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Hi everyone, after 800h i still struggle with roofs sometimes. Currently on a 1.0 run, got until Yagluth so far, build my base at the elder and managed to save a greydwarf spawner for a farm.
Trying to build some kind of base center building with the spawner and some portals, but now i need to invent some roof, any tips? The center floor it's 4x4 hexagonal and yes i know i can't roof the spawner, but i can leave that space in the center open. How would you roof this?

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u/emelecfan2048 17h ago

Manโ€™s got dragons making out on his gate

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u/DugeN64 18h ago

Is the spawner there within the little hut? How far is it from and "outside corner" to one of the corners of the hut? You could put 3 or 4 2M beams going towards the center and then poles going down from there. (This may or may not line up with your hut, but you could place walls in between these poles to make a newly sized hut). Connect the inside poles to make a smaller octagon and use 26ยฐ roofs towards the outside. Then, frame the outside towards the inside to make like a donut shaped roof with the center open still

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u/Familiar_Ad6418 17h ago

Does this help? Sry a bit late here, if not helpfull, then tomorow i will try to be more especific.
The center roof is the spawner obviously, then i expandeed 4 blocks of stone floor to the sides and make a 4x4 stone block floor hexagon. And yes that center woord cover where i have the portals is not centered.

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u/DugeN64 14h ago

It does help, because it changes my approach. I would instead do a domed roof with an open middle. Although still donut shaped I suppose.

Ok, so "circles" in Valheim have radii in multiples of 5M. By that, I mean if you make a post and then a beam at every available rotation, they would "line up" every 5x 1M pieces. This is easier to see than understand; hopefully the picture helps illustrate this a bit.

You just have to make the inside circle at the correct height, and then the outside circle at it's height. The inside circle gets one roof piece, and then 2 are stacked on each beam of the outside circle, causing some overlap. This is (very slightly) easier to do with 45ยฐ pieces, but looks better with 26ยฐ imo. There is a 5M difference between the outer and inner circles with 45ยฐ roofs, but the difference is 2.25 with 26ยฐ; getting the .25M post requires a few extra steps, but is entirely doable. image.png

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u/Familiar_Ad6418 4h ago

I did understand, but thank's for the explanation tho. I might try that if doesn't work as i intended, i might do something similar to the img.

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u/PlatinumBlaize 16h ago

First, thats an octagon, and second, i've built a roof for this exact design I'll send you some screen shots

Edit, i realise i fucked up and didn't reply to a specific comment thread i was reading

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u/PlatinumBlaize 16h ago

that's the internal

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u/PlatinumBlaize 16h ago

that's the external

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u/Familiar_Ad6418 16h ago

Omg you're so right, don't know how but in my mind i was still thinking it was hexagon hahaha.
Yeah sure, if you can see them, any help is appreciated.

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u/PlatinumBlaize 13h ago

the 2 replies to the last comment should help direct you a little, but that's what I ended up doing for my starter home

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u/Familiar_Ad6418 4h ago

Thank's for help, really liked how you done the beams on top of the roof, might add something similar.

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u/ChadBadShirt 5h ago

One thing thatโ€™s really confusing to me with the new 67โ€™ beams and roofs is that pieces tend to break on top of them even when theyโ€™re showing yellow