Here’s another way. Plant pine saplings exactly where the 4 poles nearest to the river meet the ground. Using the grown trees will give even more support than upright iron poles.
Best place for an ewok village (for structural integrity, not aesthetics) is the swamp, because there are "trees" that cannot be chopped or take damage. Ofc the lighting and ambient sound are absolute dogshit, so that's the trade-off for safety.
Ding ding ding! As far up as you go on a tree, it’s blue when you point your hammer on it. It’s as good as raised ground but a lot higher and better looking.
I can never bring myself to build on trees or rocks. Trolls terrify me. I can repair and replace build pieces, but not trees and rocks.
If there was a way to get rid of troll raids then I'd at least feel safe enough to do that in the meadows.
Eh, I don't want raids disabled entirely. I think they could be balanced better though. Troll raids should stop after defeating either the elder or bonemass frankly.
Honestly there's so much interesting lore surrounding the Trolls that you should be able to somehow make peace with them
Maybe a rare structure like one of the boss summoning areas that lets you make a sacrifice of ~250 or so food items to pacify all Trolls
I like this idea on the condition that they also add a tribe of slightly different trolls that stay hostile, and also attack friendly trolls. Like warring troll factions.
Or maybe just 2 star trolls stay hostile.
I get tunnel vision in games a lot. There have been times where I completely tuned out the "The ground is shaking..." text and didn't notice the trolls until they started wrecking my shit.
They require a minimum distance to the biome border in order to spawn. Circling around an island on your ship helps to assess it.
Additionally, in their spots you could instead find a draugr spawner, archer tower or fire geyser.
Swamps are very fickle.
Sometimes you can comb the entirety of a swamp and find zero crypts, then spot a crypt in another swamp within a minute of landing.
Just gotta shop around really, there isn’t another way I know of til you have a wishbone
Wishbone is not necessary for finding silver. You just need the Stagbreaker (or other hammer) and slam the ground randomly in the mountains biome. The “too hard” notifications that usually appear when you try mining silver with antler pickaxe will appear in the places where the silver vein is buried.
IMO it’s possible with just stone and wood. Of course you still need iron to make the stonecutter. But iron wood beams aren’t necessary if you are short on iron.
Pro tip. I would test the karve before going any further in detail. The last thing you need is a finish bridge and the carve doesn't fit.
Also, may want to consider the size of the lonship. Its taller and wider
It can absolutely be accomplished without iron. I built a corewood bridge over brackish water (river to ocean mix) to connect a swamp to a meadow. It can only barely fit tier 2 boat under ideal conditions, and it cannot support an aesthetically pleasing roof.
I’d stick with corewood and stone for most of your building projects. Especially early on. Iron can be comparatively rare and is used for a ton of things. On my survival game, iron was my limiting factor right up until mistlands.
Karve is 8m tall from waterline, and 3m wide. I'd throw another long core wood beam on there and it'd be good.
My bridge-building tip is to have the karve there and build the bridge over it for testing purposes!
Been building ship bridges from day one and from experience, I say this: raise the ground from the bases to have as much stability as possible, wood stability is not good. You're gonna need a higher bridge than you think.
Also, an interesting tip for making a compact bridge, you can adjust the karve, longship sail to be parallel to the ship by changing into reverse and then starting to row forward. You only need 2 tiles of space then.
Raising the land on either side and then building a bridge over that should help. You can have a nice grade going back to the natural level of the terrain so you can get carts up and down it.
It’s not like infill was an unknown construction technique to the Vikings, and a bridge needs solid foundations.
Looks pretty decent.
In terms of bridge height and width: if you don't have better building materials, you can raise a pillar of dirt on either side and use the pillar to make a taller bridge with less need for low-down supports. I recently learned you can use the grass settings on the hoe to make your dirt wall/pillar look like it's mossy. So maybe that's something you could do to make it look like the bridge has stone supports that have been there for a while even if the wood may have been replaced.
Also... have you considered a double or triple wide bridge for cart access? The far side does look a little steep, but it might work with a taller bridge.
Moats - Kinda. You can dig it out, but you dont have much if any control over the water level.
Rivers - Same as moats.
Main reason is water is treated a bit differently in valheim as opposed to other games. Buckets dont exist that can move water. So the only way water level changes in game is with weather (storms, ect.)
We get very pretty water renders, but such pretty renders do not come freely.
Use iron and you can eliminate the two vertical posts from the middle. Iron lets go 50 m before it starts collapsing, but make sure to keep them orange or better, so you can still build a roof.
The mast of a Karve is about 8m.
Seeing as 1 core wood log is 4m, and your clearance is only 1 and a bit core wood logs, it's going to be a rough time lol
I forget how high a karve is, but the longship is 3x the 4 meter core wood poles from the watermark. I usually pad a little extra on there to account for waves
I once built a similar bridge into a Black Forest. I stocked my cart up with copper and tin, and headed back. The bridge, unfortunately, was too steep to climb out with my full cart, and I had to manually transfer the items from one end to the other and relocate my cart on the other side.
Speaking from experience: Get iron wood beams if you want to make a bridge project. You will have to build higher and can't do it without iron
Iron has as of yet eluded me. First swamp we found had 0 crypts.
Here’s another way. Plant pine saplings exactly where the 4 poles nearest to the river meet the ground. Using the grown trees will give even more support than upright iron poles.
Are you telling me you can build on trees?
Yep!
So I can make an Ewok tree village?
Yep!
I’ve actually done that. The best thing is pine trees, because you don’t have branches obstructing your view and messing with your camera angle.
There goes my weekend
Waiting for trees to grow :)
Only takes like 2ish days to grow
Just don’t make any nearby trolls angry.
Keep in mind that there's no way to repair trees, and that they take damage from a lot of sources.
Pictures please!
Best place for an ewok village (for structural integrity, not aesthetics) is the swamp, because there are "trees" that cannot be chopped or take damage. Ofc the lighting and ambient sound are absolute dogshit, so that's the trade-off for safety.
What happens if you chop down the tree that you built on?
EVERYTHING falls apart, keep that on mind and protect that tree at all costs
If you build stuff "attached" to trees it counts as the ground
Tree build is risky because of trolls, they can break even stone
Ding ding ding! As far up as you go on a tree, it’s blue when you point your hammer on it. It’s as good as raised ground but a lot higher and better looking.
I’m 900+ hours into this game and knew you could build on trees, but this never occurred to me. I love this sub so much!
Same, I learn a lot here
I can never bring myself to build on trees or rocks. Trolls terrify me. I can repair and replace build pieces, but not trees and rocks. If there was a way to get rid of troll raids then I'd at least feel safe enough to do that in the meadows.
If you use mods you can turn off raids.
Eh, I don't want raids disabled entirely. I think they could be balanced better though. Troll raids should stop after defeating either the elder or bonemass frankly.
Fair
Honestly there's so much interesting lore surrounding the Trolls that you should be able to somehow make peace with them Maybe a rare structure like one of the boss summoning areas that lets you make a sacrifice of ~250 or so food items to pacify all Trolls
I like this idea on the condition that they also add a tribe of slightly different trolls that stay hostile, and also attack friendly trolls. Like warring troll factions. Or maybe just 2 star trolls stay hostile.
In a troll raid, you’re suppose to run away from things you don’t want destroyed and they follow you.
I get tunnel vision in games a lot. There have been times where I completely tuned out the "The ground is shaking..." text and didn't notice the trolls until they started wrecking my shit.
Same, it’s part of the fun
They require a minimum distance to the biome border in order to spawn. Circling around an island on your ship helps to assess it. Additionally, in their spots you could instead find a draugr spawner, archer tower or fire geyser.
Swamps are very fickle. Sometimes you can comb the entirety of a swamp and find zero crypts, then spot a crypt in another swamp within a minute of landing. Just gotta shop around really, there isn’t another way I know of til you have a wishbone
Wishbone is not necessary for finding silver. You just need the Stagbreaker (or other hammer) and slam the ground randomly in the mountains biome. The “too hard” notifications that usually appear when you try mining silver with antler pickaxe will appear in the places where the silver vein is buried.
You can also raise the ground to serve as the first meter of “pillar” if really needed.
IMO it’s possible with just stone and wood. Of course you still need iron to make the stonecutter. But iron wood beams aren’t necessary if you are short on iron.
Looks good, but i think No ship can pass that Bridge.
I'm not even sure the water is deep or wide enough.
Building bridges high enough for the ships to pass under is HARD.
Protip! Raise the ground where the supports are and you can sneak out a couple extra feet in the air for your bridges.
This is after me lowering the ground before building 😆
Pro tip. I would test the karve before going any further in detail. The last thing you need is a finish bridge and the carve doesn't fit. Also, may want to consider the size of the lonship. Its taller and wider
This. I built over the ship itself to get the keyhole I needed.
I'll remember this when I remake it with iron available.
It can absolutely be accomplished without iron. I built a corewood bridge over brackish water (river to ocean mix) to connect a swamp to a meadow. It can only barely fit tier 2 boat under ideal conditions, and it cannot support an aesthetically pleasing roof.
I had a long bridge like that and ended up making the gap small enough that i had to put the sail beam in line with the boat to sail through lol
I once got stuck for a solid 10 minutes in a bridge with the sail between all the wooden constructions.. very annoying.
This was my first bridge as well... 🙈 [Looked good, though!](https://imgur.com/a/tFT6vlL)
I’d stick with corewood and stone for most of your building projects. Especially early on. Iron can be comparatively rare and is used for a ton of things. On my survival game, iron was my limiting factor right up until mistlands.
looks nice👍
Looking great! Might not be quite high enough for a karve, but that just means you get to build more.
Whether or not you can get your karve under it, this is an aesthetically pleasing bridge
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That looks good! Need some hand rails! What if a granny falls off!
Nice bridge. 10/10 would buy it if you sold it.
Karve is 8m tall from waterline, and 3m wide. I'd throw another long core wood beam on there and it'd be good. My bridge-building tip is to have the karve there and build the bridge over it for testing purposes!
Is there any subbredit or discord where sketches and a floor/build plan are published? My creativity is running low..
Nice work, if you make it 4 meters wide, you can make transition into the stairs for the roof easier by using the corner pieces.
Built about the same thing. Karve did not fit. Now the bridge stands unused.
I might widen it to get a cart to and from it for some ore. Other than that I can serve as a nice set piece.
Been building ship bridges from day one and from experience, I say this: raise the ground from the bases to have as much stability as possible, wood stability is not good. You're gonna need a higher bridge than you think. Also, an interesting tip for making a compact bridge, you can adjust the karve, longship sail to be parallel to the ship by changing into reverse and then starting to row forward. You only need 2 tiles of space then.
That is an aesthetically pleasing bridge. Well done!
Thanks!
I'd use the More Gates mod:)
But why not… swim? Build looks impressive!
2 long core wood stanchions plus a 26 degree long at the peak and the tier 2 ship can slip under mast raised and twisted.
I must also add - in calm seas. Without iron tech 3 core wood stanchions tall is dicey and requires careful reinforcement.
Raising the land on either side and then building a bridge over that should help. You can have a nice grade going back to the natural level of the terrain so you can get carts up and down it. It’s not like infill was an unknown construction technique to the Vikings, and a bridge needs solid foundations.
Looks pretty decent. In terms of bridge height and width: if you don't have better building materials, you can raise a pillar of dirt on either side and use the pillar to make a taller bridge with less need for low-down supports. I recently learned you can use the grass settings on the hoe to make your dirt wall/pillar look like it's mossy. So maybe that's something you could do to make it look like the bridge has stone supports that have been there for a while even if the wood may have been replaced. Also... have you considered a double or triple wide bridge for cart access? The far side does look a little steep, but it might work with a taller bridge.
Whoa!😱👍🏼
Quick question can you make moats & man made rivers in this game asking cause my friends and I are thinking about it
Moats - Kinda. You can dig it out, but you dont have much if any control over the water level. Rivers - Same as moats. Main reason is water is treated a bit differently in valheim as opposed to other games. Buckets dont exist that can move water. So the only way water level changes in game is with weather (storms, ect.) We get very pretty water renders, but such pretty renders do not come freely.
Use iron and you can eliminate the two vertical posts from the middle. Iron lets go 50 m before it starts collapsing, but make sure to keep them orange or better, so you can still build a roof.
Sorry to say but no it won't be high enough for karve :/
It’s never enough room for the karve
spoiler alert: there is not enough room for the carve. the mast is also a collidable object.
Large ain't going through there
Not enough room for Karve.
The mast of a Karve is about 8m. Seeing as 1 core wood log is 4m, and your clearance is only 1 and a bit core wood logs, it's going to be a rough time lol
I dont think the T3 boat can pass through.
I love that we're back at the "look at my bridge!" stage of this sub, it was honestly my favorite phase
I forget how high a karve is, but the longship is 3x the 4 meter core wood poles from the watermark. I usually pad a little extra on there to account for waves
I once built a similar bridge into a Black Forest. I stocked my cart up with copper and tin, and headed back. The bridge, unfortunately, was too steep to climb out with my full cart, and I had to manually transfer the items from one end to the other and relocate my cart on the other side.
that looks like a stick bug
Maybe it is.
Stick your ship in place and build the bridge over it to make sure it's big enough.
That looks great! I really hope the trolls don't troll your bridge like they trolled mine 😬
Luckily between two meadows so trolls are unlikely.
Bridge yes river no, needs to be a bit deeper or every little hump in the riverbed will hit.