Valheim: How To Build the PERFECT Chimney! [Step by Step Guide] 

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Ah finally, a chimney that addresses the rain. I have a chimney that protects from the rain, but I am looking for something smoother like this. thank you.

What I like most about this video (and why I subbed) is that I actually feel like I'll remember everything for once. A lot of build videos are great, but they sort of overwhelm me with an entire mansion or castle. This can be a nice cozy addition to anyone's build as long as it fits. Speaking of which, I've got some remodeling to do.

Thanks for actually making this video. Would have never guessed the roof piece was the key

You can free place the internal roof tile towards the center by holding SHIFT so it doesn't clip thru the front or back via those connection points.

Love it, I have NEVER been happy with my fireplaces and this is perfect!.... only downside... now I have to go back and retrofit all my buildings in three game worlds... LOL!

Wonderful build! I hate having the angled roof sections on all my chimneys. This is pure genius. Also it is so nice to see current content. The older content is ok but outdated in some respects.

Thanks very much for making this video. Most of my chimney designs looked terrible due to a misunderstanding of how smoke ventilation works.

that roof tile trick is the best thing you've given me since someone explained how ground leveling works in valheim

You can also put the Rooftile pointing backwards and make it go deeper in - that way you can also have some Oven or a Smithing Station in the lower Levels of the Buildings (or upper) as well, all usin one Chimney.

I've been playing Valheim for the first time 3 days ago because of these building movies, I made 2 little homes with very clear improvement each. Now working on the 3rd one and it's the most complex build yet, using this fireplace as a base and a spacious basement for storing food and distill mead. I do sometimes see the fire go off on its own for a few seconds and then go on again, not sure what's happening here. Anyhow it seems to work like a charm otherwise! I'm implementing this in all my future homes now, and when I do it'll remind me of Chiselchip!

The roof inside is genius! I'm definitely using this. Thanks!!

Nice design. I did something similar on my multi floor castle build using the angle roof but I was using the same smoke vent for 3 fireplaces on each floor.

3:57 "I'll usually just kinda throw it back as far as I can"

I took this and a took a little off the back and made it in 2 rooms pretty cool thank you.

Very nice design! I haven't played Valheim in some time. This puts me in the mood to play again. Thanks for the video =)

Nice design. I like it. For tall chimneys, I use the iron gate inside the stone blocks at the back and just stack them as high as I want to go and then they get covered by the block.

Very nice, I thought maybe you'd have to angle another roof section inside there, but I guess 1 section covers it, thanks for the video, I'll definitely be adding this to my builds

THIS!!! ive been wanting to build chimenys like this for so LONG i could never find anything good that wouldnt go out THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO

You: "So that's the basics" Me: "No that's essential" 🤩

I seem to remember Valheim from a couple years ago requiring a 2x2 hole for smoke to escape. This is the size of the large floor piece. Anything smaller and the smoke would be trapped. I thought that was dumb then. I even killed myself once making a tiny hut with a small opening in the roof and a campfire inside, then clicked to sleep before I noticed I was taking smoke damage. How small was my opening? It was a 2x2 hole in the roof with 1m vertical beams supporting a roof piece. That left 4 openings that were all 1x2 for the smoke to exit and it didn't. Your chimney has 1 such opening and it works. It looks like the game changed for the better.

This is one sexy fireplace/chimney! You’re giving me inspiration to modify it for a stacked chimney design.

I dream of valheim devs one day finally making fires work properly. Because it's absolutely ridiculous when a hearth in a chimney goes out because 10 meters directly above it it is not covered by a roof. Or in a giant "tent" where you have a fire in the middle and leave the top of it open for the smoke to escape (actual way it is built irl), because, again, 10 meters above it, the fire doesn't have a fckin roof. I seriously doubt that it's hard to make this work

Great video. It is a similar chimney design to what I typically use myself. Although, I normally place an angled roof over the top like most people. I didn't know that the hearth would remain lit if it was only exposed to small amounts of open sky above - so thanks for that bit of knowledge.

Stealth roof...that's so smart!! Thanks for sharing and blowing my mind ☺

Few things in valheim are more satisfying than making a functional chimney.

maybe add a decorative mantel of wood just above the fire :)

Oh thank u.. I've been trying to find a better way of building chimneys for a while.. just built two of these on my existing build and they look amazing.. thank u very much for sharing this these will be my go to for all my kitchens now 🙂

Thank you for this build! Love it, especially since it is not sped up. Keep up the good work

Great idea for a chimney and great video, definitely will use it, thanks a lot.

this looks really good, but it'd look even better if you added a chimney cap instead of the roof inside the chimney... chimney caps are VERY important in real life, and they have been used since the inception of indoor fireplaces. they were very prominent in viking culture as well, so for me, designing a chimney without a cap just looks odd and incomplete

Great build. Definitely gonna help the town inn I'm working on.

That...is a brilliant design! Thanks for sharing it!

Super cute and cozy. Love it!

Now that Ashlands is released, you could replace the wall with a steep stone stair to prevent the clipping issue with the wooden roof.

Thank you for your work I have been making these ugly monstrosities that I have to hide within the walls of my builds this entire time

Really nice design, thanks man!

I'll have to try this out, always thought it wouldn't work since there's still an opening for water to fall on the hearth but I never bothered trying it

I’ll be making this from now on always wondered the best way to make a great chimney thank you

It looks FANTASTIC!

Going to have to try this, last time I did this it didn't work. I was under the impression that the smoke needed 2X2 gap to ventilate properly.

Brilliant!

That's a nice design. Thumbs up! I've been doing something similar then capping the chimney with dvergr walls (1 meter visible) to give the appearance of spark arresters.

Wionderful! Thanks for sharing your build with us!

200 IQ Chimney Build.

This is like the dual story chimney ibdid in my first server uears ago then? Two fires on different story in one chimney, above the fire hidden slanted roofs pushed the smoke into a single exit flute. Neither fire went out in the rain and the smoke from the first floor was not visable in the second. I miss that castle. I built it in the medows section of a medow/plains island. The biome border was fully walled off with massive walls. The keep was amazing with the morning light putting god rays perfectly on the throne. The walls were bit amd tough and capped at corners with signal lights. The main gates into the plains were huge and featured proper crenalations, machinations, and murder holes. The dock on the side of the keep had perfect boat fitting slots for 2 long and 2 karve. The main paortal3was build in a structure built in a stone circle and the area around it was heavily reforested. Ultimately it was lost when the entire group stopped playing forba while and the host site for some reason decided to reset the map. Everyone was pissed and i have not made such a big build since. It devastated me for building on mp servers.

A genius.

I never use chammies. As long as you have some sort of venting above the fire in the room it will no smoke you out.

Very nice! The only problem is the wood at the top will go bad and will need to be repaired all the time.

The smoke is happy!

Quick tip for making videos, do less gesturing with mouse movement. All the swaying and jerking does little to help draw attention and make it harder to watch. Pointing with the cursor is fine but do it slowly and mention to watch the cursor.

Could this design be adjust to have it be open on both sides (front and back) while maintaining the rain proof capability?

It's so good looking

Great thank you so much ❤

Great design!

Love it!!!! Thank you sir!!!

Thanks for the video.

This the one! Dayum

Thanks again i just did it in my house 👍👍👍

you could use a door to offset the roof by .5 so it doesn't show on either side

Have you tried using a temporary door frame to get a half meter snap point? then you can put the 45 degree roof completely inside the stone and not stick out either side

Nicely done!

5:40 you can do without this level of masonry. The chimney will be lower and little bit prettier

Great tutorial!

I figured out how to not clip the 45° roof peice. Use a door to 1/2 step the roof peice

Brilliant ! :)

Can just use 4x2 slabs to make the chimney, then you can pick whatever you want on the sides... maybe glass?

Very nice 👍

Im new to this game and didn't know you could smoke out your house lol.

Thank you

Liked and subbed man, I love your delivery, I love the design, everything good sir, I’m gonna use this design if that’s cool

This would work as a nice outdoor BBQ. I also like to trim the fireplace with wood accents and glass.

What's the main difference between using a 45 vs 26 degree roof? Is it because the 45 roof causes less resistance to the smoke on the way up?

Excellent build! How do you deal with rain damage to the top wooden pieces? Do you just accept it as the cost of doing business, or am I missing an element?

Why not custom place the 45 straw roof so it doesn't phase through either side?

Dude nice 🎉

Very nice build

neat!

Nice very pretty! Have they patched the smoke? used to need a bigger hole for the smoke I'm sure! If you hold (think is shift, might be ctrl) anyway you can place off snap, best metal support is an iron gate inside the wall hidden can go really high.

Where can you fit in all your Cauldron upgrades?

wow its perfect

So were do you put al the upgrade items like the butcher block and mortar & pestle ?

Built it. But it keeps kicking smoke back in my face when I try to cook. Removed the 45 degree roof from inside. Still happening. Guess I'll have to tear it apart and see what's going on.

trying to keep the rain out while not dying of smoke ventilation is pretty frustrating. I spent hours just trying to come up with a good chimney design. Gave up after the 5th hour and came here.

nice and one cheats or so. Thanx for a tips, bro.

I just got bronze so I’m nowhere near this stage but this looks great. Do you think this method would still work with the full size hearth in relation to depth? If you used two 45 degree roof pieces front to back would that still prevent rain from putting the fire out? Ideally I would like to make a huge fireplace, possibly multiple hearths in one…

Hey so I built this as depicted but i'm running into two issues. 1) the hearth makes more smoke than can be exhausted. This is leading to the smoke coming into the house (not a big issue since it's only a little and I have high ceilings. However, I can't stand right up against the hearth or the smoke will suffocate me. 2) Because of the smoke, the fire sometimes goes out for moments at a time. Are you running into these issues?

Really nice robust build, now can you do it in black marble? :)

the ones at the bottom that stick out 1 meter cant you replace those with chests ? would be handy with the most used items nearby.

Why and how are you flying around ?

I should rebuild my house ;)

My main confusion was just that the fire isnt "totally covered"! So the Hearth has different vulnerabilities than the basic campfires?? I haven't gotten to the stoneworking part of the game yet, so I wouldnt be aware, but just having a normal campfire "covered" during rain will put it out if its not really thorough with the coverage! That totally threw me lol

Do you normally have thunderstorms inside your sgtructure?

Mine CONSTANTLY flickers on and off. Built exactly like the vid shows. Changed top to traditional slant...problem solved. This example may not work anymore.

@Chiselchip hi I really love this build been using it on quite a few builds but wondering if there is a way to build it stacked ? Like on a real life castle the have fireplaces on different floors. They are all connected to one large fire place on the ground usually the buildings kitchen. I've been trying to think of a way to do something similar but thought u might have a better idea of how to go about it.. anyways yeah I would love to see if u could help with this as I really love this build and have grand plans but not the best builder so I've learned lol..

The smoke still vents out of the chimney. Not ventilates.

But what about cauldron upgrades? How about fitting them INSIDE the chimney to avoid cluttering around fireplace? Without it - pretty much useless, as cauldron without upgrades is

You don't even need a roof peice... You can stagger stone blocks inside the chimney and it counts as a roof...

work this also with giebel parts on top?

weird how that 1 side is still open to the sky but the game doesnt care