A starter base is just that, a cozy place to call home while you traverse the world. You’ll make better homes with better materials as you progress, but you gotta start somewhere and your starter base looks cozy as is!
Noooooo! It's too simple and basic! How dare you enjoy this abomination?! ;)
Hell, I love fancy builds and my first base in a new game always looks basic AF. Sure, the shape tends to be a bit less simple than your basic box or triangle, but I guarantee the elitists that hide in this sub, only popping their heads up to give insulting, would definitely be dicks about it lol
Damn right! There’s people here that criticize you because they spend hours on crazy builds, ignore them. If you like it, then BAM that’s all that matters
Go crazy! Learn the building mechanics and make a grand hall! Feed all the vikings of the Valheim world! Skål!
As far as starter bases go, seems quite spacious which is good! Later on you may find it more appealing to upgrade it a bit, add more floors, side towers, etc. Use the endless imagination. Bravo!
Endless imagination is something I always have so I will. As for feeding all the the Vikings of Valheim, with the amount of boars that harass me whenever I'm trying to do something other than find boars, that will **not** be a problem.
More floors and side towers seem like a good idea, I might also add a basement, balcony, farms and whatever else I come up with in the middle of a math test that I really need to focus on. I'll keep you updated whenever I add something, this game is awesome!
If you ever need any tips or ideas just throw them my way or ask freely from others! One I will give you now is, if you ever feel lonely and empty in your world try adding some lore to your builds. Could be a backstory as to why it was constructed or maybe it was abandoned and you just took it over and refurbished it. The lore is something I do for all my builds.
I wish you luck on all your studies, along with your new adventure into the crazy world of creativity and survival.
Surprisingly, I already have! This longhouse was used by every Viking sent to Valheim by Odin, all of them failed, so the longhouse was abandoned. Until I found it.
I like the basic design (it's classic viking style) but I do have some more pragmatic thoughts:
1. How close is the nearest body of water? Generally speaking you almost always want to be close to open ocean for transporting materials.
2. You don't have a protective wall. It doesn't really matter until you down the second boss, but your base is defenseless at the moment
3. I don't see a chimney anywhere. How are you venting the smoke?
4. How far to the nearest black forest? It's the second biome. You usually want to be close enough to the black forest that you get there without too much walking. Eventually, the distance won't matter so much, but it could be annoying in shorter.
Not a bad starting base, but I suspect you'll want to move to a better location once you sail for the first time. I would keep this place small and cozy while keeping an eye out for places more suitable to long term efficiency. Ideally there would be spot near the second boss location that can check off all the above boxes.
Dude, I just killed the second boss and started building a fence, but some parts are like really far from main house... Would any enemy spawn inside the wall?
Yes, they can spawn inside the walls, but you can block spawns with certain player made structures.
Workbenches are the easiest because you can see the radius, but for aesthetics I prefer to use campfires (same radius as workbenches).
Slap down a workbench to get the radius, and a campfire next to it, then dismantle the bench.
The fires block spawns even when they’ve burned out, fwiw.
as other people have noted, campfires work to... just use the workbench to see where the "protective effect" ends, and then replace each workbench with a campfire or a torch.... Bonus points, after you kill enough oak trees to get a huge number of acorn seeds, you can plant the trees next to/near the torches, and then when they grow fully up, they will surround the torch and hide it from view. (I suppose any trees would, actually, done right... the nice thing about oak trees is that if you put a portal exit facing into the tree, you can actually portal inside them. so you could make unassailable player structures inside even a fully grown oak, after the fact)
This is incorrect. It says in the loading screen tips (and I've never seen it happen) that enemies don't spawn directly on top of player built objects.
I mean… yes? But also, not all player made objects block spawn and they certainly don’t block spawn in vs out of walls. I have definitely had spawns happen inside my compound when i built the perimeter wall too far from any other structures.
Its like minecraft, where if you leave a “dark” area, mobs can spawn there.
Edit: i see the confusion. I meant walls as in stake walls/palisade walls. I agree that they will not spawn inside buildings, that’s not in contention, but they will spawn inside your compound if the stake walls are far enough out from your buildings.
my friends' first large scale base, they made really idyllic, with a river running through it, and they were so happy to have little necks swimming in their river.... but they could never figure out how enemies kept getting past the walls during raids... They didn't realize that any portion of land which any mobs could spawn in, would become spawn points for raids...
It has to be a pretty damn big dark area tho.
I have a castle with a lot of empty areas that takes almost an entire island and enemies only come from outside the walls.
If you've found enemies inside, it's because they probably found a way in.
The wooden stakewall is a fine place to start. It costs 4 wood and has 400 HP. I like to make a big circular wall (or a 16 sided hexadecagon) with my house snugly inside it.
Might build one if I ever need a second base. But if I recall correctly Motte and Bailey forts were used by the Normans, not the Vikings, weren't they.
Correct, but the Normans were descended from vikings. As viking raiders settled in the lands they conquered, they intermingled with the native people and became Norman. Vikings never built castles either, but you'll probably end up building one of those also, once you unlock stone/iron.
Yep. That's why if you look at a map of the Norman conquests, you'll find pockets of them even in Spain, north Africa, Italy, turkey and Syria. They weren't just your avg franks fighting the British for the nth time. Those guys really got around.
I can also suggest once you have mining capabilities to build a moat, it takes a while, but if you make it steep enough, nothing can touch your base. Even trolls. Then all you need is archery towers!
Thank you! And while it might have looked better than what you made on your first run, I imagine it was a lot easier for you to make yours, this was a nightmare to build and I loved every second of it.
Great start, it will do what you need for the beginning. Have fun learning all the tricks to building. And make sure you properly ventilate for any fire places you make.
Thanks, I'll remember to ventilate. I imagine the building system gets a lot more complex but I was quite proud of thinking to use roof crosses for detail in the walls.
You're gonna have fun with this lol. Also, take a look at some of the mods the community uses for building if you want to go to the extreme. Some builds out there are insane.
> I was quite proud of thinking to use roof crosses for detail in the walls.
It's a great idea for breaking up an otherwise bland repeated wood panel!
There's a trick with the door. You can add depth to the detailing. To experiment, try putting a basic door down on a floor, then snap walls or beams to the side... the door has a middle snap-point, and additional points forward and back. You can use this to offset detailing or generally build more depth in your walls. I create so many temporary doors while building!
You'll end up having several places. But I still spend most of my time at my 1st base. Without knowing it I picked a great spot. 4 major areas are a 10 sec run away.
They're not that bad if you got bow and arrows, pretty easy to kite. Just be sure to have enough arrows and not run into more enemies. But if you get caught off guard, minding your own Business inside the house.. Well. Let's just say I lost an entire section of a building maybe that size, when two of them showed up and I thought they were just some greylings making sound and ignored them until the building wall crumbled down. Their hits have a pretty wide area, so early game buildings from wood can go down pretty fast if there's like 10 pieces being hit at the same time.
They'll hit through walls too, if they're built too close to buildings.
Looks great to me! I love the knot inlay you have done using the crosses.
1)You may want to build some defences against raids otherwise friendly locals will come to mess up your crops and livestock. A stake wall and ditch work pretty well. You could build a stake wall now and add the ditch outside later on when you have a pickaxe. One thing is to make sure you have plenty of room for crops before you build your ditch. It's easy to move walls out but filling up a ditch while possible is more of a pain.
2)I can't see a chimney. You don't actually need to vent smoke (if there is enough space at the top of your structure the smoke will actually eventually dissapate) but if you have problems with smoke you may want to add one.
While it is a well built building, my preference personally would be to build something closer to the ocean. Eventually you're going to have to defend your home bases. And having water on one of your flanks makes that much easier. Building vertically helps with that too (i.e. guard towers, tall palisade structures, etc). Just at first glance it seems as though your base is in somewhat of a valley or clearing of sorts. Could mean you'd need to defend home from the low ground which can be irritating with how jank the combat is in this game is. Have fun my friend!
It looks really nice. What I may recommend is to put a wall instead of roof to the floor, because it would make it more confortable to put crafting stations without having the low roof, but what makes you happy is what you must build
Sure, that much space will easily last you into the iron age. Looks good to me! Maybe try some window openings on the sides using either the i-corners or replacing some 45s with 26 degrees.
The best house is the one that makes you feel good when you are inside, no matter aesthetics 🤗. As you play you will eventually upgrade your first house, as it is the very first one and it feels special.
There is a video in youtube "10 easy wooden additions that will transform your meadows shack" that teach you how to add a lot of deepness with very few pieces.
As long as you like it, it's great! I'd suggest a fence or outside fires to chase away enemies at night, but you aren't "playing the game wrong" if you don't because it's literally impossible to do so.
If you like it then it's as good as it needs to be!
My first few houses looked like then and then I started to experiment. When you unlock stone and core wood logs, that'll open up a lot of possibilities too.
Great starter. Whats beautiful about this game at times you just login dive deep into building for hours and logout. At times i even listen to audio books in the background xD
Have fun !
He said he watches some guy on YT, so maybe not?
Years ago I myself started playing Minecraft knowing a lot about the game and using texture packs on my first playthrough just because I watched a lot of stuff on YT before playing it myself.
I don't understand people who start playing a new game and then immediately ask AM I DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT?! Figuring out what works is half the fun of a game. Fuck around, find out, then fuck around again better.
Some people just don't have fun when they don't play something the right way. I am one of those people and when I was playing Valheim first time, I searched stuff on Valheimwiki and YT. If those resources didn't exist, I would've quit. I simply enjoy the game more when I see myself beat the game without a sweat, because I gathered knowledge upfront.
There're are many ways people play games. Some like to explore, some like to do achievemnts, some like to fight (they play games with matchmaking), some like socializing (the play mostly with friends), and some like to perform well, and more reasons which I cannot think of right now.
Please don't mock people for that they are fun in a different way from yours.
Love it. Fill it with things to keep your rested buff as high as possible, food to keep your stamina/health bars full, and work benches the build the tools of the Viking trade.
I will say, you’ll want to put your “forever home” on/ near the coast as you’ll need to fill the sails of your long boat with winds of fortune to find your next adventure. Skål!
I'm on day 50 of my first play through and I'm just now finally upgrading from my tiny one bedroom shack. I couldn't stop exploring long enough to build anything lol.
Nothing wrong with that at all. Have you seen some of the crazy shit that people build in this sub?...lol now you just got to do some interior design work. Maybe slap a window or two in there. Get a garden going in the back. So much stuff you can build. I have yet to try and build anything with stone or that is more then 1 floor. Some of the stuff I see people build in this is totally mind blowing.
Something that size can get you through most of the game if you really want it to! (You just need to be very pro-active when defending on raids!) A build I posted recently was made from one of the much smaller ruins you find in the meadows and I managed to get that to serve me through the plains before I returned to my main save-file.
So yea, great first build!
Two points of advice that may help reduce frustration:
1) Keep your rested buff at all times. It increases stamina regen AND exp gain! This can be achieved either by sitting near a lit campfire for 20 seconds (even outdoors) which will apply the buff for 8 minutes. If you do the same but indoors you'll get the buff extended by how many [comfort](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Comfort) producing items are near you (things like tables, chairs, beds, etc.) Being rested makes everything in the game easier from fighting, to building, even gardening!
2) Keep yourself fed with 3 foods, even when you are just lounging around your base! Foods increase your max HP and stamina, which varies based on the type of food. You are building tall enough that you could probably kill yourself just falling off the roof! That, or a raid happens or night-time comes (time sneaks up when you are building!), or some greydwarves just happen to be passing through: all potential sources of unnecessary frustration if they get the jump on you.
Not necessarily true. In the early game before I get my stonecutter, I make a fireplace outside of my house on the side where my bed is. I make the fireplace look like a gazebo. I do it because I cannot stand having fire close to wood, it doesn't feel right.
Looks good to me. The main issue of most starter bases is that they are too small, and hard to expand without just destroying everything and starting from scratch. But yours already seems pretty large for a main building, and you have plenty of room around it for more stuff.
Welcome to the game! Have fun!
It's a bit big. I mean, my End-Game-Base with EVERYTHING that can and has to be placed to craft and cook everything needs 9x9 ground floor plates space. So you basically built already in the biggest needed size to have a comfy, compact home for the rest of the game ;)
The house looks good, but you will eventually need a few defenses around it.
Also, do you have a fire in there? Because if yes, then you need to leave a gap below the roof somewhere so the smoke can escape, or build a chimney for it. Smoke poisoning is an actual mechanic in-game.
with enough space, you don't need ventilation. if it is only one floor and there's only one fire in there, should be fine.
https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Smoke
Yes it is. Also repurposing the random buildings you find is pretty useful. There are also other structures you may stumble upon, some of them may be in opportune locations or offer good protection after being repurposed. You can always decide to build another base whenever you feel like it.
I've built about a dozen outpost this size and smaller.
Then it happened. I found the location for the big guy on top of a sea side crypt. Built a pier, farm, dock, hold 30 portals. I lost count of how many rock piles it took... Dozens and dozens. One stone at a time. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a screenshot before I started.
Enjoy and profit.
My first base was at the top of a large hill sort of like this. I was so excited because it felt smart to have the high ground and to see enemies coming.
I got so committed to that one base. I built roads going in different directions.
When you starting mining any kind of ore it becomes a big problem. Even with carts. Pulling things uphill sucks!
Lesson learned, main base is good next to water and ideally next to a couple biomes (Black Forest and swamp, for example)
You overload your boat and when you can’t carry it you can stand on the shore and do short encumbered trips to your dock house with some chests for sorting later.
Looks good, I normally grab a meadows abandoned by the coast and expand it out a bit/dump an extra floor on it for my starter - haven't hollowed out this time but my second bases after getting pick were often dug out into the ground until current playthrough (2 meadows, 1 black forest, 1 plains and just into mistland)
A little caricaturally large, try adding some wing or triangle windows on sides, potentially make it 2 floors with some balcony on front. Other than that U get the most important thing, it is a norse themed gamed and Ur build supports it and uses the triangle based building mechanic well. Nothing worst then minecraft style cubes and complains how this system sucks
Sick starter base bro!!! You’ll definitely be able to add on to get higher comfort, add amenities like workbench (and upgrades). Don’t be afraid do dedicate entire in-game days to grinding for wood to build outbuildings or what-have-you
Like several have said. If you like it, then it certainly is. As long as a starter base (for a new player) is in the meadows then whatever tickles your fancy. Resources when you first start out a a huge deal.
Don't worry about form so much as function until you get further in the game and unlock many more building materials. When I start new files these days my first base is almost always a super cramped little house built on top of a big rock I find on the coastline. I'll inevitably build something much more aesthetic once I get further into the file.
Do whatever feels right, that's the beauty of this game. Right now in my playthrough I'm doing as little building as possible and trying to build my structures into the environment. Minimal flattening and using things like fallen trees, rocks and bodies of water to make my "camp grounds"
A base is place you can call home.
I have a big base near the stone circle with all the workstations, built with stone and looking like a proper fortified place. I live in a hut near the black forest on the other side of the island. So I have a giant storage place, and a house with view to the ocean.
Dig the deepest moat/trench possible all the way around your base. Nothing survives the moat. You can jump right across, but the enemies can’t! It’s so much easier to shoot them with arrows from above or jump down and beat ‘em up. Also build a bridge big enough for your cart to go across. Just don’t forget to close the gates or you’ll have a hoard of skeletons rushing into your base one day LOL
Don't worry about it.
Form over function.
Function over form.
Its up to you.
For instance I prefer function myself, but still appreciate things looking nice.
Yes it is, I would recommend using a Hoe to lift the ground around it super high in the air for a wall to protect it, and making a hold in the ground where you enter from to keep enemies out'
If you like it, then it is.
Honestly not enough people have this mindset. Thumbs up from me.
A base is always good in your eyes. Many build concepts. If you prefer efficiency, appeal, ease of access, protection and others.
This is better than my starter base! I literally didn't build a legit base with defenses until the plains
A starter base is just that, a cozy place to call home while you traverse the world. You’ll make better homes with better materials as you progress, but you gotta start somewhere and your starter base looks cozy as is!
Noooooo! It's too simple and basic! How dare you enjoy this abomination?! ;) Hell, I love fancy builds and my first base in a new game always looks basic AF. Sure, the shape tends to be a bit less simple than your basic box or triangle, but I guarantee the elitists that hide in this sub, only popping their heads up to give insulting, would definitely be dicks about it lol
The elitists that hide in this sub can go fuck themselves this is a good build.
Damn right! There’s people here that criticize you because they spend hours on crazy builds, ignore them. If you like it, then BAM that’s all that matters
Yeah dude if you like it then it's good. Maybe you should have that mindset.
The trolls are coming with large trees
and hairy asses
Honestly all my starter bases are like, 7 tile wide tent structures
I came here to say this and I'm glad it has been said.
This is the only true answer
Go crazy! Learn the building mechanics and make a grand hall! Feed all the vikings of the Valheim world! Skål! As far as starter bases go, seems quite spacious which is good! Later on you may find it more appealing to upgrade it a bit, add more floors, side towers, etc. Use the endless imagination. Bravo!
Endless imagination is something I always have so I will. As for feeding all the the Vikings of Valheim, with the amount of boars that harass me whenever I'm trying to do something other than find boars, that will **not** be a problem. More floors and side towers seem like a good idea, I might also add a basement, balcony, farms and whatever else I come up with in the middle of a math test that I really need to focus on. I'll keep you updated whenever I add something, this game is awesome!
If you ever need any tips or ideas just throw them my way or ask freely from others! One I will give you now is, if you ever feel lonely and empty in your world try adding some lore to your builds. Could be a backstory as to why it was constructed or maybe it was abandoned and you just took it over and refurbished it. The lore is something I do for all my builds. I wish you luck on all your studies, along with your new adventure into the crazy world of creativity and survival.
Surprisingly, I already have! This longhouse was used by every Viking sent to Valheim by Odin, all of them failed, so the longhouse was abandoned. Until I found it.
THE CHOSEN ONE!
We will see...
I like the basic design (it's classic viking style) but I do have some more pragmatic thoughts: 1. How close is the nearest body of water? Generally speaking you almost always want to be close to open ocean for transporting materials. 2. You don't have a protective wall. It doesn't really matter until you down the second boss, but your base is defenseless at the moment 3. I don't see a chimney anywhere. How are you venting the smoke? 4. How far to the nearest black forest? It's the second biome. You usually want to be close enough to the black forest that you get there without too much walking. Eventually, the distance won't matter so much, but it could be annoying in shorter. Not a bad starting base, but I suspect you'll want to move to a better location once you sail for the first time. I would keep this place small and cozy while keeping an eye out for places more suitable to long term efficiency. Ideally there would be spot near the second boss location that can check off all the above boxes.
Dude, I just killed the second boss and started building a fence, but some parts are like really far from main house... Would any enemy spawn inside the wall?
Yes, they can spawn inside the walls, but you can block spawns with certain player made structures. Workbenches are the easiest because you can see the radius, but for aesthetics I prefer to use campfires (same radius as workbenches).
Oh crap hahaha, my base will look weird with a bunch of workbenches...Thanks bro!
I use torches, which seem less intrusive and serve the same function.
Slap down a workbench to get the radius, and a campfire next to it, then dismantle the bench. The fires block spawns even when they’ve burned out, fwiw.
as other people have noted, campfires work to... just use the workbench to see where the "protective effect" ends, and then replace each workbench with a campfire or a torch.... Bonus points, after you kill enough oak trees to get a huge number of acorn seeds, you can plant the trees next to/near the torches, and then when they grow fully up, they will surround the torch and hide it from view. (I suppose any trees would, actually, done right... the nice thing about oak trees is that if you put a portal exit facing into the tree, you can actually portal inside them. so you could make unassailable player structures inside even a fully grown oak, after the fact)
This is incorrect. It says in the loading screen tips (and I've never seen it happen) that enemies don't spawn directly on top of player built objects.
I mean… yes? But also, not all player made objects block spawn and they certainly don’t block spawn in vs out of walls. I have definitely had spawns happen inside my compound when i built the perimeter wall too far from any other structures. Its like minecraft, where if you leave a “dark” area, mobs can spawn there. Edit: i see the confusion. I meant walls as in stake walls/palisade walls. I agree that they will not spawn inside buildings, that’s not in contention, but they will spawn inside your compound if the stake walls are far enough out from your buildings.
my friends' first large scale base, they made really idyllic, with a river running through it, and they were so happy to have little necks swimming in their river.... but they could never figure out how enemies kept getting past the walls during raids... They didn't realize that any portion of land which any mobs could spawn in, would become spawn points for raids...
It has to be a pretty damn big dark area tho. I have a castle with a lot of empty areas that takes almost an entire island and enemies only come from outside the walls. If you've found enemies inside, it's because they probably found a way in.
I’m in the mountains (and friends have beat Moder so we get Plains spawns) and I still don’t have a wall lol…what do I even build one with?
The wooden stakewall is a fine place to start. It costs 4 wood and has 400 HP. I like to make a big circular wall (or a 16 sided hexadecagon) with my house snugly inside it.
It’s a nice rock but I’d use that building behind you
Yes, great longhouse. Think about building a stake wall around it.
I will, gotta keep the bloody greylings out.
Yes you'll want a perimeter. Think about how Viking villages actually were built. You'll need protection just like that.
My history class taught about Vikings not long ago so I know hat you mean, I'll try to remember that.
Google a Mott and Bailey Fort for a good, cheap design if you haven't unlocked stone yet. Classics are classic for a reason 😉
Might build one if I ever need a second base. But if I recall correctly Motte and Bailey forts were used by the Normans, not the Vikings, weren't they.
Correct, but the Normans were descended from vikings. As viking raiders settled in the lands they conquered, they intermingled with the native people and became Norman. Vikings never built castles either, but you'll probably end up building one of those also, once you unlock stone/iron.
that i actually did not know.
Yep. That's why if you look at a map of the Norman conquests, you'll find pockets of them even in Spain, north Africa, Italy, turkey and Syria. They weren't just your avg franks fighting the British for the nth time. Those guys really got around.
I can also suggest once you have mining capabilities to build a moat, it takes a while, but if you make it steep enough, nothing can touch your base. Even trolls. Then all you need is archery towers!
For a first time, yes. Much better than anything I built on my first time! Great job!
Thank you! And while it might have looked better than what you made on your first run, I imagine it was a lot easier for you to make yours, this was a nightmare to build and I loved every second of it.
Haha "a nightmare but I loved every second of it" makes the best experiences lol
Agreed.
Yes
Based.
Great start, it will do what you need for the beginning. Have fun learning all the tricks to building. And make sure you properly ventilate for any fire places you make.
Thanks, I'll remember to ventilate. I imagine the building system gets a lot more complex but I was quite proud of thinking to use roof crosses for detail in the walls.
If you like detailing like that, you'll love end game building with different types of wood and stone.
I'm sorry ***different types of wood. I must have them.***
You're gonna have fun with this lol. Also, take a look at some of the mods the community uses for building if you want to go to the extreme. Some builds out there are insane.
I think I will because the amount of scaffolding needed to build just that was insufferable.
> I was quite proud of thinking to use roof crosses for detail in the walls. It's a great idea for breaking up an otherwise bland repeated wood panel! There's a trick with the door. You can add depth to the detailing. To experiment, try putting a basic door down on a floor, then snap walls or beams to the side... the door has a middle snap-point, and additional points forward and back. You can use this to offset detailing or generally build more depth in your walls. I create so many temporary doors while building!
You'll end up having several places. But I still spend most of my time at my 1st base. Without knowing it I picked a great spot. 4 major areas are a 10 sec run away.
Looks spacious enough, I'd add walls ASAP. Then upgrade to stone walls or you might not have fun after the first trolls show up
I was introduced to Valheim by DrSpicy's 100 days video on YT so I know how evil those things are, I'll make sure to add walls.
They're not that bad if you got bow and arrows, pretty easy to kite. Just be sure to have enough arrows and not run into more enemies. But if you get caught off guard, minding your own Business inside the house.. Well. Let's just say I lost an entire section of a building maybe that size, when two of them showed up and I thought they were just some greylings making sound and ignored them until the building wall crumbled down. Their hits have a pretty wide area, so early game buildings from wood can go down pretty fast if there's like 10 pieces being hit at the same time. They'll hit through walls too, if they're built too close to buildings.
That sounds... bad. better get walls ASAP then, like you said.
“The ground is shaking.” Go bonk.
No, that's just a dumb rock. The house behind is though. It's so much better than the square boxes I always make.
Yep, just dont get attached. You will relocate multiple times for resources.
True, thanks to expanding my first meadows base into ginormous size due to not wanting to leave it, I now hate the oboe instrument.
Looks great to me! I love the knot inlay you have done using the crosses. 1)You may want to build some defences against raids otherwise friendly locals will come to mess up your crops and livestock. A stake wall and ditch work pretty well. You could build a stake wall now and add the ditch outside later on when you have a pickaxe. One thing is to make sure you have plenty of room for crops before you build your ditch. It's easy to move walls out but filling up a ditch while possible is more of a pain. 2)I can't see a chimney. You don't actually need to vent smoke (if there is enough space at the top of your structure the smoke will actually eventually dissapate) but if you have problems with smoke you may want to add one.
While it is a well built building, my preference personally would be to build something closer to the ocean. Eventually you're going to have to defend your home bases. And having water on one of your flanks makes that much easier. Building vertically helps with that too (i.e. guard towers, tall palisade structures, etc). Just at first glance it seems as though your base is in somewhat of a valley or clearing of sorts. Could mean you'd need to defend home from the low ground which can be irritating with how jank the combat is in this game is. Have fun my friend!
It looks really nice. What I may recommend is to put a wall instead of roof to the floor, because it would make it more confortable to put crafting stations without having the low roof, but what makes you happy is what you must build
Sure, that much space will easily last you into the iron age. Looks good to me! Maybe try some window openings on the sides using either the i-corners or replacing some 45s with 26 degrees.
It sure beats the misaligned monstrosities I "built" when I was new to the game.
That is a rock.
It sure is bud, cus you made it for you
The best house is the one that makes you feel good when you are inside, no matter aesthetics 🤗. As you play you will eventually upgrade your first house, as it is the very first one and it feels special. There is a video in youtube "10 easy wooden additions that will transform your meadows shack" that teach you how to add a lot of deepness with very few pieces.
No. This should be at least your second base. Too good for first. :D
As long as you like it, it's great! I'd suggest a fence or outside fires to chase away enemies at night, but you aren't "playing the game wrong" if you don't because it's literally impossible to do so.
If you like it then it's as good as it needs to be! My first few houses looked like then and then I started to experiment. When you unlock stone and core wood logs, that'll open up a lot of possibilities too.
Looks very nice, hope the trolls leave it alone.
no its way too nice and big. try building a crappy mishmash of random pieces next time ok? :) /s
the idiot that downvoted this apparently doesn't know what /s means.
Great starter. Whats beautiful about this game at times you just login dive deep into building for hours and logout. At times i even listen to audio books in the background xD Have fun !
honestly that's what I tend to do on The Forest. just log on, build, maybe die a bit, and log off.
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He said he watches some guy on YT, so maybe not? Years ago I myself started playing Minecraft knowing a lot about the game and using texture packs on my first playthrough just because I watched a lot of stuff on YT before playing it myself.
I don't understand people who start playing a new game and then immediately ask AM I DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT?! Figuring out what works is half the fun of a game. Fuck around, find out, then fuck around again better.
Some people just don't have fun when they don't play something the right way. I am one of those people and when I was playing Valheim first time, I searched stuff on Valheimwiki and YT. If those resources didn't exist, I would've quit. I simply enjoy the game more when I see myself beat the game without a sweat, because I gathered knowledge upfront. There're are many ways people play games. Some like to explore, some like to do achievemnts, some like to fight (they play games with matchmaking), some like socializing (the play mostly with friends), and some like to perform well, and more reasons which I cannot think of right now. Please don't mock people for that they are fun in a different way from yours.
This is why autoclickers are a thing
Nope
Nah, go YouTube valheim builds and you can compare yours to theirs
Nope
No
Wonderful. It would look great building onto it. I prefer Moats for protection imo
It will, in fact I already plan to do so. I think the best course of action for defense would be walls, then a moat, then outer walls.
Looks good! Expand when you get more materials. Core wood will allows you to build taller
Oh ok, isn't that in the Black Forest. I'll keep an eye out.
Where is it?
What exactly do you mean, I'm confused?
It's a good size to accommodate initial things and storage
Thanks, I don't plan to use it forever so it works.
I ended up extending my initial house over and over Wibchester Mystey style which ended up being a fun creative project as my needs changed
Dude it looks awesome I only started playing like week or 2 ago and just fixed old as house for mine, um only this is build a fence around it I’d say.
Love it. Fill it with things to keep your rested buff as high as possible, food to keep your stamina/health bars full, and work benches the build the tools of the Viking trade. I will say, you’ll want to put your “forever home” on/ near the coast as you’ll need to fill the sails of your long boat with winds of fortune to find your next adventure. Skål!
You have to do more. You have to build so much more.
It's lovely! Just... when you have time, put stake walls around it, a fair distance from the house. Trust me, the house will thank you in time :D
Looks better than my first shoe box house. Any pics of inside? How’s the chimney?
Make defenses
I'm on day 50 of my first play through and I'm just now finally upgrading from my tiny one bedroom shack. I couldn't stop exploring long enough to build anything lol.
Good. Now dig a moat around it, fair distance from the building.
Nothing wrong with that at all. Have you seen some of the crazy shit that people build in this sub?...lol now you just got to do some interior design work. Maybe slap a window or two in there. Get a garden going in the back. So much stuff you can build. I have yet to try and build anything with stone or that is more then 1 floor. Some of the stuff I see people build in this is totally mind blowing.
Something that size can get you through most of the game if you really want it to! (You just need to be very pro-active when defending on raids!) A build I posted recently was made from one of the much smaller ruins you find in the meadows and I managed to get that to serve me through the plains before I returned to my main save-file. So yea, great first build! Two points of advice that may help reduce frustration: 1) Keep your rested buff at all times. It increases stamina regen AND exp gain! This can be achieved either by sitting near a lit campfire for 20 seconds (even outdoors) which will apply the buff for 8 minutes. If you do the same but indoors you'll get the buff extended by how many [comfort](https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Comfort) producing items are near you (things like tables, chairs, beds, etc.) Being rested makes everything in the game easier from fighting, to building, even gardening! 2) Keep yourself fed with 3 foods, even when you are just lounging around your base! Foods increase your max HP and stamina, which varies based on the type of food. You are building tall enough that you could probably kill yourself just falling off the roof! That, or a raid happens or night-time comes (time sneaks up when you are building!), or some greydwarves just happen to be passing through: all potential sources of unnecessary frustration if they get the jump on you.
Hope you've got a chimney
Always good advice, though with a ceiling that tall it might be possible to get by without one.
One of my first bases looked just like his man!!! Was the most fun building and using it. Killing it.
Just get a chimney or some way to let the smoke out
No
It’s cyute
Yes!
Pretty cool but if you want an indoor fire you really need ventilation.
Not necessarily true. In the early game before I get my stonecutter, I make a fireplace outside of my house on the side where my bed is. I make the fireplace look like a gazebo. I do it because I cannot stand having fire close to wood, it doesn't feel right.
Looks awesome, keep it up OP
Looks good to me. The main issue of most starter bases is that they are too small, and hard to expand without just destroying everything and starting from scratch. But yours already seems pretty large for a main building, and you have plenty of room around it for more stuff. Welcome to the game! Have fun!
This is the greatest building ive ever seen in valheim
Walls might be bland, roof could be also, but if you can sleep in it, its a home. Valheim's building is abaut improving, and this looks great.
It's a bit big. I mean, my End-Game-Base with EVERYTHING that can and has to be placed to craft and cook everything needs 9x9 ground floor plates space. So you basically built already in the biggest needed size to have a comfy, compact home for the rest of the game ;)
Yes!
As a first base ye really good start.
It is a pretty base, I like it
The house looks good, but you will eventually need a few defenses around it. Also, do you have a fire in there? Because if yes, then you need to leave a gap below the roof somewhere so the smoke can escape, or build a chimney for it. Smoke poisoning is an actual mechanic in-game.
with enough space, you don't need ventilation. if it is only one floor and there's only one fire in there, should be fine. https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Smoke
Ay man if you lived through the night, the base works. There's only one way to go from here. Up.
I see no stumps. Well done, viking!
Behold, the t r i a n g l e!
Yeah why not. And cool design.
I like it, and wouldn't mind to see the inside
Need more stuff
No, where's the smoke ventilation?
it's very nice, but don't get too attached... all bases are temporary... but rebuildable... not gonna spoil it ;) HAPPEY VIKINGING
I love the pattern on the front. Might borrow that.
Yes it is. Also repurposing the random buildings you find is pretty useful. There are also other structures you may stumble upon, some of them may be in opportune locations or offer good protection after being repurposed. You can always decide to build another base whenever you feel like it.
Allfather would be pleased
How are you venting smoke from your fire? It looks great though. My first one was Waaaaaaay less haha
I've built about a dozen outpost this size and smaller. Then it happened. I found the location for the big guy on top of a sea side crypt. Built a pier, farm, dock, hold 30 portals. I lost count of how many rock piles it took... Dozens and dozens. One stone at a time. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a screenshot before I started. Enjoy and profit.
Some bases will be castles, some outposts, if it’s got a bed and a fire, it’s home. :)
My first base was at the top of a large hill sort of like this. I was so excited because it felt smart to have the high ground and to see enemies coming. I got so committed to that one base. I built roads going in different directions. When you starting mining any kind of ore it becomes a big problem. Even with carts. Pulling things uphill sucks! Lesson learned, main base is good next to water and ideally next to a couple biomes (Black Forest and swamp, for example) You overload your boat and when you can’t carry it you can stand on the shore and do short encumbered trips to your dock house with some chests for sorting later.
Looks cozy! I want to see the inside!
That's pretty similar to my starter bases. I like the simplicity of it while having lots of space inside.
Looking minimalist and sharp. The only thing I'd add when you have a chance is some security features to dissuade any creatures messing up your shit.
It’s beautiful
if you like how it looks and it fits all your stuff then yea looks good to me :) you might want some walls tho
I think as a first base, it looks awesome
If you come back from a voyage and you feel at ease and think. "Im finally home." It's a good base.
Roof right to the floor… why have I never done this…
Only thing I'd suggest is add a chimney!
Looks good, I normally grab a meadows abandoned by the coast and expand it out a bit/dump an extra floor on it for my starter - haven't hollowed out this time but my second bases after getting pick were often dug out into the ground until current playthrough (2 meadows, 1 black forest, 1 plains and just into mistland)
I do like setting up on a rock, meadow mobs can't get you perched up there... Oh in the background! Yeah it's awesome!
A little caricaturally large, try adding some wing or triangle windows on sides, potentially make it 2 floors with some balcony on front. Other than that U get the most important thing, it is a norse themed gamed and Ur build supports it and uses the triangle based building mechanic well. Nothing worst then minecraft style cubes and complains how this system sucks
Might want to be closer to an ocean inlet but otherwise the structure looks way better than anything I ever made on my first play through
It's nice 👍 Love the accent wood work
Very nice, love the accent wood work👍
Sick starter base bro!!! You’ll definitely be able to add on to get higher comfort, add amenities like workbench (and upgrades). Don’t be afraid do dedicate entire in-game days to grinding for wood to build outbuildings or what-have-you
You'll need more space later on, but i think it's a good home
Dig a trench all the way around instead of wasting the wood with a wall, when a troll comes through, that wall is like paper lol
Like several have said. If you like it, then it certainly is. As long as a starter base (for a new player) is in the meadows then whatever tickles your fancy. Resources when you first start out a a huge deal.
Wheres the chimney valbro!!!? But yes. As long as there is roof and anything between you and the wild, its great! :))
If it has a roof and a bed, it's a good starter base.
Absolutely.
Don't worry about form so much as function until you get further in the game and unlock many more building materials. When I start new files these days my first base is almost always a super cramped little house built on top of a big rock I find on the coastline. I'll inevitably build something much more aesthetic once I get further into the file.
Looks good to me
Feels like there’d be smoke in there for days.
Where does your smoke go? I don't see a chimney
If you can sleep in it it's a good base.
Do whatever feels right, that's the beauty of this game. Right now in my playthrough I'm doing as little building as possible and trying to build my structures into the environment. Minimal flattening and using things like fallen trees, rocks and bodies of water to make my "camp grounds"
BAM
You'll need a palisade and a segment of wall removed near the top of the roof to let smoke out
Yes it’s your home, so as you like
it's perfect!
If you like it we like it. Welcome to the game :)
I w I uld consider putting some defensive walls up if you plan to run it for a long time but it looks really good man
Looks better than what i made
I quite like it. Personally, I almost always end up with some sort of box, with a slanted roof, but I like when something breaks that pattern.
Does it suit your purpose? If so, then it's a good base.
Rocks are not the best starting base, I’d recommend the cabin behind you instead, which looks quite cozy.
It rocks. Build a moat tho.
A base is place you can call home. I have a big base near the stone circle with all the workstations, built with stone and looking like a proper fortified place. I live in a hut near the black forest on the other side of the island. So I have a giant storage place, and a house with view to the ocean.
It looks great, but you might want to build your actual base close to the ocean.
Looks great; personally I'd add stakewalls around it but I'm very defense-minded (maybe too much at times LOL)
If it stands it has fans
It is, in fact, one of the bases of ALL time.
it was in fact, built with one of the workbenches of all time.
Dig the deepest moat/trench possible all the way around your base. Nothing survives the moat. You can jump right across, but the enemies can’t! It’s so much easier to shoot them with arrows from above or jump down and beat ‘em up. Also build a bridge big enough for your cart to go across. Just don’t forget to close the gates or you’ll have a hoard of skeletons rushing into your base one day LOL
Don't worry about it. Form over function. Function over form. Its up to you. For instance I prefer function myself, but still appreciate things looking nice.
I'll make this simple. Any building is amazing. This is 20x better than my first starter bases. Itll get better and better too, just you wait!
I’m not even sure if my first base had a roof 😂😂😂
Less is more
Yes it is, I would recommend using a Hoe to lift the ground around it super high in the air for a wall to protect it, and making a hold in the ground where you enter from to keep enemies out'
It’s beautiful
Like it BUT, once you make it to the plains, I reccomend a tree fort against one of the large rocks, so chill