Valheim Gameplay Advanced Base Building Guide

[@TotalXclipse]

Let me know what your favourite tip is here and if you have more great tips, why not share them below! - Also I'm aware it's a hoe... don't know how I slipped that one up... ALSO SINCE THE LAST UPDATE YOU CANNOT RAISE THE GROUND IN ONE CLICK.

[@mr.sjoerd8589]

Don't bring the trolls to your tree-house.

[@TotalXclipse]

@@mr.sjoerd8589 :D Yep... number one rule of building a tree house base

[@Diamondduck98]

walls to help place beams in the ground, game changer for me, ty

[@HughieMcMutton]

The circular build tip was brilliant!

[@brightstar3197]

Remember to periodically check every thing you build and make repairs to each and every piece. I do this when pieces are half way down and it doesn't take very long. It also helps when taming boars or the boars get to agitated when Greylings or anything bigger is attacking. They could break out at a weak spot. I lost 8 boars though some probably got killed.

[@jeniferirwin]

My man let a troll destroy a whole-ass treehouse just so that he could provide us with 5 seconds of powerful visual aid. I have to admire that dedication!

[@SirChronDonIII]

Thank God for world saves right?

[@iraqifoodcart8447]

​@@SirChronDonIII the first time I fucked myself beyond reproach, I went into the menu for save files. I was able to save my character, but I had to start a new world. Was worth it though, cause I'm in the bronze age, and I'm about to move my entire setup over to a new location in a Meadows biome so I can have a mostly peaceful existence without having to worry about if my base is going to be under constant assault by the creatures of the Black Forest

[@crystallice878]

​@@iraqifoodcart8447Just dig a trench around, they will Just stand around it, Problem solved ✌️

[@ValheimEmpire]

I had to rebuild my tree house many times before I learned that if its above a certain point, trolls wont aggro at all 😭Now its bulletproof. I feel this mans pain lol

[@GreenAppelPie]

Build your home over a crypt so you can have an extra spooky basement.

[@v.choppa5512]

i've done it and its amazing

[@Bert2e]

And an endless supply of yellow mushrooms!

[@ruslanl4577]

My base in swamp is actually built on Crypt :D

[@stanleyclark923]

@@Bert2e Wait, they respawn?? 😲

[@looky7486]

@@stanleyclark923 yes but just the mushrooms

[@dandmwg]

I brought this game a few weeks ago, played for about 15 minutes, picked some raspberries and then got killed by a boar. Left it for a week then stumbled on a KZbin video and gave it another go. I'm now 70 hours in and have a magnificent house and recently killed my 6th troll. Amazing game!

[@katan965]

I got killed by a tree my first time playing. Now I get ptsd flashbacks and scurry away in fear everytime I chop one down lmao.

[@HeyImTiP]

@@katan965 my first death was from a fucking tree falling on me

[@TemptingMetal]

You will probably never see this but 70 hours and only 6 trolls?…. A basic crude bow with some fire arrows kill them in like 20 shots. My girl had killed a dozen trolls after just a few hours of playing with me showing her fire arrows. It took a few hours because it took a while to find them. Yikes. ☠️☠️😂😂

[@lofttm969]

I had the exact same experience lmao

[@Vasarcdus]

It's so rare that I'm subbed to a gaming channel for one game, and then they start doing videos on another game and I actually play both games. I think you are legitimately the first youtuber to manage to pick two games I want to see videos on. Very nice!

[@krampusklaws2238]

For roofs, I find it easier to use 26 degree roofs, you can walk up these without any problem and it saves having excess supports to keep the roof supported Also saves on wasted space

[@aaron_knight]

The 'save stone' tip was a huge one for me, thank you for explaining that!

[@SirSmurfalot]

5:45 The big trees in the swamp are indestructible, perfect for a tree house.

[@nou6879]

Player: “I have finished my swamp tree house; now I can live in style, safe from trolls!” Wraith: “Now this looks like a job for me…”

[@DonovanCYoung]

Been playing since release, removing the middle bean at the top of the Y support is a new one for me!

[@TotalXclipse]

it should support fine, but if it's not registering remove the top of the Y and it should register it. :)

[@Doberman300]

First one of these “Valheim tips” videos I’ve seen that actually has good observations and useful tips. Very well done!

[@aussj4link]

I really like the depth wall designs. Gonna have to do some of that tonight.

[@heyhoojoe]

There's always something new to learn about this game - I'm loving it!

[@ForeverLaxx]

Just as a point of order, those angled "supports" for cross beams are useless unless they're reducing the total number of connections to the ground. The game is very basic in its "stability" calculation in that it only looks at the total number of connections to a ground. If that cross piece you use doesn't bypass more than one connection point, it won't do anything. I'll still use them sometimes for aesthetic purposes, though.

[@ghostlandered]

When you mentioned building in a tree I immediatley thought of trolls being a problem.

[@bbbbbbb51]

Yeah idk about building a house up there, but a nice relaxing view with the boys from time to time would be a good use.

[@dooorwedge]

you can also build a treehouse on one of the unbreakable swamp trees, probably a better idea.

[@jaredmcclure1730]

Doesn't seem like a bad idea for a forward base. You can build it high enough that any troll would just be confused and wandering around, particularly if you remove the ladder. The pine tree counts as a "blue" foundation piece no matter high up on it you go.

[@xenonsan3110]

Apparently they are a really good idea to do in the swamp for the trees that are impossible to knock down

[@ismlamaroof6438]

What you do is raise the ground vertically using the hoe, making a stone pillar, and then plant a tree on top and it only takes a couple of game days to grow. Then the trolls can't do any damage to it.

[@josedomingues7468]

Wow, best tips I've seen so far, it's going to save me ages of time

[@TheAmethyz]

I recommend getting mod that allows to use arrowkeys to place and you can rotate to any direction anything so you can make even doors sideways or be "raise-able bridge.

[@bagel_goose2305]

best tutorial, i didnt know about the wall thing with the beams

[@Unknown-sz8kg]

Its all fun and games until you get a message "the ground is shaking" and blue trolls come storming in.

[@lMagicKaito]

you must be so ready for those moments, but if u build a 'hole' around the base and then put spikes, you should be safe, (it's not hole but u know, it's like a river around your base withouth water so the trolls dont pass that easily)

[@eatingwithoutyoutube]

@@lMagicKaito its called a moat

[@TheWither129]

Wait until a red troll comes stomping out of no where

[@SirSmurfalot]

You mean the "gold and troll hide delivery" event?

[@RyanDanielG]

@@SirSmurfalot lulz

[@kirkcrawford5091]

Figured that raise ground tip out awhile back by accident. In my opinion that’s the best tip in this video and most of my buddies I’ve shown it to didn’t realize you could do it that way

[@DrRippenShitten]

I spent hours building a raised stone wall only to discover I couldve saved a good hour or two by doing it this way .....

[@Filarel]

it doesnt work anymore at least for me

[@aaron_knight]

me too, huge time and rock saver

[@thomasjenkins5727]

Swamp tree houses are awesome. I made one to cheese bone mass. You can get them pretty big, and no risk of losing the support tree.

[@longbow857]

Stagbreaker on top of the spawm skull is enough to cheese bone mass, but yours is cool as well :)

[@Shift2Run]

When building floors out, you can place a floor on top near the edge of the one you're trying to build out, then do the same again and it'll snap to the lower one, then destroy the one on top. rinse and repeat. A little quicker and easier. Hope it helps.

[@KalonOrdona2]

Very good tip, can confirm!

[@Shift2Run]

@@KalonOrdona2 Glad it helped somebody :)

[@WanderingCrow]

By the Gods, I wanna try SO much things, that I learn thanks to your recent videos. Thank you so much, as usual. Satisfactory or Valheim, thoses videos are always so nice and packed with much shared wisdom, and I'm always thanksful for them :)

[@_austind]

A quicker method to tip #1: If your beam isn’t wanting to connect, just build it in the general spot you’d want it (it will look funky for a second, similar to 0:25) and then your next beam placement will snap exactly where you want it to go. Then you can delete that funky beam. This saves time as you don’t have to switch from a beam, to a wall, back to a beam again.

[@NotAzryael]

an even quicker method to your tip is to change the snapping option with and makes the beam snap to the top or bottom

[@noodlesnchill]

Great tips, I learned a lot from this, love the idea of doing a little underground tunnel now!

[@Cipher_8]

1:46 if your placing floors outwards (i.e. bridge) you can simply place the first floor off connecting to something then another on top of it but half way hanging off it in the direction you want the next floor to be. Then when you go to place one on top of that it'll snap underneath. Delete that second (top) floor piece and you can keep doing it until you don't have the support.

[@EvilNecroid]

0:34 OMG i wish i knew this like 100 years ago already

[@Silanar]

i can feel you here xD

[@unit-0-]

Protip: don't build anything high with your main character. Start a building character that can fall constantly to their death ;)

[@jcman-lp6lg]

Props to you building a house on a tree just to show us what happens when a troll attacks

[@TotalXclipse]

:D I just wanted to make the point clear :D

[@PNW_Sportbike_Life]

That was utter devastation lol

[@yngshepard6825]

The dedication!

[@xXN0cturnXx]

awesome tutorial ...the raising ground trick damn thanks for that!

[@wiltarthebarbarian1988]

I've got more than 100 hours invested and never thought of the recessed walls. That's brilliant!!! Thank you for all of these tips :)

[@Coldheart322]

Personally, the best building tip I have is this: Let someone else do the work. Like say, if I was playing on a server with Total, he can do all the building, while I go off and chop down a forest to bring him the wood. :-p

[@TotalXclipse]

Hahahah deal!

[@MeriLizzie]

That’s what we do on my server. I have horrible arthritis in my hands so battling is difficult & painful for me. So I do the majority of the building (they’ll put down quick pike fencing if I ask them to) while they do supply gathering (I do some but stay close to base & Black Forest is a no no for me) and they do the exploring/fighting, though I am pretty damn good with a bow & fishing pole as I also gather the majority of the food!

[@TheGhettoGinger]

I already knew all this except the circle building which is what I've been looking for. YOU are the first person I've seen who's said it's easier to build in to out rather than out to in and that helped so much you've no idea. Just finished my magnum opus of boat houses I've made so now I want to try circular structures. Skål mate.

[@marinelayergaming8360]

I am in love with the recessed walls. Thanks for the tips!!

[@ValheimEmpire]

5:58 I had this same problem with my tree house. Im sure you know by now but for the people who dont, if you build high enough on the tree the trolls wont aggro and itll be safe. As long as the entry point is also away from the tree house and it gradually gets higher, trolls and other enemies wont strike the tree.

[@lord6617]

I don't know why this isn't commented anywhere, but a quick trench/earth wall berm gives you near perfect safety while building. Just like scaffolding is indispensable while building up, a quick earth wall surrounding is indestructible and almost impossible for foes to get over and worth loads of peace of mind.

[@Deadpool-ODST]

A cool part with hiding the iron beams with normal wood ones, they make the beam blue no matter where it is and will support even the craziest structures.

[@asanoiaz]

I really liked the double-wall design for depth. That's really neat, will try it out.

[@nattytempest9886]

I don't even own the game yet, and I'm eager to see what I can make from this! Thanks for the great tips and a good pace. Well shown and nicely edited.

[@Draco1953]

really like your creativity, especially the underground unit, i built a basement which turn out pretty good.. thanks so much for sharing.

[@acrab7722]

Despite having 400 hour on the game (Almost got to Yagluth I progressed slowly shut up) My bases were incredibly basic, or not well thought out, so I am thankful for this video.

[@michaels1109]

you can hold shift to build without snapping helps sometimes!

[@DoctorJack16]

Awesome tips! Liked and subscribed! Great game! Can’t believe it’s a team of 5 developers.

[@TotalXclipse]

Thanks! I agree for 5 developers they've really put a lot of other larger game studios to shame

[@Tigerblade11238]

Great tips! I'm hooked on building in this game.

[@tsarrite]

So glad you are doing Valheim. You've helped me so much with Satisfactory now I can't wait to see what you build in Valheim.

[@tamamawrites79]

4:00 OMG This made me curse at the screen XDD Thank you

[@Brigis14]

Just started playing and got real into the building. This helps a lot

[@duck2939]

I don’t even have this game but the base looked so nice I wanted to see the steps needed to make it

[@JermStone]

I am totally going to build under a rock now!! Thanks for that tip!

[@johnwoodard5536]

love the building in this game but oh my going for wood every 20 minutes kills me

[@jolanjakers8380]

Getz really easy once you build the cart

[@iamagoblin]

Plant plenty of tree seeds nearby, they grow surprisingly quick.

[@ТониАндреев]

if you already have the elder buff it helps a lot. Also when chopping find a forest and first only hit a tree until it fails and then move to the other one. In this way you get a lot of damage to the trees when they fall onto one another and it saves you some work.

[@MimicGaming]

The circle build tip is great, thank you

[@darkzak47]

I discovered this game after “let’s game it out“ did his video on it. Absolutely hooked! However I do genuinely and sincerely wish the leveling tools for ground were much more simple and basic.

[@grazzitdvram]

pretty decent tips. I'm not sure if you already pointed this out but if not you really should, building in the game has nothing to do with sound architecture and its entirely based off distance from the "ground" so building horizontally or vertically is limited equally... which makes absolutely no sense but its how the game does it.

[@TotalXclipse]

Yep I covered it in the basic build tips. It's frustrating but that's why using supporting Y beams can give you an extra piece of support here and there :) cut out the middle piece and you gain an extra one.

[@Spacecoke]

Can this be played in 1st person? Building in 3rd person would just frustrate me with the character blocking what I can see all the time.

[@hiawathaaa]

You can't play this game in 1st person, but I think you'll get used to the building eventually.

[@shydncrumph8119]

great tips, no babbling. thumbed up. thx

[@johnnyhill7342]

Wonderful advanced tips - thank you! I just discovered the game and I already love it.

[@Krisisawake]

You are talented for sure. Great video.

[@Reyajh]

Soo many great tips in one guide?! I'm sub'd :)

[@Geromill]

Very nice game! I am having a lot of fun w my brother :). We are experimenting a lot and we are looking forward to play the game a lot 😊

[@williammacnamara773]

been playing val not stop since release. And that door tip literally blew my mind I cant wait to go build some more cracked shit with that easy sub

[@Athos42]

Great guide! If Valheim only wasn't so poorly optimized... flatten the ground and build a bigger base with lots of pieces, and you'll see the FPS drop. 😥

[@whitemaleplatypus8490]

Just on the very first tip... had to leave a like for that one. Good video, and thank you.

[@whitemaleplatypus8490]

Recessed walls were great too!

[@OnigiriSuiko]

Awesome! I just started a while ago and the building is mesmerizing. I will definitely use these tips in my future building.

[@rogerdumsnut6785]

I didnt know about the raise the ground technique! Thank you soo much👑 i have spent atleast 8 houra just collecting stone to raise the smallest flat mountain 😂

[@jb613jb]

your builds are so creative. Impressive... most impressive

[@swobycoronos578]

Tipp No. 10 saved my day Thank you!

[@allanricardofotografias2820]

This video is veeery usefull man... Love the tips. And this game is freaking adictive

[@HarveyDent523]

This was super helpful

[@angelbaby6638]

subbed after the design in the beginning.

[@bendelaughter]

Incredible guide!

[@Mindless999]

Thanks for the tips, looking forward to seeing this on one of the streams!

[@TotalXclipse]

Hmm we might stream this save at some point

[@cavemann_]

Damn your builds are stunning

[@romandrovosek6219]

Perfect tips, thx for this guide!

[@AwakenAbbott_Edits]

Very good tips!! Love this game

[@Lil_Puppy]

Another tip that may or may not be obvious: the little dots that come off the items you're placing are telling you the direction they're affecting the structure. If you connect a beam to another thing, the dots will show you whether you're adding support or you're just adding weight to another object so you can better align your structure. FYI: all your links have a %u200B added to them so they all fail to bring you to the location it says. I don't know if it's a youtube thing discouraging outside links, or it's a piece of software all you streamers use that's doing it.

[@TotalXclipse]

Thanks for the tip and also for letting me know the link issue, it seems I can't paste links without it changing them :/

[@TallinuTV]

Adding a part will never make another part lose stability or break, there is no "weight" that affects the parts providing support or anything like that. The only possibility when adding parts is that something you've added provides a shorter connection path to a foundation and as a result transmits more stability to one or more connected parts. Removing parts, on the other hand, can easily break connections in unexpected ways and cause other parts to lose stability and collapse.

[@brightstar3197]

Very good video on advanced building techniques. There are a lot of ways in this video to improve or enhance your buildings. Remember to periodically check every thing you build and make repairs to each and every piece. I do this when pieces are half way down and it doesn't take very long.

[@PanupatChong]

How do you get up and down from your tree house?

[@Neek0tine]

"Please dont make circular house, my gpu cant handle it" Sincerely. a guy with 2008 gpu.

[@Killerkarotte1]

Great tipps! Thx, mate! :D

[@Zuudoh]

That tip with saving stone is going to help me going foward 😂

[@txj2253]

The Y support is pretty cool. While the mechanism behind it could be the 45° beam reduces stability decay by creating a shortcut between those two beams instead of some architectural principles, it just makes the whole thing looks realistic.

[@TallinuTV]

Yeah, technically it works because there's one fewer piece along the route from foundation to extremity, and the shorter path means the ends don't lose as much integrity. It's a quirky build system in a couple other ways too but still fun to work with.

[@ruslanl4577]

Raising Groud was Really Helpful!

[@steveshirley2250]

Agreed, I have wasted so much stone not knowing this.

[@ruslanl4577]

@@steveshirley2250 Yp. Same

[@cylefrench9541]

Your hobbit home earned your like 👍

[@martinhigueras1732]

Amazing Guide, can you please make a guide on when and how to use Iron beams plz

[@romanceenhancer1]

Wow amazing builds!!!!

[@ofunu]

3:39 point number 8. The raising ground tip does still work? I have been trying to do it as you show in this video but I can't get it to behave like you show here. It doesn't look as square for one, and at most it will raise the ground a bit higher than if I had pointed to the floor. I have version 0.156.2 ATM

[@TotalXclipse]

Nope, they patched it a month or two ago :(

[@ofunu]

@@TotalXclipse I see :( I guess I better get mining then. Thanks

[@patar3323]

You can place things using the snapoff button, then use it for snapping near ground

[@123kid85]

Such a great guide. thanks ♡

[@Good_Vibes_007]

we need more content love ur satisfactory videos really want some spectacular builds please!

[@TotalXclipse]

So much to do but so little time :D

[@voidsword8095]

i built my third base on a Mistlands shore. i got 3 floors (with 0 floor for a doc underneath) with my third floor having a stair to a huge tree (that tree is not considered an interactable object that can be destroyed). so i kept building my stars up until i got to the top of the tree. after that i made a platform and connected it to another (non interactable) tree nearby and got myself a huge balcony high in the sky. i build my house partly on a core wood beams + also attached the whole house to that tree (so any part that touches the tree will become blue (only works with non interactable objects) ) i also built a dock for longships underneath and attached lots of torches across the path towards the dock (i`ve put wooden beams right on a sea floor) it kinds look cool (cuz midlands are dark as hell) it looks like some road to the underworld when you sail towards the house. so you can build your base on a trees in a mistlands without any height limitations. you can make it as big as you want (as long you planned the amount of trees nearby right). the only thing bothers me is a huge spiderweb across my house and a possibility of some sort of spiders spawning inside my house in a future patch.

[@voidsword8095]

also events never trigger there (at least not yet).

[@eztvlight1202]

This was great!

[@SolutOdka]

Cool tutorial, thank you !

[@ImpHalla66]

Wow, great builds.

[@oliveks82]

I needed this ! I'm 200 days in and am currently preoccupied with building a big fancy base. I am a minecrafter at heart and love building- but I'm not familiar with the in's and outs of Valheim building just yet :P so it'll be a while until I reach the level that I'm at with mc lol

[@kerwanstevens9631]

Thank you so much you are a god to building :D

[@guard846]

動画拝見させて頂いてとても勉強になりました！参考にさせて頂きます！

[@DrRippenShitten]

You can hide iron beams and iron doors in stone walls too :)

[@OgJessD]

Just got this on Xbox last night… a buddy of mine plays this on PC and I’m so hyped that he got gifted it to me… haven’t been this excited about a survival game in a while!!

[@TotalXclipse]

Valheim is awesome! Enjoy it :)

[@BusinessAnalyzer]

Great tips! I like your editing and narrative style. Smooth. Too bad my young son just saw that "Funny Guy" (Josh LGiO) has a valheim video... I'm afraid. (but definitely will be checking out his build tips too!)

[@jaegermonster9549]

Inspiring! I love it!

[@OrcDeathKnight]

Mistlands and Swamps have indestructible trees, though Mistlands trees are really high up to the point of can snow

[@AndorranStairway]

how are some people so damn good at building? I couldn't figure out how to build circular structures for the longest time!