Ok fist and foremost I must exclam that you have left me speechless on your creativity in this build. Second you have given me so many ideas for new builds/ building trick's that I must thank you. The use of black marble as a contrast to the stone was something I never thought to do. The use of basic 1/2 meter long pieces on the end of the rooftop's is exactly what I was missing in a build I am working on. The building of the ovens and cooking stations into the chimney is something I never thought to do, I will have to watch a video on that to learn how to do it myself. The one complained I have it the idea of the smelters and coal oven on the fist floor being completely see through (even with the iron bars) feels wrong,if that makes sense. It feels like a large hole in the wall of a castle that could easily be used by an invader or something. Other then that I must complement you throughout the build. 12/10 very well done.
Thanks! Glad it was inspiring! Yah the iron cage around the smelters was mostly to save space rather than a thick wall, and I was thinking of expanding that area in the future to also hold the either refinery and some new Ashalnds things. Might have to do a version 2.0 with some of the new build pieces too 😉
My god, that was an incredible build!! I'm awestruck by the detail and layout of the whole thing. It would be awesome to see this kind of place built in real life.
Fantastic build! You have definitely spent a lot of time figuring out this design and it shows in the final product. The roofline looks spectacular. I appreciate the level of skill it took to design that. Well done!
Thanks!! So glad you're inspired by it! Yah it is kinda a mashup of trying lots of designs and ideas that I've come up with over time and putting them all together into one build to see how it would work :)
Really like this build AND it's functionality for gameplay. Looks great and it's practical. So many builds out there that look great and have some good ideas, but aren't practical for gameplay. I've been looking for good endgame base ideas. Great job!!!
So glad you liked the build :) I mostly do survival builds so if I use dev commands I always try to create something that can be used for real in game, so I'm glad you like the practicality!
Not gonna lie, i managed to copy the build with around 90% accuracy. It was extremely difficult. Figuring out how to fix the roof clipping in the barber area and the flooring on that level was a painstaking process. I wanted to see if I could replicate the build to learn more about valheim's roof structures and increase my knowledge on build techniques. the roof "cones" for the top level were also an incredibly difficult thing to figure out. My structural support would collapse on the furthest end time and time again. After many hours, i managed to get my roof stable enough to not disintegrate (learned a lot about structural support doing it though). The only thing I added to help "improve" the build was a stone wall/double darkwood gate entrance at the front. This created a more secure courtyard that would prevent enemies from walking inside. I also added teleporters in the courtyard for both hildir and the trader on my world. All in all 10/10 build and it's an honor to have it on my survival server.
Thanks for the comment!! So happy to hear that, it's so good to hear that it was inspiring and helpful to you, and glad it taught you more about the building! Cheers!
I have to leave a comment here as well, because this is one of the best Valheim builds I have seen! The roof turned out so beautiful and such amount of detail overall! :O
I think this is an amazing build and i love how you started it down by the shore and built the ground up so you have one point of entry to defend. It looks amazing.
Epic amazing build Chiselchip - great stuff and fantastic ideas to use in my own builds - I haven't gotten to Mistlands just yet - but the black marble looks great and amazing
I'll try to recreate it, I think it's a really good build, of course I'll design it a little differently, but the basic structure shouldn't be a problem, thank you
I must thank your for these awesome builds and videos, they are very inspiring. I am currently in the process of slowly building a keep in my new survival server based on this build. It won't be identical, not even close to being as ornate and complex haha I just can't keep up... I'm building it during the iron age basically so the later plains and mistlands materials aren't available yet - and no debug mode makes building those steep roofs more than a little dangerous! It is definitely a fun challenge though!
@@Chiselchip Thank you! I've been working away slowly on my build for a while now, and over this weekend I finally got the roofs and the central building with the pointy roof done. I absolutely love the design, and the satisfaction when everything fit together was great. You outdid yourself with this design, truly! Now to a question - since I am in the Iron Age I do not have access to the spiral staircase yet, so I am really struggling to make a staircase to access the upper floors of the pointy roof section. It both looks awful and takes up so much space that the rooms end up next to useless. Any ideas on how to solve that elegantly? Next I'm going to try and freehand a spiral staircase with beams, wish me luck lol
Thanks!! And yah before the spiral staircase you can either place the wood ladders and they take up the same amount of space, or I'd recommend a corewood spiral staircase, you can find an example in my video on how to build a beautiful and effective starter house @@derleth7133
Yeah I found a tutorial on how to do a compact spiral staircase so I've made that one, now I'm getting smoothly to the top floor, over to polish and then furniture :D @@Chiselchip
Amazing building, man. I've spent 80 days in game (survival mode) to replicate it... But I have came to a point where the highest roof on the front part, keeps crashing... I've spent hours also watching the video to see exactly what you do, and I'm doing it. I don't really understand what is going on. Could you please explain a bit more in depth how to finish that roof? Please. Thanks in advance. PS: I've lost around 8 points in each of the skills because of dying to falls hahahah
So glad you like the build!! Sorry you're having trouble with the roof, I have a tutorial on the pointy roof, and you're also welcome to join my membership and download the world to explore the build to see how it all works if that would help more!
You can head over to my patreon or click the join button and join the Stone membership as well as my discord server where you'll be able to access the files :) @@S7FUU
@@lucasduarte3097 haha thanks!! So glad you like it! I am a carpenter/contractor for my job so I’d say I have a more trained eye for design than some, although I suppose it’s all subjective :)
@@Chiselchip thank you for the fast reply, my comment above more referred to the entire build. A lot of details were skipped over and it would be nice to see how they were done :D
@@bweach7393 Ah ok, Yah you can feel free to download the build on patreon your youtube membership if you'd like to look around and see how it was done in more detail
Hello Chiselchip, first of all: Awesome build! This turorial gave me inspriation to start a fresh new world together with my mate. From the first day on, we farmed all mats for this fortress to rebuild it 1 to 1 by ourself on survival. Last week we finally arrived Mistlands, so we could start with our build last weekend. Now we face a problem, because the top layer of beams aren't stable while building. After snapping them, they arent stable anymore and collapse. For example 14:55, I'm unable to build that. Only the part of the roof with the tarshingles ca hold. I didn't see you using much iron beams, or logs. So how could you handle that? Update: I saw, someone asked the same question in your comments already 🙈 I'll have a look at your other tutorial now - promise 🤞
Heyho@@Chiselchip Thx for your reply, I feel honored ☺ I supported all the beams and logs with iron. I couldn't see you doing that in your fortresstutorial here, thats why it' wasn't stabil for me, and others who rebuilt it. Now everything holds perfect 💪Thx again for this video and your inspiration. I saw a few more very useful tutorials from you - amazing!! Hopefully see more content from you in the ashlands 🤘
This build looks absolutely amazing! You clearly spent so much time on it an it looks great because of that. I have one small question. Did you cover the iron beams that were next to the black marble with core wood beams?
Some really nice decorative ideas there, but... 1. Wooden elements outside roof cover will rot 2. Normal wood doesn't support stone/marble in survival (I have no idea why it works here) 3. Ballistas require maintenance access (and are useless, imo) 4. Crafting area is not complete, and it actually should be as close to storage as possible. 5. Don't let me even start on how it will perform during raids... All in all it looks nice but would be extremely frustrating for actual gameplay.
Clearly you haven't played much Valheim before. This has been the best desing for me and many others when it comes to all of those things you mentioned. Might help to try things for yourself before putting false information in the comments of other fellow RU-vidrs
@@Chiselchip I have 1200 hours with 3 full runs and built several "organic" bases with different layouts. Everything I mentioned is easy to check in game or on wiki in few minutes.
@@ThorneyedWT Well you'd know then that those ballistas are accessible, and that you can support stone with wood, and that wood only rots to 50% health so there's nothing wrong with some of it being exposed if you don't mind the "gray" look to it. That base is incredibly good against raids. I agree with you that ballistas in general are not the best, but everything else that you mentioned makes me think you haven't played the game much
@@ThorneyedWT You're right about wood in general not being able to support stone, but as long as one piece of stone is touching ground and the wood is connected to the ground then you can build out by exactly 2 blocks before needing iron which is what I did here. You can't build a floating stone structure like a tree-house though unless you use iron so I can see why you may have been confused at first because in general it doesn't work
Glad you like the build! Haha yah it takes patience in survival, I enjoy building and taking time, and what's nice about this design is that you get the storage room done first
@@Chiselchip ye it sure does and first I did the ground and it seems "smaller" in the video so I didnt make it big enough and when started doing the foudnation realised that I need to make it way bigger :D that took some time. but got only time before the deep north update so will be done at some point :DD
I'm going to replicate this build for my own world. This is beautiful. Can you build a dock and farm please? and 2, the music is as if you're in a fuling village, are you building this close enough to that tower or is that music something you added after? Thank you! Keep the videos coming!
Thanks for the build suggestions!! The music was because I took down a Fuling camp to build there, and then for the buildlapses i just added it in louder haha
Looks awesome, very beautiful. But hands down, how defensible is it for realz? It lacks the defense tricks we all use, like the gap bridge. Especially in Fuling country this house eill soon be a pile of rubble. Two shamans will reduce it in a minute. So, have you tested it? Or is it just a design you wanted to show? Which I totally love, btw
builds nice, just reached the part where you said youre gonna put ballistas on the squares, the ballistas suck because they target you as well and theres no nway to disable that
looks awesome but arent those wood gonna get damaged by the rain since most of them are not covered by the roof ? that's my main complain here with this game XD i just finished building my tower took me 8 hrs and most of the time was wasted on me figuring out how to place wood so it would look good and yet not get damaged by the rain i dont think i have figured it out tho we will see once it rains XD
@@Chiselchip i built this entire build in my world following your video took a while but i did it XD looks awesome but after placing decorations and such some parts keep getting destroyed etc im guessing i hit the limit of instances in that space lol XD
@@Chiselchip dang, I mean its not a huge build, but I figured it would be more towards 10-11k, 9k is very playable! I guess it helps that a good portion around your base is by water tho.
hey man, im building this in survival right now, and am having a really hard time with the roof because of how fast it went and how much was skipped. do you have any slower or more indepth vid for the roof or no?
Yah I've got a video on my channel for building the pointy roofs in detail if you'd like to check that out. You can also download the world file through my membership to take it apart and see how it was done
@chip i figured it out by slowing down the video and looking at it for a while. didnt know you had a separate video for the pointy roofs. i have completed the build 1:1 minus all the inside details inside my unmodded world. took me like two days, but it was so worth it. it honestly was a lot less resource intensive than i thought it would be, great work. thank you for the build.
@@BrettDNmay I ask how you ended up doing the very top of the pointy roof? The room where he placed the galdr table and has beams going across the 45 degree shingle roofs? I can’t get the middle beam to place despite being able to build out the roof otherwise and can’t seem to figure out how to squeeze more support up there unless I hide some more iron beams perhaps
i had to stop playing on xbox because my base was too big and i couldnt stand the lag. this and technonica where both games that didn't get a second playthrough from me because of late game lag. it really sucks because i liked both