You can come across abandoned settlements in the meadows. Several houses close to eachother wih strawberry bushes nearby. They are fixer uppers. Easy to patch up if you have trouble building your own. Build fences and/or a trench around the plot.

Or clear out a drauger infested village and you even have a nice big center house

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

You can come across abandoned settlements in the meadows. Several houses close to eachother wih strawberry bushes nearby. They are fixer uppers. Easy to patch up if you have trouble building your own. Build fences and/or a trench around the plot.

Or clear out a Draugr infested village and you even have a nice big center house

Adding to that last point, you could leave a Draugr generator active, but walled off. Easy access to intestines. Boom. Solid point.

I think the BuildShare mod ( https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/5 ) can let you get buildings made by other ppl if they share it.

If that's a no go, I simply recommend starting with a 45 degree roof piece on the ground, add another to the top of it, put the wall pieces on the side, and just keep going as high as you want, and then do roof pieces down the other side til it hits the ground. So you'll have one side of the building done. (Think of a big triangle when you look at it.)

Then just extend the bottom roof pieces along the ground to make up the length of your building until you're happy. Then just close it up. It won't look pretty, but it's very simple.

If you wanna expand it more, you can dig alongside the bottom roof pieces on the inside and attach walls below them to make two side (pit) areas for storage or whatever.

You can start with bre-built buildings in the meadows. Repair them, put a fire outside with a basic roof. You could claim an entire farm and use those buildings. The downside is that found buildings are often too small to be very useful, including and especially the stone towers.

For a basic house, stick to rectangle designs. If the floor is an even number across, the slanted roof pieces will meet in the middle. If the floor is an odd number across, you will need the inverted V piece to go down the middle. For some reason those pieces don't snap evenly to the other roof pieces, so I always put a wood beam at the end corners up high and that provides a place for the middle piece to snap cleanly to the other roof pieces. Once you have one in place, the others will line up with it. You can then remove the wood beam if you want. You will end up with an open triangle on both sides, which you can fill with triangle and wall pieces, although those sometimes take a few tries to snap correctly. You could also just call it a window, or put X pieces or beams in there.

The corner roof pieces are trickier to snap into place, so if you have trouble building skip those. I'd also recommend keeping to a single story building, because if you go tall you'll be dealing with supports, and if you're wrapping around a tree or a rock the level changes will be a challenge to cover. Go the viking way and go long, maybe double walls tall and not too wide. Do a fully roofed sample slice to check the height before you waste time on a whole building you can't support. Core wood works great for support framing, but make sure it's touching the ground and not just a floor. If it's blue it's on the ground.

For a chimney, a simple design is a three-sided wall box facing in and then a second three sided box on top facing out. If you want it taller, put a full square layer in between. Then stick a slanted roof on that facing outward. Smoke needs a full square of room to vent properly.

You will need to see the edge of the piece you want to snap to. This is especially difficult when expanding floors up high. Build temporary ladders and platforms to give yourself a better view.

ill build you a house in exchange for 200-500 red mushrooms, depending on how big you want it. you must provide the materials.

Originally posted by siconolfia:

Hear me out... I suck at designs lol!
When I attempt to build any type of house everything structurally wise is mismatched. The roof never lines up. I got holes all over the place. Shoot I'm waiting for a storm to blow the entire thing apart that's how bad I am at it haha.

Has there been any discussion for like, "collect XXX amount of items" to build a predesigned home? Like walls and roof are done. Ill handle the inside for future tables, chairs etc. Just simply the outside structure lol

The developers should make an prefabricated home, with small, medium and large sizes!

Originally posted by JimmyLurks:

I think the BuildShare mod ( https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/5 ) can let you get buildings made by other ppl if they share it.

If that's a no go, I simply recommend starting with a 45 degree roof piece on the ground, add another to the top of it, put the wall pieces on the side, and just keep going as high as you want, and then do roof pieces down the other side til it hits the ground. So you'll have one side of the building done. (Think of a big triangle when you look at it.)

Then just extend the bottom roof pieces along the ground to make up the length of your building until you're happy. Then just close it up. It won't look pretty, but it's very simple.

If you wanna expand it more, you can dig alongside the bottom roof pieces on the inside and attach walls below them to make two side (pit) areas for storage or whatever.

thanks brother