In today’s valheim quick guide you will be learning everything that you need to know to properly build with stone as well as some Valheim Building Tips And Tricks to help you build structurally strong castles and keep in mind that at valheim tips news:
How to Build A Stone Cutter?
Let’s assume you’re starting from square one the first thing that you’re going to need is a valheim hammer with your hammer build a workbench which only requires 10 wood next you want to build a stone cutter this is what we’re going to use to shape the stone we find on the ground into the building blocks of the castle it requires three ingredients wood and stone are the easy ones but you also are going to need two Valheim Iron ingots iron scraps are obtained from mining muddy scrap piles in the Valheim swamp biome with a bronze pickaxe most of the time you’re gonna find them in the crips once you have the iron scrap turn it into ingots using your fire kiln and smelter.
How to Build with Stone?
Now with the stone cutter built you are ready to start crafting stone blocks for building but there are a few key factors you need to pay attention to erect castles and walls correctly first it’s best to make sure that the ground is as level as possible to do this you’re going to need a hoe of which you will only need wood and stone to craft at your Valheim workbench when equipped right-click to pull up its different modes the main two you’re going to be focusing on for this step in the building process is level ground and raise ground use the level ground.
To tamp down the entire build area so that all your stone blocks will connect as evenly as possible no matter what biome you’re in the terrain in valheim has slopes and high points so you’ll need to use the raised ground function as well to pull it up to level after you have the ground flat as a pancake you can now begin laying stone with your hammer equipped head to your build menu now that you’ve crafted the stonecutter.
Build Pieces
You’ll see some new build pieces down near the bottom you’ve unlocked the stone wall sizes one by one-two by one and four by two the stone pillar stone arch flooring and stone stairs if you head over to the mask section you’ll also see the addition of the hearth which is great for increasing your character’s comfort level.
Crafting your Castle
Now let’s start crafting your castle or base and learn some tips you can use to make it stronger so the first thing you need to build is the base level this should be made up of stone flooring next you can begin erecting walls because they have three options it should be easy to make the exact design that you had in mind.
Structural Integrity Tips For Stone
You need to be aware of structural integrity this is the system valheim has in place that prevents players from building bases that don’t make any physical sense so you will have to pay attention to the way that you build and add structure to your castle if you want to keep it from crumbling if you look at a piece that you’ve built it’ll have a specific color blue means that it’s attached to the ground.
It’s part of the structural base to your building after that each piece up from here on out will start at the green and slowly turn red as you build higher once it gets to read anything that you build from there on up or outwards will just crumble and it won’t stay in place to prevent all this and maintain green structural pieces all you have to do is add reinforcement this can be done with several items in your build menu.
The most effective we found for stone is the wood iron beam it has the most strength so it can hold more weight it will also require wood and iron to craft so try to gather as much of that as you can before starting all you have to do is place the beams underneath or on whatever blocks look to have low structural integrity which you can clarify by the color and to keep your building looking aesthetic as well as adding to the overall strength of your castle build your beams connected to each other and start from the bottom this will improve the stability of your building immensely for the roof just add a few beams to go across the full length of the ceiling otherwise it won’t hold up and it will crumble.