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To me, hiding the workbench upgrades is a shame because they make the space look cooler. I deliberately design spaces around showing them off.

Trenches are free. Also, having a big trench on the border of Black Forest and Mountain is the same as having a wood and stone mine. Because the Greydwarfs that come out at night to get you, are massacred by the Wolves that come to get you. You spend the night in your safe base and smelt or something. And in the morning you go out and gather the dwarf leftovers.

Rain doesn't damage pieces meant to be outside, like roofs. And roofs protect any other pieces covered below them from rain damage as well.

Hey a good tip is using a Hoe to make a road in the swamps, if you try to pull a heavy cart say full of iron it's impossible in the swamps but if you level the ground ahead of you it creates a road which give you a movement bonus and makes the cart easier to pull

Yeah we just recently picked up on this game with 3 of my friends. We killed the first boss and went into the Black Forest to try out our new Pickaxes. After a night of constant fighting and several corpse runs, tired and low on supplies we went back to our little village. We had no defenses up, we hadn't built any walls because we didn't know we would need them. Suddenly we got a message "The forest is moving" and Greydwarves started swarming our base. All we had was flint axes, some wooden shields and torches. No spears, no fire arrows. It was a very tough battle and after we were done we've decided to fortify, raised a palisade wall and dug a water trench around the camp, so definitely learned that lesson the hard way. 😅

I once found a stone pillar on the plains bordering black forest, mountains and the ocean. I naturally built stairs around it and a giant base on top, with a trench and wall protecting a farm at the foot of the pillar. Each night the free-for-all in my trenches left a vast pile of loot for me to collect in the morning. It was glorious. And the view was spectacular.

I built trenches for a black forest outpost and they were deep, I figure why not plant all my beech seeds in the trenches, and I then I realized I underestimated the height of the trees.

I personally do not like hiding the workstation upgrades because I actually like how they look. Instead, I put them in places where they'd actually make sense while still being close enough to my stations and also not taking up much space. For instance, I always have my woodcutter's axe and adze outside my home, just close enough to the workbench for the upgrades to take effect. When building a base, I think it's important to air on a balance between aesthetics and efficiency. For this same reason, I also usually make moats since they look better than indestructible ground walls, though I'll also raise the area the mote surrounds a bit as well for that added aesthetics. Valheim isn't just about survival. It's also about making cool looking stuff. Iron Gates wouldn't have made such an in-depth and relatively easy building system if they didn't want players to be able to easily make cool looking builds. Also, you don't have to worry about wooden structures getting damaged by the rain as long as they have a roof covering them. Make an effort to cover as much of your wooden structures as you can with roofs while still keeping an eye on aesthetics. You want as little pieces to repair as possible after every rainstorm. Also keep in mind that the rain doesn't damage any wooden structures that haven't rendered/loaded in. Many times when I go on a long journey and it starts raining within the general area that my base is in, when I come back to my base, none of my exposed wooden pieces will have taken any damage from the rain... and yes, this game does have a dynamic weather system that only effects certain areas. The amount of time, effort, and care that Iron Gate put into the dynamic weather system is incredible.

Rain only damage structures down to 50%, it will never totally break from rain alone.

Forget trenches, just find a nice hill and carve around it so that it's just a giant raised rectangle (or any other shape with straight edges). The only fortifying you will have to worry about is creating defences for the set of stairs leading up to your fort. At the end you'll end up with a foundation that looks like a japanese fortress. Giants can't even reach the ones I create.

Another good secret room is digging out a loot room deep in the ground and building it up. Put a portal in it with a secret name, then building the main base on top of it

When starting a larger build use the logs as measuring sticks/rough layout tools so that things are aligned along the same grid and spaced nicely.

I've seen floating campfires in my day but never once tried to replicate it by putting it "on top" of a wooden piece. That is game changing for early playthrough builds.

If you guys want a real OG tip: If you’re building with wood and still want a second floor room with a fire in it, raise the ground, trim the edges and place the fire/ hearth on top. Then case the raised ground in and build around it. I did this twice and built a wooden inn with 2 upstairs rooms with fires. No stone needed except for the hearths.

Dude that sitting down to build tip is insane

Team trench Lets face it, it's free compared to all the stone needed for the wall and to get back to your base you just need to jump instead of using the one entrance area

Along with using "X" to sit down, you can also place a half wall along the floor on the underside. When you do so it will help guide the post below where you want it to go, then just destroy the half wall that was placed :)

Tiny update to rising ground because of patch: Rising ground costs 2 instead of 4 now but you can no longer rise to max height by clicking close to the top. Basically you need more stone now :sadface: Patch also reduces framerate lowering from terraforming from now on. On older bases there's a console command to update. Helpful if your big base is tanking your fps.

“They have a great customer service ran by people with no lives”😂bruh, u didn’t have to do them like that

Nizar GG: Use "x" to sit and get a different camera view to attach under low spaces Me: "Subscribe"

When people say ur base is boring but your structural stability is solid green

Don't know if anyone has said this one yet, but you can put a campfire on top of a smelter too. The height is just about 3 walls high if I remember right, so you can leave a board open on your second floor above the smelter for the campfire to go on top of

I built my primary base on the oceanfront, connected all around by a moat dug deep enough you have to swim. I recently (for my sanity sake and my gfs') added a single stone layer around the ocean-facing side with the dock to hop up on. Enemies still can't get up it to get into the base minus when the ocean is super high tide and it saves my wooden dock from being destroyed. Two uses. :) No enemies minus ones with high tide have stepped into my base and that can be fixed if I want to have to jump across the channel from either side.

I haven't done the trench or the wall yet. I like staking out a natural defensive location like a hill or a ridge where the enemies can only approach at one or two points and just fortify those appropriately.

TEAM C: I built both a wall and a trench for the max efficiency!

One ting you can do to make the terrain wall around your base even better is to lace it with wood spikes. It not only stops them it kills them. And wood spikes are very cheap to make.

I like the upgrades for aesthetics in certain spaces. That said, I design workshops around my forge and workbench upgrades. I recently built a small village base with a refining workshop, magic workshop, harbor, and a farm. Compared to my previous bases in multiplayer, I'm very proud of my single-player design (granted, I cheat in single-player because I mostly enjoy the building mechanics in this game). This game is so enjoyable for those like me who just love designing buildings

Team Trees: You can plan trees close together to make a barrier that creatures cannot cross. You can make your tree wall as thick as you want. Unless the creatures are trying to hit you through the trees, they will not attack trees. I place a passage just wide enough for a cart. Dig a small trench in the passage. Place beams along the sides. When you need to go out just place plank over the trench and pick them up on the other side after you cross. Late game you can place iron gate. Now you have a use for all those tree seeds.

You don't need a hearth to heat a home is my best tip. I always elevate my floors and you just cut out a two by one section and ring it with walls. Raise the ground up in the box and pick it back down and level it off and you can put two campfires in that pit and it'll look natural and also tell you where you chimney should go for venting. As I think the game hides the hearth way to late into the tech tree I've had to make a lot of good use out of this trick if I want to live in a remotely comfortable lodging.

Great video. #7 will save so much time, but be careful to take wind direction into account when building it. Pretty sure that if the wind is coming from the direction the open area is facing the workbench will be "too exposed".

We created our home Oceanside. I built a trench filled with water that way. I created a sort of dam out of wood walls with a small enough slit for the water to enter but enemies cannot swim through. That worked for 3 sides but the shoreside was shallow so we built a stone wall and connected it to the land which solved 3 issues. No one can enter shore side, when the waves get high, it protects them from damaging our home, and if enemies fall in they cannot swim to the shoreside because of the wall and dams in place. The width of our trench allows us to jump it to get back and forth but now we have portals so we don’t even have to do that. 😊 Love this game!

"Terraforming cause of lags.." Me, wondering why my base with terraform walls high as pines and trenches deeper than rabbitholes lagging af :D

I made a harbor base by digging 2 moats, and then raising the horseshoe shapped "island" in the middle up a bit. The central part of the island is where I park the karve. I've got 2 gatehouse bridges for each moat, one north the other south...ish. and the spike barricades very liberally placed....even in the water.

Built my base on the top of a mountain. Flattened the top of the mountain, and used my pickaxe to make every entrance to the top of the mountain extremely steep, making it impossible to climb. I then built a stairway across a few of the steep areas, building defended entry points to those stairways. Haven’t had to defend my base in over 30 raids.

Also I prefer to build my bases in a moat and baily style using the largest island I can find that's not a whole other landmass. It's very hard for most mobs to launch effective attacks over water and they seldom come from the ocean, so you know what direction you have to defend. That or I find a plateau. Sheer walls and water.

I built a combination of a trench and indestructible wall so that I won't have to build as high. I sort of made the wall looked like small hills around the base so that you won't notice it and won't obstruct the gorgeous view of the sunrise coming from the east.

Team Trench here. Trench + Log Wall has made my base unassailable so far. Digging the trench also gave me the stone i needed to rebuild by base once i got access to the stone cutter.

Rain is way worse than merely making unroofed base parts turn green. It makes you completely unable to go to the mountain because frost resist does not work when you're wet.

My starting build specs are very utilitarian. Build based on radius of two fires that are next to each other in a 2x2 sized hole with no floors (as in 2x2 floor size but an hole in floor). Then I build supported floors out until there is one distance touching walls where the radius doesnt reach. (areas with chests/crafting crafting stations blocking them doesnt need comfort)

Everyone forgets you can make cellars and stack tight shelves for the upgrades, storage, etc. It's a 3d space - use your z-axis :) But it's just like trench vs. walls - thinking in positive space vs. negative space (think carving an object vs. making a mold). BTW digging a trench and kiting mobs through it make for an easy "Bridge Battle". Let 'em stack and use fire arrows while the fire spreads. Everyone has a different approach between functionality and aesthetics. The "best" builders can make pretty + useful. How you approach this game can really illustrate how you normally approach problem solving. Which is why this guy being uncconventional brings a lot of worth to his vids. Been levitating campfires since day one, glad others are figuring it out without a stone slab :) In the end, it's not reality's rules here - imagination isn't just for building things that are pretty! Try different approaches - minimalization for forward bases | maximize visibility and accrssibility for main bases | plan your logistical routes, drop offs, alternate storage and pathing. Also experiment how different pieces vent smoke for chimneys. Large X piece won't contain smoke but small/flat x will. But, small x also allows some breathability *and* allows light to emit. Also his #8 - using the environment as part of your build can add a more "real to life" look and save time. Just like building shelters under rocks - free roof/shelter only trolls can destroy. I always smh at fancy guard towers with walls you can't shoot over or lack any ease of mobility inside and lack of easy exits.

To reduce lag, don't worry about leveling the ground much, build your bases foundation up on stilts.

Already on team trench. I like building on higher ground, so making a deep trench is easier without hitting water. Also, less dependent on resources.

One thing I did to help me build large buildings is to dig out a spot under the floor and hide my extra workbenches.

They can throw stuff with just trenches. Best to go with walls. Additional getting rid of enemies in trenches is a bit more annoying

My personal thing is building with raised foundations and then I place a workbench, forge, and stonecutter. I do this throughout my foundation so that the extra building stations don't clutter up my living space.

I built 2 lines of stake fence and filled it with the raise earth option, ive also found that 1 square of standoff from the wall is good enough to prevent trolls from hitting anything in side

Mistake 6 is remedied with a roof tile covering the square you’re build is over. I’ve also had luck with beehives preserving tiles as well when placed properly

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Since I put my base right by the water, I dug a trench and discovered it fill with water...so I got a moat. Then inside the moat I put up the log fence. It looks pretty good for a newb fort.

I use a combination of trenches and walls so I don't have too high walls that prevent me from looking at my sorroundings. I also encase my terraformed walls to improve the looks, like using what I raised as a land infill.

Just watched this and learned a lot. box stacking is one of the things that i have been wanting to do. Thanks.

Great stuff as usual man keep it up :D

The indestructible wall is a very nice way to keep pesky mobs out of your base, but it looks bad. So for a nice base i would rather built trenches with spikes in them and then just make some drawbridges or a normal bridge with iron gates at the outside

Ever since playing other similar games like Conan Exiles and ARK that im actively using terrain when i can and makes them all the more unique, its also caused me to actively multi base and make outposts now too.

2:32 I use double layered stone walls. So 2 layers of stone walls, with dirt filled in the middle. I suggested that for our bases, as an alternative to digging moats (which are also great for defense in its own way) Also used both in combination

I usually build a trench around my base lined with those wooden spikes along the inside. Never thought to dig up lol. I think I’ll try that for my next build!

i'll use the secret room banner thing for hiding my crafting table expansions. thanks for the ideas / video :)

I surrounded the elder spawn with a trench, he spawned inside it and couldn't climb out. The only attack he could do was to summon the branches on the ground. He would do so and I would just walk outside them and keep shooting him.

8:30 Lemme just add to this one from my building experience. I built a 3-story high barn-type structure with holes in my diagonal roof since it looked kinda nice. I of course noticed that not only the top wooden floors got damaged but the wooden floors below it. So in other words, weather damage goes right through floors ALL the way down to the foundation.

To make the walls look a little nicer, you can plant oniens, carrots or turnips and just let them grow. THAN it's a defense-wall-of-love!

Hmm... just build the campfire on dirt and add the floor tile after - no need for any terraforming shenanigans! :)

I have a 2 story wall surrounding 2 of my important bases in the early iron age. It has a 1 story deep trench surrounding it.

I have high walls, trench and moat with wolf den on outer area bc they are so loud when you have a bunch close to your main base. Went pretty high and deep with trenches, died a few times building lol, little excessive but I needed to see high and deep you can go

I found a spit of sand within the ocean and ferried thousands of rocks from the mainland to build my own island. Now I don’t even get enemies spawning on my base as there’s no room for them.

I'm neither Team Walls nor Team Moat. Instead, I'm Team Plateau. I like building on low-lying coastal areas. Walls block those scenic views out over the ocean, plus spiked walls are very ugly and give you the impression of living in a prison. So instead I use the Hoe/Pickaxe to raise my entire base above the surrounding terrain. It not only protects the base from monsters but also from storm surge waves that can damage your woodwork. Monsters can't jump. If your whole base is elevated, they can't jump up onto the same level as the base. The elevation doesn't need to be great, five or six feet high is plenty. The other advantage of this is that you don't have to put doors or gates in your walls. I hate having to open and close doors to leave my base. With an elevated base, I just jump to enter the base and run off the edge to leave it. No E to open and shut doors/gates, yay.

The first small Island I ever decided to build a house on in Valheim happened to have the first Burial Chamber I ever found, under the main mound on the island. I cleared it out and occasionally ran in to get the respawning yellow mushrooms.

jeah i had been happy by the use x tipp i always had the problem that things dont snap on nother things if i look from abouth i will try that for sure! Thx

I don't hide my upgrades. I just make a dedicated workshop for my workbench, forge, chests, and upgrades. I just try to make it look organized and nice.

A base in the plains? Cries in deathsquito

Thank you for the video! It seems that I'm doing right on most of things, but secret rooms, gonna have fun with it XDDDDDD

The work bench trick is probably the best one I wasn't aware

Wow great video! Can't wait to start walling off the trolls and monster spawners with my raised-ground action hoe. And such a wall around my own base plus a trench at a distance surrounding my perimeter wall would probably be awesome for stopping grey dwarfs from stepping back a distance and throwing sh*t at me while I'm busily tending my bee hives. I should probably start with the trench though when building a beach head in the Black Forest since trolls show up pretty quickly when I'm using the pick axe on a rock or making any loud noise in general. Also raised the ground into high enough circle pillars around the first boss's summoning area and beat him by just running around the top of it firing fire arrows at him while he couldn't reach me and mostly stood under my high out-of-reach little crafting table tree-fort near by trying to destroy it while being unhappy he couldn't reach it. I'm planning out what kind of earth wall circles and trenches or dug-outs I can use to defeat the remaining bosses now without knowing anything about them.

when it comes to walls and trenches I am both. tbh, whatever it takes to keep the enemy out of my base and keep nice smooth lines on it.

doesnt a floor tile directly on the ground count as foundation? i see a lot of builders putting houses on small beams for support, but doesnt it work less effectively that way since the next step up from the beam would turn the floor tiles green?

i used both raising the ground to a tall height and they put moat around bottom. Nothing can get close to the base including trolls. The only problem I had or have is my attempt to increase the foot print.. I do your trick for quickly increasing the height but did not do it as well so giving up trying to flatten and raise the surface. But it was good learning experience. Thanks for the tip, good video going to watch other

on my game I built a moat around the base, so my base is on a small chunk of land, and I have spike walls surrounding the base if an enemy somehow makes it across, though I have no bridges, I just jump across also I hope they add drawbridges at some point so you can have a way to transfer carts in and out of the base if you did build a moat, but I might have to try the raising the walls thing, I never thought of that tbh, or the building a base underground using the boss summon platforms

I loved the music, by the way, it was the best part other than the guide itself. xD Thanks for the tips!!

Indestructible wall or trench, i prefer neither. I like making my base on a small island. The number of instances are really low compared to a larger body of land and with the right island, most attacking mods can't/won't swim to your island. Turns out trolls can't swim. Arial attacks may still be a thing but not as yet.

I disagree with 1 . its a nice tip but not a mistake. in some situations the upgrades give your build a better vibe or looks if you play around with them.

Dude! Mind blown with these tips and tricks! Thanks for the awesome video!

A trench is much better as it has no need to drain massive amounts of stone(sure it takes longer but you get lots of stone once done. I also recommend using a wood stake wall on the bases side of the trench if you are in a biome other than the meadows because of the things some enemies throw(yes creatures can enter the meadows but not many will come unless your in the meadows with a black forest raid I experienced one).

lol terraforming causes lag...you dont say!! We learned that one, the base we built on our server is on raised ground with a moat and wall around it, then a farm the size of a walmart parking lot is leveled out and walled off. ;D Its not bad, you get a savage spike when you come into render distance but other than that its ok once its rendered. specially after hearth and home it seems to do less impact.

I built both a trench and wall. I would note that the wall seems to force the enemies towards my door/bridge areas. So I may rework those sections.

Chest stacking. Big thank you. I feel like I'm living in a warehouse right now. Next time I'm on I'll stack all those chests to the ceiling

Pressing X to SIT and BUILD from a lower point?! My mind explodes!! This GEM is a game changer for builders! Thx so much!

Sitting while building is a brilliant tip.

Waiting for my Cookie. ;) Building your base under the Elders Spawn. Great starter tutorial.

I recently started playing this game and damn it really does get more interesting every time I see videos like this, however you don't need to use the sit button to place objects underneath others, you can just use the cycle snapping function and voila, so much easier to build stuff in most situations, just takes a few minutes getting used to before it works like a charm

Team both. Make a trench and use the stone from that to raise the wall a bit before farming it.

Pickaxe and Hoe: super powers. Love the hidden basement idea. How far down can you go? I'm a caveman.

The trick with the tree supported outdoor repair benches blew my mind! Why didn't I think of that? Also, I'm seriously underestimating the hoe and pickaxe in this game...

Your Channel is awesome, so many hidden technics and know how :-) Impressive

I dug out the side of a hill and put all my crafting in that. It is a hugs barn The fastest way to get a workbench working is to steal an existing building. Heck, in one village I cleared of Drauger, I have my workbench and portal in one of the great halls

Your editing is masterful. Subtle, but very effective.

2 years ago I did build a mansion in this game while waiting for Mistlands. But Mistlands came out 2 years later, and by that time I had quit and moved on. Now I went back but abandoned my old save because I lost my touch with the game and started anew. But this time I just settled for the good old square box that has everything while speeding through all the way to mistland. And knowing it will probably take another 2 years, I guess all just move on in the meantime XD

I'm team trench wall :'D Tend to do a trench with water access too and a wall behind the trench so it's safe with a dock to allow entrance to and from the base aswell as teleport hubs later

Worth it for the "X" suggestion cheers!!

TEAM Trench they got walls in game for that purpose and they're good enough to protect from thrown rocks but troll melee attacks however deal alot of damage... the reason I choose a trench over the indestructible walls is purely aesthetic I feel unless your doing a raised castle with steep cliffs on all sides then a trench is more suitable as you don't damage too much of the style... or view for that matter!

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