Let me know what your favourite tip is here and if you have more great tips, why not share them below! - Also I'm aware it's a hoe... don't know how I slipped that one up... ALSO SINCE THE LAST UPDATE YOU CANNOT RAISE THE GROUND IN ONE CLICK.
Remember to periodically check every thing you build and make repairs to each and every piece. I do this when pieces are half way down and it doesn't take very long. It also helps when taming boars or the boars get to agitated when Greylings or anything bigger is attacking. They could break out at a weak spot. I lost 8 boars though some probably got killed.
My man let a troll destroy a whole-ass treehouse just so that he could provide us with 5 seconds of powerful visual aid. I have to admire that dedication!
@@SirChronDonIII the first time I fucked myself beyond reproach, I went into the menu for save files. I was able to save my character, but I had to start a new world. Was worth it though, cause I'm in the bronze age, and I'm about to move my entire setup over to a new location in a Meadows biome so I can have a mostly peaceful existence without having to worry about if my base is going to be under constant assault by the creatures of the Black Forest
I had to rebuild my tree house many times before I learned that if its above a certain point, trolls wont aggro at all 😭Now its bulletproof. I feel this mans pain lol
I brought this game a few weeks ago, played for about 15 minutes, picked some raspberries and then got killed by a boar. Left it for a week then stumbled on a RU-vid video and gave it another go. I'm now 70 hours in and have a magnificent house and recently killed my 6th troll. Amazing game!
You will probably never see this but 70 hours and only 6 trolls?…. A basic crude bow with some fire arrows kill them in like 20 shots. My girl had killed a dozen trolls after just a few hours of playing with me showing her fire arrows. It took a few hours because it took a while to find them. Yikes. ☠️☠️😂😂
For roofs, I find it easier to use 26 degree roofs, you can walk up these without any problem and it saves having excess supports to keep the roof supported Also saves on wasted space
It's so rare that I'm subbed to a gaming channel for one game, and then they start doing videos on another game and I actually play both games. I think you are legitimately the first youtuber to manage to pick two games I want to see videos on. Very nice!
Just as a point of order, those angled "supports" for cross beams are useless unless they're reducing the total number of connections to the ground. The game is very basic in its "stability" calculation in that it only looks at the total number of connections to a ground. If that cross piece you use doesn't bypass more than one connection point, it won't do anything. I'll still use them sometimes for aesthetic purposes, though.
A quicker method to tip #1: If your beam isn’t wanting to connect, just build it in the general spot you’d want it (it will look funky for a second, similar to 0:25) and then your next beam placement will snap exactly where you want it to go. Then you can delete that funky beam. This saves time as you don’t have to switch from a beam, to a wall, back to a beam again.
Figured that raise ground tip out awhile back by accident. In my opinion that’s the best tip in this video and most of my buddies I’ve shown it to didn’t realize you could do it that way
When building floors out, you can place a floor on top near the edge of the one you're trying to build out, then do the same again and it'll snap to the lower one, then destroy the one on top. rinse and repeat. A little quicker and easier. Hope it helps.
5:58 I had this same problem with my tree house. Im sure you know by now but for the people who dont, if you build high enough on the tree the trolls wont aggro and itll be safe. As long as the entry point is also away from the tree house and it gradually gets higher, trolls and other enemies wont strike the tree.
Doesn't seem like a bad idea for a forward base. You can build it high enough that any troll would just be confused and wandering around, particularly if you remove the ladder. The pine tree counts as a "blue" foundation piece no matter high up on it you go.
What you do is raise the ground vertically using the hoe, making a stone pillar, and then plant a tree on top and it only takes a couple of game days to grow. Then the trolls can't do any damage to it.
I recommend getting mod that allows to use arrowkeys to place and you can rotate to any direction anything so you can make even doors sideways or be "raise-able bridge.
I don't know why this isn't commented anywhere, but a quick trench/earth wall berm gives you near perfect safety while building. Just like scaffolding is indispensable while building up, a quick earth wall surrounding is indestructible and almost impossible for foes to get over and worth loads of peace of mind.
1:46 if your placing floors outwards (i.e. bridge) you can simply place the first floor off connecting to something then another on top of it but half way hanging off it in the direction you want the next floor to be. Then when you go to place one on top of that it'll snap underneath. Delete that second (top) floor piece and you can keep doing it until you don't have the support.
A cool part with hiding the iron beams with normal wood ones, they make the beam blue no matter where it is and will support even the craziest structures.
pretty decent tips. I'm not sure if you already pointed this out but if not you really should, building in the game has nothing to do with sound architecture and its entirely based off distance from the "ground" so building horizontally or vertically is limited equally... which makes absolutely no sense but its how the game does it.
Yep I covered it in the basic build tips. It's frustrating but that's why using supporting Y beams can give you an extra piece of support here and there :) cut out the middle piece and you gain an extra one.
Despite having 400 hour on the game (Almost got to Yagluth I progressed slowly shut up) My bases were incredibly basic, or not well thought out, so I am thankful for this video.
you must be so ready for those moments, but if u build a 'hole' around the base and then put spikes, you should be safe, (it's not hole but u know, it's like a river around your base withouth water so the trolls dont pass that easily)
Just got this on Xbox last night… a buddy of mine plays this on PC and I’m so hyped that he got gifted it to me… haven’t been this excited about a survival game in a while!!
I already knew all this except the circle building which is what I've been looking for. YOU are the first person I've seen who's said it's easier to build in to out rather than out to in and that helped so much you've no idea. Just finished my magnum opus of boat houses I've made so now I want to try circular structures. Skål mate.
By the Gods, I wanna try SO much things, that I learn thanks to your recent videos. Thank you so much, as usual. Satisfactory or Valheim, thoses videos are always so nice and packed with much shared wisdom, and I'm always thanksful for them :)
Personally, the best building tip I have is this: Let someone else do the work. Like say, if I was playing on a server with Total, he can do all the building, while I go off and chop down a forest to bring him the wood. :-p
That’s what we do on my server. I have horrible arthritis in my hands so battling is difficult & painful for me. So I do the majority of the building (they’ll put down quick pike fencing if I ask them to) while they do supply gathering (I do some but stay close to base & Black Forest is a no no for me) and they do the exploring/fighting, though I am pretty damn good with a bow & fishing pole as I also gather the majority of the food!
I don't even own the game yet, and I'm eager to see what I can make from this! Thanks for the great tips and a good pace. Well shown and nicely edited.
I discovered this game after “let’s game it out“ did his video on it. Absolutely hooked! However I do genuinely and sincerely wish the leveling tools for ground were much more simple and basic.
Great guide! If Valheim only wasn't so poorly optimized... flatten the ground and build a bigger base with lots of pieces, and you'll see the FPS drop. 😥
I didnt know about the raise the ground technique! Thank you soo much👑 i have spent atleast 8 houra just collecting stone to raise the smallest flat mountain 😂
Another tip that may or may not be obvious: the little dots that come off the items you're placing are telling you the direction they're affecting the structure. If you connect a beam to another thing, the dots will show you whether you're adding support or you're just adding weight to another object so you can better align your structure. FYI: all your links have a %u200B added to them so they all fail to bring you to the location it says. I don't know if it's a youtube thing discouraging outside links, or it's a piece of software all you streamers use that's doing it.
Adding a part will never make another part lose stability or break, there is no "weight" that affects the parts providing support or anything like that. The only possibility when adding parts is that something you've added provides a shorter connection path to a foundation and as a result transmits more stability to one or more connected parts. Removing parts, on the other hand, can easily break connections in unexpected ways and cause other parts to lose stability and collapse.
if you already have the elder buff it helps a lot. Also when chopping find a forest and first only hit a tree until it fails and then move to the other one. In this way you get a lot of damage to the trees when they fall onto one another and it saves you some work.
The Y support is pretty cool. While the mechanism behind it could be the 45° beam reduces stability decay by creating a shortcut between those two beams instead of some architectural principles, it just makes the whole thing looks realistic.
Yeah, technically it works because there's one fewer piece along the route from foundation to extremity, and the shorter path means the ends don't lose as much integrity. It's a quirky build system in a couple other ways too but still fun to work with.
Very good video on advanced building techniques. There are a lot of ways in this video to improve or enhance your buildings. Remember to periodically check every thing you build and make repairs to each and every piece. I do this when pieces are half way down and it doesn't take very long.
I needed this ! I'm 200 days in and am currently preoccupied with building a big fancy base. I am a minecrafter at heart and love building- but I'm not familiar with the in's and outs of Valheim building just yet :P so it'll be a while until I reach the level that I'm at with mc lol
i built my third base on a Mistlands shore. i got 3 floors (with 0 floor for a doc underneath) with my third floor having a stair to a huge tree (that tree is not considered an interactable object that can be destroyed). so i kept building my stars up until i got to the top of the tree. after that i made a platform and connected it to another (non interactable) tree nearby and got myself a huge balcony high in the sky. i build my house partly on a core wood beams + also attached the whole house to that tree (so any part that touches the tree will become blue (only works with non interactable objects) ) i also built a dock for longships underneath and attached lots of torches across the path towards the dock (i`ve put wooden beams right on a sea floor) it kinds look cool (cuz midlands are dark as hell) it looks like some road to the underworld when you sail towards the house. so you can build your base on a trees in a mistlands without any height limitations. you can make it as big as you want (as long you planned the amount of trees nearby right). the only thing bothers me is a huge spiderweb across my house and a possibility of some sort of spiders spawning inside my house in a future patch.
Man I want to take a break from satisfactory, I'll look up this valheim game and how to build in it. TotalXclipse is everywhere. But the man does have good taste in games
one of the main point i play this game is how the building in this game work. in rust it have decent building aspect in them but plus constant aleat state that your base will be raided at night. but in this game you can do what ever when ever you want. if you feel like exploring? do it. when you want to build someting? just do it no body will come at night and make them into ruin.
Not strictly true - My first base was raided by a troll whilst I was out, i fought it off with a little damage, another time I built a camp in the blackforest, and whilst I was away mining three trolls raided and destroyed half of my forward outpost. The longer you play the game, and the more bosses you kill the more raids and higher difficulty there is
@@TotalXclipse AI engagement also depends on how far away you are from a "base" - especially in the new update that seems to "sleep" areas of the map you've not been in for an extended period of time.
I repeatedly tried using the hoe to level this ONE spot and it wouldn't level. Over and over...WTF? Finally got frustrated and smacked it with the pick axe and viola! That did the trick.
