Watch a Beginners Guide to Building in Valheim, maybe watch two. No matter how much of this stuff you read here, watching it being done will be way more helpful. Build and repair some stuff and watch them again.

Every one of us does things differently so you will be bombarded by 87,000 different opinions on how and what to build. We are a helpful bunch, if not a bit opinionated.

In the beginning there are huts everywhere to fix up, break down, experiment with. That is a natural way to learn what building elements do. Fix all the broken down houses. Then start building your own after you watch the videos. Just mess about in the meadows and as noted above you always get all mats back (except wood from fire and resin from torches as it is used up). This game does not hold your hand and rewards the curious.

Here is a basic guide on building a house with firepit.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2383593478

I use it when I start off and make outposts.

Valhein is pretty flexible but you can build in Valheim just like you do in the real world. Create a dirt or stone foundation. Build the frame (in Valheim you get to start with it straight up instead of building it and lifting it). Then put on the roof (comes with the shingles built in, in game). Put up the walls adding the desired windows and doors. Cover the foundation with flooring add furnishings.

The beauty of Valheim is it's really flexible with building. It's really mainly up to you, just mash stuff together and if you like the way it looks, your good.

If a part wont fit exactly the way you want, you can always hold down shift and disable snapping while its held down.

Are you Ulf?

Originally posted by Dulgrim Grudgebearer:

Are you Ulf?

Be nice! Though that was Hilarious!

Ahem! OP What I like to do when a fast shack needs to be built it place a single floor piece down at the highest point on the land your in. Then expand that to 2x4 or 2x6. Put in a door at one point then use the wall segments to build up the height.

After that roof it. Next you can now break a wall to replace with a door, or break walls to replace with half height walls to get a kinda window. I'd keep all corners solid but feel free to do it your way.

Lastly go outside and put support posts on any exterior area that's hovering over the land.

The reason I say that is once done you can go back to the original tile you started from remove it and put a fireplace against the bare earth there.

You get 100% of your materials back when you break stuff so do not be afraid to experiment and reposition.

Once you have lit your fire you may have to experiment with the roof to make a chimney for the smoke but by then you ought to have a feel for things

Alternatively drop you work bench by a ruined house and repair and expand it till you've got a feel for the build mechanics

Originally posted by Zathabar:

Originally posted by Dulgrim Grudgebearer:

Are you Ulf?

Be nice! Though that was Hilarious!

Ahem! OP What I like to do when a fast shack needs to be built it place a single floor piece down at the highest point on the land your in. Then expand that to 2x4 or 2x6. Put in a door at one point then use the wall segments to build up the height.

After that roof it. Next you can now break a wall to replace with a door, or break walls to replace with half height walls to get a kinda window. I'd keep all corners solid but feel free to do it your way.

Lastly go outside and put support posts on any exterior area that's hovering over the land.

The reason I say that is once done you can go back to the original tile you started from remove it and put a fireplace against the bare earth there.

You get 100% of your materials back when you break stuff so do not be afraid to experiment and reposition.

Once you have lit your fire you may have to experiment with the roof to make a chimney for the smoke but by then you ought to have a feel for things

Alternatively drop you work bench by a ruined house and repair and expand it till you've got a feel for the build mechanics

no offense meant just being silly

wood wall 26º and wood wall 45º have beam?

Originally posted by jobetoco1994:

i think i need a tutorial about build a house, i dont know what parts need to be connected with each other.

I don't mean to be rude but the tutorial you are looking for lie just before your eyes, in all the abandonned structures you'll find in the Meadows. Just travel and observe, repair, deconstruct and reconstruct.
Shelters, huts, observatory posts, shacks, watchtowers, longhouses, barns, pigsties ... they are all for you. Take your choice and practice.

ok beams are placed in corners

The main limitations when it comes to building are structural support and your own imagination. Structural support determines how likely your place is to fall apart. The closer to ground the respective build piece is, the more stable it is basically. When you are building, the pieces that get highlighted in blue are grounded, perfectly stable. Then green pieces are not grounded but are still structurally strong. Yellow pieces are beginning to become unstable and may not support additional attached structures. Red pieces are highly unstable and basically an aggressive fart from falling over. Support beams can help with this stability, especially in larger builds. Roof pieces stop rain (and provide shelter), and the slanted beams also count as roof pieces but the vertical and horizontal beams do not. The order of placing these pieces does not always matter if you aren't having stability issues, though I personally enjoy making a frame of the building, slapping a roof on it to keep the rain from causing any damage, and then take my time filling in my walls as I like.

Fire can also be a concern in building though. Fire is needed to get the rested bonus, and to cook so you don't die as easily, and to actually sleep in your bed (dont need a fire to set the bed as a spawn point), but fires also have smoke physics and if you have a fire inside you do have to consider that or risk suffocating yourself with smoke. If you keep your fire outside then the weather may extinguish it though. In a small enough hut that can work, especially if you just slap a porch over your fire to help with the rain issue but most bring their fires inside and just make chimneys (or large enough rooms that it can't be fully filled with smoke anyway). Fire also can not be placed on wood floors, but placing on directly on the ground or on the stone structures you eventually gain access to works just fine. In my larger houses i personally enjoy having a central fireplace where my chimney is a large support beam functionally, but how you want to design your place is entirely up to you, as long as it doesn't crumble thanks to the stability.

The wood poles are useful when you need a pole. For example, you can make a simple shelter by lofting a few poles and sticking roof pieces to it. Or you can put a beehive on a pole. Other uses are decorative, as vikings often had poles reinforcing their walls and roofs.
The horizontal poles can be good mounts for banners, spice rack, or other such things that go on the wall but may not fit quite right without a little buffer piece.

As far as building a home, my first homes are usually just refurbished existing homes. Plan to make mistakes and need to redo your home, and also plan to have many homes or at least advanced bases that you can use as you work in different areas.
A home really just needs 4 walls and a roof, the details on that are up to you (and you get more materials and styles and stuff later).
a full home with everything in it needs about 200 square units of space.
you need room for
- crafting stations and their upgrades
- fire / cooking (its a crafting station but because of the fire, you have to plan for smoke and its special due to that)
- bedroom/comfort area (needs to be in range of fire)
- storage
and you may want space outside to grow food, keep bees, and lets just say you need a good bit of space for some outdoor items.
highly recommended: ocean access nearby.
highly recommended: dig a moat or raise a wall around it with the hoe
highly recommended: raise the farmland as well

I made a lot of weird looking and ugly shacks when I first started playing. But your workbench, your bed, the campfire smoke, and the local wildlife will tell you if you are doing it wrong. Don't worry about it looking good until you have more practice. If it beaks, you don't lose any material and you can try again.

Beams are only important if you are using them to support something taller than your walls can handle, or for holding up a large roof in the middle. Core wood and iron wood beams that you get later will let you build taller. Otherwise, they're just for decoration, or filling in a gap, or for preventing clumsy vikings from stepping in the fire.

My process:

1) Think about a floor plan. Some things are really hard to add later (like basements)
2) Use core wood beams or stone blocks to lay out the foundation
3) Build the frame (using core wood, stone, or wood-iron depending on what I'm doing)
4) Build the roof
5) Repair everything that got wet
5.5) Dig out the basement if I'm building one, being mindful not to let the roof collapse
6) Build the floor
7) Build the outside walls
8) Build the inside walls
9) Add stuff inside

By the way, in longhouses, you don't need any chimney if you have the middle section of the roof made out of 45° tiles, whereas the side sections are 26° tiles. Those two boundary "slits" between roofs work at least for a single campfire.