Originally posted by redgreen999:

So cool that it is grounded. I fudged up and built too high. Raising stone the max 16 leaves my fire about 6 meters below my floor. I placed a fire on that and made a 2nd pillar nearby the fire with a ladder that takes me through the floor. I get the fire buff, and can add would by dropped down.

May have to add and a 2nd floor. Its totally awesome hearing Draugr sounds and blobs and not having to do anything about it if I am cooking my dinner.

Not quite sure what you mean about building "too high"... It's possible to build as high as you want, in those trees.

Here is an outpost I built in a Gunk tree and it is very high up and also contains hearth fire, coal kiln and smelter etc... As you can see I didn't raise any ground to place fires on...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661983674

Once you get a bit of iron and smelt it, it should unlock stone cutter and iron-reinforced beams... with these you can use iron-reinforced beams in your floor which allows you to place fires...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661983944

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661984243

Those beams also support stone blocks, which allows fires to be placed on the stone, but also allows you to place kiln and smelter high up in the tree OFF the ground....

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661984345

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661984642

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661984780

Obviously you will need to process a little bit of iron prior to being able to build this way, but once you get iron-reinforced and stone cutter, you can build high up in the trees with a fully functioning workshop for processing iron safely.

PS... As mentioned before, this is all un-modded, vanilla game.