvise

[hybrid anchor]

Don’t sell yourself short, this build is impressive, well designed and in a creative location

[meager ivy]

someone please help me build my roof or help me fix it

[rare nebula]

I really appreciate that. Thank you kindly

[tranquil ravine]

Hi everyone, im about to build a village and a i wanted to go for a huge castle (which is tall) but i have an issue with heights while building! do you have mods to upgrade items strength so i can ho way higher? (like a mod who makes all builds blue)! thanks

[worthy vortex]

<color=white><voffset=-50><size=8>Haldor

[worthy vortex]

There is a #mods-discussion channel you will probably have better luck there

[tranquil ravine]

thanks ! 🙂

[solemn sage]

If you are able to use dev commands then I highly recommend using "Spawn skull1" and using these to build off/embed them into your stonework for blue stability. They're small, float in the air and are considered to be the ground for building purposes. Be warned that once spawned you cant delete the skull without using forcedelete commands or mods such as infinity hammer/planhammer

[primal schooner]

Alternatively, you can spawn in 'rock_destructible_test' for an object that also floats, but is made of a series of small rocks. These can be whittled back to just one, and will mostly hide in stone or marble. The advantage is you can completely destroy them if you misplace them, the drawback is the time it takes to reduce their size. Either option should work if you want to be "mod free" for vanilla friendly builds.

[wild crypt]

How did you manage to make them float in the air?

[uncut pagoda]

Read the post just above you

[wild crypt]

Oh, thanks 🫶

[uncut pagoda]

You're welcome

[stable fiber]

Any thoughts about this?

[worthy vortex]

Only that after a point, the more build pieces they add the more overwhelming it can be for new players.

I'm on my 7th playthrough (2nd since Ashlands) and still discovering new designs with the pieces we have.

Or did I miss your point?

[stable fiber]

The point was to simply generate a discussion about what would be the most wanted/needed pieces should any more be added

[uncut pagoda]

Triangle roof pieces for making round roofs easier. 1x1 grausten walls. A number of other pieces to help eliminate a need for clipping. Z fighting is not good

[stable fiber]

I'd like to see (in order) floors, walls, and beams/posts for each of the woods. It would provide a lot of options for internal decoration and theming

[worthy vortex]

I wouldn't mind more build pieces, but I think having more freedom to rotate pieces would make a bigger difference to me.

Doesn't even have to be more axis, just being able to do smaller degree increments of the current axis of rotation

I'm still discovering new pieces combinations and building styles so I don't feel too limited by what's already in the game

[plucky thorn]

We needed both larger building pieces, (4m beams/walls/floors) and smaller ones (1m poles/1x2m wall AND 2x1m wall/ roofs).
Larger for those 'dull' walls and smaller for the finest details.

Tho we are not limited to our ideas, the game limits itself already by the number of instances.

[heavy tiger]

Woaaah! Very good work. Been loong for a way to make a bridge. Requires end game biomes?

[tropic granite]

👍

[tiny mist]

sharing my work in progress coastal castle. looking for any tips and ideas on how to expand it all 😄

[heavy tiger]

Ask Trump to seize like he wants Panama, Grönland and Canada. Then he can hand it over to you if you agree to be the governor there.

[wooden vessel]

what should i build?

[limpid vapor]

How about a large Keep?

[stoic roost]

Hello, Valheim community! 🎮

I’ve just uploaded a new video on my YouTube channel where I built the Ultimate Cozy House in Valheim, Inspired by Skyrim’s Proudspire Manor. The video features a full overview of the result and the building process of the main structure, so you can easily recreate it if you'd like. I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas for future builds!

Link: https://youtu.be/bSB3n_hIFrc

[patent bough]

Working on a dock house right now, wondering if there is any details that I could add to make the walls (on the outside) look better, or furniture inside I can add/create, maybe even some landscaping I could do

[hardy osprey]

Ivies

[twilit ice]

Any thoughts on what I can put here? it's on the 1st floor of my home, I have the master bedroom on the opposite side of the room, I was thinking maybe some guest rooms but I'm a solo player so maybe something practical & cosy at the same time?
Genuinely unsure with what to do with this big open space, open to all ideas. (unmodded)

[hardy osprey]

Yeah. Some light.

[kindred fossil]

Am going to build a strong outpost in Ashlands on a Morgen cave to help mine flametal.
I've read that Grausten stone is stronger than marble, but marble has better elemental resistance, making it more suitable in Ashlands against exploding blobs and Valkyries fire.
What's peoples experience?

[hardy osprey]

Against Valkyrie fires, other creature projectiles, acid rain and the like, it's best to use a shield generator - though it covers only 30m, so if your build is large..
Also the wiki details the resistances.
Black marble:
Durability: 1500
Weak: Pickaxe
Neutral: Blunt, Slash, Pierce, Chop
Immune: Fire, Frost, Lightning, Poison, Spirit, Rain
Grausten:
Durability: depends on the piece (400-4000)
Weak: Pickaxe
Neutral: Blunt, Chop
Resistant: Slash, Pierce, Fire, Frost, Lightning
Immune: Poison, Spirit, Rain

You could also opt to build a base within the walls of a Charred Fortress. Those walls are immune to anything but siege weapons.

[kindred fossil]

that's next after getting flametal 🙂
5k hours valheim but 1st time doing Ashlands, its been... 🙂 🙃 😬 😤
thanks

[hardy osprey]

Good luck! I finished Ashlands just yesterday. When I first started it, I died. Then I died some more. Then I was stumped why the battering ram wasn't doin much. And then I died again. And so on.

[kindred fossil]

Thanks and Well Done. Now you never have to go back, like mistlands 😄
I read nothing for the experience, sailed a longboat in, got half way to shore then onto a spire eventually during a storm, attacked immediately by a bird, bench portal IM GOING HOME then did farming for a week 😅
Returned and made a foothold base learning hard lessons then got killed by the water 😑 , an asksvin I was trying to tame 💔 then a morgen punting me into lava, so now I'm taking it slow and very deliberate, expansion bench by moated bench covered in stone 🤞

[silent pagoda]

Hello all. I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew on this one. I'm not that great at building and am looking for ways I can support a tall roof on this structure without taking up a lot of "living" area inside with a bunch of vertical pillars. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hmm I may need to convert the video to something different. Sorry, give me a moment.

Clearly I'm not that great at screen recordings either. 🤦‍♂️

There we go. I'd like to keep with the stone and dark wood / shingled materials. I'm just not that great at securing long-spanning roof lines

[silent pagoda]

This is a Vanilla server, btw, too.

[long rain]

Anyone wanna help me build this bride

[worn pendant]

@silent pagoda if some of your roof tiles intersect trees, those count as ground, so help your stability...the front looks good so far, tho

[kindred fossil]

2 pillars in the middle between the steps should be enough, maybe with arches at the top or iron beams

[fervent sun]

Iron beams make the impossible possible, especially if you start them all the way at the ground 😉

[solid zodiac]

@spark reef

[hearty python]

Hey guys

I have a current fortress in a world
But I plan on starting a new fortress in a new world

Can I share pics of my current fortress here?

[hearty python]

This is my starting location

I want to build an island fortress

Basically, just enough land in the middle of water for the boundaries of the fortress

Something like this

[west panther]

Why not

[marble gyro]

100% Vanilla method for extending glass windows beyond 2 blocks from a standard support item using furniture.

The Throne can support glass but its not easy to attach glass blocks while targeting the throne. Instead I use wood to put a frame inside the window and attach the glass to that. Then leave time for calculation of support/gravity to complete. Next, place the throne near the window (note mine didn't even touch the glass) and then remove the wood. The throne takes over and will support glass up to 4 blocks high and 3 wide in my tests.

Here is an example I used in a build: https://imgur.com/gallery/ARqk9Jg

[silent pagoda]

sigh ... I'm so bad at this. I think I messed up making the wall go out one block length before continuing back. How do I compensate for this keeping the same 26 degree singles? Currently, the roof lines won't meet up. 😦

Another angle. Same spot.

[paper umbra]

Add an additional roof tile between

[silent pagoda]

The two roof planes are at two different heights.

[fossil bough]

yolo guys i have a 6m by 6m space (3by3 floor)for fermentor station and would like some design ideas

[mighty ore]

How do u build storage please? I do have an access to iron chest now, but they are to big to stuck on each other if u know what i mean…

[untold briar]

By putting 5 next to them inside 4m. You can start from top shelf and continue downwards.

[mighty ore]

thanks i will try that

[fossil bough]

my new fermenter and med pot area

[fossil bough]

2 different angles of the new furnished fermentor and med pot

[ionic venture]

beginning of the game, to make a real fortress that trolls cant invade and brake all your house, do your trench, up your walls and make a bridge, all with the hoe and pickaxe... this is black forest stage and trolls cant jump the wall with the trench between and dwarfs cant stand up the stairs... the only thing they do is to break the stairs and the solution is obvious and easy

very rustic

and very safe

[rich birch]

Or, and hear me out, build a wall and defend it.

because that looks.. not good.

[ionic venture]

it works for black forrest, but the trench has to be deep and the stone walls has to bell talls... to enter the base a door on the floor does not works, thats whay the stair, because they will brake it and not up and invade

I defend it, it was to show that really works for that biome

[rich birch]

Oh don't worry this the most common way to cheese the enemy pathing, nothing groundbreaking here no pun intended

This trade off just isn't worth the visuals in my opinion, especially because there are flying enemy raids later in the game.

Best to just learn to fight the enemies and build things within a fortress.

[ionic venture]

thats whay I said the beginning, when you dont have strong walls

[rich birch]

Right, so just upgrade as you go and repair as needed, don't break the enemies so you don't know how to deal with invasions.

[ionic venture]

well, in this early stage is pretty easy to destroy them, I know, they got stuck on the trench, so nothing hard, and the trolls just go away, I like to kill the trolls in the forrest actually, because they rarely got stuck and when you use the bowl they go away

I prefer use the atgeir against trolls

but youre right, lets see what happens next, with the flyers enemies

[upper plinth]

Drake raids are a pain...

You always miss that one drake and it proceeds to wipe our all your animals

imho the biggest reason to speedrun moder

[noble lintel]

I put them underground for that reason

[stable fiber]

How do you like to arrange kilns? I've found that something similar to this arrangement is simple and effective. The angle between the foundations can be altered as needed and there are some limited options for collection methods. If you place the kilns 3m high you could still place wood into the kilns and also use roof pieces to cause coal from up to 3-4 kilns to roll to a central spot.

[solemn sage]

my upper floor

The Coal room below it

[nocturne stirrup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1MmWDBZhj4

I like to build with this idea in mind. A separation of the tasks so that I can do them in a loop without having them interfere with one another. Not necessarily that specific build every time but it's the same idea.

[dark viper]

Please give me feedback on how to improve my pagan deity Eikthyr.

[noble lintel]

Eikthyr’s dad

[crisp cipher]

Curved roofs. Looks awesome.

Windmill tower

[turbid berry]

just a small idea 🙂

[stoic roost]

Hello, Valheim community! 🎮

I’ve just uploaded a new video on my YouTube channel where I built a cozy and functional mansion in Valheim, inspired by the "Breezehome" from Skyrim. The exterior and interior design are my own improvisation, with a focus on combining practicality and comfort. The video offers a full tour of the mansion, showcasing all the details inside and out. I’d love to hear your feedback or any ideas for future builds!

Check it out and let me know what you think! 😊
Link: https://youtu.be/_dL-64l7IN8

[fossil dagger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDPSnM9daY

[split flicker]

Do you think the Dvergr clan would object to me building up here? 😬 😂

[crystal veldt]

Does anyone have some good 'wall art' made out of wood beams? Got a big blank stone wall that needs a design.

[wide shore]

no fue una buena idea

[turbid berry]

another small idea 🙂

[marble gyro]

Here it is, the answer to all your breeding needs, explained in a walkthrough and provided in a blueprint file.
Wood age, vanilla build without any of the issues you get on other auto breeder farms.
Currently available on the Valheim Capital Survive server in case you have to see it with your own eyes to believe it 😎
https://youtu.be/Zo_WW07BqXw?si=zUpuSQTkkzmBCiGj

[nocturne stirrup]

This is really cool. The lag spikes from having too many boars is always the most annoying part about the automatic breeders so this automatic culling is awesome. I'm curious about making it more compact and if it would work with wolves too. I'll have to experiment with this some. People figuring out how to use Greylings as bait is amazing.

I'm wondering if you could just make a circle that works by combining the height approach and this one. If you start by putting a Greyling in a box in the center with a platform above them with the breeding boars (6 or 8 of them, whatever the limit is) they should hover right over the Greyling with how they are in that example. Then there can be stairs to get the piggies to fall off into the pit below it. Then you just need a staircase/fire at the base of the Greyling.

The reason to combine the height breeders with this is to maximize the rate of piglets being generated.

[marble gyro]

Yes it works with all known tameables, in fact I have videos showing how they integrate in to my base (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiA5dIl14FHkK5PQolyR1kOtoepRb-7_l&si=5zfrDpxmfcAgIhVa)
Trying to explain it has been difficult so this one is already the most cut down, compact version I have made that still shows you everything you need to know.
I've had a group of breeders, whether its all Boar or a combination of Hens, Boar and Wolves, and the only reason you need to separate them at all is if you want their own drops to lead to different outcomes. Such as, the Wolves are free range. You can also have two drops in order to split their chances of being culled.

[turbid berry]

just random idea that popped to my head xd SHIPCUZZI :p

[crystal veldt]

Should I keep the all stone roof or do some wood in the center to break it up a little bit? The wood would just be standard A frame. View from top and inside

center hall is 10m tall

something like this maybe

[stable fiber]

if you hide iron floors inside the stone it SHOULD increase the stability. cant say for certain because i cant see the extent of your build

[crystal veldt]

Oh the whole thing has iron beams and iron grating hidden inside the stone

Stability works just wondering if the wood top might look better

Still need to add the merlons around the edge but the roof is feeling very flat and empty

[robust frigate]

whats the seed code ?

[hearty python]

You wanna join my world?

👀

[robust frigate]

we alrdy have worlds but the map looks kinda nice so it would be a nice if you share the seed code

[hearty python]

Sure, but you do know that you can only access it when I'm in the world right?

[hearty python]

Did you get it?

[steady wind]

Cash on the throne look cool

[gritty quartz]

could someone give me suggestions for what i should add to the walls to brake up its blandness and what to add to the ground pls

[untold briar]

Grow ivy seeds next to the walls.

[gritty quartz]

thank you

[iron valve]

You could also cultivate some spots, plant the veg of your choice, then once it shows the seed flower go back and re-grass it?

[frosty shoal]

Nice tile work

[limpid mountain]

how did you do this

[boreal thunder]

wait this is a gorgeous shot

[tidal night]

Roots and Ents 😄

[kindred fossil]

accidental pretty 🙂

[uncut pagoda]

Nice work Berserk

[severe relic]

anyone has any interesting castle wall design with ashland pilars and combination of stone?

[sterile shore]

I have a whimsical idea for builds in Mistlands on my current playthrough, and looking to see if any of you might have some builds/ideas related to this! The theme I want to go with is Toys and Out-of-scale objects that make the player feel like they are very very small, like an action figure.
I'm thinking a dollhouse, with big open sides, could be a cool base.
Large sculptural rollerskates, a big rocket ship, blocks with numbers & letters on them, a teddy bear, etc. What else might make for fun giant-stuff to build in Mistlands?

[tidal night]

Flying structure on top of Elder altar
you can dig around and it won't fall
structure is connected to the land only by bridge at the side and it is not support
also we can make burning floor using surtling trophys

[stoic roost]

Hello, Valheim community! 🎮

I’ve just uploaded a new video on my YouTube channel where I built a Survival Base — With a Tavern Inside. The video features a full overview of the final result and the building process of the main structure, so you can easily recreate it if you’d like. I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas for future builds!

Link: https://youtu.be/far2ReVhbNQ

[tidal night]

Black Marble + green light is made for Necrons

[noble lintel]

SPACE MARINES

[dapper root]

Drawbridge made from oak logs 👌

[dapper root]

(small issue: moving over it with a cart damages the logs)

[half frost]

black marble and green torches look really good together

[languid narwhal]

22

[brisk summit]

Awesome build!

[slow knoll]

omg there are so many good builds in this, idek how people do it lol

my house looks like a dumpster fire on the outside

[tropic granite]

• Build.
• If not happy, delete and rebuild.
• Repeat until happy.

^ The single method that all of the above screenshots and all future screenshots use.

[next jetty]

how do i get the logs?

[uncut pagoda]

Knock down an oak and get the log into the water

[dapper root]

From oak trees, they grow in the meadows (tho kinda rare) and you can plant them with a cultivator and acorns. You need a metal axe to chop them down.

[hardy silo]

good enough for a plains main base?

[abstract badger]

How do you pull it open/closed? Lock a cart behind the logs & pull? And then at the end let the cart fall into the water when done?

[dapper root]

Walk in the opposite direction, being blocked by something

It's like a treadmill but it makes the logs move

[versed fox]

Need ideas for my food/cooking area, Was going to have storage downstairs, fermenters are already there with a Mead Kettil.
Probably other big stuff like ovens, not sure what I could do for a nice design though, do I just build what is essentially a modern house?

thought maybe 2 high stone walls then wood for rest, unless that'd just look ugly

I Have completed the game a LOT of times... but I never really build with stone, just need some tips/ideas ig

[tropic granite]

Would recommend you start the way irl kitchens are designed.

Think about what things are used for, what they are used with, and how you want to be able to move around the space efficiently.
This includes things like the Cauldron Upgrades, even though you don't use them - pretend you do, and place them accordingly.

[versed fox]

I already have a layout in mind and know what I want/need

More just the outside, I literally have never built with stone and wood

would it just look awkward to have a half stone half wood wall?

[tropic granite]

Embellishments come after function. So build the kitchen the way it is going to work, then look at the remaining space for what kinds of decoration you can put where.
The outside will also be done afterwards because you need to have the venting holes for the smoke in place before you can decorate around things.

You also may decide to attach to another building or put something like an animal pen outside during the process. Which is why decorations come last once the finalized structure stands.

[versed fox]

Your name sounds familiar, how you talk too
Do i smell a sushi belt enthusiast

[versed fox]

That's exactly why I did the bottom first, I know I wanted the cauldron near the fermenters and having a little chimney running through the upstairs kitchen might be cool, so ig just continue down that road of placing functional things first?

[tropic granite]

Banned for having opinions 😄

[versed fox]

ripppp, saw you disappear but no one ever said anything about it
noticed you were gone a while ago while trying to find your little sushi belt document thing

sucks you got banned though dude, you helped me big time with pipes in the past, could I be a little cheeky and ask if you could send me the sushi thing if you still have it?

[tropic granite]

It was sudden and without warning.
Legit no warning. No timeout. Just "boom, you are now banned." without explanation until I reached out to a friend who was on the mod team who told me something to the lines of "I'm not supposed to tell you this, but apparently this..."

[versed fox]

oh, that sucks

[uneven belfry]

perfect location make sure to layer workbench building circles over the area to prevent stuff from spawning

[hardy silo]

LMAO we did! we are starting with the dock so we can better/easily move our stuff around

[tidal night]

Castle of Bees

[nocturne stirrup]

First time trying this method, using it with wolves but I can't get the babies to run off the edge. Any tips?

[dense haven]

Harpoon?

[marble gyro]

The stair is enough for Piggies or Chickens but Wolf pups need a full circuit to run around with a 3x2 (minimum) hole. Then they fall down the hole when cutting the corner. I can post an example image later, or join me on the Survive.Valheim.Capital server where I am finishing Breeder Level 2, which has Boar, Hens and Wolves in one.

[marble gyro]

This breeder is fully automated, including culling (if needed)

[nocturne stirrup]

I'd really appreciate a picture

I love the design already, it's going to save my frame rates for sure

[marble gyro]

OK the drop area like this will suit Wolf pups, still works for Piggies and Chickens

Still works 😉

[dapper root]

Genius! I'll be trying this one

[marble gyro]

Happy to help if you need it. I made this one really basic, once you've built it this way you can modify to suit your base.

[dapper root]

I remember trying to figure out a way to.. separate the boars from the piggies a while back, didn't think of this method 😄

[marble gyro]

I've been doing this in various forms for a couple of years. Wasted my time trying to get the message out on reddit. Great to have some proper feedback! There's also a blueprint

[dapper root]

Can you link the blueprint?

[marble gyro]

I assume this is allowed here https://discord.com/channels/1322205362253860955/1355833098649993217
It's a Valheimians link for those not on there already

[gray coral]

Any ideas for this empty area ?

[gray coral]

chatgpt did this xd

[limpid vapor]

No.
Maybe a boar farm, smelting hut and docks

[half frost]

Also a giant border wall with guard\sniper towers

[pseudo saddle]

man everyone is building the banana crate house huh. (i copy his basement idea every time)

id make a dedicated dock/smelting area next if i were you. Its so convenient to have easy cart access from your boats to your smelters

[uncut pagoda]

Good flow in working areas is everything 🤌

[gray coral]

it's a perfect design for mid game :D thanks for the idea i will try

[safe depot]

So making my first like castle build and i want my tower there to be taller than most of the structure but i dont know what to add now for the rest. help?

Having a mental block on this build now

[pseudo saddle]

you probably are building to wide, id highly recommend building more narrow and making the most out of you're vertical space

https://www.youtube.com/@jjthebuilder is my main inspiration on castle builds

[crystal veldt]

Really want to do like a courtyard type build on the inside of the charred fortress but can't get inspiration. Anyone have some good fortress builds?

[fair ruin]

how would yall do the roof to this?

i really wanna add a porch and make sure the roof has different levels to it

[limpid vapor]

26 degree roof first, 1 meter overhang, then 45 degrees

[stoic roost]

👋 Hey Vikings!
Just dropped a new video — this time I built a compact wooden cottage with a dock in the Black Forest 🌲⛵
The design was based on a concept from ChatGPT, and I brought it to life in Valheim!

🏠 3 floors: kitchen, bedroom, storage
🎣 Perfect spot for fishing and relaxing
📍 A mini base by the water — great for a biome-split base setup

🎥 Watch the video: [🔗 YouTube link https://youtu.be/4G6zQ6QbB7Q ]

Would love to hear your thoughts or ideas! 😉

[night charm]

🐍 🎣 Ive beene looking for inspiration for a serpent enclosure, if anyone has a cool build they could showcase

[spice flicker]

https://youtu.be/6QEf5Bi2AGs?si=M-pLKc51BzrHlq7V
lol I stumbled upon this forever ago, maybe this will help 🤔

[night charm]

Those poor boars lmao

even that one feels like too small of an encolosure, idk if its too large of an area but also thinking of maybe having 2 serpents, ive already placed some scaffolding for where i wold wall off the ocean.

Thoughts and recommendations welcome

[forest wasp]

Any improvements? I still need to add some docks a tower in one corner dig a lil more in the trench and get the smithy online (I need to go get bronze tools).

[near sparrow]

16th century pentagonal villa from Italy. seems like it'd be pretty easy to build

[hardy silo]

started to rebuild a draugr base and so far I've got the mead hall, still need to add depth details but running out of ideas xD. Does it even look good?

[fierce arch]

goodday mates, always relied free handing and/or weird random snap points to get some nice stone wall patterns, i finally worked out a "scientific" snap-tight method to do it.
Nothing new or unknown, probably many builders do the same or almost, but since i came across it and works fine i'll share.
Relies of course on the old wooden door extra snaps, i always get the base foundation first, stuff it with ivy, then enrich it with all kind of patterns, same on both sides and only overhanging by half a meter.

[solemn sage]

The Grausten Medium Pillar/beam, the corewood beam and the old reliable wooden door. The cornerstones of finding the right snap-point for the job.

[fierce arch]

right! actually the house on first screenshot's background was a test for that: corewood beams used to lower the sloped walls enough so they don't stick out of the roof but still cover the whole face wall

[solemn sage]

Aye, getting .5m height with corewood is well handy, at least until grausten, which opens up loads of .5m options. Thats a nice looking jerkinhead roof btw.

[fierce arch]

eheh thanks, there was a nice image summing up main roof types on this channel, i was like "that, i want that" then the rest came out of necessity to have overhanging roof but without visible beams in the way

[solemn sage]

Well it came out looking great! I'm so excited about the DN teaser pic with what looks like a much steeper roof option. This game is just viking lego to me.

[fierce arch]

aah you dam right! if they really add 64° roofs (i guess would be that, up 2m / side 1m, opposite of 26°) i'll shut doors and phone and stay in for weeks. Exactly, i regret i already named my hammer+ scrapbook-world "sandbox" and not "legoland" eheheh

[placid meadow]

a solid, good-looking fence for your livestock?

[spice flicker]

https://youtu.be/Zkf0mdWroew?si=jAg1zkwvLnH7Z6Ea
A fun LEGO build that screams Valheim to me! Inspired some building techniques for me, maybe it will for you too!

[plucky tundra]

Still figuring out alot of thins I wanna do.

[old hazel]

Is there something wrong with my settings to cause everything to be this ridiculously dark for all the lights there are or is this supposed to be normal

[shrewd shadow]

No idea what your settings are but try a couple of scones. A flame gives more light than these lanterns

[sinful linden]

Looks a little dark to me but not excessively so.
Most lights in Valheim don't reach very far. Your best bet are either the blue braziers and iron torches fueled with greydwarf eyes or dvergr circlets on item stands as spotlights. Or just using more of them.

[sterile shore]

Seconding the dvergr circlet on item stand as a spotlight idea - I love using that in my builds. Depending on how you position them, you can get some truly beautiful and bright lighting ✨️

[slim knot]

We all know how to make a floor on top of a tall tower, but how about a floor on the bottom
The idea here is to use the typical Orthanc shape to hide trees within the wall, while leaving the central room empty. At the base, the central room extends almost into the stem, but further up, it narrows to avoid showing the branches. From there, it narrows further into a circle. This circle can then be extended to almost arbitrary height, by using overlapping signs with max font, and the | character.

The goal here is to create as tall of an (open) ceiling as possible.

(Signs are actually placed inside floor, so that they render. Just use space to have the chars further up.)

[peak pewter]

It looks bad, right? (translator)

[turbid berry]

instaling LEDs in castle :p

[abstract kestrel]

me when i have no idea what im doing and just want to build a sickass mountain castle

well, more like a manor of some kind

[tacit dagger]

yall buildings are crazy mine look like some rats shit😭

[abstract kestrel]

im sure theres a more effecient way to do circular floors

atleast the little barrier masks the ugly edge of the floor on the stairs

[abstract kestrel]

how would i go about capping off this circular roof?

[dense haven]

Make a square above it and add a cap roof peice or four corner roof pieces

[tropic granite]

Do you need to?

[abstract kestrel]

ideally, yeah

[tropic granite]

May I ask why?

Are you not sheltered inside?

[abstract kestrel]

because if i dont it leaves a snowy circle in the middle of my otherwise clean but unlit stairwell

[tropic granite]

Ah, so if you inset a wood floor like a half meter that should give you what you're looking for.

[abstract kestrel]

exhibit A

[tropic granite]

☝️

[abstract kestrel]

strange observation, snowflakes dont seem to come in through the top, rather they form a column where they appear to phase in/out of existence

its more noticable when animated

anyway, this works fine enough for my purposes, ty!

[tropic granite]

this == floorboard?

[abstract kestrel]

Yeah i just jammed a floor tile up there

A little wonky but it works

[tropic granite]

If you take a bit to position it, it shouldn't be "wonky" 😭 It should be barely noticeable inside and invisible outside.

[abstract kestrel]

oh it isnt noticable really

but now i have a new problem
...sigh

[tropic granite]

MEASURE TWICE

[abstract kestrel]

nah the base is measured out

[tropic granite]

Also you can just complete it with the angles and then snap the cross on there using the "Center" snapping option.

[abstract kestrel]

its just im being kinda lazy and not removing parts of the circular roof so i can accurately build

i begrudgingly removed them

[solemn sage]

i often build a false ceiling underneath the external roof and leave a gap big enough for smoke to escape the hole

[abstract kestrel]

i dont plan on putting a fire in here, thats for the main room

the circular area is just a fancy spiral stairwell

although... a kitchen in here would go so hard

i could even knock out part of the wall later and add the stone oven for pies and such

[solemn sage]

I love building Kitchens, make sure you have adequate storage nearby too

[abstract kestrel]

roofs lined up anyhow, i just wish we had better pre- plains roofing options

[solemn sage]

I quite like Thatch, its one of the easiest to mesh together for circular rooves and such. Does take a bit of work to get it looking decent with stone i agree

[abstract kestrel]

its fine i suppose

[solemn sage]

Example from my current playthrough:

[abstract kestrel]

i just miss having shingles

im taking my sweet time getting to moder so i dont have much plains time under my belt on this character

[solemn sage]

I usually manage to nab some tar early on by instigating a war between the tar blobs and a nearby fuling village. But for me is mostly for the darkwood stuff

[tropic granite]

Pre-Plains roof?

You mean stone? 😏

[abstract kestrel]

nah, thatch

[tropic granite]

But you can use stone if you don't like thatch for a "better" roof pre-Plains.

All that snow on the angled part but the side of the roof is pristinely clean 😁

Also that hotbar order 😭

[lament axle]

i like this a lot

[chilly kite]

just go get some tar you dont need to kill moder for that, plains is pretty friendly for someone in mountain gear

especially if you have the frostner

[serene heart]

Who here has an idea for a mountain base? I’d want to find the highest possible point on my map and expand from there. Possibly use rocks to raise the ground level

[serene heart]

Love this design. Current filling up an entire island of houses and neighborhoods with this design😅 it’s hard to get a solid medieval style

Got about 7-8 different house types im working with

[abstract kestrel]

Castle

[serene heart]

I wanna do a castle but the only way I’d be able to is if I wrapped it around a mountain peak, I’d want it big😅😂 that’s probably gonna be my next project tbh

[abstract kestrel]

Do it, moder aint going anywhere

[serene heart]

LOL I’ll trap moder in a hole

[solemn sage]

Thanks! I took inspiration from someone else's post here for the basic layout: #building-tips message

[solemn sage]

Have to admit, I am a little bit addicted to building Mountain castles. I'll post a bunch of them in screenshots channel soon for you to peruse for ideas but here's a quick snap of my current (wip) build:

[solemn sage]

My main advice is to try not bite off too much else you risk burning out and abandoning the project. Here's just one out of many abandoned examples of my over-ambitiousness:

[serene heart]

I envy you. My only goal is finishing every project I start. I’m trying to only have a few going at once. Your castle is like exactly what I inspire to create haha

[honest pecan]

Guys can you guys help me scale the house on the top I only need scale for the ground floor

[drifting lava]

hmmmmm

[blissful kayak]

Anyone here offering up some inspiration or ideas? Brains been a bit foggy lately and my creativity is just kind of drained. I dont want a...blocky throne room/castle.

[shrewd shadow]

Maybe something like this will suffice for the dimensions you are looking for if you make the width the same as well. added a base image and one built with the roof. second image i used some gizmo on at the entrance but only posted for a visual example.

[honest pecan]

Thanks you this really help

[shrewd shadow]

no problem :) i think that when you build the sides at the front and back you basically got what you need

[honest pecan]

[lusty epoch]

Lox Town

A midgame fortress built 100% in survival

[drifting lava]

Any design ideas for a practical dock with a storage hut? Basic/core wood. Preferably high enough to avoid the huge waves during a storm

[solemn sage]

If you can find an area where the coastline is in an inlet of sorts then you dont need to worry about waves as they will dissipate before reaching you. My dock here is less than a metre above sea level and yet never gets flooded, even during storms.

[boreal thunder]

what's the best basis for a little meadows woodsy base (that I am going to make huge)

stone? dirt with wood supports? rawdogging the floor straight on the ground?

I kind of want to make a cute little basement but unsure how to most efficiently do that without running into structural errors relatively quickly

[solemn sage]

You may already know this but I will say it anyway, the easiest way to get a nice straight walled basement is to ensure your build is built facing a cardinal point (North,South,East,West). This means you can get a nice square/rectangular hole rather than jagged edges.

[solemn sage]

I've done them all at one point or another. If your question is in regard to aesthetics then you can make them all look good, just go with whatever feels right or looks best for you. In terms of which one would survive being smashed by monsters? Raised earth walls are indestructible whereas everything else you mentioned isn't, so...

[serene heart]

Would you be angry if I copied this but changed it slightly

[serene heart]

Can you further explain what you mean? Like send a picture of a coastline because I’ve been trying forever and they always get flooded

[solemn sage]

Not at all, have at it my man!

[fiery thistle]

What are some of your favourite 'farming spawner" builds from boar to mobs to the fire things in the swamp? I wanna see them 🙂

[tropic granite]

None. Give the boars space to roam 😭

[solemn sage]

Quick and dirty vid showing what i mean, you can see at the end that you dont need to go very far inland for the waves to peter out.

[fiery thistle]

Your 'auto or semi auto' farms

[honest pecan]

Guys do you guys know how to make the roof like that

[shrewd shadow]

With gizmo :)

Maybe possible with roof corner pieces but I never tried something like this

[untold briar]

I tried some kind of pagoda styled roof once.

[silent shadow]

hey guys anyone got a stone castle build for a plains base?
im a complete noob at building so any guides/vids would be greatly appreciated

[lunar creek]

i got three questions. this a castle/fort/base for the plains im currently trying to come up with properly. using the part ive built so far. would you start raised above ground or ground level? and how would you decorate/not make this so flat. and how would you do the top/next/roof. thanks

[marble gyro]

Breeding or spawn farming?

[fiery thistle]

Any just wanna see what kind of practical builds people have done

[marble gyro]

#building-ideas message

• No barrier between breeders and food
• Breeders stay together
• Piggies always flee
• Optional auto cull
• No mods, no shift click requirement
• No 6m height requirement (with auto cull)

[vapid storm]

can be done in plains

this is base i built in the end-game so if u build it just in plains time it can be upgraded overtime

[mighty owl]

graustein is trickier than i expected. has anyone made any statues out of graustein yet?

[solemn sage]

wish we had waterfalls

[vapid storm]

go to the edge of the world if u wanna see them

[sand mango]

https://tenor.com/view/april-fools-joke-dog-its-fine-this-is-not-gif-16757454

[tidal night]

We can always build some crazy verhicles (gizmo)

[vapid storm]

how can u build in that place without getting pushed is there any command for it ?

[tidal night]

debugmode+god should do the trick

[vapid storm]

but when im flying i still get pushed

[tidal night]

I got the same with vanilla valheim but most of the time I use some mods to build
gizmo/infinity hammer/server_devcommands one of them should do the trick

[vapid storm]

ah so there is mods preventing that push ok ok

[tidal night]

meybe there is a command for that but idk this one - ghost doestn't work this way eather

[vapid storm]

if u have only god and debugmode and ghost so its 100% from mods then ill try them later

[chilly kite]

im starting to build my base now, what should i build and where?

[languid crane]

Sick build bro

[woeful haven]

hey someone can help me with some ideas I am currently creatively bankrupt
I have this area in the plains that I want to convert into my main base, currently everything is stored in the tower in the second screenshot. I need space for every workbench here and I am just clueless on what to build that would look good

[gray coral]

Dragon port

[torpid juniper]

how can i make the roof look nicer

i was going to put 2 sunroofs on left and right

[crude trout]

holy mother of god

[stoic edge]

tiny tip for going AFK, or watching tames. enemy AI doesnt see through it

[drifting lava]

im looking for ideas for a dock with a smelter/furnace area, my mind is blank today lmao

[stoic edge]

i like having docks with some cage walls, and i always love to have undergound forges that only have one vent

[primal schooner]

These are OLD pics from before I had the area finished. The dock can hold two long ships, and two carves, has a covered area mostly for ambiance, and what isn't seen in the pic is the area that's dirt on the left is where I have two charcoal burners, two smelters, and two blast furnaces. This is for a solo set-up, and works well enough. I'll try to get you an updated pic so you can see how everything is situated.

[primal schooner]

Here's a more finished view. Directly across from the docks is the smelting area, and the building on the far right is a workshop with the work bench, basic forge, and storage.

[drifting lava]

:ooo

[grand wing]

thoughts on this area should i build a base here below that broken bridge

[solemn sage]

In the Mistlands? In troll gear? With Meadows/BF tier food? You do you buddy.

All that aside, looks like a nice clear section of ML, might wanna make sure you have floorspace to make a farm area though.

[grand wing]

yes im insane

[blazing torrent]

i need advice for building design, i want it to be armory building and i have plenty of space to build it. So if you have any ideas please text

[versed ferry]

just came up with this grausten circular platform, and i think it looks really nice!

it began after i built this platform for my ballista, then i just completed the circle and kept expanding

[versed ferry]

this costs exactly 96 grausten btw

[astral onyx]

I just the sudden urge to build a 1-1 scale of the Notre Dame Cathedral

I am unsure if it even possible

[solemn sage]

I remember seeing pics on reddit of someone building it, and that was before grausten was available iirc, can probably make it even more realistic these days, especially with fire hazards turned on.

[grand wing]

any suggestion what to add next kinda liking the courtyard farm with asian thatch aesthetics

[night charm]

Has anyone tried making a Crane with grausten/black marble, ive seen a few designs but mostly all wood and stone maybe iron.

Thinking of making a pretty large Crane...

If anyone has a cool Crane build I would love some inspiration

thinking a crane feeding the snakes would be nice

[night charm]

hmmmmm maybe a bit small

[cinder pagoda]

I like ur walls can you tell me how u did them please

[blazing torrent]

https://youtu.be/Egw76oTUofM

[night charm]

update on crane/enclosure/bridge situation
Idk if thats the vibe for stairs/bridge i want for enclosure

[slim roost]

I would like some feedback on how I can make this a tiny bit more detailed

[opal kestrel]

Perhaps decorating the top stake wall with painted (or plain) shields and putting scones at the top horizontal beams, would that look good?

[slim roost]

My copper chest storage lookin real empty but ill definitely try the shield ones, but the scones ones it'd have to wait

[weak hollow]

nice and why'd you use a blood stone on the ripper (crossbow) just curious

[languid narwhal]

because I ve made all the other weapons already that use it.

@weak hollow

I have one of each Slayer, crossbow and axes.

[weak hollow]

🥲 I want Slayer so I can also listen to Slayer

but so far nice

[languid narwhal]

I like the nature ones. I like green and it also causes them to frezze up

[weak hollow]

same

I must say I love the root bow

[untold briar]

[languid narwhal]

@untold briar I have that one also

[raw night]

This was my best friend building ideas

[simple summit]

small thing but I've started incorporating this steep ladder design using finewood benches stacked on top of each other, it's surprisingly easy to climb (takes 2 jumps for this height and doesn't slide you back) and looks great

[keen lotus]

Idea : Build a idea!!!

[noble ruin]

i got lost in the idea and dont know how to finish

[magic dawn]

@odd vale cannot ping the role, sorry for ping but it's a spam

[torpid juniper]

extend it out more and turn it into a barn

[hazy shore]

Lf different dock ideas. Currently building cathedral #3 and looking for fresh dock ideas. https://www.xbox.com/play/media/CiCDNkREqi

Everytime I make docks it's usually around the same style so I'm looking to change it up a bit

LF photos or video ref thx!!!

Xbox Van no mods

[serene bane]

Im very new to Valheim, but have alot of hours in other survival games and im lving the building tech in this game. I really want to build a massive castle, but do not know where to start lol

[hazy shore]

Check out the video above I do alot of large builds and happy to help teach. I do cathedrals and castles often

@serene bane

[serene bane]

thank you so much! gent and a scholar! I usually play weekends so i may Dm you when i begin

[hazy shore]

Yes

[tall sonnet]

The site view of our future home.

[stoic edge]

i justh had an idea to make a base in the yagluth fingies. Search doesn't pull anything usefull up for yagluth in this channel, but i was hoping i could get some inspiration

[median onyx]

Anyone have refrences to a valheim build that gives, powerful, magical viking vibes?

[soft hornet]

Hello, No spoilers beyound stone/iron please <3, I'v started to build my main house, i have not reached iron/stone yet, and im wondering, anyone got any tips to make the exteror look better?

[jolly bolt]

any ideas on how i could decorate this hall, im on plains tier

[cerulean jay]

Adding depth to walls is my starting place. SmittySurvival has a good video demonstrating this on basic wooden walls. Not sure where you’re drawing a line on spoilers, so I’ll refrain from linking as you’ll see one or two decorative parts that unlock later.

[half frost]

make the top middle roof a 26 degree roof

[quasi yew]

What is your goal with the hall? If it's a feasting hall adding a long row of tables down the center with a throne at the head is a good start. Then add more chairs and some hides on the ground. If you want high comfort add a hearth in the corners with some ventilation on the roof.

[primal schooner]

There's a fair number of us that have done Stave churches, Borgund being the most common. Someone may have it saved as a blueprint if you use mods.

[hollow tapir]

You could add structural features like columns and beams, or frames supporting the roof, if you wanted some realism. It would also allow you to build higher (if needed)

eg. Columns and framing are the main ‘decoration’ in my hall

[magic dawn]

@odd vale

[pseudo nacelle]

Is that the 2 different ° beams to make it look like an arc?

[hollow tapir]

Yes!

[pseudo nacelle]

I am going to use this idea...

[crimson wasp]

same. that's really cool, @hollow tapir!

[exotic tendon]

snek, could be refined, just an idea i got today, you can walk up to the mouth at the top , the body is hollow with stairs

[sullen herald]

did a thing

[solemn summit]

I d say add depth (you can use wooden doors cause they have 3 anchor point),add lots of beams and move the roof off by 1 meters to the outside roofs always look better like that. Also the window at the top looks a bit weird. Last advice your terrace will be damage by rain rn you can either add a roof or stone under it to prevent it from taking rain dmg. You may of already have fished your house by now idk but it might help you later anyway have fun on your playthrough

[sullen salmon]

That is bloody awesome!

[acoustic remnant]

what can be built here?
warehouse, craft area, kitchen, chill area, bathhouse, bedroom, table for feasting I already have

[grim relic]

armor and weapon display area maybe?

[stoic roost]

Hello, Valheim community! 🌾

I’ve just uploaded a new video on my YouTube channel where I built a large countryside estate in the Plains biome. It’s a cozy retreat after long adventures, with a portal for fast travel, full workshop setup, kitchen, guest hall, and a peaceful attic bedroom. The video covers the full building process and layout details, so feel free to get inspired or recreate it!

I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions for future builds!

link: https://youtu.be/K0tKPUH3Ve0

[tacit shale]

Oh shiz, I was looking at your Longship Dock House recently and loved it! This would be a nice addition for when I steal the idea!

[stoic roost]

Thank you! I'm really happy to hear that — feel free to use any ideas you like!
Let me know how it turns out if you build something with it.

[outer hill]

HELP: in need of some tips or ideas to upgrade the port/harbour, any ideas? not too much decor stuff yet, only wood/stone basics.

[mystic oasis]

Maybe some wooden gates in the water, at the entrance of the dock for the boats?

[outer hill]

interesting..might serve as a ''red sign(doors opened)= dock full...imma try it out!
EDIT: Ah the docks are way too wide for the doors sadly! Its for a longboat

lol 😄

[mystic oasis]

Ah, it's MUCH wider than i thought it was 😅

[sharp citrus]

https://youtube.com/shorts/q-PWx41XxFY?si=TIM56DPweBjnvOhn

[frail canyon]

age of empire 2 refrence

[primal schooner]

Fill a cart, and break it for crates to use as decoration.

[ocean solar]

I wish we could apply some kind of early game varnish to the wooden pieces so they wouldn't turn ugly in the rain.
For example: using beeswax

[tacit shale]

I agree. Someone else suggested tar as well.

[lethal gulch]

Minecraft copper ahh

[outer hill]

are you saying my dock is badly painted?! HOW DARE YOU 😭 /s but yeah would be nice! Just unlocked ash(?) dark wood and not I'm having to rethink this dock design...

[ocean solar]

Not your fault but rain's

[low bough]

This is not made or originaly posted by me, i cant remember from which channel i had this downloaded either 😅 , is the curve on the gates possible in vanilla or is it mods that can do this?

i presume its creative mode because there is no way somebody used a boatload of for the gate

[rich birch]

Placing this here for helpful build tip

[empty rain]

it looks vanilla, just using the shift function.
also, it looks like a veteran or someone who know coding magic made this, because of the Odin Hood and cape in the picture

[fossil zinc]

You would need gizmo for the arch, that can't be done vanilla.

[elfin mirage]

This is why the game need a 64° degree roof/beam part (its result 2V x 1H, that would allow us vanilla to make good sphere/circle/arch etc...

[marble gyro]

I have a whole lot of building ideas here: #self-promotion message
Putting a Greyling in your breeder build gives you:
Guaranteed grouping of the adult breeders in one spot, no penning them in - which means they can always find the feed
Offspring will always flee from the breeding area (and fall in to the auto cull zone)
In the auto cull zone, offspring avoid the stairs and live to become adults
Adults in the auto cull zone always climb the stairs to get closer to the Greyling, and that's where the smoke is so they die
All this can be done with wood, one fire pit and a captured Greyling
The example video above is for Hens but I have designs for all the tameable animals

[valid furnace]

anyone got any goods pics or vids on an early game magic tower? I wanna make one but most
build designs I see use glass and all I have is wood, core wood and stone

[golden timber]

Romanian old tradition is to have a funky gates like these. The gate must be protekted from the rain as well.

So i always cover all the gates in my world

[outer hill]

some1 ever made a Vault or Safe in valheim and wants to share their ideas? I wanna build one under my Longhouse, like where we (our town) stores or valuables!

[lunar spire]

Thanks for this just built one based on that

[rich birch]

Nice! Link a screenshot if you like, would love to see!

[rich birch]

Love it, well done 😄

[loud cargo]

Hey fellas, looking for some inspiration for a plains farm build. any neat ideas?

[restive smelt]

Valheim ideas

My friend and I have been discussing some ideas for Valheim. I want to put them here to see what the community thinks.

1. Adding more variety to the enemies in the Mistlands. We think that the seekers could use a ranged variant. We call it the Seeker Spitter. It flies around more and hovers in place to shoot a ball that does AoE lightning damage and slows you down, but it's very weak to damage and goes down easily.

The second is a big praying mantis type that usually chills out on high rocks. That's because the rocks are generally a safe area from the seekers. It sits there and waits for you to climb up. It shouldn't be very tough or do a lot of damage but it should have a good knockback.

2. The raids are more difficult at night.
   This is a simple modification but quite fun in our opinion. The mobs are usually more dangerous at night, but this doesn't extend to the raids and we think it should.

3. An ocean rework. We suggest adding randomly floating boats with "pirates". The smaller Karve only has skeletons, but the bigger Longship can have Draugrs.

The second idea are Ocean biome "caves". You sail around and find a small rock pillar that you can climb and maybe find a Sunken Cave. The idea is that you hit the Swamp biome at the same time as the Ocean. Therefore the level of difficulty in the Sunken Cave should be the same.

4. The fulling patrols in the Plains that spawn at night can be led by a Shaman or a Berserker. This idea comes from the lack of those enemies outside the villages and for the sake of difficulty they shouldn't have any stars.

So here they are. These are our ideas. We're looking forward to your responses fellow Vikings.

[naive wedge]

any ideas what i should make?( i got portal room,house,storage,smelting area,fishing dock,farm and was just thinking of sum new to build(Im in Plains))

[naive cliff]

you can separate the crafting houses into different builds

you can have a build with only kiln, other one with only standard furnace, other with the high furnace.

you can also have only a forge crafting build

other with only the workbench and its upgrades

other with black forges, the mage crafting thing,

kitchen house , crop house

lumberjack house (your tree farm)

add different small standard comfort houses

your main comfort only house

[naive wedge]

ohhh well

[naive cliff]

only with separating crafting areas into more non functional builds you can build an entire village xd

[naive wedge]

#building-screenshots message

i have made it kinda castle type with towers and platform where all my things are

[naive cliff]

you can extend your castle by adding external walls, without destroying the already built walls

to give it more castle vibes you could add outside the walls a large farm area with small houses for the farmers

yea the design you gave it to keep those houses close to other gives that vibe that the castle is constantly in change and populated i like it!

[naive wedge]

thank you 😄

[naive wedge]

oh yeah how to get more stone height cap

since i made the towers as high as possible but they are still a little short

[naive cliff]

you got me there no idea xd, but it seems what you are asking is for a command perhaps?

if you looking to increase your tower with materials here's a couple of options:

iron wood beams with the stone walls, it gives a decent height for your towers

grausten pillars if im not mistaken has a modest structural height integrity which can support higher heights for your tower. Test it along with your iron beams if they work well together

[naive wedge]

got it

[naive cliff]

if you are looking to have a nice height with nice structural integrity try building the tower around a pine tree

those trees are quite huge and they will provide a blue structural Integrity all the way up, which of course you can place iron wood beams to extend your tower size side by side

[dapper trench]

does anyone have a blacksmith build idea

[waxen field]

what if you try to replicate minecraft blacksmith structure

[dapper trench]

hmm not bad but still kinda hard xd

[waxen field]

take inspire of the build and make a part stone part wood place

[weak stirrup]

Hi friends
I need a little help
This is my base in my Hardcore world. I have the enemy waves set to maximum and they come up to twice a day. My problem is the following: I don't know what kind of bridge I can make here so they don't break it.

I've thought and thought, but anything I build will be broken by the constant waves. Any ideas you could recommend please?

Basically to enter and exit comfortably with the cart

[fickle flare]

If u have the gizmo mod, what i usually do is place doors horizontally making a platform with them

I think u could also make a small gap in the bridge

[weak stirrup]

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try it.

[fickle flare]

Gates not doors actually

[naive cliff]

use wood beams separated each other by 1m

the enemies won't attack it or get close to it and you can use as a bridge to cross

[dapper root]

Closest I've come so far to an actual drawbridge is this #building-ideas message

[hot marlin]

any docks/pier build around here

[lusty epoch]

Foarte nice!

[golden timber]

Some old overgrown Deutsch town castle ramparts

Achievable with Val build mechanics

[plucky linden]

I think sometimes my builds are good and then I see these and go...nope, mine are shit lol

[ancient lark]

Same lol

[vagrant kettle]

One day... I will build it.
-# (Naples's)

[plucky linden]

This looks amazing

[desert skiff]

It does

[hot marlin]

Hello! I think I reclaimed too much land, and now I have a problem on what to do with these much space. This dock can cater 2 drakar-sized ship.

Dock seems empty, I just need your thoughts. Thank you!

I do plan making these

• wisp fountain
• a "viewing deck" of some sort
• a dock house with some Cart parking

[dapper root]

Barely enough room for a proper dining hall and throne room but small houses are nice too 😄

[hot marlin]

We already have our main hall, teleporter room, our own houses, kitchen.

You know what, I think I'll have them transfer the forging area so it's beside the smelting area 🤣

[dapper root]

If it's just for a dock area... You could add an inn for the sailors, or a market, or just some random houses

[hot marlin]

Thanks mate!

[tender current]

I need ideas for a Mistlands build. I play on a dedicated server with a bunch of friends and the two guys that kinda run the server are running a building contest to see who can build the best house for each biome; I’ve already got meadows, Black Forest, swamp, mountain, and plains done but got major writers block for Mistlands and Ashlands. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[hot marlin]

You can never go wrong with the black castle

[strong belfry]

#building-screenshots message maybee a Forge or Storage House for the goods coming from the Ships

[obsidian lantern]

Do upside down pagodas hanging from one of the large rocky outcroppings.

[night charm]

If I had the time to build them these would be my bases at each biome.

Dwarven vault in mist lands would be dope

[glacial scarab]

yall what do i do here w my roof
I dont mean add overhang and all that i mean what to place, like, right in the red triangle....

[dapper root]

Some windows? A balcony? An attic? Bunch of trophies? The possibilities are vast 😄

[golden timber]

I use Meduseld as reference when building longhouses

You can replaace the lower side with stone if so, 2 big pillars as support and one large beam going end to end. Then you just add

[vapid peak]

has that actually been built in game ?

[modern kelp]

Scaled down a bit, but yes. https://youtu.be/CmjphZrEAeA?feature=shared 3:02

[vapid peak]

Thanks !

[modern kelp]

Its not a full build guide, more of speed build with thought process but still you can get the idea atleast.

[golden timber]

yes, made a few variations as well.

add rooms on the wings. Add towers at the end corners. Play with roof windows etc

[plush shore]

I CRAVEEEE that we are able to make our own runestones by time the game is fully realised. let us put our mark on the world like ULF and Astrid did!

[primal schooner]

How have I NOT seen this till now? Admittedly, it was on my list to attempt as a build, but I'm still a bit "crispy" after completing Orthanc (10 months and around 500 hours of pushing designs with dev commands on one build will do that). And I still need to complete the rework of instance reduction via iron removal to get numbers down to a more manageable number, and fix a few errors that are still present.

[round sun]

has anybody made a museum build here? i'm thinking of building one that displays each and every trophies and items from each biomes

i.e. Meadows
-. Eikthyr Trophy
-. Deer Trophy
-. Boar Trophy
-. Neck Trophy
-. Wood
-. Finewood
-. Stone
-. Flint
-. Raspberries

[tropic granite]

I've never done a specific museum. But I usually have a hallway leading to my throne room that is lined with all the weapons and armor from each biome to show progression.

[round sun]

yeah i kinda wanted to do a museum but i'm pretty uncreative about it lmao, and i think just showing off the trophies isn't going to satisfy me enough

i want to display everything the biome has

[tropic granite]

That's how I do it. There are the 2 armor stands showing both armors (though I guess 3 now for BF) and on the wall behind them going upwards is all the weapons.

[round sun]

would you mind posting your build?

[tropic granite]

Yes because I haven't played in a long time, and started again last night. Which means I wiped my old world 😄 So what you want cannot be done. Sorry 🙁

[vapid peak]

Same , I have just started back and the server we rented was wiped months ago . What we had done is the armor stands as you progressed with the weapons / trophies behind on the wall for each biome.

[cursive elm]

Is there any pretty Wolf pen idea, build, blueprint or whatever could help me decide what I'm gonna do with my dawgs?

[stray plaza]

not for wolves, but I have this tiny hut of sorts for my boars: it's basically an octagon (rotate each side twice) and the walls are there only to prevent damage from bats/wraiths. You can probably do without walls since wolves can fight back, I guess?

you can see I have another one on the far right as well, more than 10 meters away for maximum yields: I keep 2 boars in each and just use 4 berries total to get 24 leathers scraps and 24 boar meat 😂

[untold briar]

Ah, "The boars are happy".

[stray plaza]

I sure hope they are!

took me quite a while to find a design that was efficient, but not necessarily an eyesore to look at

originally there were no walls at all, but they all died TWICE in the span of like... 30 minutes because of two different raids...

[cursive elm]

Any beehive build? Not necessarily a big and impressive one, just one with natural looks.

[shrewd shadow]

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=c846489d7201f9ae&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIemkjk18Cn72Gp24fGkjjh6wQFVCbKXb4P6swJy4x5wjmC_909EqiJuKoJVBAt1bQqxuAxTVm5FaXw1YXOj1toa8ncfxNzh8ymSC6erNMQMd3J8Ncs7DFjZ2Fw-WTZE5QJfNJhhWGF3qsB5rSAkjoZagT3x60&q=valheim+beehive+build&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_4sehg4aQAxVfzgIHHdwwFmYQtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=416&bih=731&dpr=2.98#ip=1

[spring schooner]

i don't think googling is the point of this channel

[spice flicker]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1202264206628630548/1301031717695520768/20241015232848_1.jpg?ex=68dff1f5&is=68dea075&hm=56c678932a2f48a85f0735edb7262f1e8fad5b26006d0226dc67ed1d80a32b9d&

[spring schooner]

one of mine ^_^

[stray plaza]

yeah, I also place them on some sort of platform like that, it makes it easier to collect the honey

[untold briar]

I usually have this design for beehives.

[tropic granite]

Wait how do they not need more space in the circles??

[untold briar]

I'm not sure, but that works. There is open space above tho.

[stray plaza]

I think the orange lines probably turn green because the hive is just slightly more outside?

[untold briar]

I'm not sure how much open space they require but that has worked so far.

Had to check tho, but none of them said they'd need more open space.

[stray plaza]

well, I was only counting the planar rays, but if the 45-degrees ones come into play, then yeah, you're definitely safe since beehives need less than 60% of cover

even assuming the orange lines remain red, you effectively have 12/17 rays without cover, which leaves you with slightly less cover than 40%, which is the threshold for beehives

[untold briar]

Right, good to have some new info, thanks!

[slim knot]

If the beams start inside another object, that is not collision. They need to enter it.

..I think

[stray plaza]

really?

then that's even better, since there are extra green rays lol

[stoic roost]

Hello, Valheim community! ✨
I’ve just uploaded a new Valheim build video where I recreated the Riverwood Trader from Skyrim!
This cozy medieval shop captures the classic atmosphere of Riverwood — complete with a merchant’s counter, living quarters upstairs, and that warm Skyrim vibe we all love.
If you enjoy Skyrim builds or just love detailed Valheim architecture, check it out — maybe it’ll inspire your next project!
I’d really appreciate your feedback and ideas for what I should recreate next.
💬 If the video reaches 50+ likes, I’ll try to rebuild the entire Riverwood village!

🔗 Watch here: https://youtu.be/8_XJpNJI5Hk

[tropic granite]

#self-promotion

[cursive elm]

Little natural looking beehive corner. Thought about using Valheim’s building tools creatively.

[silk otter]

Hey Vikings, I want to share my labyrinth, an area that took 16 days straight to level the terrain, and then building everything took more days and hours. Unfortunately, it's a very instance-heavy area. After completion, it reached 80,000 instances. It was difficult to walk with all the lag. When I walked to the center of the labyrinth, I reached 80,000 instances. I tried to reduce all the details in the entire labyrinth to make it smaller, but it didn't help much; it currently has 50,000 instances. I'm upset because there's no way to play smoothly within the challenges I created. Anyway, that's it, my Hunter's Labyrinth. I hope the developers can optimize it one day, thank you.

[strong belfry]

i tried to built it , not the best tho

[hot marlin]

Saw this spot for my plains base. Been staring at it since i've saw this spot after we've raided the tower. All I ever had in mind was to put my house on top of those 2 pillars with a boat house under.

[golden timber]

Id keep the pillars and make a statue of Rhodes thing as legs. Widen the canal and slap a castle on that top

[halcyon nest]

Awesome place for a house, you can make marina bay sands. Build a few more buildings on the left island and some tower or something at the top of the hill

[hot marlin]

thinking of making the cliff a terraces but idk

[reef pilot]

Maybe tiered farm terraces? Could look really nice

[tired pumice]

ideas for a workbench area in the meadows? Iron age

[hot marlin]

Yeah! I'll try hoping those rocks can be cultivated.

[sharp narwhal]

Putting banners inside your walls

[storm smelt]

ngl. thats genious.

[naive cliff]

i love it! but i find it expensive for deco tho, imo

[little plaza]

Foind this beatiful piece of land rigt at the edge to Darkwoods. Any nice build dieas?

[naive cliff]

sawmill like the ones from skyrim in riverwood, the one next to the river if my mind is not playing me

[upper sandal]

Anyone have ideas for nice fireplace covers that don't look too "heavy"? Like if you're building a tiny little hut somewhere, too small to fit a fireplace inside and want one outside that works even in rain - but again looks as light as possible

This kind of vibe:

[white scaffold]

I think that depends on what you consider looking light. I have two concepts for you: 1. a tiny hut, workbench not enough cover for usage, 2. even tinier hut but with usable workbench. - Oh and the workbench is used as wind-cover for the fire.

[upper sandal]

That's a neat little hut 🙂 Workbench and/or bed etc were a bit beyond my scope for it but still neat to see

[storm smelt]

Reminds me, i need to test if i can cover fireplaces with just a 45° wood beam.

[round sun]

has anyone ever attempted making the Punic Port of Carthage?

something like this in a dedicated RP server would be so cool

[steady trail]

Ill build something like this eventually might be a month before I get to it

[vocal elbow]

that would be sick 👀

[round sun]

don't let any Romans see it though

[vocal elbow]

carthago delenda est 💀

[round sun]

😭

[vocal elbow]

🧂 salt op

[round sun]

Salthage

[vocal elbow]

lmao

if a server ends up getting setting up for that definitely lmk 👀

[round sun]

me too, if anyone ever starts building this thing lemme join in

[steady trail]

I might ive been procrastinating making a modpack for a crossplay server that has the expand_world mods on it for a slower progression

[golden timber]

3D Krak des Chevaliers layour if anyone is up for the task.

South side

The bridge is an aquaduct to fill the inner moat with water. That wont be achievable :p

[frozen lake]

Bet, I’ll start as soon as possible, although it will be quite the challenge

[frozen lake]

At the very least I’ll take inspiration from it

[desert skiff]

Build the "stoneblood saga" world and send it to me

[potent condor]

Old/Generic Norse Longehouse idea, can place fire in the middle and make a makeshift chimney on the little corner slits

Heorot inspired mead-hall

[vast helm]

Basically bees need to not be trapped either by terrain or objects because the beehive "technically" has open sides two of them it treats it as fine, that's my understanding of it anyway take it with a grain of salt

[raw stirrup]

Do y'all think this little island could be a good spot for a base?

[grim relic]

Thats plenty of space for a base the one south of it could be a good option as well

[raw stirrup]

The one on the south looks easy to raid proof, lol

Only issue is I don't get the nice black forest ambience

[grim relic]

Thats true you could have a base secluded in the middle of the island or go for more of a coastal base with a dock or something maybe

[raw stirrup]

Coastal base is tempting

[grim relic]

the island is large enough to house multiple bases if you chose to do so, one could be a farm/animal breeding base with the other one being your main base of operations

[final sequoia]

uuuuuuhhhhh, i like that seed! Could you share?

[upper sandal]

The seed is in the bottom of the pic... 🙂

[final sequoia]

oh boy do i feel stupid i didnt even notice 🤦🏻‍♂️

[modest glade]

The spot just to the left with the nice inland lake/lagoon & bonemass & yagluth could be a nice mid game base location with sailing along that inner river coast

[soft flower]

the blue island if you want a plains farm area

[rustic trench]

you can do the housing out of vertical beams, a circle of those

[stoic roost]

Hey Vikings! 👋
I built the Legendary Riverwood Tavern from Skyrim in Valheim — this is just part one of my project to recreate the whole Riverwood village.
Check it out and let me know what you think! 🎥 https://youtu.be/L2WXIb3et3M

[spice flicker]

Man, your builds are really cool!

[shy grotto]

does someone have a starter base idea for under 600 wood because im not the greatest builder

[quasi yew]

Does anyone have any cool elder basses?

I want to make a fort above and below the altar

[stoic roost]

thank you! 🙏

[vast helm]

I know im late but islands are usually good when they're not super sized the island to the south of that is better

[tropic granite]

Anyone done a build inside of a Jotunn skull?

[vernal basin]

I threaten to every time I hollow one out, but never make good on it.

[tropic granite]

I don't think I could do a whole base around one, but it would be metal AF to hollow one out and make it a room specifically for a Galdr Table.

[primal schooner]

I have a set of upright ribs that I plan on using, probably as an entrance. Not sure yet.

[clear notch]

what mods did u use for that

[slim knot]

That looks vanilla.

The lower level windows look like crystal and stools.

[junior perch]

Any ideas on how a base inside this hole could look like? Its literally a mountain well on the highest mountain all around the biome and even above a mountain cave. Im thinking about widening the top part a little with stone and then digging the hole bigger and bigger underneath the stones to get a nice comfy hole in the middle of a mountain. Maybe i could even go to the borders of the walls and build a mountain window. What do you guys think?

[tropic granite]

Did you find out that the hole goes about 4m deeper if you pop the floor out?

[junior perch]

Yes. First thing i ever found out about them. And from that point you can dig another 8m down cause its 8 from the natural ground down

Literally the deepest possible hole on this world i think

[tropic granite]

I am in the process of completely replacing every piece of this one with Black Marble.

[junior perch]

Oh yea this would be my other question. Whats the best stone for such a build? Strongest, prettiest whatever

[tropic granite]

Black Marble is the best stone in the game.

[junior perch]

Nice. Guess then i gotta replace it all too once i know what exactly to do

[tropic granite]

Doing it one piece at a time so it is an exact recreation. Takes a good long while but am hoping is worth.

[junior perch]

For sure. I just checket the depth of my hole here. Its 40m

Im starting to think the seed i have here is really really good. I found so many thing that are rare. And then this. How lucky can one be

[tropic granite]

I am not going to dig it any deeper though, because the actual replaceable bits only go down the extra 4m. So I will move the floor down to the lowest part of the generated wall.

[junior perch]

Why don’t you just continue the wall from where it stoped all the way down?

[tropic granite]

Because then I wouldn't be replacing 😉

[junior perch]

Why is that important though?

[tropic granite]

Why is anything important?

Because we deem it to be.

[junior perch]

So you just don’t want to go deeper? Alr. Makes sense and is a valid argument.

I just realized I can’t widen the hole. Since the rest of the walls wasn’t naturally that deep.

[tropic granite]

Ye. Can only go down.

I have to go farm more marble though 😄

[junior perch]

Nope. Not even that’s possible anymore. I literally maxed out the room down there to the max

[junior perch]

Alr. Have fun. I gotta go too

But before i do, imma just repeat the question and, also here's the proof. Build using 4m poles and every pole-end a lantern. 40m deep hole in the middle of the mountain.

My question is: What would you guys suggest me to do with it? Any ideas?

[tropic granite]

Finished replacing all the stone bits with black marble 🙏

[tropic granite]

@junior perch covered. Now time to extend tower up and connect to main building. But deep in the basement of this will be the secrets of the Galdr 🧙‍♂️

[junior perch]

Damn. You covered that hole better than I ever managed before

[tropic granite]

It's just the normal floor pattern that is on the bottom with the stair bit cut out 😄

[junior perch]

Oh. Guess then I should not have removed it before

[tropic granite]

😂

[junior perch]

😂 perfect

[junior perch]

Aw man. That’s gonna be a drag

[junior perch]

Wait. Your gonna make the tower above ground higher too? Good idea actually. Idk why I always kept these wells as hidden as possible. I could build a neat little stone tower. As high as I can. Then I might actually be able to build a tower over 60m or so deep. From top to bottom. Wich means more floors. Wich also means more space. I think imma do that

[tropic granite]

Thing starts on the ground so ironwood supports will have maximum structural points to assist everything going upwards.

I'm building an entire mountain base up here 😂

[junior perch]

Maybe. Just maybe I should take down all of the well but the top part and build it anew using ironwood and hiding it in the stone

[junior perch]

@tropic granite sry for the ping

What do you think? Should i continue like this or switch to the twisted rotation design it originally had?

[junior perch]

Well then. I dug the well a little out. The top wooden floor is where the well originally was. I intend on making the tower as big from this point on as i prebuild it with wood below alr. But theres a small problem with the snap points. Any ideas how i can fix that? Or is it maybe because i switched from stone to wood? Cause if you look closely not all the wood walls connect to each other.

[tropic granite]

Ok someone with a degree in geometry explain this:

Single anchor point. Every beam is exactly 2 rotations. Yet somehow it is getting FURTHER away from the wall?

[empty rain]

math...

[tropic granite]

@junior perch https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/1ottq1j/build_guide_how_to_replicate_the_sunken_stone/ Link is simpler than typing a book in here.

It includes how to do the stairs perfectly as well.

So happy right now...

[tropic granite]

Got the cap a bit cleaner on this go around.

Final adjustment: This is the most floor you can have. Anything inside that red triangle stops you from actuallybeing able to walk down the stairs.

[junior perch]

Neat. Hope it turns out as good as I imagine it. Thx a lot

[quartz wren]

just finished this roof. Don't like the way I can't put any arches in the inner corners of the stairs there. I could go crazy with even more iron wood, or do you think it looks alright as is?

[tropic granite]

@rich birch all the screenshots are here?

[rich birch]

I don't know if it's cutting off the gallery but I don't think I see a finished tower here

[tropic granite]

I'm not making one? Just made a single floor following that replication and am seeing what can fit in.
This project was for other people 😄

[rich birch]

Ohh, yeah I mentioned seeing a finished one my bad

[vernal basin]

What is your tried and true method of putting spawn-blocking items in a build yet making them look decorative enough that they don’t detract from the build?

[solemn sage]

spamming these

either that or make loads of simple little round circular huts with benches inside, helps make a village build look more populated too.

[junior perch]

The normal fire you can build without a hammer. Place them all over the place and bury them in the ground. Or let them burn until they stop and let them just sit there.

[junior perch]

Do you guys know a better way of hiding my tables inside of stone? Like here im hiding the black forge but theres still a small part showing on the right side

[tropic granite]

Are you trying to make it useable or just hidden?

[junior perch]

Both

[tropic granite]

Why hide 😭 It looks amazing 😭

[junior perch]

I know. But you see. THe crafting table does not. Black forge looks good but i still wanna hide it for a experimental build

I want to try hide everything in the walls and see how the room will look

[tropic granite]

Valid. I got nothing though.

[junior perch]

K

Ah. Sry

[shell bone]

Use 1x1 floor to increase or decrease height by fixed amount.
It's more consistent compared to eyeing height on the 2x2 wall.
But for very fine tuning, 2x2 wall is still the best option.

For black forge specifically, u can hide it like it's part of the marble floor.
So it looks something like flowing lava channel on the floor.

Looks better and easily to access rather than hiding it completely and rely on invisible hitbox to access it.

[junior perch]

Alr. Got it thx. What I noticed so far is that for example the way I have it rn you can walk up to it and use it with no problem. There’s a small section of it’s curve looking out the stone wich makes you able to interact easily. If I use your tips and this little section I might be able to build a special and custom table for a home on wich you can craft anything. All the crafting stuff inside it. And maybe even a multi kitchen. With the cauldron and all the others build inside

Thx for the help

[tropic granite]

How much you can floor the tower with stone/marble:

With grausten:

With wood:

[tropic granite]

Wood patterns overlap too much so I'm trying to decide between the stone/marble and the grausten floor @junior perch HALP

[junior perch]

Hm. I think with grausten it looks best

Kinda fuses with the rest of the build

[tropic granite]

Ty. It also breaks up the color so you don't have 360 degrees of blackness. Floor being a lighter tone gives it a nice pop imo.

Now to see how tall I can push this thing and screenshot it for @rich birch

[junior perch]

Np. Happy to help even if it’s smt simple as that

[tropic granite]

I tried with both wood floors but it just looks bad when you have to clip the edges compared to how the rock floors handle it.

[junior perch]

Yes. I know that problem just to well. Imma make a suggestion out of this actually

[latent blade]

Newer player here, What are some ideas for a center piece, I have a simple farm house that's rounded and has all my crafting stuff in the 3 corners, comfort area/bed in the 4th corner, and kitchen against the back wall with the hearth. My center is open and empty and I just can't seem to find a centerpiece I like. Any suggestions are nice, I'm just getting a foothold in mistlands for my "tech level" if you will.

[charred nova]

How much space do you have?

[latent blade]

@charred nova Dead center would be 2 floor tiles by 2. Otherwise I think at least 4x4 or maybe even max 8x8, sorry for late response currently at work.

[charred nova]

Circular black forge setup with four black forge tables

[tropic granite]

Am I aura-farming or is this shit?

[quartz wren]

needs more stuff like a cool roof, but is a solid base

[left oasis]

Right of the doorway or across?

upgrading my room from my previous "room"

Also not very happy with the roof, i think it would look much better with the next level of roofing, the one using tar

which i havent gotten before, but ill work towards just for this lol

[fair ruin]

Does anyone know a good place to make a permanent base in the meadows with somewhere to dock a ship? Really struggling to find a decent location since starting the game two weeks ago 🙁

[junior perch]

Find a dverger village with a dock. Then replace the parts with your own and you got it

[fair ruin]

By Dverger village do you mean the derelict half broken structures around the map?

[junior perch]

Yes. There are some next to water and they have a dock

[quaint hatch]

Dvergr docks are in Mistlands, not meadows. @fair ruin don't worry so much about making a perfect base in Meadows. Think of it like playing around to figure out how to make a good base. You'll find better locations elsewhere.

[junior perch]

Oh. Sry. My brain made a switchero with meadows and mistlands. I had mistlands in mind while reading meadows. Sry

[tropic granite]

Hard for us to tell you a place unless one of us is somehow on the exact same seed as you, no?

[rich birch]

Meadows are typically a fairly flat biome with plenty of clearings and access to water, so it's surprising to read this. Could we see a screenshot of your meadows biome so far?

[fair ruin]

Morning All (sorry for the slow reply and thank you for the help)

So it turns out I’ve found a nice little spot in the Meadows right on the edge of a Black Forest which is working quite well

Problem was that I’ve never sailed or used a ship yet so I’ve just learnt that I’m probably still in the first 5% if not less of the map 🙂

[storm smelt]

With the right seed and no exploring for the sake of exploring i think you can beat the game having explored less than 5% of the map

[fair ruin]

By seed do you mean server/account? sorry, understanding the terminology on this game seems very different to others!

[storm smelt]

The world is randomly generated, your seed represents your specific instance of the randomly generated world.

In this case, by "the right seed" i mean a randomly generated world where the important world locations like boss altars and such are relatively easy to find and close to spawn.

[fair ruin]

Ohhh so all of our maps are different??! That’s quite cool…

[untold briar]

Each different seed takes place in one large master map that has certain land formations, world gen randomizes biomes in their range they appear and all the POIs and locations that can be found.

[left oasis]

Any ideas on how to top off my second tower? (its meant to be shorter)

i may lower the smaller tower too depending on what caps it off

i was thinking maybe just a classic ridges for cover, but dont know how i can prevent rain rotting all the wood below when its not covered by a roof

[tame laurel]

I can't tell if the karve on top of my workshop looks good or goofy

any opinions?

[dapper root]

Why not both

[stray plaza]

doesn't look bad to me tbh

[tame laurel]

Valid

[untold briar]

Goof/goody.

[left oasis]

Should i add a port or no? (port or no port may be in a spot outside of the inner manor walls like an outer town)

[tame laurel]

You should
The first design looks solid

[left oasis]

yeah i think so

Working on a grand hall/viking throne room

Really trying to get as much ornate wood detailing as i can, to show the sense of wealth/power this person has

[hot marlin]

any chandelier build ideas out there? found something on youtube but those are a bit not-to-fancy for my preference for a church build.

[clear notch]

does anyone have any ideas as to what i could put in empty space inside a colloseum

[copper perch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjG--LLxXFk

[indigo yarrow]

Ik it's just me being a proud asatro (My faith is Nordic Mythology) but i'm a bit dissapointed to see a christian church in Valheim😔

No offense ofc😁

Btw i have no idea for a chandelier build for you sadly, as i'm a bit rusty in the building area in Valheim currently bc it's been a long time ago. Sorry😔

[left oasis]

Thinking i may extend the wall, just feel like the garrison tower might feel a bit odd in that spot, but idk

The shape will be nicer though

[left oasis]

i think it was a good move

[hot marlin]

im offended.

just kidding

[left oasis]

Trying something different, im conflicted about the shipyard

ill probably re design the boat later

[indigo yarrow]

I like what you're building

[left oasis]

Thanks

First "creative" build

[indigo yarrow]

Oh. Interesting. Well then it should be much easier for you to build

I have built a village before, 3 times i think it is by now

Planning on creating another and then create a discord server to that world

[inland drum]

Just finished my first mega base😩

[indigo yarrow]

My latest viking village

Ofc i still need to build more buildings but this is my progress

[indigo yarrow]

I'm planning on creating a new village, a fully realistic one, so you guys have any ideas on what i should add to my village this time?

[tropic granite]

My only idea is probably something you already do 😭

And that is make an individual build dedicated to each workbench type.

[indigo yarrow]

I don't actually do that, ofc for a few, but most of the workbemch types are in the blacksmiths in my builds

Things like the workbench, forge, black forge, etc, but the magical workbenches is not in my blacksmiths (I apoligize if i didn't use the right names, i currently don't remember all of them, but i hope you know what i mean)

[tropic granite]

Yeah, I have a dedicated "workbench" building that uses all the upgrades as decorative pieces in the main room and has its own storage wing.
Then I have my "forge" building with all those upgrades as decorative pieces and on-suite storage.
Then I have my "galdr" building and you get the picture. 😁

[indigo yarrow]

Yeah

I do it a bit like that, but mix the workbench building with the forge and stuff, but galdr i would keep somewhere else

[quaint hatch]

I'm planning to make a nice high tower for mine. Glass all around and dvergr spiral stairs up.

[river solstice]

Brewery for meads. Bakery. Kitchen. Smithy. Mage tower. etc

Barnyard

[indigo yarrow]

Thank you for the ideas. I had only thought on some of them, but thank you

[hard folio]

Is there a mod or a command to get all the building blueprints?

[river solstice]

I know the mod PlanBuild let's you copy buildings via a blueprint.

[hard folio]

Im sorry i didnt clarify what i mean i mean like all for example all roofs and stuff yk? All blueprints you unlock throughout the game

[river solstice]

Ah, I know what you mean. If you use devcommands and then type debugmode into the console, you can then hit B with your hammer equipped to enable all build pieces and no cost building.

[hard folio]

Thanks alot! Have a great day!!!

[grim relic]

not very large but heres a simple one i like to use using a hanging brazier with shaman trophies

[left oasis]

How can i keep the fire burning during rain

[left oasis]

yeah i know the roof cover style, but ive seen people have the open top fireplace that still works

[rich birch]

I would guess that the fire just isn't directly under the chimney in those cases, I can't see it working another way.

[left oasis]

you may be right, ill probably try find an example i saw

[tropic granite]

You make the chimney wider and then alternate beams going up.

Enough space for the smoke to snake back and forth but technically "blocking" the rain.

[brisk nest]

I just shove a 45 degree roof or two inside the chimney

Making sure that theres always enough room for the smoke to pass through

[tropic granite]

Roof thing makes it a meter wider than if you just use the beams iirc.

[left oasis]

Could try this

[left oasis]

Smoke well.. can't pass through

I don't think atleast for this space

[toxic geyser]

Here's a pirate's cove I built. I have other builds like revamped mountains with ice dragon themes with gigantor caves

[brisk nest]

Ah, I use a 1 by 2 meter hole, and clip the roof inside the chimney as it's getting built

And cover a 1 by 1 per roof with enough space between

[left oasis]

that may work

[vast helm]

Im looking for some vaguely wooden structure inspiration

[swift sentinel]

is there a godmode build into the game? i watched some building videos and he just flys around. I dont see any setting for that though? only builder mode

[vernal basin]

admin commands

[swift sentinel]

is that the console f5 thing?

[vernal basin]

I believe so. It's been literal years since I used it last.

[swift sentinel]

ah ic lol

[kindred horizon]

yes, if you already have in steam put "-console" start the game click f5 and there put "fly" (sorry for my broken english, this is my second lenguage)

to build without stations just write in the console "debugmode" to desactivate write the same again

[honest mesa]

Hey Gjall! I’m not sure if I invented a new way to make steep roofs, but hey, it is a way. And just in time to be made obsolete by the Deep North update soon, lol. I put together a little tutorial so you can enjoy making steep roofs the hard way, too, at least until deep north drops.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fh0OnDa6AeA

[swift sentinel]

building in valheim almost seems like ur builkding with the snapping tool and finding work arounds / tech

[crisp monolith]

you can put and hide a piece of wood like 45 degree inside at almost top of the chimney.

[north seal]

Anyone got some small wood/stone cookhouse builds/ideas?

[midnight condor]

It's not exactly "small", but this is a pavilion-style cookhouse I designed in one of the worlds I play in:
I can sketch out the layout for ya!

[mossy geyser]

how do u get those walls?

[midnight condor]

Afaik, I got the decorative "fencing" with the wood walls and such

[swift sentinel]

is there anyway around these edges on the outline? i tried the other snapping so it wouldn't do that but then the layout just feels too small. I like the current size.

i am limited to swamp building materials rn too

[blazing girder]

Trying to come up with a 2 person bedroom idea

[blazing girder]

currently, I have like a round Yurt I'm building

[tropic granite]

#mods-screenshots

[low bough]

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/n063df/how_to_build_round_towers_with_a_staggered_stone/ here ya go buddy

[hollow shore]

Guys im currently in the iron age with my friend and we're planning to move our main base somewhere else because spending 30 mins transporting iron with a boat is risky and depressing, any layout ideas for a nice looking village?

[vernal basin]

Decide what features are important to you: scenery, nearby resources, access to water, whatever. Explore until you find a good spot. ‘Tis the Viking way!

[hollow shore]

I mean building layout, not location 🥲

I can spend a decent amount building but im usually out of ideas

[vernal basin]

Ahh

[stoic roost]

Hey Vikings! 👋
I’ve just finished building the Riverwood Blacksmith’s house and forge from Skyrim in Valheim,
this is the next part of my project to recreate the whole Riverwood village.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
🎥 https://youtu.be/W6sRDHwk6Dc

[tough creek]

Honestly, it’d be cool to recreate High Hrothgar from Skyrim on top of the biggest snowy mountain in Valheim.

[clear notch]

anyone got an idea of what i could do for a black forest base on a cliff?

[tough creek]

A walmart

[vernal basin]

Corewood supports making it look like it's just barely resisting the sweet siren song of gravity

[left oasis]

Thought this was a building for a sec and I was in pure awe

Unrelated lol

[tough creek]

Well, I do hope to make it in Valheim someday.

[left oasis]

Any cool main workbench building ideas?

[tough creek]

First I’ll have to find the tallest mountain

[left oasis]

That'd be awesome

[left oasis]

Good luck

[tough creek]

Thank you

[left oasis]

Related to this I've made a sorta outdoor style blacksmith, a tavern for the kitchen workstation and I was thinking maybe some sorta carpenter themed main workbench design

[storm smelt]

While that is the thematically correct way to do it, i dont think the tallest mountain has any good spots to build high Hrothgar on it

I think the 2nd tallest is better
For this.
Look up the valheim master map, the largest mountains on it are named. You want the one called hook.
Polaris and thorn are not good build locations for this

[tough creek]

How so? The Throat of the World is the tallest mountain in Cyrodiil. But High Hrothgar is not even at the top of the mountain. So to be lore-accurate, I should find the tallest mountain and make the build a bit lower than the top.

[storm smelt]

Yes.
However, you are a bit limited by the +-8 m terrain modification limit.
The tallest mountain is a bit of a big spike without areas that are big enough and able to be flattened the amount you would need.

You need a ledge to start from, and the 2nd highest mountain has one iirc

[tough creek]

I mean the 2nd biggest one would work as well, as the Throat of the World is the 2nd biggest mountain of Tamriel

Wait no. The Throat of the World is the biggest of Skyrim, but the 2nd biggest of Cyrodiil

[round cloak]

Rough Idea for a mid-game plains build. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
Edit: we use Plant Everything Mods so I can have pretty farms.

[reef pilot]

Would move the storage and smithing to be closer to the docks from a practical PoV if you’re shipping in a lot of iron / other bits from sea, to save carting past the arena? (Unless you’re using portals for all I guess)

[autumn solar]

What site did you use to make this layout?

[round cloak]

I made this in adobe illustrator. I’m a graphic designer but thought it’d be nice to preplan a big build for once

[lusty thunder]

Does anyone have ideas for a smallish bakery building/pavilion?

[sturdy marten]

guys, what would u put in here?

im going to make a big castle behind

also here, any ideas?

[calm cedar]

Anyone know of a world seed with a massive cliff, facing south, over a river? 🤞

[vernal basin]

How massive? And any particular biome?

[calm cedar]

Looking for very tall, very steep. Mountain would be great, bonus points if overlooking the Black Forest.

[vernal basin]

I will keep an eye out. I have a spot on my map but don’t remember what direction it faces

[calm cedar]

Appreciate it!

[queen sable]

What do you all do for the Galdr table?
It looks nice but really out of place in a workshop

[vernal basin]

I’ve seen an amazing bookshop that implemented the galdr table. I put mine in a little witch’s cottage

[queen sable]

I think I have seen it too, but my problem with the Galdr is the direct surroundings.
I want to put it in the relatively historically accurate forge-workshop I plan on doing, but with this purple vortex it seems out of place. I could put it in a room beside it but it’s still hard to decorate something like that

[vernal basin]

Yeah, it’s a bit, Mm…flashy 😅

[torpid summit]

See forwarded post

[vernal basin]

Love the open concept mmmarkusk!

[vernal basin]

Here’s what mine looks like #mods-screenshots message

[quaint hatch]

I'm planning to make a high circular tower above my bedroom with glass all around for it.

[vernal basin]

So the one I was originally thinking of faces northeast and isn’t super picturesque. Did a bit more exploring and didn’t find anything promising

[calm cedar]

Thanks for checking! I found a spot last night that I think will work. Now it’s time to figure out how to build this thing.

[vernal basin]

Can’t wait to see it!

[indigo yarrow]

Looks good

[haughty pike]

so I'm curious if there's a predictable pattern to determining where on the map would coastlines with the biggest waves where the waves are in the direction toward the coast. Of the few seeds and locations I've tried, it kinda sorta seems like southwestern facing coastlines are most likely.

[tropic granite]

Check how far the biome extends out from shore before switching to "ocean," that is your biggest indicator.

[cosmic isle]

Hello, here are some of my recent builds

[grizzled lily]

Anyone got any tips/ideas? Trying to combine hearths and ovens and the cooking stations into one combined great fireplace hearth... Got as far as the screenshot below for the concept but can't access the ovens behind the iron cooking spit...

[vernal basin]

Turn the ovens 180 degrees to face the other side

[grizzled lily]

Well of course 😂 but the idea is that, there are hearths on both sides, with kitchen this side, ovens in the middle and the other side faces into a great room and just looks like a great fireplace, so that is not the option

[vernal basin]

ahh, gotcha gotcha

[grizzled lily]

Oh.. there's the solution for anyone interested 😄

[tropic granite]

Oven to 180 degrees? What recipe calls for THAT? 😏

[vernal basin]

Reheating pizza 🍕

[chrome basin]

I have one for you.. Check out seed (Dpl0Zsk2bH) at (-548, 149, 3226)
It's on the side of a mountain, overlooking a river, with a small plain and black forest, lots of swamp nearby

[calm cedar]

I’ll check out! Thanks for the tip!

[viral quail]

It's accidentally nice for gjall's trophy lol

[weak elk]

This is my first serious construction. What s your thoughts?