So once you unlock iron, you can make the the wood\iron beams. you can make a tower 18(?) stones high. so they can get pretty high just by themselves.

I like the mountain side idea. I have thought about it before. and really you could make one heck of a large stone castle, tower, or whatever. and it would prolly look pretty cool scaled down the side of a mountain.

Yeah I still enjoy the game. had 500 hours in the first week or so. im just getting back to it, 5th play through. new world, new character. trying some different builds this time, and taking over the largest area I have tried for, so far.

Keep on building!

If you find the right spot on a mountain side you can get in a ton of levels. We had a base that started in the meadows and rose up an entire mountain face with a tower above the peak. So many side rooms and cool split levels. There is a good amount of stone but not as much as you think as the mountain provides and entire side of your building and there is lots of stone to mine on mountains.

You are limited to +/- 8 meters of digging/raising from the base level of the starting terrain so you need to make sure that your terrain is appropriate to the task before beginning.

unless you are using mods, the ground can only be raised and lowered so much, 10-12 squares

But yes I like doing this as well. I made a keep in my second world, and dig out below it and made a cool hidden dungeon. and there is a teleporter in it to take you to my scrooge mcduck inspired money bin. which rests on top of a really high mountain top, and has no entry doors.

...now if only they would make the gold piles stackable.

Another way of doing it could be alternating floor to floor, say if you find a good mountainous region, you could do two columns going straight down, and alternate a floor with each column, and connect then with a staircase going all the way to the top or bottom

Also to maximize space, I'll bet you can "staircase/stagger" the floors in all x, y, and z dimensions. So if you can only make 5 or so floors, you could fit as many rooms per floor assuming infinite mats

so in the x direction, digging down, you put a floor. then change to the z direction and dig down again, then change to -x and dig down again, rinse repeat concentrically / cut 90 degrees in, stagger the floors, cut 90 degrees the next way, etc

If I am making this confusing to visualize from my text, I guess think of an "infinie staircase" / Penrose steps and just make it go outward in if you have 90 degree cut the terrain around it

Originally posted by smokauweeds:

But yes I like doing this as well. I made a keep in my second world, and dig out below it and made a cool hidden dungeon. and there is a teleporter in it to take you to my scrooge mcduck inspired money bin. which rests on top of a really high mountain top, and has no entry doors.

That sounds amazing...yeah that's what my friend and I's main base looks like right now kind of...smaller though, we've only had 4 IRL days to really build it. Maybe 5.

Final edit: I only get to play co op on Valheim twice a week on a good week if my friend is also on...so I've mainly been helping him with beating the bosses, expanding bases, etc., on my 2nd character.

My main character where I have leveled stats, I am doing a hybridized play where I can see what I can do in debugmode with no penalty for placement of mats. But yeah, solo world is where I test the game and see if I can break it, or...well, make a very very good base.

I don't know why or how people stop liking the game.

If you slow play it, build your base, outposts, etc., and expand them, stagger out when you're going to move onto the next biome by a good amount...it retains its replay value

Solo: running devcommands on my ultra leveled character, and testing what works and what doesn't in terms of intricate building

Like I think if you get real creative with the stone and where the land height is, then it's much easier to make a little dungeon thing