I measured out the area of a hearth to see up to where the fire bonus went, used the ground floor area for all workbenches with a large portal with no name. On the second floor I have my hearth, with all the resting bonus furniture and bed, so that if I portal back to my base, I can repair my stuff very easily, while being granted the resting bonus of my living quarters above. I also devided the storage into a crafting part (close to all crafting benches), and an edible storage in the kitchen area (which is below my friend's living quarters across the hall with the max amount of resting bonus items) so I can cook while getting maximum rested bonus, and finally created a small barn with seeds (and veggies), workbench, forge, scythe and cultivator near my farm, which is the tiniest patch of plains next to the meadows, allowing me to grow myself barley and flax without having to deal with spawning plains creatures. Valheim is such a great timesink with lots of creative options. Love your storage hacks though, I use some of them, but some are mindblowing (including the death rune, although having leveled my elemental magic to 100 and blood magic to 80, I shiver at the thought of voluntary death).
Nice, good strategies for storage! And I love your farm strategy as well, similarly I have always searched for small patches of plains by meadows as well. It is such a nice way to die less and it is a lot easier to keep the plains section spawn free. Very cool to read your comment and see the similar plan of action :) The death rune storage is actually because I die veery often myself early game, either from trees or, ... well because I make silly mistakes. I started using it sort of by accident :D. If you do want to test this out, you can always make a new character named storage. If this is really something you would like to test without loosing skills. (also, hot dang, nice to have them that high! That is awesome!) Also thank you for sharing your thoughts I really appreciate it :)!
@emmatpotato Ah yes, I did consider a new character to try it out. Maybe some day. I'm currently working on a museum in my base consisting of several rooms/halls that have all trophies per biome, keeping space for the trophies of the Deep North. That way I'm also forced to defeat some of the bosses again for their trophy. I'm also planning to create a fugling army using beams and item stands to add shields and spears/clubs to make it more interesting. I use multiple Dverger Cirlets on item stands to provide permanent spot lighting. A much less effective build, but a very fun and creative outlet to add to the efficient base. Thank you for the compliment and I also noticed the similarities between my build and this video, hence my reaction 😄 Way to go with the content, looking forward to watching more of your videos. edit: I also die occasionally, mostly due to silly errors. It's such a pain to lose 5 points on both my elemental and blood magic though. I've created a farm for each type accessible via a portal in my bedroom, but both are tedious and time consuming. I've had to re-level my elemental magic to 100 three times already. I tell myself that the captured golem in my magic farm enjoys the recurring company of me trying to tickle it with frost damage while spilling his personal problems to me in silence...
Sounds like some really cool projects! It is always nice to meet a fellow Valheim enthusiast, just by the way you talk about the game I know you have spend a lot of time on there. I mean, you even have a pet rock golum and use dvergr crowns as spotlights. Very nice :)!
I've been using the under floor boxes for years now. The kitchen is perfect, they go just in front of the hearth. And ingredients box and finished meal box . . . perfect for a solo player. You can access everything and do the cooking without moving. When the boxes get full then I know I have more than I need and just stop collecting!
This was a very fun video to make, as I have also been making storage in floors for years, many of the shots taken for this video were from seeds I have played on over the years. I just had to choose my favorite examples to make shots
Some stacks (like rocks) can be stacked perfectly on top of one another. Truly infinite space! Wood stacks can be attached to walls (even walls in dungeons, making ladders). Lastly I already do most of your recommendations, except I store portal mats as rows of actually built portals. (Name them s1, s2 etc so they won’t connect.
there was indeed a very very giant supply of stone in one of the shots. With a whole bunch of them stacked together. Its unfortunate they changed this for the normal wood stacks :/. I really like that feature
My preferred portal box is a standard wood box with the materials for 1 portal inside. I'll create a few of these next to my portals, then whenever I need one, I simply break it with my hammer and pick everything up, which conveniently also drops the 10 wood needed for a workbench.
After years of making ceiling storage it was high time to put it in a video. Super happy so many people like it :)! And always use the storage you like, you are the one using it after all :D!
Just a thought. Those graves can be put in places that you cannot otherwise build. And they won’t be attacked by mobs. And you can start a new character with whatever name you want that chest to be. I forget, is it [enter] “die” [enter]?
Yes indeed, you could just make a character named "storage", this will also make sure you do not accidentally pick up your grave if you do not have enough item sin your inventory. And indeed, in the in-game chat you can type /die which will insta-kill you
My go to storahe hack that isn't in this video is to have a 'guide box'. For example say I have two rows of five boxes for storage and each of thoe boxes is for one type of item. I then put a box above those boxes (or in front, whatever works) which indicates which Item is in which box. Wood goes in the top left box? Then in the guide box there is a stack or a single piece of wood in the top right slot. So later on instead of opening up different boxes looking for specific materials, I can look in the guide box and know which box has what I' looking for. I know I could just use a sign, but I personally find this easier.
What is most important is that people find a system that works for them, I love reading these comments and uncovering the systems people have come up with over the years. Just as I have and have now made aa video about. Thank you for sharing, this is indeed a cool hack that can definitely work in finding your resources faster!
Placing storage at the locations where things are used is the best! I never liked the giant storage rooms some people make . . . the last thing I want to do is run back and forth to a storage room. Bases really feel practical and lived in with storage in the appropriate locations, and it lets you use just the size and type of storage that works for the situation. Regular chests under a raised four poster bed Kitchen storage under the ground in front of the hearth A mead barrel for mead supplies next to the fermenter Boat and Portal boxes are by the portals Fletchers workshop with all the supplies needed along with a store of arrows and bows I'm still adjusting to the new food placement options! And having to redesign bases to take advantage of displaying for and feasts for easy consumption
Since Valheim is still in early access, I think these plans should indeed still change a bit. As with every update something new might drop. New storage, new benches/ locations, like the black forge or gauldr table,... . It is also nice to have a bit of a system, everyone is different though so in this video I wanted to try and entail as much info about storage I had written down over the years. The new foods with the serving tray and barrel are what made me post the video now of all times.I love that you have the options to just place them and how it just immediately eats the food. I actually used the tray to place down decorations during the football event and while it was not intended, contestants ate everything :D. That was how easy and useful the new food with the new placement is to me :)
I just make a big building that stores all items and i mark them and add direct portals to storage room. (for metal, you need ashlands portal) Corewood makes a great way to make cabbinets that dont take much space, but add a lot of space. However for crafting area i also make boxes as close as possible, but those boxes have random materials that are only used in that area. Example for Kitchen: Raw Meat 2x Raw Forest 2x Raw Veggies 2x Honey Flour Pre-cooked 1x (includes mead basses for potions) Cooked HP Cooked Stamina Cooked Magic Cooked Mixed Potions Workbench (metal and normal) Metal Wood Leather Bones Stone Random Workbench (magic) Wood Cloth Ether Random Dropoff point -- i also add trashbin near (to make coal from trash) Generaly 3-4 big boxes Recorvery room: Old gear Boat Portal Food Potions Ammo
Easy........ All you need is upgraded pick to black metal (hit some trees outside fog with black metal axe), a portal, a wisp and workbench. Simply run into a fog where its a entrance (dont jump on top) and follow a path till you find a skull that has soft tissue inside. Kill mobs, put down portal, mine inside skull. A even more easy way (and doesnt need a pick) is to find a dwermer tower or mine. Then you simply pull bugs into dwarfs, bugs kill or realy reduce numbers of them and then you get rid of dwarfs. In boxes you generaly find soft tissue (or even a mine if its a dwarf mine). You can also take materials for cart and smash it into dwermer statue (as crashing it into it doesnt aggro dwarfs) and you have a full mine for yourself as dwarfs will only attack you if you attack area with dwarmer statue. (it does take a while tho... using radioactive orbs is faster) Also, in mistlands you should ignore the mobs. If you aggro something, just keep running till you find a dwarfs or area where they cant follow you.
I like using chests and now barrells for near where I will be making things. Barrell near smelter/kiln for charcol and refining metals. Barrell near Vats for potions. Stack of chests next to my kitchen area. Saves time from walking to and from my storage areas.
In this era I made hole to basement, where I dropoff my loot without sorting, and sort them when I have time, like night and I have low time left on food fiests.
I can't bring myself to use "dump" chests. It bugs the ever living hell out of me when I make an organized storage system and it doesn't get used. When I play, I like to have some realism, as if I'm actually building a kingdom for people to live in. I designate one section as the "crafting" section and all manner of materials will be there. In the crafting section I build separate buildings for the workbench, artisan table, stonecutter, forge, black forge, galdr table, and the food items. I generally keep the brewing stuff separate from the food, but nearby because they have a lot of overlap in ingredients. Because of this, I designate a storage building that's organized and feels like you're shopping when you go get stuff. Said storage building of course does not contain everything, brewing items are in the brewery, food items in the kitchen, metals at the forge, and tinkerer stuff (nails/springs/barrel rings) in the artisan table building. The storage building is usually in the middle, or right near all the crafting buildings, so you don't have to go far. There's just something about having to go to the storage, grabbing some wood and scraps, walking to the smith, grabbing some iron and making a mace that just feels good. Makes your world feel more alive. Now all I need is some customizable trader NPCs so I can REALLY make it feel alive XD
ooh yeah dump chests are not for everyone, it is just an option I really like to have. And yes! I love that so much, creating different settings and areas. As a creator and streamer now I miss the times I could spend hours on this just building. I loved doing it :D! Reading your comment brought back some fond memories of builds like this I have done in the past. Like even a village I build at the merchant, since he is that, a merchant, and he was all alone. So yeah definitely get what you are saying. always welcome to join my discord, your comment painted quite a picture and I kind of want to see your creation. No pressure of course :)
Well met :D I’ve never met a Flemish person before! Are you Dutch or French speaking? Your English accent is very like when strong accents begin adopting the Irish twang.. you even say “tree” for “three” I’d have bet money you lived here!
I speak both but my mother tongue is Flemish (Dutch), and it is funny that you mention it. During school I always lost points in class for the way I pronounce tree :D. In school we got taught British English but not much of it is left IMO :D
Lost points for having a little flavour in your tongue?! That’s criminal! Well your English is very good and nobody wants to speak like a Brit :D our English sounds like a completely different language ffs XD
i'm amazed. and i still know so little of this game. how do you actually use colered icons on the signs? i like them a lot but not clue "how to do" them
I just copy and paste it from emotes seen online (signs use unicode to my knowledge). Over the years the devs have been making changes to this without much mention but its such an improvement
It's a really good video with many good ideas. And beside that it has beautiful buildings in the background! Now I'm curious to see more of your vids. 🙂
@@emmatpotato That's nice to hear! 🙂 Two more questions: What is the character set you used to make the kitchen signs and how did you insert them in the text-line of the signs?
careful with the tombstones - i have been recovering players for a long time now and every now and then some of them experience a bug where their loot spawns in a older tombstone when they die...
Oh that is really good to know. I have never had that happen before. that actually sounds pretty cool, instead on needing to go out, you can just check your storage tomb :D
Your videos are FIRE lately. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Spazzy, definitely feels very rewarding :)!
holy crap its spazzy
I measured out the area of a hearth to see up to where the fire bonus went, used the ground floor area for all workbenches with a large portal with no name. On the second floor I have my hearth, with all the resting bonus furniture and bed, so that if I portal back to my base, I can repair my stuff very easily, while being granted the resting bonus of my living quarters above. I also devided the storage into a crafting part (close to all crafting benches), and an edible storage in the kitchen area (which is below my friend's living quarters across the hall with the max amount of resting bonus items) so I can cook while getting maximum rested bonus, and finally created a small barn with seeds (and veggies), workbench, forge, scythe and cultivator near my farm, which is the tiniest patch of plains next to the meadows, allowing me to grow myself barley and flax without having to deal with spawning plains creatures.
Valheim is such a great timesink with lots of creative options. Love your storage hacks though, I use some of them, but some are mindblowing (including the death rune, although having leveled my elemental magic to 100 and blood magic to 80, I shiver at the thought of voluntary death).
Nice, good strategies for storage! And I love your farm strategy as well, similarly I have always searched for small patches of plains by meadows as well. It is such a nice way to die less and it is a lot easier to keep the plains section spawn free. Very cool to read your comment and see the similar plan of action :)
The death rune storage is actually because I die veery often myself early game, either from trees or, ... well because I make silly mistakes. I started using it sort of by accident :D. If you do want to test this out, you can always make a new character named storage. If this is really something you would like to test without loosing skills. (also, hot dang, nice to have them that high! That is awesome!)
Also thank you for sharing your thoughts I really appreciate it :)!
@emmatpotato Ah yes, I did consider a new character to try it out. Maybe some day. I'm currently working on a museum in my base consisting of several rooms/halls that have all trophies per biome, keeping space for the trophies of the Deep North. That way I'm also forced to defeat some of the bosses again for their trophy. I'm also planning to create a fugling army using beams and item stands to add shields and spears/clubs to make it more interesting. I use multiple Dverger Cirlets on item stands to provide permanent spot lighting. A much less effective build, but a very fun and creative outlet to add to the efficient base.
Thank you for the compliment and I also noticed the similarities between my build and this video, hence my reaction 😄
Way to go with the content, looking forward to watching more of your videos.
edit: I also die occasionally, mostly due to silly errors. It's such a pain to lose 5 points on both my elemental and blood magic though. I've created a farm for each type accessible via a portal in my bedroom, but both are tedious and time consuming. I've had to re-level my elemental magic to 100 three times already. I tell myself that the captured golem in my magic farm enjoys the recurring company of me trying to tickle it with frost damage while spilling his personal problems to me in silence...
Sounds like some really cool projects! It is always nice to meet a fellow Valheim enthusiast, just by the way you talk about the game I know you have spend a lot of time on there. I mean, you even have a pet rock golum and use dvergr crowns as spotlights. Very nice :)!
I've been using the under floor boxes for years now. The kitchen is perfect, they go just in front of the hearth. And ingredients box and finished meal box . . . perfect for a solo player. You can access everything and do the cooking without moving. When the boxes get full then I know I have more than I need and just stop collecting!
This was a very fun video to make, as I have also been making storage in floors for years, many of the shots taken for this video were from seeds I have played on over the years. I just had to choose my favorite examples to make shots
That floor/ceiling storage was genius, I can't wait to utilize it in my next world
Thank you, I am very proud of that one, I'm happy so many people like it :)!
Your build style is beautiful
Thank you :)!
Some stacks (like rocks) can be stacked perfectly on top of one another. Truly infinite space! Wood stacks can be attached to walls (even walls in dungeons, making ladders).
Lastly I already do most of your recommendations, except I store portal mats as rows of actually built portals. (Name them s1, s2 etc so they won’t connect.
there was indeed a very very giant supply of stone in one of the shots. With a whole bunch of them stacked together. Its unfortunate they changed this for the normal wood stacks :/. I really like that feature
My preferred portal box is a standard wood box with the materials for 1 portal inside. I'll create a few of these next to my portals, then whenever I need one, I simply break it with my hammer and pick everything up, which conveniently also drops the 10 wood needed for a workbench.
THAT IS GENIUS! with 10 wood to place the workbench, wauw, I love it! Thanks for sharing :)
Ceiling chest is a amazing idea! :o
I too have a ship chest xD
And the grave is a nice idea, but I don't like it aesthetic :P
After years of making ceiling storage it was high time to put it in a video. Super happy so many people like it :)! And always use the storage you like, you are the one using it after all :D!
Just a thought. Those graves can be put in places that you cannot otherwise build. And they won’t be attacked by mobs. And you can start a new character with whatever name you want that chest to be. I forget, is it [enter] “die” [enter]?
Yes indeed, you could just make a character named "storage", this will also make sure you do not accidentally pick up your grave if you do not have enough item sin your inventory. And indeed, in the in-game chat you can type /die which will insta-kill you
My go to storahe hack that isn't in this video is to have a 'guide box'.
For example say I have two rows of five boxes for storage and each of thoe boxes is for one type of item. I then put a box above those boxes (or in front, whatever works) which indicates which Item is in which box. Wood goes in the top left box? Then in the guide box there is a stack or a single piece of wood in the top right slot. So later on instead of opening up different boxes looking for specific materials, I can look in the guide box and know which box has what I' looking for.
I know I could just use a sign, but I personally find this easier.
What is most important is that people find a system that works for them, I love reading these comments and uncovering the systems people have come up with over the years. Just as I have and have now made aa video about. Thank you for sharing, this is indeed a cool hack that can definitely work in finding your resources faster!
Placing storage at the locations where things are used is the best! I never liked the giant storage rooms some people make . . . the last thing I want to do is run back and forth to a storage room.
Bases really feel practical and lived in with storage in the appropriate locations, and it lets you use just the size and type of storage that works for the situation.
Regular chests under a raised four poster bed
Kitchen storage under the ground in front of the hearth
A mead barrel for mead supplies next to the fermenter
Boat and Portal boxes are by the portals
Fletchers workshop with all the supplies needed along with a store of arrows and bows
I'm still adjusting to the new food placement options! And having to redesign bases to take advantage of displaying for and feasts for easy consumption
Since Valheim is still in early access, I think these plans should indeed still change a bit. As with every update something new might drop. New storage, new benches/ locations, like the black forge or gauldr table,... .
It is also nice to have a bit of a system, everyone is different though so in this video I wanted to try and entail as much info about storage I had written down over the years.
The new foods with the serving tray and barrel are what made me post the video now of all times.I love that you have the options to just place them and how it just immediately eats the food.
I actually used the tray to place down decorations during the football event and while it was not intended, contestants ate everything :D. That was how easy and useful the new food with the new placement is to me :)
The storage boxes in the floors and ceilings is such a pro move!
Why thank you, I thought so too :D!
I just make a big building that stores all items and i mark them and add direct portals to storage room. (for metal, you need ashlands portal)
Corewood makes a great way to make cabbinets that dont take much space, but add a lot of space.
However for crafting area i also make boxes as close as possible, but those boxes have random materials that are only used in that area.
Example for Kitchen:
Raw Meat 2x
Raw Forest 2x
Raw Veggies 2x
Honey
Flour
Pre-cooked 1x (includes mead basses for potions)
Cooked HP
Cooked Stamina
Cooked Magic
Cooked Mixed
Potions
Workbench (metal and normal)
Metal
Wood
Leather
Bones
Stone
Random
Workbench (magic)
Wood
Cloth
Ether
Random
Dropoff point -- i also add trashbin near (to make coal from trash)
Generaly 3-4 big boxes
Recorvery room:
Old gear
Boat
Portal
Food
Potions
Ammo
sounds like a good system, what is most important is that it makes the gameplay more enjoyable for you and/or the friends you play with :)
I really need a soft tissue guide, it's so hard to find -__-
Ooeeh that is good to know, and sadly there are indeed little places where you can find it :/
Easy........ All you need is upgraded pick to black metal (hit some trees outside fog with black metal axe), a portal, a wisp and workbench.
Simply run into a fog where its a entrance (dont jump on top) and follow a path till you find a skull that has soft tissue inside. Kill mobs, put down portal, mine inside skull.
A even more easy way (and doesnt need a pick) is to find a dwermer tower or mine. Then you simply pull bugs into dwarfs, bugs kill or realy reduce numbers of them and then you get rid of dwarfs. In boxes you generaly find soft tissue (or even a mine if its a dwarf mine).
You can also take materials for cart and smash it into dwermer statue (as crashing it into it doesnt aggro dwarfs) and you have a full mine for yourself as dwarfs will only attack you if you attack area with dwarmer statue. (it does take a while tho... using radioactive orbs is faster)
Also, in mistlands you should ignore the mobs. If you aggro something, just keep running till you find a dwarfs or area where they cant follow you.
I been playing and building for too long for this to be such an amazing video. I now love you.
Oh my, that is really sweet! Thank you :)
That bedroom setup is insane @ 3:22
Oh my, thank you :)!
I like using chests and now barrells for near where I will be making things. Barrell near smelter/kiln for charcol and refining metals. Barrell near Vats for potions. Stack of chests next to my kitchen area. Saves time from walking to and from my storage areas.
That is always a good strategy! The barrels are sooo cute, they fit perfectly next to the kiln and fermenter, it just fits so well :)
In this era I made hole to basement, where I dropoff my loot without sorting, and sort them when I have time, like night and I have low time left on food fiests.
nights are indeed perfect for sorting and cooking!
You have some really nice looking builds. My weakness is creativity.
always nice to hear such compliments. Thank you :)
Ended this game twice, and still feel newb after watching this video
In all honesty, I love feeling like a newb and still discover new things in games 😁
I can't bring myself to use "dump" chests. It bugs the ever living hell out of me when I make an organized storage system and it doesn't get used. When I play, I like to have some realism, as if I'm actually building a kingdom for people to live in. I designate one section as the "crafting" section and all manner of materials will be there. In the crafting section I build separate buildings for the workbench, artisan table, stonecutter, forge, black forge, galdr table, and the food items. I generally keep the brewing stuff separate from the food, but nearby because they have a lot of overlap in ingredients. Because of this, I designate a storage building that's organized and feels like you're shopping when you go get stuff. Said storage building of course does not contain everything, brewing items are in the brewery, food items in the kitchen, metals at the forge, and tinkerer stuff (nails/springs/barrel rings) in the artisan table building. The storage building is usually in the middle, or right near all the crafting buildings, so you don't have to go far. There's just something about having to go to the storage, grabbing some wood and scraps, walking to the smith, grabbing some iron and making a mace that just feels good. Makes your world feel more alive. Now all I need is some customizable trader NPCs so I can REALLY make it feel alive XD
ooh yeah dump chests are not for everyone, it is just an option I really like to have. And yes! I love that so much, creating different settings and areas. As a creator and streamer now I miss the times I could spend hours on this just building. I loved doing it :D! Reading your comment brought back some fond memories of builds like this I have done in the past. Like even a village I build at the merchant, since he is that, a merchant, and he was all alone. So yeah definitely get what you are saying. always welcome to join my discord, your comment painted quite a picture and I kind of want to see your creation. No pressure of course :)
Sadly all my storage boxes are dump boxes because I am lazy lol.
aah, this is a game, do what makes you feel comfortable :)
Thank you for the tips , Also you have a beautiful base
Thank you very much! :)
I can hear the Irish accent creeping in :) I’m new to Valheim and love your channel, it’s full of info, tips and ideas! Instant sub.. Thanks :D
Thank you, its always nice to meet a new fellow Valheim player! I am from Flanders, so that might be the accent you hear :D
Well met :D I’ve never met a Flemish person before! Are you Dutch or French speaking? Your English accent is very like when strong accents begin adopting the Irish twang.. you even say “tree” for “three” I’d have bet money you lived here!
I speak both but my mother tongue is Flemish (Dutch), and it is funny that you mention it. During school I always lost points in class for the way I pronounce tree :D. In school we got taught British English but not much of it is left IMO :D
Lost points for having a little flavour in your tongue?! That’s criminal! Well your English is very good and nobody wants to speak like a Brit :D our English sounds like a completely different language ffs XD
i'm amazed. and i still know so little of this game. how do you actually use colered icons on the signs? i like them a lot but not clue "how to do" them
You use Css to color or change the size, we have some examples on my discord under sign language. Example (C&P this in a sign): I am white
Actually useful and new ideas for builds, great job. How did you manage to put symbols for cooking ingredients on signs though?
I just copy and paste it from emotes seen online (signs use unicode to my knowledge). Over the years the devs have been making changes to this without much mention but its such an improvement
you work hard on there.
Damnnnnn this is amazing , definitely deserves a sub :D
Thanks for the support! :) I appreciate you
It's a really good video with many good ideas.
And beside that it has beautiful buildings in the background! Now I'm curious to see more of your vids. 🙂
Thank you, with the many sweet comments I have something coming in December that has to do with my base designs :)!
@@emmatpotato That's nice to hear! 🙂
Two more questions: What is the character set you used to make the kitchen signs and how did you insert them in the text-line of the signs?
You can just copy and paste emotes from online, I also have fun sign designs in my discord ready to be copied and pasted in signs
Please can ur next video be about ur base
Like review about ur base
That is super sweet, and a cool suggestion!
I love your valheim content u are awesome...
Thank you, I appreciate you 😊!
careful with the tombstones - i have been recovering players for a long time now and every now and then some of them experience a bug where their loot spawns in a older tombstone when they die...
Oh that is really good to know. I have never had that happen before. that actually sounds pretty cool, instead on needing to go out, you can just check your storage tomb :D
2:10 My absolute favorite building hack!!!
Awesome! And it's super subtile too :)
Do you have a community server?
I do have a patreon server yes
@ is it vanilla ? How much for access?
@ me and my wife are on the hunt for a community to join
it is not vanilla, we add QOL mods like eternal lights, plant everything, itemstand all items etc
Those who know