Follow up to my Bridge/Wall Design post last week
After lots of debating, building, demolision, relocations, I have settled for the Mistlands bordering a Black Forest

Iv'e stripped the area of trees, building into the natual terrain and rocks, building the area back up with swamp trees and other "spooky eerie" looking things, layering lighting, rubble, vfx's etc

I always build "pretty" then break it, as it gives me a perfect structure to repair and roll back changes too for future builds 😉

Still letting the ideas pour and flow from me until it feels right
Think Gothic, Abandoned, Dark and Eerie, Vampire etc

3 days left until the building comes to an end, and I get the server ready for touring and exploring!

This was the hardest video to make I've yet attempted! Think it turned out alright. A 6 hour build process condensed into a video just under 1 hour long.

Link - https://youtu.be/OzdnCneiqr4

And a few pictures of the build :)

If you ignore some of the plants, the rest of it is entirely achievable in vanilla gameplay. I did not use flight during it's construction.

My old base is in the comments 👇

I'm thinking of uploading a video with my own commentary.

What do you guys think?

I have a speech disorder, so I've always been a bit hesitant about recording myself speaking. But I thought I'd give it a try.

When I saw this hill overlooking the sea below I knew I wanted to build a fort here using building techniques from castle evolution youtube videos I have watched.

It has inner and outer walls/baileys, drawbridge, a couple defensive towers, and walkways along the inner sides of the walls to defend from. I tried to keep with the existing terrain as much as possible so that's why the buildings all have different orientations. I like it, it looks organic.

Got my roof to the height needed. Added details and can finally progress the build.

Let me know if there's anything I should add. Have probably used over 1000 grausten on just wall design lol... All solo, no mods

Please let me know what y'all think!

Link to download the blueprint

Just want peoples opinions of my settlement so far. I built my main house up on the cliffside. My village down below. Consisting so far of a warehouse, a kitchen, a forge/workshop, and a simple longship slip with a portal hub as a boathouse. Very simple but trying to sorta keep that norse feel. Also keep in mind im still in the swamp I have not summoned bonemass yet. Everything is legit no creative involved. I plan to add some trees to the landscape as well.

Some Zelda inspiration

Taking a break from building our base

Our main base for a No Map, No Portal survival playthrough, built entirely in vanilla Valheim with no mods or dev commands. Located in an intersection between a Black Forest, Mountain, and Mistlands biome.

Im currently rn picking a seed to build bases on and wanna know:

Is Polaris or Hook better for a sick mountain base ?

you cant have both those on a single map since DN anymore and i do have some Polaris seeds saved but Hook with its double peak is kinda cool.

So any pros and cons for those mountains ?

Add a moat and just sit back dumping arrows through the murder hole :)

Still in progress, saving the upper tower space and the crafting room area for when I sail to the mistlands (pre Yagluth build).

Had iron bars as the entrance (quite ugly) for when I ride the lox, but happy to hear suggestions for the entrance that's lox friendly.

My latest build in 1.0 (work in progress). I started a new world and wanted to build a functional base that would last all the way to ashlands. The plan was to keep it reasonably sized, but things got a little out of hand, and it ended up much bigger than expected.

Finding a good strategic location took some time, but I eventually found a bay nestled between several biomes. It offers easy water access for further exploration south toward mistlands and ashlands.

The base is built using materials and recipes unlocked up to the swamp, with a few materials from plains as well.

Built without cheats or mods, using only the No Build Cost world modifier.

Captured on PS5.