When you build, and highlight a piece, you will wee a color, blue means foundation, it's touching the ground, a natural rock, or a tree, green is good (close to foundation) yellow, orange red, once you hit dark red, that piece cannot support anything else. To strengthen a red piece, you need to create another connection to a stronger piece (like pillars coming up from the floor)

Some pieces have special rules, for example, stone cannot be supported by wood, however, any wood that is touching stone blocks you build will be blue, and count as foundation pieces :D

Core wood is also useful, as they are tall, a 4m firewood beam touching stone is a foundation, allowing it to support taller structures :)

Finally iron beams, these will be blue if built into stone, or natural ground/trees/etc. But they also count as foundation pieces for any other wood, including core wood :D

So to build tall, you can raise ground to create natural pillars (shouldn't need to do this for most builds)

Build some stone into the base of your walls, or for taller, have stone walls first floor, then build iron wood beams out of the stone, then core wood for some extra height ;D


But you can make a decent mead hall with just stone and core wood :)


Good luck :D