Valheim: The Longhouse Stronghold Starter Base (Build Guide, No Mods) for 2-4 players

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

if you're ready to start your Valheim adventure off on the right foot, grab your hammer, gather some wood, and let's get building!

[@Slippy82]

"Some wood" he means harvest the entire island to build this 🤣

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

@@Slippy82 yep it going to take a lot of wood :)

[@thegenxgamerr]

This is a great design Zom, its going to be great for early game and in looking at it I dont see a reason not to upgrade as stone becomes available. I've used a lot of your builds in my play throughs with my own modifications but this one is pretty much perfect as is. I might build a garden/boar/bee area off on one of the sides but thats only for food cultivation not the aesthetic.

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank you! I was thinking of building a stone version of this build, but with larger towers, make the courtyards larger to accommodate things like what you mentioned the bee and boars a long with a bigger farm area.

[@savedbygrace1582]

I love your buildings. The hardest decision in game I have is which of your buildings I want to make. Who knows, maybe I'll build all of them.

[@WoodenJuffoWup]

This build is fricken sick! Just started playing Valheim and I am 100% going to try to replicate this base!

[@Jackson-sr4fk]

going off my comment on the last vid, this is the perfect base for me rn tysm

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

was going to mention this one :)

[@danmoore4503]

Nice build, in survival you would have to dig a good trench around it though. I hate that palisades can be damaged by basic mobs, trolls are understandable but graelings and grey dwarfs shouldn't be able to.

[@pierrepellerin249]

Nice, you almost had it. a real 'starter base'. But of course using chest and some upgrades from the iron age cannot be considered 'starter' stuff. However, these can be added later and it doesn't alter much your base at the start. The esthetic is also nice. Worth the time it takes to gather resources and build it, nice job.

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank you!

[@gribbles624]

Mate your builds are beautiful!!

[@hamubansultpogi]

I know I'm late for the party but I just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed your video, I love these kind of Valheim building ideas. I have even started to build one fort based on this video.

[@h2thaog558]

Everyone give this man a like !!

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank you! and yeah smash that like button :)

[@x1viper392]

Just built this and love it, Thank you!!

[@sarah4and10]

Great job as usual!! Thank you for sharing!

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank you and your welcome :)

[@frost2621]

Leaving a comment as a sacrifice to the algorithm gods. Nice build!

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank you!

[@BrentDnD]

I love your builds and base designs. Very nice.

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank You!

[@BrentDnD]

@@ZomZeroBuilds I've been playing a lot of Sons of the Forest lately, but watching this video makes me want to wipe my Valheim server and start a new Valhiem plathrough with my son.

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

@@BrentDnD Same Been playing sons of the forest a lot, but I always come back to valheim, and when I built this, I wanted to move in with a new Viking and do a new playthrough.

[@starkey817]

This looks like a fun one can't wait to build it in my world!

[@grantsmith46]

Great build guy if I could say one thing is to do a little more step by step would be great I know you edit for time but I find myself pausing an trying to figure parts out that are way too fast for me to figure out

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thank you! If you need to slow down the video just click on the settings and click on the playback and you can slow it down that way, hope this helps.

[@h2thaog558]

Beautiful build 🤩

[@zackrykuji1539]

Amazing build. great as it is and yet can easily be modified and upgraded

[@spencereades]

Great build dude, one of my new favorites! I do have some notes because I actually used your build guide for the last sort of palisade fort you made, and it turns out its a little tricky to shoot at baddies directly down from the ramparts. Even with a moat it's difficult to hit something at the bottom of the wall. You're more likely to just hit the wall itself. Also since the battlements are plain wood with no roof, do you tend to just accept that they're always going to be half-degraded from water damage? Or is there a solution for that?

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

I decided long ago, that i was not going to allow the weathering to effect the way I build, If you have a moat round your base nothing should get close to your walls, unless you have a full bridge going across the moat for you to get across?

[@crimsonshadowx6]

i love this design you can build the house part thin make the wall and towers around it

[@gazbradshaw]

Nice easy build very practical and looks great well done 👍👍😎

[@TheRabbbbb]

Hi Zom, are you from Newcastle?? I’m trying to guess the accent. Great videos dude! Keep it going ♥️

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

From Darlington mate so you close :)

[@brentmorris736]

Love it, strong starter base

[@Emanemoston]

Thanks for the video.

[@dazzawayne4926]

Love it 👍

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Thanks 😁

[@ashok6362000]

this design is not bad but you forgot one thing after rain you need to repair more area

[@thatdude1435]

Nice build! :) What is it about that half you used in width? What is the purpose? Cant seem to figure it out.

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

The half is 10 and a half meaning I used 10, 2 metre wood beams and 1, 1metre beam, it is the only way i could get the design to work.

[@thatdude1435]

@@ZomZeroBuilds okay, so its 'technically' 21 meters wide right?

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

@@thatdude1435 yeah that's right.

[@thatdude1435]

@@ZomZeroBuilds but where is the 1 meter used? I dont get it since your outer gate is centered, which wouldn't be possible with an uneven number :)

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

@@thatdude1435 it is only used on the back battlement wall, because of the way to towers base was done, it made the back and front uneven, so the back battlement wall and front gatehouse are the only uneven numbers in the build.

[@spicypeanut7645]

It looks great but how does it look after a long rainstorm

[@keandreee]

Could you do an interior guide?

[@Mikecrawfone]

Which armor are you wearing?

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

It is the Carapace Armor from the Mistlands.

[@nickolausknepper2999]

how much wood will i need?

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

sorry tbh I have no clue, it would be a nightmare for me to calculate the amount of wood I used in the build in creative mode, all i can say is it is going to be a lot of gathering if you plan to build this solo, be easier if you have a few friends to help build it.

[@theganjacologist2819]

Will the torches keep the bats out? lol

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

Good Question lol I have no idea, not been tested.

[@tenzek4635]

What purpose does a base serve in Valheim? Is there an option to build offensive structures to make your defenses stronger, or is it just walls keeping things away from your production and storage? I am thinking about trying the game, but what I have seen of it so far is that the bases do little for defense and people exploit the AI with terrain for actual defenses. This has prevented me from buying it so far.

[@grantsmith46]

The are traps spikes ballista to name a few as you progress into the game it's worth every penny if you ask me for 15-20$it's a steal

[@tenzek4635]

@@grantsmith46 I got it during the Steam sale, but haven't had much time to play yet.

[@biglad112]

@@tenzek4635 trust me one you start playing it with a friend or even on your own you get hooked, i bought the game 2 months ago but only started playing now and i already have 60 hours

[@BetterWithToast47]

I wish it was easier to follow along TuT

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

what are you finding difficult to follow? is it the speed of the build? let me know please and maybe I can help :)

[@BetterWithToast47]

@@ZomZeroBuilds yeah my eye sight isn't amazing it does help a ton that you had the foundation layed out early with the numbers. I just can't follow too well at that speed I find myself replaying the video more than I am building): but please understand your videos are still amazing and I love the build ❤️

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

@@BetterWithToast47 If you click on the settings on the video, and go to playback speed you can slow the video down, maybe turn the volume off as it would sound odd slowed down, this might help I hope and thank you for the kind words appreciate it :)

[@BetterWithToast47]

@@ZomZeroBuilds I genuinely forgot that was a thing on youtube..I feel pretty dumb lol but thank you for the advice I'm positive I'll be able to do this whole thing with no issue 💖

[@because-rm4yf]

Can we have this fort upgraded

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

I will add it to my list of builds to do 😄

[@because-rm4yf]

@@ZomZeroBuilds thank you so much, your builds are my favourite in all of YT builds although I'm still relatively new to valhiem but i try to gather resources to try out your wonderful builds, again thank you for your time and effort

[@zick5742]

for 2-4? No 1?

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

can be for one but would take longer to build :)

[@zick5742]

@@ZomZeroBuilds :) will you make a base out of black marble?) It's going to be cool!

[@ZomZeroBuilds]

@@zick5742 I will yes, will maybe have marble and stone mix.

[@TrueKappaa]

I just made this on Xbox pretty much the same way made a couple changes I actually put another floor on the house same roof design and floor plan looks great ..only problem I’m having is storms messing up my towers but hopefully I found a fix nice starter took me and my brother about 2 and half hours to build

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

Just put roofs on the towers and battlements. As long as they're grounded properly it should slow or eliminate decay/degradation.