Everytime I return to Valheim every update, I forget how most things work. As a builder, this is one of the go-to video

Dude, this no nonsense, straight forward explanation of build materials and build heights is EXACTLY what we need sometimes. Love jokes and having fun, but sometimes when we're looking for info, we just need the mechanics in clear language. Thank you! Sprinkle this straight forward, mechanic type of video among your regular vids and you'll stand out as a go-to for people who want good information. Again, thank you, my man.

So, let me explain some things you're seeing. Every piece has a stability score, along with a max and min score. In general, a piece's stability score will be the highest stability score among all the pieces that touch it multiplied by a multiplier determined by the distance between the two objects, the angle between the two objects, and stability multiplier for that material. If that number is higher than the max stability score for that piece, then the piece will instead have the max score and appear blue. If the stability score is less than the min score, the piece will collapse. Wood, core wood, stone, and iron all have different min and max scores, as well as vertical and horizontal modifiers. For example, stones min score is the same as wood's max score. So even when it's a deep red, the piece will still have a score high enough to max out wood. Also, iron has both a higher max stability and higher multiplier than stone, so that's why stone benefits from iron and not vice versa. Iron is also the only material that doesn't have a penalty for building horizontally. Stone on the other hand loses 100% stability when placed horizontally to a supporting piece.

Didn't see anyone mention it in the comments, but any structure place on the side/on top of trees also counts as grounded, since trees are considered as terrain just like those rocks. Iirc pine is the tallest tree if you want to go real tall, but I've been enjoying building off oaks in my recent game. Made a fun spiral stair along the trunk up to a tree tower to start, and now I'm pushing the limit with iron for another tower that's putting the first one to shame. It can be tricky building in the leaf part cause its hard to see but its worth imo.

There is also the ability to raise the ground. So you can make a central spike of raised ground in the middle of your building and go up and out from the top of that.

I ALWAYS BUILD HIGH, HOW U THINK I GET MY IDEAS?!

Been building for a while in Valheim and I've watched a lot of videos - your video was extremely information! You really explained the height differences and how you can achieve more very well. Makes me want to go back and make some changes... thanks!

I love that you can place iron poles within corewood poles and wooden beams to increase stability. I've been building a huge longhouse based on the one in AC valhalla, and using the iron inside the wood means the majority of the build is all blue.

Such a tremendous job explaining complex mechanics, you deserve more views for sure ! Thanks

This is excellent, and current. Thank you very much for putting this together. Will certainly be sharing this out to those looking for help in understanding how to build their taller buildings and stabilize them far better than me trying to walk them through it. 🙂

Just got to stone and I had big plans for a base to take me through the rest of the game. Very glad I watched this first before building myself into some serious corners. I have some redesigning to do and a lot of iron to mine before I'll be ready to take the project to completion. Much appreciated info!

Great video! Just a quick two cents comment here: The way I've always considered it was iron/stone "pass through" the foundational stats of building on the ground. As you described, they too have a maximum height themselves, but once they reach red/least stable, building on them is just about the same as building on the ground. Also, your destructable rock gimmick is very similar to what I do in the plains but without cheats/mods! The Stonehenge-esque structures that look like doorways (the ones with a horizontal top) have a "fixed" point they hang in space. If you build stone floors around/integrating them and then pickaxe the vertical sides away, you can make floating castles so long as the original horizontal piece is not destroyed. I learned it from a guy I met on a random server and it's been my best kept secret since.

Still using this in 2024. Thank you :)

Been watching you the whole day for a new build mate. Awesome to be able to see a new video 😁Thnx ma'man🍀

i needed this video so bad dude. it explains literally so much about building and i was looking in the wrong place. This was extremely helpful.

The spawn command has many options. Any rock/copper//silver formation is floating fundation. But the best ones imo are the statues, which can look like simple decorations in your building touching a wall. There's deer statues and rabbit statues

Great Video; and Great information! A Video on explaining how far out horizontally to the sides you can go with different materials at different height breakpoints would be useful as well :)

Thanks for the tutorial! Gonna check the other 5 videos, but this was great so far.

Very informative and to the point. Even the tips with dev commands is something i had no idea about. Hopwfully i can make a food ocean build now

Fantastic video! this inspired me to do some of my own testing and I was able to get slightly higher with iron and stone - if you place the iron beam in the stone instead of snapping the stone to the iron, you can get up to 31m with stone (using the 1m stone wall)

thank you for this vid, I was attempting to build a tall lighthouse tonight and was struggling, and then boom your video popped up. Very helpful!! Thanks again!!

Loving it. You are so helpful. Thank you for your due diligence. Show me that skyscraper

finally, someone explained stone + wood combination. Thanks!

Great video. You made it much clearer for me & up to date!

The friendliest gamer ever!

This was SO helpful, thank you!

Great video! Appreciate the hard work, this is terrific stuff. Many thanks

Great video man! Informative and to the point, plus your explanations are clear and easy to listen to.

it's amazing how detailed this game is.And your explanation too

Very well explained, I rarely come across a video that actually needs 15 minutes.!

Excellent information. Thank you for doing the research.

Newer player here, I'm loving the building, requires you to truly think about your build.

i dont often think to bookmark a video until ive lost it. thanks for the idea in advance! and thank you for your hard work and the eduication

That is a very comprehensive guide, much appreciated!, 🙏

One thing to note is that the placement of the blocks matter. If you have a mod that displays the block integrity, you can see that placing a piece in the corner like you have the wood on top of the stone weakens it. So the core wood stack might get higher if it was in the center of the stone.

Thank you for digging through all the bad info out there and clearing up all of this stuff!

Thank you my friend, this was exceptionally helpful. ☺️

Thank you for the video! I still learned new infos from it and from the comments. Back in the days around the Heart of Home era you could build the same amount from iron gate and iron cage elements a wall (I don't remember the exact number anymore). But iron gate is x1,5 higher than an iron cage piece (3 m and 2m). Therefore you was able to build a wall from iron gate which was x1,5 higher. And you could hide these gates into stone walls which was a good support for it, like you said with iron poles. With this technique it was possible to build a very high "stone" tower. + If you dig the ground around a center piece as much as possible and after if you highered the center as much is possible you had a high "ground pole" which could also work as support. Now the ground leveling works a little bit different, but the main idea is still the same and possible to do. + If you have done it with the largest tree as possible to find it could be even higher... with a living tree in the inside of the tower, but it works. (Or atop of a tree you can build a house for an example wich seems to be floating above it. ;) )

Dude your like the Bob Vila of valheim haha great video buddy , it gave me much needed tips

Very informative, thanks!

A better one to use instead of the rock on your forever build..is " glowingmushroom " not only does it give support, it also gives off a nice glowing light without need for fuel to keep it lit. I've built some amazing things and can even get things to float without grounded support too. Rocks that you chose in this example you have to use grounded support or else they just fall through most structures. Glowing mushrooms will stay in the position spawned. Another useful dev command is " forcedelete " which is the only way to get rid of the glowing mushrooms as well as a quick way to destroy large areas of builds quickly. Good luck and happy building!

Superb work! Thank you so much!

Thanks bro. Im building a big castle and this helped explain some work arounds i need

Appreciate you for this information

😙👌 *chef's kiss* Absolutely loved this. I'm that nerd that likes to pick apart games and really figure out their limits. This helps me understand the how's and why's of my previous builds I was struggling with. Can we get a "Valheim Build Limits: Roof Edition - The Comprehensive Guide"? Please and thanks! 😁

Very informative thanks you very much!

You earned yourself a follower sir ty for the info

Once again it's time for an update, but damn, is this amazingly clear to explain how this stuff works

the metal inside the core wood saved my entire hall, thankyou!

Thank you so much for this! Geez... I've been trying to find something like this for a while now.

fantastic!! never knew what the damn colors meant, lol. I tried to build a megastructure (like 15m) earlier and couldn't complete the point on my tower. now I know how to make that happen! :)

Awesome vid! We need an update with marble included!

cheers! this was very informative

Perfect to fall asleep to! 😴

Most useful valheim video I've found

Are you a teacher? Because this is some lecture quality shit right here. Well done.

Thank you for this! With certain mods you can actually resize the rock that you spawn. That would let you make it tiny and still be used as "ground".

My one base is 16 large blocks high! The place is huge.. It now has a village and a pirate style dock town.

thanks that was very informative. :)

Ty for this. Please come back for another update with the Black Marble from the new Mistlands if it has any effect on build height. Also surprised you didnt mention raising the ground.

testing rock is awesome) thank you!

Really comprehensive video, thanks for sharing. Just a thought; if building wider structures, then perhaps an iron gate would be cheaper, as unlike a single iron pole, the gate is equivalent to a few single iron uprights, in addition to being a horizontal support? Thoughts?

It should be Spawn_rock_destructible_test with an 'i' instead of 'destructable' with an a... and also you can use trees to build super tall too if you didn't know. You can also raise ground to help out a bit.

Such a wonderful video! I build off of the metal grates to get a lot higher. The metal gives the wood better stability than stone. It's how I got my tower so high.

My understanding is that each buildable has a "health" value and a "drop" value. The health has a max based on material, and will be at max when touching the ground. The drop value is how much it drops health for moving over/up one step and also varies by material. The new health value of a segment is the health of the highest health thing it's attached to, minus the drop value, *then* capping at the material's max. Stone and Iron both have higher health and drop values than wood by a large margin, but wood still tries to use the health value the stone has remaining. This is why you can build up a certain distance with stone and the wood will still be blue (max health), but one step further and it is only green (not quite max health). But if you start with wood, the max health of wood caps that health down to a small value very quickly, so you can't build stone on top of wood effectively. In other words, it's not that the wood is having its health "reset" by being on stone/iron, it's that the stone/iron have so much more build health than the wood that even what little it has remaining after you build up a bunch is still over the max build health of the wood, so the wood shows as blue (being at its own max health).

With the devcommand option, the HeathRockPillar might combined with the iron might get you even further and save some iron. That rock is... gigantic! (and floats above water if you happen to spawn it while you're standing in the water 😂) And thanks for the insight in the heights!

Have you ever noticed some strange interactions between iron beams and Darkwood coverings? I was able to build some really strange cieling supports once where I made a right angle of iron covered by the darkwood right angle and the two seemed to reset each other almost endlessly. Possibly just a bug but it was fun!

Taking notes weird? Nope. Almost every game I've played I have extensive notes, especially if it involves crafting. Thank you for this!

Do you have any video of distances of construction but to the sides? I mean, to know how far we should put a new beam or so, did I explain myself?

For anyone wondering why they can't get the wondrous rock of limitless building height to spawn: it's "indestructible" instead of "indestructable".

I use iron gates in my castle builds purely because can hide them very easily inside stone walls, if you spend the time to grind out more iron your builds can be a lot sleeker by hiding gates in them, but this is mainly for castles and stone heavy builds.

5:40 if you lower you stone by one, wouldn't that allow you to add an additional core wood pillar, giving you a net height increase of 3 m?

This is exactly the video I was looking for. Do you know if there's a way to scale a spawned object like the rock using the console? I know there's a mod out there that can do it but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible.

You neglected to include the fact that trees count as "ground", and that Pine trees grow tallest. Additionally, the model sizes and heights vary slightly, but the tree height itself continues on past the model, allowing you to use it as support a few meters above the tree's model. This lets you add about 35-45m to your build by strategically targeting areas to reinforce by growing trees underneath. That puts the limit for non-dev players at about 95m.

I like my main supports to be hidden by stone and now marble. in case of a raid they have just that much more protection. trolls are my only worry down low(on a high earth wall island and only a few spots their range/aoe can potentially damage if they got lucky) and drakes from above. none of the other events have spawned when ive been home.

Some thing that would be really helpful that you didn't mention is the spacing between supports. Like if I'm building a large round tower, how far you horizontally can I build out before I need another vertical support? It kinda sucks to build a large open floor plan and then you need support beams right in the middle of a room. Also what about diagonal beams... do they stack as high as straight vertical beams?

Can you post a new update video for this for the new mistland structures? Not finding anything anywhere.

What about using raise ground and building off of trees?

I use the a straightish swamp tree near a coastline for the blue strength, If your lucky you can start at like 30 M(tallest tree i've ever found, almost no slant, had 3 guck on it) with iron poles giving you 80 meters of build room, if you center on the tree as a pillar its even better. I like the way iron looks tho .... once i pickaxed the bottom of a mountain until I had a flat plain running all the way up and built of that, it was kinda janky tho because of how mountains work P.S update for black marble? im excited for ashland building materials as well.

Another reason to use iron is that it's immune to the obliterator but iron pole is not. If you want to build a big tower and have lightning strike it for cool effect, better use the iron grids and black marble

Does black marble have the same max height as stone? Also, some have suggested using dvergr walls to reinforce stone/marble similar to iron. Does it work?

I have a question: been trying to build a high tower of black marble but couldn't get past the normal height limit - if i build either metal fences or metal wood poles inside the beams or in the walls, can i then get past it ? Been reading the wiki and from what i can gather marble has the same properties as stone in terms of height limits?

You can use a tree to boost your height as it counts as ground for some reason.

Imma start using benefrit.

I like to use the iron bars sandwiched inbetween stone walls(double thick stone wall) I can build the wall much higher than a normal stone wall because of this.

So a brief late summary for those of you looking for absolute maximum vertical. Build on top of the highest point of the tallest mountain you can find. Raise ground in the highest spot at your build site to maximum. Cultivate the raised ground and plant a fir tree there. Using the fir tree and raised ground as an extra height boost, proceed to use the highest method described in this video: Wood+Iron to achieve a height over sea level 100 meters or more.

taking notes does never sound weird, that is very wise to do. a wise man knows the limits of the human mind also. we tend to forget. that is why we make notes.

Great video. Subbed. Two things I didn't see addressed: 1. How high can stone get if it is touching iron beams imbedded in core wood? 2. How high can iron beams imbedded in core wood go if it is both all the way to the ground and extended past the peak 28 meters of stone? Also, can you do an update with black marble?

You are half right iron wood and the iron walls to go to the same hight but the walls provid better color support higher up then just the beams

so that means by using iron wood poles, i can build a structure made out of pure stone to a max hieght of 50 meters?

Made my way up to Valhalla

​@TheFriendlyGamerTFG Wait! There is one more way with out cheting to get higher. If you use the hoe with the raise ground feture and make a tower of ground up and mining the extra to get a 1x1 you can get a extra 7m. It is shaped like a cone. I found the stone floor 2x2 covers it wellenogh. If your dedicated you can get more by digging around the piller. I haven't tested this too much but it looks like on any given spot there is a limit to what you can add. but once you add you can always take away. I assume it will get ticker and thicker as you go down though.

can we get an update with ashlands building materials? curious if the flametal pillars are better than iron

Do build heights change with the level at which the ground is. So if I increase the ground can I build higher with stone and then wood

Had an experiment where I sunk a foundation into ground I lowered. My thinking was that if I had iron beams attached at the ground level around the edge of the pit I sank I could build UP from that point the full stone + iron distance of 28 meters. Alas, Valheim's math says I only get 28m up from the sunken level of my basement :(

I think that Valheim is a great viking video game it can be stressful for starter players. But now in 2023 there's a update is the Mistlands update.

How did you miss going 15 stone then starting with wood? That makes the first wood blue and is higher than a stone...

Vanilla struggles strike again :D

Do you have a updates for black marble?

I am a very confused, but well-informed baked potato.