When you raise the ground, you can aim at the corner of one of your raised "pillars" and click once using the "raise ground" setting to get the ground next to it at the same height, instead of starting from the ground again and wasting a lot more stone. Like so people can see this!
It's not useful for making bridges across the waters, apparently there is a max height in oceans that is hard to pull off unless you use cheats to go under water, even then can't raise ground if the water blocks the camera (literally your camera glitches out if you fly under the water and tried to mine or raise ground). A stack of 40 stone is enough to make a 10m wall of raised ground if a pillar is already made. You could even make a plateau.
The forest moves: usually Dwarves The ground is shaking: usually Trolls A foul smell from the swamp: usually Drauger/Skeletons In the little mini map in the corner you’ll see a red circle, stay within that circle when you’re fighting them or it doesn’t count and they’ll keep coming back.
@@pezgraph you can actually place many doors down perpendicular to the bridge but BELOW the bridge. You make sure that the top of each door is the exact height of the walking portion of the bridge. Then when you close all the doors, you can walk across the tops of the doors. When you open the doors, there will be a gap that things fall into the moat.
Thanks for a really good visual on moating and wall defenses. Yesterday was crazy - in the middle of the day I was at my main camp in a meadow. Saw something large move and said - crap - it's a troll! In a meadow!. Went to attack it and then saw there was another right behind it. Crap! And, then a third! Bad day. Anyway, I eventually led them away and killed them but, WTF during the day in a meadow!? First time that's ever happened 100 days in. Also, don't ever make the mistake of hitting ESC to go to menu then step away from the game for a few hours! Came back and I was being attacked by a shaman and tons of chest were wiped..... Thanks again!
too bad one can't put spikes inside the dry moats.. like how they did in some of the cases like you mentioned. would make killing trolls easier as they'd take constant tics of damage. BUt then you'd have a seven days to die scenario where the spikes would have to be repaired... still say would be a nice thing for the devs to add. AND DRAW BRIDGES!
@@jesseallen3109 i dont think vikings had draw bridges. besides that, people can die in a dry moat too by just falling down or starving or get killed after the battle. there dont need to be spikes or water etc. some crazy kings even had lions down there lol
@@fryhyte8111 They had wells, didn't they? so it's not too far a stretch for them to figure how to make a drawbridge. Lions in the moat sounds fricking lit. boars could be pretty nasty if hungry enough.. Those with tusks anyways.so this game could do that.. perchance.. And I get what you mean, broken leg/arm basically could be akin to a death warrant back in the day. more so if the bone's sticking out.
you should be able to just rotate the floors according to the angles of your stakewalls and just let them overlap with eachother, should fill all the caps and not break through the walls if used correctly.
@@TallinuTV yeah i wrote it just right before the end when he finally did something like this :D .. its sometimes hard to watch when you know things... but sometimes its vice versa also.. you get to know stuff you didnt
I just started playing this game 3 days ago. Yes trolls do get in the water or spawn in the water, but they will come after you, If you are in the water they will come after you. Lets just say they were not programed to solve problems. Once you get over the fright of " Holy Shitballs There's a Troll ! You can kite them pretty easy. I had one knock down half the forest for me. When your biggest opponent becomes annoying it's time to take a break. Yesterday 6 trolls spawned at about 20 minute intervals. I love the fact that you can take things to other maps. I do a lot of map jumping. I get ore from one map, berries and plants from another, Wood from some random map. I love the portals too, the only thing you can't take through it is ore and metal bars. But wood, yeah i load up on wood, used the port, chunk it and do it all over again. My son and I play together, I have crappy internet but he doesn't, So we end up talking to each other on Discord while we play our single player games. Once in a while We will trade with each other, we have a common map, We both log in and put things in chests for each other. I gave him 2 stacks of troll hide he gave me two stacks of berries for my boars. Works out well for me. In turn he shares the hides with his buddies, and they give me gold coins in return. I wish I could play with them but my internet is a step above dial up. I paid 1100 dollars for a computer to play games, and can't play games with friends because Centurylink horrible and won't chip in the extra 2 million to run new lines out to my house. If I could get better internet I would have it. In a heart beat. But the only provider in my area is centurylink, yes I have a hotspot on my phone , Do you know how fast I can eat up 30 gigs of high speed internet... about 3 hours if the download is big enough. Other wise it lasts about 10 days watching video's on you tube. Netflixs about one day, I do know that this game can eat about 6 gigs in two hours. I know that's all I had left, on my phone. But March 1 st is just around the corner. I found a away to tame boars easily. I make a corral with a V neck , I piss it off, and run like hell, when he runs in I block the end and jump the fence, the boar can't get out, now sneak up to the fence throw berries in and done. All you need to do now is wait. I throw in about 10 just to make sure they have plenty of food, they will tame even if you are not on that map. The only thing I have to complain about is the rain. Everyday it falls a flood. I finally built a pavilion so I could keep working while the game tried to simulate the whole Noah's ark scene. Sorry for the long post, I've only seen two real live people in a year.... Just two people... I'm going nuts at this point.
Use a lot less stone to raise a wall if you aim at the side of an already raised wall..1 hit and the next piece is the same height. Using that trick instead of building a moat, i made my own small island..
Yup. Building anywhere other than a meadow needs walls. The moat will help for the things that won't cross a moat - like trolls. Everything with a ranged damage attack like arrows, spears, etc., needs walls.
Great build Kage, you can snap the floors to the wall tops better and overlap them at corners, same idea as when you are doing a round house/window area, you can snap the pieces at odd angles and overlap them,.
Weird stuff started happening in Valheim for me after 1 year in game. Goblins spawning in different areas like on top of mountains, massive packs of wolves and drakes. So I decided to just move to a huge plains area. Raise ground around the area with a shit ton of stone and make a castle. Portals seems to stop spawning but from what me and friends have experienced after 200 hours. Putting workbenches down doesn't stop goblins spawning. Raise a small wall around the shore get a portal down and cultivate the land. Then just keep farming stone and get your plains castle.
Wife just got me onto this game 2 days ago. Built a moat around my house. *After* I built the moat, I was like "hey, I wonder if this is even effective." Google search took me here. Glad I didn't completely waste my time building that moat. Would have been salty to put all that time into only to find that enemies can just ignore it or something.
You can put the spiked walls along the edge to catch any bigger mobs that may glitch across the moat gap. Also be warned you can get assaulted by wyverns layer on as you beat more boss's. I still would recommend making a home base on a map that has no boss's delt with, the enemy swarms that attack are based on the boss's you beat and mounted on the stones. No boss's just has forest animals attack, simple enough and they are repelled by simple standing torches as they still fear fire. I have 1-2 standing torches on each side of my base (its 8 wide and 12 long, standing torches seem to have a very large range to them) and the animals rush in, get close, then flee in fear from the fire. Rather amusing to watch. Use another world for boss fights and gathering items that only spawn after boss's are downed. Found this out the very hard way and opted to make a new world with no intent to beat any boss's in it and relocate the base there.
I don’t recommend putting water in the moat. When you kill mobs they can’t get knocked in and when you kill mobs near the moat their loot gets knocked in. Plus if you build then destroy near the moat your stuff can fall in moat. If it is filled with water you have limited time based on your stamina to rescue yourself. I put a ladder in my moat and kept it pretty dry. I saw you placing stakes. That is a great idea. Just remember when they hit a mob or you they take tons of damage and need to be repaired a lot.
You don't really need a moat if you take worktables and raise ground really high up and place them all around your base. The range they cover disallow mobs to spawn near them. Monsters only spawns outside the vicinity of players in active cells on the map, so the bigger the border of despawners, the safer it is. It's basically like littering lots and lots of torches on the map to respawn mobs in Minecraft.
There is a water lever that is equal across the entire map. No matter where you build if you get to a certain dept you hit the water. Obviously the higher up you go, the longer it takes to get to that level but it is there across the entire map at exactly the same elevation.
Walkway on Moat, Start in Middle of Flat wall go to left and right, then let them run together at the corners will Melt/Ovelap the floor tiles together so None go threw wall. ... good you figured it out ... also to Snap a piece together, target the edge you want Not just any where, will focus on that spot to snap.,,,
They wont swim out to attack your Dock...but if it's the only option; they will attack your boat! Lost my first raft that way and my second Karve lol The water in the moat seems to be a "water table" type mechanic. Closer to the water means you can't dig as deep but I've been 12 layers down near a mountain and still no water before hitting bedrock. I'm working on digging a canal and the water fill makes it a Pain cause ya can't dig deep enough for the Long ship to not beach itself with the water making you float =( but it's a WIP so fun times. Great vid again Kage. Keep em comin
Yes they put down spikes in front instead of digging moats. It is in the game (made from core wood and normal wood) but i have not seen a lot of people use them. They hurt the enemy´s that run in to them (and you as well, if you get to close. :P ), i use it for my small outposts in dangerous areas.
Hey Kage you can stack the walls on top of each other without the spikes showing I didn't like the single wall on my server so I added a second one and liked it a lot better.
@@TENGILL yes I was watching raptor on TH-cam today and he was trying to place poles down and couldn't figure out why is roof was aligning up right and it was frustrating because his poles were off I'm like it's in plain sight how can you not see that your poles are of lol
great vid and when snapping won't work like in the video 23:43; I saw in another video, press X to sit down, the camera will also drop a bit. If that still doesn't work, Place a beam next to the existing beam, then the beam will snap under the beam what you want. Remove that temp side beam and you're good to go. Cheers! Keep up your great work and vids!
Here is a tip on placing pilars below other pilars. What you need to do, if you have placed it like you did on the stairs, is to put a wall next to it that rests on the ground. Then you can aim at the low part of that wall and the pilar will be low down and snap to the pilar above it.
5:52 Do you want a straight and proper mote? Dig one level at a time, instead of three levels as you're doing. That's right, one click deep all the way around. Then do the second click deep. so on and so forth. :D :D
When you know you are using stamina on everything, and you then use Sprint in-between every swing you take with your pickaxe AND only eat 2 out of 3 foods to then complaint "Damn it you never have any stamina" it kinda argues that this game might be to hard for you. "stop drowning dumbass, what a dumbass" made me laugh cause that's just spot on. we just have different opinions on who's at blame If you learn how stamina works, what it does, how to use it and how to get more of it then not only will you save yourself and your viewers from a lot of headaches but you will be able to do stuff like digging A LOT faster.
I told you a few times, you can place the pieces for building over another, in another.... if youp had just put the floor on the angle of the wall, they would've keep the line on the wall and the pieces of floor will overlay.
Similar to you - we built a wall right round, put a moat around that (but left a gap between wall and moat about 2 floorboards wide), then put wooden spikes right round the inside edge of the moat. First time trolls tried to invade they found they couldn't get in, so smashed up our cart and left !! They didn't stay long enough for us to have half a chance of killing them :)
About time. I figured with your OCD you would level the whole area and rebuild the building too. Yo really need to increase you comfort level and when you are base building and well rested end just go an sit in you comfort zone for 20 seconds to regain your well rested bonus. I think based on you technologies you can have a fireplace, bed, deer rug, banner, table, and straight back chair for 16 comfort. Hearth, brazier, wolf rug, lox rug, dragon bed, and raven chair can bring you to 24. Also upgrade your troll armor and learn to do sneak attacks. You might try a bronze knife too as they do 10x sneak damage.
You can snap a floor panel to the palisades. Then put a short post on top of that floor panel. Next place another floor panel on top of the short post. You can then put a walk way around you base. If a creature for some reason should get next to your wall, you won't be able to shoot it with arrows if you use the 1st level floor panel.
Kage if you want to dig straight then put down a half wall and dig on the opposite side of your base. Also Kage, I noticed when you was raising the ground that it pulls it up in a floor size square. So make sure that are facing straightforward.
Remember this while terraforming in Valhiem raise ground from the top. Flatten from the bottom. When u pickaxe the gravel makes u rise so hit it twice then step once. And hit it twice and step.
When digging find the depth you want in the first bit. Then do 2 hits in the one spot then move forward and repeat. It will save you digging down from the top all the time.
I'm digging the base, Kage. It's the least boxy thing you've built. Maybe now for a little height variety, add a 3-4 tall thin watchtower, either connected or separate from the main base. Could be practical, but I just think it would add some texture and look cool.
Looks like you need to ask the developer about angled floor pieces. If you could have planned it all out it would look cool if you did the palisade wall on the outside and then a walkway with interior wall pieces on the inside .
I'm surprised you didn't realize you could rotate the floors to get them to be parallel or at least something close to it when you making the platform next to the fence at the end. Use the scrolling wheel.
"That's looking pretty good... I'm gunna go a little deeper now" Well fuck me if I didn't say "that's what he said" outloud sat on the bloody toilet... Thanks for that lapse of impulse control 🤣
Hi Kage, you can place the floor pieces on the angled wall sections, just rotate the piece to line up with the angled wall and the rest will snap in place, Rock On!
Mobs don't jump. Moats only have to be a half wall deep. Mobs will not cross. Trolls will be able to swing across and hit your walls etc. So 2-4m wide edge, or a double width moat will be enough.
With the building the catwalk on the inside of your walls, you can make it look better by aligning your floor/ ceiling tile to the wall itself to fill holes. It will overlap the tile you already previously placed just fine.
you can overlap building assets.. its how to make cylinder towers.. so try overlapping stone or floor in spiral or circle. it is very forgiving and thats how connect ur angles
Put the defensive spikes on the dirt lip at the bottom of your walls. Snap them to your walls. Yes, it's still called a moat whether there's water or not. No water it's a dry moat.
When you build a moat like you did here, build it on an open hill surrounding another walled off hill. You want enemies running up hill, getting trapped and then you pelt them with arrows with the height advantage you have
Been playing valheim for a month and it became weekly routine for me & my friends. Game is pretty dope now we've beaten the third boss (bonemass i guess) and keep exploring Btw I keep coming to your channel bcs your voice kinda reminds me of Badger from Breaking Bad 😆 Good work bro keep it up!
if you want a hint for useing less matyerials hit a sheir edge on a wall with your pick and as it goes down it will also fill in any space next to that space in the way your pointing.
Hahahahahaha, oh man, I saw youtube load up from across the room and I was like "Holy shit, he read all the comments!" Shit made me laugh out loud. Good on yah, Kage!!! I plan on doing the same. Also borrowed your idea of a workbench shack on the pier. Looks really nice. You may spend a lot of time agonizing over building plans, but some of your ideas really do pan out. Now, please, for the love of Odin, repair all those nasty discolored planks inside your house. XD
When placing the floors near your walls you could rotate the floor to match the walls in angle, then use smaller 1x1 floors to fill in any gaps and the floor will just turn with the wall cleanly
The base appears to be fairly large, so there might eventually be enemies spawning inside your Walls. Luckily the event mobs always seem to come from outside, so the moat / spike walls (later stone walls) will keep most of them away
If you used the 1m pillars on the stairs top, you'd be able to look underneath them. I use 4m pillars instead, which will go directly underground, and if I need more than 4m, I probably need to raise the ground anyway.
After your attack! I'll be building a Moat myself! Complete with a wall and fighting walkway like you have! Not taking any chances lol Had a thought. About building a regular bridge with a gate on each end for ease of access. I may put a few of those in. (to see how it works)
Carrot soup with jam is really good for stamina, also wearing troll armor so your not as heavy. Keep the running to a minimum if you want to conserve stamina, especially if your digging!!
@22:40 My base build is rectangular so it is easier to place a corner towers for defense. Each tower is about 10 m high, with a roof and has a plank half bridges on the sides overlooking the moat. That way I can shoot down the lenght on the moat. Big problem is that the creatures gather beneath me, so I have to change the towers. Tested on greydwarfs so far ...
Hey kage, those corner pieces along the wall you can actually turn the ceiling to match the new angle of the wall and place it up by snapping to the wall, not the ceiling piece before it
To avoid all the painful ground leveling work in between the base and the walls I suggest making it all a wooden floor, i.e. porch. Use the half walls to frame it like you did the floor of the house. Out of all the survival game favorites of yours which has the best building mechanics?
man i had 3 invasions on my base in 2 hours, first i had 6 drakes, then i got flame guys, and then 6 big trolls came.. having stone walls and shooting towers helps a lot! Takes many many hits for them to break the stone wall, you would literally have to be AFK.
you can literally spin the floor pieces at an angle to match the angle of the palisade walls. You don't have to place floor pieces on exactly 90 degree angles.
I've had troll's come around on the "shore" side but if they get out to far they get "stuck" and despawn. But they can and do come around on that side on shoreline bases.
width helps with Trolls swinging trees and i made my moat 2 more hits deeper with a very narrow walkway to the door that was pretty long so any npc's fall into the moat if they try to traverse it.
i subscribed a few videos back when you mentioned that many only watch and dont subscribe or like and thats me haha,so here i am. started watching you'r videos from "the forest". you built an insane base in that game, and you played it thoroughly which i appreciate . i also realy like watching you build. the gameplay and fighting is a bonus for me, :P please continue to provide us awesome content. thank you!!!!
You have to make your moat deep enough to be a troll pit so when the trolls attack and they will they get trapped and you can just pick them off from above if the stakes at the bottom don't get them.
When you raise the ground, you can aim at the corner of one of your raised "pillars" and click once using the "raise ground" setting to get the ground next to it at the same height, instead of starting from the ground again and wasting a lot more stone. Like so people can see this!
I found this out yesterday while building a wall.
It's not useful for making bridges across the waters, apparently there is a max height in oceans that is hard to pull off unless you use cheats to go under water, even then can't raise ground if the water blocks the camera (literally your camera glitches out if you fly under the water and tried to mine or raise ground).
A stack of 40 stone is enough to make a 10m wall of raised ground if a pillar is already made. You could even make a plateau.
Yes, he's complaining about a mechanic he doesn't really understand well enough.
Yeah - The waste of stone is driving me crazy :D
I like it cause it makes sense
The forest moves: usually Dwarves
The ground is shaking: usually Trolls
A foul smell from the swamp: usually Drauger/Skeletons
In the little mini map in the corner you’ll see a red circle, stay within that circle when you’re fighting them or it doesn’t count and they’ll keep coming back.
They are resetting after some time even if you don't fight them back. They did on my server.
I just log out when the attack happens and when I log back in it stops after a few seconds
When you're working in a fairly safe area pop off armor that slows you down, saves a ton of time and stamina.
troll armor do not slow you, but if you like watching nude sweaty vikings, no one can stop you for sure.
@@heyhoe168 who doesent like naked hunks?
@@heyhoe168 Your imagination must be interesting.
Every game with base building should have a drawbridge, no exceptions.
Can u lay a door sideways and walk over it? Then u can open the door to draw up the bridge
@@pezgraph not possible in this current version - game is still Beta
@@TheWizard360 actually prealpha
@@pezgraph you can actually place many doors down perpendicular to the bridge but BELOW the bridge. You make sure that the top of each door is the exact height of the walking portion of the bridge. Then when you close all the doors, you can walk across the tops of the doors. When you open the doors, there will be a gap that things fall into the moat.
@@svenstraessle6127 this. Saw it in a video the other day
Thanks for a really good visual on moating and wall defenses. Yesterday was crazy - in the middle of the day I was at my main camp in a meadow. Saw something large move and said - crap - it's a troll! In a meadow!. Went to attack it and then saw there was another right behind it. Crap! And, then a third! Bad day. Anyway, I eventually led them away and killed them but, WTF during the day in a meadow!? First time that's ever happened 100 days in. Also, don't ever make the mistake of hitting ESC to go to menu then step away from the game for a few hours! Came back and I was being attacked by a shaman and tons of chest were wiped.....
Thanks again!
It was hurting me that he wouldn't turn the floorboards at the wall
"oh it's a rock"
Yeah but does it have any stars? I only mine two star rocks.
"Dry moats" are a thing. For example, a lot of castles and civil war fortifications had them.
too bad one can't put spikes inside the dry moats.. like how they did in some of the cases like you mentioned. would make killing trolls easier as they'd take constant tics of damage. BUt then you'd have a seven days to die scenario where the spikes would have to be repaired... still say would be a nice thing for the devs to add.
AND DRAW BRIDGES!
@@jesseallen3109 i dont think vikings had draw bridges. besides that, people can die in a dry moat too by just falling down or starving or get killed after the battle. there dont need to be spikes or water etc. some crazy kings even had lions down there lol
@@fryhyte8111 They had wells, didn't they? so it's not too far a stretch for them to figure how to make a drawbridge. Lions in the moat sounds fricking lit. boars could be pretty nasty if hungry enough.. Those with tusks anyways.so this game could do that.. perchance..
And I get what you mean, broken leg/arm basically could be akin to a death warrant back in the day. more so if the bone's sticking out.
@@jesseallen3109 shield wall was the only defence a band of vikings ever needed
@@jesseallen3109 just tame some wolves and put them in the moats 😂
you should be able to just rotate the floors according to the angles of your stakewalls and just let them overlap with eachother, should fill all the caps and not break through the walls if used correctly.
Yeah, I'm so glad he ended up actually doing this, I was going crazy watching him try to build diagonally without rotating the platforms to match...
@@TallinuTV yeah i wrote it just right before the end when he finally did something like this :D .. its sometimes hard to watch when you know things... but sometimes its vice versa also.. you get to know stuff you didnt
@@TallinuTV Same... been screaming at my screen for 5 minutes now.. banging my head on the desk... xD
when you want to snap something from underneath, just press X to sit, it'll move the camera lower.
I just started playing this game 3 days ago. Yes trolls do get in the water or spawn in the water, but they will come after you, If you are in the water they will come after you. Lets just say they were not programed to solve problems. Once you get over the fright of " Holy Shitballs There's a Troll ! You can kite them pretty easy. I had one knock down half the forest for me. When your biggest opponent becomes annoying it's time to take a break. Yesterday 6 trolls spawned at about 20 minute intervals.
I love the fact that you can take things to other maps. I do a lot of map jumping. I get ore from one map, berries and plants from another, Wood from some random map. I love the portals too, the only thing you can't take through it is ore and metal bars. But wood, yeah i load up on wood, used the port, chunk it and do it all over again. My son and I play together, I have crappy internet but he doesn't, So we end up talking to each other on Discord while we play our single player games. Once in a while We will trade with each other, we have a common map, We both log in and put things in chests for each other. I gave him 2 stacks of troll hide he gave me two stacks of berries for my boars. Works out well for me. In turn he shares the hides with his buddies, and they give me gold coins in return. I wish I could play with them but my internet is a step above dial up. I paid 1100 dollars for a computer to play games, and can't play games with friends because Centurylink horrible and won't chip in the extra 2 million to run new lines out to my house. If I could get better internet I would have it. In a heart beat. But the only provider in my area is centurylink, yes I have a hotspot on my phone , Do you know how fast I can eat up 30 gigs of high speed internet... about 3 hours if the download is big enough. Other wise it lasts about 10 days watching video's on you tube. Netflixs about one day, I do know that this game can eat about 6 gigs in two hours. I know that's all I had left, on my phone. But March 1 st is just around the corner.
I found a away to tame boars easily. I make a corral with a V neck , I piss it off, and run like hell, when he runs in I block the end and jump the fence, the boar can't get out, now sneak up to the fence throw berries in and done. All you need to do now is wait. I throw in about 10 just to make sure they have plenty of food, they will tame even if you are not on that map. The only thing I have to complain about is the rain. Everyday it falls a flood. I finally built a pavilion so I could keep working while the game tried to simulate the whole Noah's ark scene. Sorry for the long post, I've only seen two real live people in a year.... Just two people... I'm going nuts at this point.
This is so wholesome 🥺
Make some watchtowers in all four sides of your camp so you can snipe incoming enemies. Make the towers high enough
Use a lot less stone to raise a wall if you aim at the side of an already raised wall..1 hit and the next piece is the same height.
Using that trick instead of building a moat, i made my own small island..
As mentioned before, the walls are functional when dealing with archers. Without a wall they can just shoot you across the moat.
Yup. Building anywhere other than a meadow needs walls. The moat will help for the things that won't cross a moat - like trolls. Everything with a ranged damage attack like arrows, spears, etc., needs walls.
Build your moat away from your walls.
Works a treat to stop the archers
Enemies have archers, walls are good.
Yes and the Trolls throw big stones as there ranged attack.
Great build Kage, you can snap the floors to the wall tops better and overlap them at corners, same idea as when you are doing a round house/window area, you can snap the pieces at odd angles and overlap them,.
I think the water level is across the whole map, once you dig to that level you always will hit water.
It's funny. In early game, you're encumbered by stone but late game you can't get enough. : P
Weird stuff started happening in Valheim for me after 1 year in game. Goblins spawning in different areas like on top of mountains, massive packs of wolves and drakes. So I decided to just move to a huge plains area. Raise ground around the area with a shit ton of stone and make a castle. Portals seems to stop spawning but from what me and friends have experienced after 200 hours. Putting workbenches down doesn't stop goblins spawning. Raise a small wall around the shore get a portal down and cultivate the land. Then just keep farming stone and get your plains castle.
Wife just got me onto this game 2 days ago. Built a moat around my house. *After* I built the moat, I was like "hey, I wonder if this is even effective." Google search took me here. Glad I didn't completely waste my time building that moat. Would have been salty to put all that time into only to find that enemies can just ignore it or something.
You can put the spiked walls along the edge to catch any bigger mobs that may glitch across the moat gap. Also be warned you can get assaulted by wyverns layer on as you beat more boss's.
I still would recommend making a home base on a map that has no boss's delt with, the enemy swarms that attack are based on the boss's you beat and mounted on the stones. No boss's just has forest animals attack, simple enough and they are repelled by simple standing torches as they still fear fire. I have 1-2 standing torches on each side of my base (its 8 wide and 12 long, standing torches seem to have a very large range to them) and the animals rush in, get close, then flee in fear from the fire. Rather amusing to watch. Use another world for boss fights and gathering items that only spawn after boss's are downed. Found this out the very hard way and opted to make a new world with no intent to beat any boss's in it and relocate the base there.
I don’t recommend putting water in the moat. When you kill mobs they can’t get knocked in and when you kill mobs near the moat their loot gets knocked in. Plus if you build then destroy near the moat your stuff can fall in moat. If it is filled with water you have limited time based on your stamina to rescue yourself. I put a ladder in my moat and kept it pretty dry. I saw you placing stakes. That is a great idea. Just remember when they hit a mob or you they take tons of damage and need to be repaired a lot.
"Stop drowning you dumbass!" 😂😂 I've said that so many times to my character. Great video Kage! Love this game and your series!
You don't really need a moat if you take worktables and raise ground really high up and place them all around your base. The range they cover disallow mobs to spawn near them.
Monsters only spawns outside the vicinity of players in active cells on the map, so the bigger the border of despawners, the safer it is.
It's basically like littering lots and lots of torches on the map to respawn mobs in Minecraft.
There is a water lever that is equal across the entire map. No matter where you build if you get to a certain dept you hit the water. Obviously the higher up you go, the longer it takes to get to that level but it is there across the entire map at exactly the same elevation.
Walkway on Moat, Start in Middle of Flat wall go to left and right, then let them run together at the corners will Melt/Ovelap the floor tiles together so None go threw wall. ... good you figured it out ... also to Snap a piece together, target the edge you want Not just any where, will focus on that spot to snap.,,,
They wont swim out to attack your Dock...but if it's the only option; they will attack your boat! Lost my first raft that way and my second Karve lol The water in the moat seems to be a "water table" type mechanic. Closer to the water means you can't dig as deep but I've been 12 layers down near a mountain and still no water before hitting bedrock. I'm working on digging a canal and the water fill makes it a Pain cause ya can't dig deep enough for the Long ship to not beach itself with the water making you float =( but it's a WIP so fun times. Great vid again Kage. Keep em comin
The reason there is not a drawbridge is because Vikings did not dig moats! They were fearless and attacked their enemies head on! Its a VIKING game!
Yes they put down spikes in front instead of digging moats.
It is in the game (made from core wood and normal wood) but i have not seen a lot of people use them.
They hurt the enemy´s that run in to them (and you as well, if you get to close. :P ), i use it for my small outposts in dangerous areas.
The drawbridge is my most wanted block in Valheim too.
Dry moat is a thing, so water not needed. You could call it a ditch too. Moats are deep and wide ditches.
You could always put the pointy stakes on the outside of that wall lip for extra protection.
Hey Kage you can stack the walls on top of each other without the spikes showing I didn't like the single wall on my server so I added a second one and liked it a lot better.
Yes people seem to forget the free form placing you can do in build mode.
Just place it on top and it will cover the spiky parts.
@@TENGILL yes I was watching raptor on TH-cam today and he was trying to place poles down and couldn't figure out why is roof was aligning up right and it was frustrating because his poles were off I'm like it's in plain sight how can you not see that your poles are of lol
He's almost as bad a swimmer as the main character in GTA2: Drowns when he's chest deep in water instead of dying when his toes touch it, lol
great vid and when snapping won't work like in the video 23:43; I saw in another video, press X to sit down, the camera will also drop a bit. If that still doesn't work, Place a beam next to the existing beam, then the beam will snap under the beam what you want. Remove that temp side beam and you're good to go. Cheers! Keep up your great work and vids!
Here is a tip on placing pilars below other pilars.
What you need to do, if you have placed it like you did on the stairs, is to put a wall next to it that rests on the ground.
Then you can aim at the low part of that wall and the pilar will be low down and snap to the pilar above it.
5:52 Do you want a straight and proper mote? Dig one level at a time, instead of three levels as you're doing. That's right, one click deep all the way around. Then do the second click deep. so on and so forth. :D :D
When you know you are using stamina on everything, and you then use Sprint in-between every swing you take with your pickaxe AND only eat 2 out of 3 foods to then complaint "Damn it you never have any stamina" it kinda argues that this game might be to hard for you.
"stop drowning dumbass, what a dumbass" made me laugh cause that's just spot on. we just have different opinions on who's at blame
If you learn how stamina works, what it does, how to use it and how to get more of it then not only will you save yourself and your viewers from a lot of headaches but you will be able to do stuff like digging A LOT faster.
This is badass! Now I kinda want to see it in action.
I told you a few times, you can place the pieces for building over another, in another.... if youp had just put the floor on the angle of the wall, they would've keep the line on the wall and the pieces of floor will overlay.
Similar to you - we built a wall right round, put a moat around that (but left a gap between wall and moat about 2 floorboards wide), then put wooden spikes right round the inside edge of the moat. First time trolls tried to invade they found they couldn't get in, so smashed up our cart and left !! They didn't stay long enough for us to have half a chance of killing them :)
Your base is coming along nicely Kage , keep up the good work :)
Instead of filling the gap in if you dig too close to the wall, just go on the inside of the wall and use "level ground", it's free and easy.
About time. I figured with your OCD you would level the whole area and rebuild the building too. Yo really need to increase you comfort level and when you are base building and well rested end just go an sit in you comfort zone for 20 seconds to regain your well rested bonus. I think based on you technologies you can have a fireplace, bed, deer rug, banner, table, and straight back chair for 16 comfort. Hearth, brazier, wolf rug, lox rug, dragon bed, and raven chair can bring you to 24. Also upgrade your troll armor and learn to do sneak attacks. You might try a bronze knife too as they do 10x sneak damage.
You can snap a floor panel to the palisades. Then put a short post on top of that floor panel. Next place another floor panel on top of the short post. You can then put a walk way around you base. If a creature for some reason should get next to your wall, you won't be able to shoot it with arrows if you use the 1st level floor panel.
Kage if you want to dig straight then put down a half wall and dig on the opposite side of your base.
Also Kage, I noticed when you was raising the ground that it pulls it up in a floor size square. So make sure that are facing straightforward.
Remember this while terraforming in Valhiem raise ground from the top. Flatten from the bottom. When u pickaxe the gravel makes u rise so hit it twice then step once. And hit it twice and step.
I literally saw the thumbnail and said oh wow this is going to be cool
When digging find the depth you want in the first bit. Then do 2 hits in the one spot then move forward and repeat. It will save you digging down from the top all the time.
I'm digging the base, Kage. It's the least boxy thing you've built. Maybe now for a little height variety, add a 3-4 tall thin watchtower, either connected or separate from the main base. Could be practical, but I just think it would add some texture and look cool.
Go to the Black forest - mine out Copper you will get a shed load of stone as a byproduct
Looks like you need to ask the developer about angled floor pieces.
If you could have planned it all out it would look cool if you did the palisade wall on the outside and then a walkway with interior wall pieces on the inside .
I'm surprised you didn't realize you could rotate the floors to get them to be parallel or at least something close to it when you making the platform next to the fence at the end. Use the scrolling wheel.
"That's looking pretty good... I'm gunna go a little deeper now"
Well fuck me if I didn't say "that's what he said" outloud sat on the bloody toilet... Thanks for that lapse of impulse control 🤣
best moat: you build near a swap and let leeches get in :| they will kill what falls into unless it's a swamp monster.
Hi Kage, you can place the floor pieces on the angled wall sections, just rotate the piece to line up with the angled wall and the rest will snap in place, Rock On!
I made my Moat wider and deep enough that if you fall in you have to swim. Also use 2 logs next to each other for a bridge.
BTW you can snap to the fence and it will overlap the angled floors pieces attached to the pillars
Mobs don't jump. Moats only have to be a half wall deep. Mobs will not cross. Trolls will be able to swing across and hit your walls etc. So 2-4m wide edge, or a double width moat will be enough.
With the building the catwalk on the inside of your walls, you can make it look better by aligning your floor/ ceiling tile to the wall itself to fill holes. It will overlap the tile you already previously placed just fine.
you can overlap building assets.. its how to make cylinder towers.. so try overlapping stone or floor in spiral or circle. it is very forgiving and thats how connect ur angles
Put the defensive spikes on the dirt lip at the bottom of your walls. Snap them to your walls.
Yes, it's still called a moat whether there's water or not. No water it's a dry moat.
You can rotate the platforms for the wall and they don't look so shitty with gaps and stuff when you change angles.
When you build a moat like you did here, build it on an open hill surrounding another walled off hill. You want enemies running up hill, getting trapped and then you pelt them with arrows with the height advantage you have
Been playing valheim for a month and it became weekly routine for me & my friends. Game is pretty dope now we've beaten the third boss (bonemass i guess) and keep exploring
Btw I keep coming to your channel bcs your voice kinda reminds me of Badger from Breaking Bad 😆
Good work bro keep it up!
if you want a hint for useing less matyerials hit a sheir edge on a wall with your pick and as it goes down it will also fill in any space next to that space in the way your pointing.
Hahahahahaha, oh man, I saw youtube load up from across the room and I was like "Holy shit, he read all the comments!" Shit made me laugh out loud. Good on yah, Kage!!! I plan on doing the same. Also borrowed your idea of a workbench shack on the pier. Looks really nice. You may spend a lot of time agonizing over building plans, but some of your ideas really do pan out.
Now, please, for the love of Odin, repair all those nasty discolored planks inside your house. XD
When placing the floors near your walls you could rotate the floor to match the walls in angle, then use smaller 1x1 floors to fill in any gaps and the floor will just turn with the wall cleanly
Ok spoke to soon on the matching floors with walls😂
It is pretty nice to work out the shape of holes like your moat by using the level ground tool once you have got the "base" of your moat done
The base appears to be fairly large, so there might eventually be enemies spawning inside your Walls.
Luckily the event mobs always seem to come from outside, so the moat / spike walls (later stone walls) will keep most of them away
Make a gate at the dock. It fits well with the palisade.
lol, does a moat need water? yes, otherwise it's just a trench
If you used the 1m pillars on the stairs top, you'd be able to look underneath them. I use 4m pillars instead, which will go directly underground, and if I need more than 4m, I probably need to raise the ground anyway.
After your attack! I'll be building a Moat myself! Complete with a wall and fighting walkway like you have! Not taking any chances lol Had a thought. About building a regular bridge with a gate on each end for ease of access. I may put a few of those in. (to see how it works)
That's what I did, just 1 bridge with gate at each end, trolls didn't find it, they gave up trying to get in rather quickly :)
Carrot soup with jam is really good for stamina, also wearing troll armor so your not as heavy. Keep the running to a minimum if you want to conserve stamina, especially if your digging!!
@22:40 My base build is rectangular so it is easier to place a corner towers for defense. Each tower is about 10 m high, with a roof and has a plank half bridges on the sides overlooking the moat. That way I can shoot down the lenght on the moat. Big problem is that the creatures gather beneath me, so I have to change the towers. Tested on greydwarfs so far ...
if you use core wood poles it supports the wood a lot better and if you use stone for supports it turns whatever is on it into a foundation
Hey kage, those corner pieces along the wall you can actually turn the ceiling to match the new angle of the wall and place it up by snapping to the wall, not the ceiling piece before it
To avoid all the painful ground leveling work in between the base and the walls I suggest making it all a wooden floor, i.e. porch. Use the half walls to frame it like you did the floor of the house.
Out of all the survival game favorites of yours which has the best building mechanics?
man i had 3 invasions on my base in 2 hours, first i had 6 drakes, then i got flame guys, and then 6 big trolls came.. having stone walls and shooting towers helps a lot! Takes many many hits for them to break the stone wall, you would literally have to be AFK.
Kage buddy rotate the floors to snap to the other wall it Will overlap and look a lot better.
thought youd be all over this game lol
@@Pjenxone LOL you know it.
you can literally spin the floor pieces at an angle to match the angle of the palisade walls. You don't have to place floor pieces on exactly 90 degree angles.
I've had troll's come around on the "shore" side but if they get out to far they get "stuck" and despawn. But they can and do come around on that side on shoreline bases.
You can rotate the floor to align it to the angled walls.
Rotate the planks! Lol
use shift while smoothing the bottom of the moat. it will look less squary. will look much better
width helps with Trolls swinging trees and i made my moat 2 more hits deeper with a very narrow walkway to the door that was pretty long so any npc's fall into the moat if they try to traverse it.
Trolls will go shoulders deep in water
Use normal floors on the angled walls as well. Just have every floor aligned with it's respective wall. It looks much better than any alternative.
i really hope they add a drawbridge in the first up, the hearths and homes update
Moat and wall is great... until ur enemy's r flying.
Base is looking good.
One crisis at a time :D
i subscribed a few videos back when you mentioned that many only watch and dont subscribe or like and thats me haha,so here i am. started watching you'r videos from "the forest". you built an insane base in that game, and you played it thoroughly which i appreciate . i also realy like watching you build. the gameplay and fighting is a bonus for me, :P please continue to provide us awesome content. thank you!!!!
with any gathering project or digging / building project, should try to remember to have a strong rested buff for the stamina regen.
The only ppl i ever see being busy with safety are bronze and troll armor peeps x)
You have to make your moat deep enough to be a troll pit so when the trolls attack and they will they get trapped and you can just pick them off from above if the stakes at the bottom don't get them.
Add cover from ranged attack. Single pillar you can hide beside, at intervals, is enough.
Kage I think while building you could throw on your troll stuff and the stealth bonus might help make less enemies attack.
I have found already that some NPC's will just swim through your Moat. The good news is, they're slow in the water and easy to pick off with a Bow.
Kage I built an outpost in a black forest, trolls gen all the time there and trust me they DO go in the water AND not just the shallows
Trolls have no trouble swimming out to crush my raft.
Valheim + double the stam in the cfg. It's not hand holdy but it alleviates the 20-30secs of watching youtube waiting for it to recharge fully.