Valheim: Historically accurate Viking village

[@abdaroth]

"I don't like building" *builds an entire and functionnal village* Great job anyway :>

[@KPRoof]

@@abdaroth 😂😂 I mean I am not very good at it, but thanks! Next one will be better!

[@matthiaspeeters4104]

@@KPRoof This is amazing, i LOVE small village builds with purpose, not just 1 giant castle

[@dirk1998]

I went to a dedicated server, slapped my home down on a hill and made a tavern, sent pictures to the group chat and people just started coming out the wood works turning it into a village. Felt so happy to see an empty server come to life.

[@KPRoof]

@@dirk1998 Happy for you, keep up the good work there! Once they will have the final release of the game, maybe things will improve and it can be a really successful multiplayer.

[@CRGuitarr]

13:53 thumbs up for the stamina potions inside the brothel

[@KPRoof]

Hehe, I had no better item to place there for those vikings who need an extra something to finish the job 😂

[@fearburnerwarlock8224]

Really nicely done. Some nice details to, like the building and boat in progress. Would put some fish in the pond and some tame boars in the stable and some chickens running wild for the extra livelyness

[@KPRoof]

@@fearburnerwarlock8224 Thank you, gald you like it! I would have added far more details, but Valheim is pretty limited in terms of building, I got close to the max number of instances before the game starts lagging like crazy. I wanted to keep some frames. But your idea is really good! 👍👏

[@Andythecreature]

those 45° structural pieces used as loose wood is the /dry dock(?)/ & the carpenter's house really tickled m'fancy ¡marvelous job in the attention to detail / environmental storytelling

[@KPRoof]

@@Andythecreature Thank you, I liked the idea too! There is much potential in this game yet to be discovered. 😉

[@Guapter]

- "Historically accurate" - wears helmet with horns 👌

[@KPRoof]

@@Guapter 😂😂 Yep, that's what makes it accurate 😂

[@Cappanerd]

HA Ha ha!

[@MrSamba86]

Title of video was "historically accurate village", not "..helmet"😂

[@KPRoof]

@@MrSamba86 Thanks, good point mate! Everyone picked up on the helmet image in the intro😂👍

[@jasonsadberry8420]

Dude, I’m literally building mine right now lol. The algorithm knew what I liked when I started looking more into this game, definitely got a sub my friend.

[@KPRoof]

@@jasonsadberry8420 Cool mate! Let me know how it turned out, I'd love to see it! 😉

[@hodorhodl7061]

Absolutely epic. Your content is just awesome. Keep it going :)

[@KPRoof]

@@hodorhodl7061 Thank you friend! Good to see you are still here. I will upload buildings too every now and then, for all the good builders out there. 💪

[@crazlady8648]

Looks great, so much detail

[@KPRoof]

@@crazlady8648 Thanks, glad you liked the experience! 👍🙂

[@Kiba_Mar-Glas]

not the lady of the nights hut XD, with stam potions XD amazing

[@KPRoof]

@@Kiba_Mar-Glas Yea, that was more for entertainment purposes than actually historical accuracy, but you never know... 😂 Stamina meads are a must have when vikings get to "work hard" in her house 👀

[@Kiba_Mar-Glas]

@@KPRoof oh no complaints here my friend XD, i know just the person to show it to, im sure she will like it XD

[@KPRoof]

@@Kiba_Mar-Glas Is she a viking woman loved by the whole village? 😂

[@Kiba_Mar-Glas]

@@KPRoof hahahahahaha my viking lady ill have to fight the village away XD

[@KPRoof]

@@Kiba_Mar-Glas I gues that's true, good one! 😂

[@victoryginrb9700]

finally, a valheim build with historical accuracy. makes me want to upgrade my slummy village now. btw, what are those cabinets on a table in a house of a woman every viking enjoys? didnt saw that before

[@KPRoof]

Hey there, thanks for being here! Good luck with upgrading things, let me know how it goes! 🙂 If you mean the little table on the right, that's a barber shop thing (where the woman makes herself look pretty), I wanted to make a makeup table of sorts.

[@roelbaesjou8667]

great build! very inspirational

[@KPRoof]

@@roelbaesjou8667 Thank you, glad you enjoyed the ride! 😉

[@SuperPope69]

When you said you don't like building I really felt that 😂 I have a world where I have built dozens of villages like what you made in the video. 2 months ago I decided to undertake the task of building the capital CITY. The palace alone took me 2-3 weeks. The building is cool as the ground floor separating the throne room and dining hall is a small courtyard with a Birch tree growing growing in the center of the huge building

[@KPRoof]

Sorry I didn't see your comment up until now, I don't get notified about all of them. 😐 That's true I am not good at building nor do I enjoy spending hours into it 😅. Your work seems amazing, feel free to share with us on Discord 👍

[@MrSharp740]

you did an awsome job my freind!

[@KPRoof]

Many thanks my friend! Welcome to the channel! There will be more videos of this type coming soon. 😉

[@saranaileh]

Thats awesome! Great job!

[@KPRoof]

@@saranaileh Thanks, hope you'll like the next build too, I'll drop it this week. 😉

[@magnusk9724]

Very lovely (apart from the horned helmet of course, which is silly an ahistorical as you obviously know). Nice idea and well done :)

[@KPRoof]

@@magnusk9724 Thank you! Glad that you liked it. I know mate, but when people think about vikings we all see them with horned helmets, even though they are not present in Valheim 😅

[@magnusk9724]

@@KPRoof Not those of us interested in history and perhaps from Scandinavia like I am, but yes, sadly, the hornedd helmet is a popular cultural phenonomon that it will take time to get rid of. Doesn't matter though, your video was truly lovely ;)

[@KPRoof]

@@magnusk9724 Thank you! But a horned helmet looks way more epic than a plain one 😅. I went for accuracy with the village structure, not necessarily with my 1st video image. 😁

[@lauralahaye7699]

I really would like to operate this kind of village with many players, pure role play ...

[@KPRoof]

@@lauralahaye7699 Haha, that's a great idea it could be fun for a small movie, having all the vikings work in a small village, each with his own little hut. 😉👍

[@Amatsuichi]

village could be named Lagheim

[@KPRoof]

@@Amatsuichi Yep, we just hope that Valheim devs will improve their engine. Lag can be managed if we keep an eye on the instances (F2 default key)

[@Amatsuichi]

@@KPRoof instances are part of the problem, 2nd part is networking and the game being client driven... 1 player of the group in vicinity takes control and the others lag like hell... if this is addressed and fixed by Iron Gate, Valheim has a potential to really become a good MMRPG even

[@KPRoof]

@@Amatsuichi Couldn't agree with you more! Game has so much potential 😉

[@holzu1990]

nice job lov it dude!

[@chromenewt]

This is goals for my own server!

[@KPRoof]

@@chromenewt Glad you like it, hope it will work for your server, it also can be improved a lot - the village.

[@justinmcleod141]

Really enjoyed this build. Lots of cool little ideas for immersive settlement builds. Thanks. (I would add a spinning wheel tot he leatherwork place...)

[@KPRoof]

@@justinmcleod141 Thanks friend! Good idea with the spinning wheel, I totally missed it 👍

[@Black-vn9uk]

I really like your content, bro!

[@KPRoof]

@@Black-vn9uk Thank you my friend! 😉❤️

[@kingmirani4030]

Amazing, well done!

[@KPRoof]

Glad you love it, thanks mate! Welcome to the channel! 😉

[@kingmirani4030]

Thanks brotha, keep grinding!

[@KPRoof]

@@kingmirani4030 Will do! ❤️😉

[@ChuckHaney]

Very nice! I prefer the more realistic buildings to the four-story millionaire houses.

[@KPRoof]

@@ChuckHaney Thanks, as do I, that's why I went for them. I wanted a cozy yet realistic village with lots of items everywhere. 😉

[@Gapeks]

Love it but putting stone floor in the living/sleeping space makes it cold. People probably wouldnt do it.

[@KPRoof]

@@Gapeks I kinda had to do it, plus the stone tiles on the floor were really common a few hudreds years back. If I went for wooden floors for all of the structures, the game would have lagged like crazy. I tried also to be efficient so as not to have a laggy village 😅

[@derekblubaugh3836]

Stone holds heat very well. I can imagine they maintained a fire during the winters.

[@KPRoof]

@@derekblubaugh3836 True that, I've even seen some amazing floor heating systems created by the roman empire where they had fire and warm smoke going under the stone floor through gaps and they warmed their floors during hard winters.

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

Stone might get cold, but they made rugs and carpets. Either from wool, flax, or fur.

[@KPRoof]

@@joshuamcdowell1460 That's true, vikings found ways to be cozy.

[@Smokasaurus]

Its funny, I've only been playing Valheim for about 40 hours but I've had as much if not more fun building as i have exploring.

[@KPRoof]

Is it the first time playing Valheim for you? Glad you enjoyed the game. For me it tops all survival games in terms of gameplay and difficulty

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

There were definitely fancier buildings in some viking villages. Especially the mead halls and jarl's longhouses. They weren't all rustic and utilitarian. As with most cultures, they revered expert craftsmen and decorators, and would worship their gods and tell stories through decorations. Every wall and pillar was carved and painted. They may not have all been rich, but you didn't have to be rich to use your hands to beautify your space. There were certain decorations that only the richest would have access to through trading, and yet the poor still had access to them through raiding. They took slaves as well, but it wasn't like other types of slavery, where regardless of your previous occupation you'd be forced into hard labor. Craftsmen and skilled laborers were given special accommodations and had a quicker path to citizenship, and often times would skip slavery altogether, as the vikings who took them would immediately free them and hire them instead. But considering even the kings and jarls worked their own land, even the slaves that got hard labor weren't typically mistreated, as they were seen as imported coworkers, not necessarily property. And when they were mistreated, they had the right to bring charges against their master at the lawspeaker. Honor was a big part of their culture and cruel slave masters were seen as dishonorable. People were even outlawed on occasion for mistreating their slaves. Outlaws were forced to live like vagabonds, and anyone caught giving aid or comfort to an outlaw would be outlawed as well. They weren't just violent, unkempt barbarians with bare walls and no sense of humor. That would be the Germans. 😅

[@KPRoof]

@@joshuamcdowell1460 Thank you for this amazing comment, lesson of history and story. It fits perfectly with the video and it would have worked wonders in the intro. Kudos mate! ❤️

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

@@KPRoof You're welcome. I haven't made a full village yet in Valheim, but I'm in the process of building a large mead hall. I've built several small single building solo player settlements, but my favorite so far is one I built in the Black Forest. While being killed over and over again by grey dwarves and trolls and having to rebuild and repair over and over again in the harsh rain until I figured out that I needed to roof every structure. I ended up putting a Trellebørg style ring around it. Raised earth on either side of a deep moat. Stakewall on the raised earth on the settlement side in a ring, three openings, West, South, and East, and I filled the moats with spike traps. I don't want to go into too much detail about the rest because it would just get tedious, but so far it's been my most secure and cozy settlement.

[@KPRoof]

@@joshuamcdowell1460 This sounds amazing, and it looks like a lot of work went into it, I'd love to see it, sounds pretty cozy and pretty. Things ard always harsh in the Black Forest that's why I always go for meadows. Anyway thanks for sharing mate, love it! 😉👍

[@visual28]

Fun project. great job

[@KPRoof]

Fun, my eyes were burning for two days 😅 - but thanks mate!

[@visual28]

Fun to watch, and it’s something I personally have wanted to do. I have been too distracted Or lazy to actually get started. So yes, fun project. I get to live vicariously through you. 😉

[@KPRoof]

@@visual28 I apreciate it buddy! It was kinda an insane project and I could've added more details to buildings or insides, but since Valheim runs only on one CPU core thread, and has its limitations... it is hard to find a balance between design and performance. Maybe we can have a server in the future and try one build there! 😉

[@AleeePY]

Great village!!

[@KPRoof]

@@AleeePY Thank you very much! Happy that you liked it! Also, welcome! 🙂😉

[@kronduster]

Try using "bind mouse0 heal" command ("unbind mouse0" to unbind). It's very helpful when you work with big areas like in your video. Nice village by the way :)

[@KPRoof]

@@kronduster Thank you for the tip, I am curious to see what it does, does it heal? 🤔 Also manu thanks for your appreciation, it means a lot to me! 😉❤️

[@Vergils-Chair]

​​@@KPRoofIt refreshes your health and stamina to it's current max

[@KPRoof]

@@Vergils-Chair Thanks, it seems super useful when building large structures.

[@Asirra95]

Can you share the seed of the world? It's a really beautiful area that I would love to do something with! Great job Klauproof

[@KPRoof]

Certanly! Here it is: XdLuIIy9hm ( II in the middle are capital letter " I " as in ITEM) - The island where I built the village is close by the main spawn location: after you spawn look towards the ocean then hug the shore and keep to the right, eventually you'll get there! Enjoy!🙂

[@Asirra95]

@@KPRoof Thanks!

[@KPRoof]

@@Asirra95 My pleasure! ❤️👍

[@NemanSazonov]

Bravo! Have not any other words, awesome.

[@KPRoof]

@@NemanSazonov Many thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! I ll make some improvments for future videos like this one now that I know how the Valheim engine treats those instances, and we will get better frame rate too.

[@NemanSazonov]

@@KPRoof Oh, it would be great to have at least some kinda "video/guide" about performance optimizing buildings, if you mention a couple of methods and tricks in future videos about it - it will be very useful and unique content, I can hardly remember anything like that. And sorru for the bad English btw))

[@KPRoof]

@@NemanSazonov I can do a video on building tips about Valheim limits, fps and game instances so every player understands them better. Good idea! 👍

[@Vergils-Chair]

Good, interesting and entertaining video

[@KPRoof]

@@Vergils-Chair Glad you liked it, thanks for being here with me! 😁

[@Smokasaurus]

I wish you could build a wave break wall and a real harbor. I think it would be too resource intensive to force water to interact with walls and stuff though.

[@KPRoof]

Maybe we will in the future, the game is still under development and the devs are keeping a sharp eye out for Discord community suggestions! 😉

[@danielcox7060]

Would be so cool if villages this big were actually generated in addition to the abandoned smaller villages and the drauger villages

[@KPRoof]

@@danielcox7060 Totally agree with you! Even some ruins that depict real large and different viking settlements would be great! 😉👍

[@Vergils-Chair]

What seed did you use and where is it on the map, im asking because that's a really nice terrain that i just cant manage yo find a place like that

[@KPRoof]

@@Vergils-Chair I will get back to you with the seed in a few hours, I don't have acces to my PC right now. Also, I will tell you where to find the island. 😉

[@Vergils-Chair]

​@@KPRoofthank you man

[@KPRoof]

Here it is: XdLuIIy9hm ( II in the middle are capital letter " I " as in ITEM) - The island where I built the village is close by the main spawn location: after you spawn look towards the ocean then hug the shore and keep to the right, eventually you'll get there! Enjoy! 😉

[@Vergils-Chair]

@@KPRoof thanks for taking the time to send the seed😀👍

[@KPRoof]

@@Vergils-Chair Don't mention it, it was my pleasure to help! 😉❤️

[@flowerpower6619]

Super cute, you and the village :)

[@KPRoof]

@@flowerpower6619 Thank you very much! So are you! Welcome to the channel! 🙂

[@Phinesse-Gaming]

This is a dope build, it came out great! stayed true to the history I can appreciate that. I also make valheim content if you ever wanna collab.😎

[@KPRoof]

@@Phinesse-Gaming Thank you for being here! 😉 I tried to make it as accurate as possible, however since Valheim is still under development the resources are pretty limited in terms of building limit and details variety. Sure, we can do stuff together in the future 👍

[@Olip87]

Lovely village. I would Install some building mods to make the terrain modding take minuets instead of hours 😎

[@KPRoof]

@@Olip87Thanks, glad you like it! Great advice, wish you told me a few days ago before starting😂. I will do it for the next large build

[@diabolic_edits_27]

Dude Mind If I share This content with my friends and Family. Can you please Make a Video on each house you made step by step and the concept and the designing that you did. With the Architecture and other details ?

[@KPRoof]

@@diabolic_edits_27 Haha, sure I can do that, you csn also share it with anyone, thanks for doing that! I can do a video like that this week. 😉

[@Sea-raider]

Valheim seems a good game!

[@KPRoof]

@@Sea-raider Yep, true. It is basically everything that Minecraft and Terraria should've been and more, it is still under development and new updates keep coming. Also the difficulty on hardcore makes it super engaging and rewarding.

[@Sea-raider]

@@KPRoof Good luck!

[@KPRoof]

@@Sea-raider Thank you, happy trails in all of your endavours!

[@Sea-raider]

@@KPRoof Yep

[@CROM-on1bz]

A very pretty little Scandinavian village. On the other hand, the fields would have been attached to the farmers' houses and not centralized (it's just a matter of being a pain in the ass).😒😒 Historically, their blacksmiths, due to lack of technique, forged poor quality steel and they sourced their supplies from the Frankish Empire for decades until the Emperor Charlemagne banned the export of weapons to the peoples under penalty of death. North. Besides, the most famous swords were the Ulfberths which is a Frank pseudonym (that's the pedantic side of the guy who plays himself a historian). 😏In any case, a nice example of creativity.👌

[@KPRoof]

@@CROM-on1bz Thank you for a rich lesson of history, your comment is top and very suitable for the video, now we have some extra context too for the village. Poor blacksmith 😂

[@steppahouse]

Except it's missing villagers :) I truly wish Valheim had that aspect.

[@KPRoof]

@@steppahouse You and me both buddy. I could have gone for mods to add vikings, cattle, pigs and all the other animals - but I wanted to do it in vanilla Valheim this time.

[@NotYourBuddyFriend_]

Great video! I am a big fan of realistic builds. I would love to try and make some but for sure cant do it in HC given how it would all be destroyed in one troll raid lol.

[@KPRoof]

Thanks, I'd love to see you build somehting in "creative mode" - I am honestly worried about your base when the troll raids will come - you need to get some dirt walls around or they will wreck everything, they tore down my gate in one swing 😅

[@NotYourBuddyFriend_]

@@KPRoof Yeah I am going to add more dirt walls after the flooding and cart incident anyways.

[@KPRoof]

@@NotYourBuddyFriend_ You were amazingly funny with that cart that wanted to become a boat.. 😂 It was a good portion of fun! Can't wait for your next episode. 👍 Good luck!

[@FairyTalePapow]

love it!

[@KPRoof]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!😁

[@t7j]

First I must say great video, why should others you call great builders criticize your building technic. I watch other KZbinrs playing this game that just build something weird just to keep them out of the rain and somewhere to sleep. Yes there are other builders out thee that makes those ridiculously beautiful buildings. But why compare, yes watch them and learn new techniques. But don't compare. And last I am an Norwegian, coming from a viking nation. To some in here, when did vikings ever have horn on there helmets? Here in Norway we have 2 big Viking museums that I can think of One in Oslo that displays Viking ships and the one in Lofoten that has a replica longhouse. But none of those places display vikingens with horn on there helmets, but drank out of horns. But back to the video and your build, great looking village.

[@KPRoof]

Haha, thanks for the apreciation! It's a game thing, horns may not have been used in real life other then drinking, but they are used in the game and most people relate them to vikings. I get that they are not real, but let them be for this video 😅

[@super8hell]

Raised moat surely is just flat a ground :D

[@KPRoof]

@@super8hell Moats weren't mandatory, they had natural defences sometimes like, rivers, hills, forests, clifs or just ocean. Sometimes they had just a fence or stone wall, other times they had stake walls or moats. Those were mentioned by me in the video 😉

[@super8hell]

@@KPRoof but moat is a ditch, dry or filled with water. if you raise a ditch you'll get a flat ground :D

[@KPRoof]

@@super8hell My bad, I meant raised dirt as a wall. I forgot the term - ups! 😅

[@matthewscheer7722]

Cool video. Check out a game called aska. Might let you do this project a little more realistic. Survival viking villager management game

[@KPRoof]

@@matthewscheer7722 Thanks, I will check it out! 🙂 Unfortunately for now, given that Valheim is still under development, the game is pretty limited in terms of building, but for the future, we can totally add more details 👀

[@eriandhor7779]

it's a nice village design but not historically accurate per say.

[@KPRoof]

@@eriandhor7779 Thanks! Please do tell what exactly would make it more accurate?

[@ghaffir]

So my fellow scandinavians, You can always trust foreigners to be experts on how our forefathers lived here in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

[@KPRoof]

@@ghaffir Hehe, got the information from the internet so if they are not accurate, go blame Google! 😂

[@shanerasmussen5225]

I doubt quite a bit that this is historically accurate. Just for one example it bears no resemblance to the actual Norse settlements found in the North East of North America, what the Norse called Vinland. Not your fault really, very very few people know much about the Norse mostly due to the Catholic church making a centuries long concerted effort to make it seem like no one else in history was civilized.

[@KPRoof]

@@shanerasmussen5225 Thank you mate, I got my information from the internet, not from actual archeologists who visisted sites. This seemed to be the general shape and structure of the village. Also I had to make do with what the game provided so I was pretty limited. Next one will be a bit better 😉