so theres not a single flat peice of wood immune to the rain?
even if its not counted as a roof for stopping rain.
all i care about is it not needing repairs from water.

you would think there is at least once wood that can do this by end game, to make an actual dock you walk on to reach the deeper water for a boat.

i mean, boats are made of wood and are always in water.
i dont think most of viking buildings in most historical shows use castle style stone work for full buildings. and needing boat docks are totally a viking thing.

they should add a floor piece that uses lots of that resin you get from every dwarf kill, to make a treated board, for making floors and planks to walk on without a roof over it.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

Weird misinformation in this thread from people who should know better. Tarred pieces are not immune to rain. Roof pieces, angled pieces, and stakewalls are.

It's not misinformation. You can check the wiki and compare darkwood beams[valheim.fandom.com] with iron wood beam[valheim.fandom.com], for example, or test it in game yourself.

The whole point of using tarred wood in construction is because it's waterproof, at the expense of being more flammable (which is also reflected in the game).

It should be noted that building piece decay will bring the building piece to 50% durability, at worst. The majority of the effect is cosmetic, assuming your building isn't being damaged by other sources.

If you don't need it to stop the rain, and you don't mind a "roof" made of mossy floor tiles... simply use regular wood.

if its all cosmetics to you, you can also do double deep floor tiles so the bottom (seen interior) remains fresh looking while the top one takes rain damage. Assuming you don't live in a valley where you climb the nearby hill/mountain/whatever to look down on your home, you should rarely see the grey 50% wood topside.

the game is not done, so comments about what is available at endgame is premature. But, yes, at this point we have only stone flat 'roof' using lofted floor tiles (and with marble, that includes 1x1 blocks, 1/2 floor tile triangle blocks, 2x2x floor tiles, 2x1 blocks ... all fit as a flat 1m thick stone roof. Marble has some slanted and oddball pieces so you can do something a little more fancy than just flat, mostly spiked corners but you can put those together in interesting ways.

Weird misinformation in this thread from people who should know better. Tarred pieces are not immune to rain. Roof pieces, angled pieces, and stakewalls are.

Thanks to the roof pieces only really being useful for ultra tall peaked designs, anything not rectangular or square will turn out weird because we need like 8 more roof piece designs for all the corner possibilities and peak connections. Anyway, you can either peak this or you can wave it. Or you can just say F-it and put a flat floor and then do the feather method.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2943429944

You could still use the roof pieces, just rotate them so they form a roof like this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933773114

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

You could still use the roof pieces, just rotate them so they form a roof like this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933773114

how do those frame peices you have higher than the roof not rot in the rain?

They won't rot because their center point is aligned with the roof. Tarred pieces are also immune to rain damage.

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

They won't rot because their center point is aligned with the roof. Tarred pieces are also immune to rain damage.

tarred?

you can put tar on platforms to prevent weather/rain damage

Originally posted by _I_:

you can put tar on platforms to prevent weather/rain damage

so i could tar a regular flat floor board and use it as a modern roof?

Originally posted by MythN7:

Originally posted by _I_:

you can put tar on platforms to prevent weather/rain damage

so i could tar a regular flat floor board and use it as a modern roof?

It's not "putting tar on", you use tar in order to craft new build pieces. You can craft darkwood beams (like regular beams) and the same roof pieces as normal but tarred. I believe the only difference is they look aesthetically different.

Originally posted by MythN7:

Originally posted by _I_:

you can put tar on platforms to prevent weather/rain damage

so i could tar a regular flat floor board and use it as a modern roof?

Technically speaking, yes... although as I understand it, they won't count as roof, nor stop the rain. Perhaps do a "bumpy" roof (26 degree roof upwards, then downwards, then repeat; as Rhapsody suggested), then put darkwood flooring above it?

You could try to use 2x2 stone floor tiles to make a flat section over the chests, if those iron beams are going all the way to ground. Looks like they might be placed on the stone.