Structure Stability Guide Valheim

this is your one and only firespark81 with your daily dose of video goodness and welcome back to another informational valheim video today we're talking about stability let's get to it so before we jump into today's video i just gotta say welcome to all you fantastic new people who have showed up to this channel it has been flooded recently between cyberpunk and between belheim we have gotten so many new people to the channel so thank you all so incredibly much for all the support to all the new people and all of the fantastic and amazing people who have been around for ages thank you so much for the continued support okay so now let's talk about stability first thing we're going to talk about is the height limit so it doesn't matter now i know many people pointed this out to me and i did not realize it at first but your workbench seems to be a sphere so if we grab this and we grab a building piece here and we stand inside the circle so see this circle here so that circle is not a cylinder it is a sphere so if we build towards the edge we're going to build out of that area quicker than if we build towards the center so if we just slap that down there and then we start to build upwards you can see here we've already ran out of the area if i jump i cannot place another one because i'm jumping out of the sphere so that's something to keep in mind but beyond that even if i was to slap down another workbench at one of these areas here so you can see i built all the way up like that even if i was to for example build a flat piece here and build another workbench i could not build higher and that is because we have reached our limit now you can tell you have reached the limit by the colors so if i highlight over this you can see that it is blue you can see this is blue from what i can tell blue means foundation blue means it's touching the ground and it has a 100 support then as we move away you can see the color changes and it becomes green and then it it's green again and then it starts to turn a little more yellow and then it turns to yellow and then it turns to orange and then we can demonstrate from here then it goes from orange to an orange is red to red and then super red now past this super red here you cannot continue to build so if i snap another piece on there and we take a look at it you'll be able to see it goes to the colors as the game registers the stability and then it falls off those top pieces that you see up there on the half walls and the full walls are red you cannot build on top of them the same thing if we take a look at this stone structure here so the stone walls the big chunky ones that's as high as they're going to go if you try to build on top of that it says no what's interesting though is i was able to get a little bit higher with the half walls than i was the whole big chunky wall so if you take a look there and that is this one right here so the two the two by ones i was able to get just a little bit higher you can see the difference there the height difference there with the two by ones before i started to hit that you can't build any more limit now as far as the foundation pieces for stone they are not meant to be built as floor pieces if we take a look here it says no it doesn't even matter that the color is green it just immediately says no and if i remove this uh that one breaks as well so they're not meant to be floor pieces now you can use this strategy here to your advantage and it's something we're going to talk about here in a minute and we'll come back to this you can use this to great advantage okay but like i said we'll cover that in a minute now i want to talk about building out from a piece and how it judges how far you can build out from a piece so it looks like i got to repair these because they took rain damage and there's not much i can do about it building out here i'm not trying to cover all this up and it's bothering me um so with your piece here so you can see that we have this one here it's blue and then it immediately goes to green on the next piece that we snapped to it now i can't tell if these are based off of a weight that we can't see kind of like seven days to die is or or if it's a count limit i'm not 100 sure but um i'm gonna talk to you about everything that i've discovered and then you can kind of maybe we can discuss it in the comments what you guys think is the situation here so you can see this one's blue well i stack a ceiling piece right on top of it that is immediately green and then as we come out here they slowly change same thing with this one so this is the one i want you to really pay attention to because this is where it's gonna get you're gonna be like oh that's strange so we have the blue one here and then i build out one two three four and now i can't stick anymore to the end it will go through the colors and then break so can't stick any more to the end so what's interesting though is if we remove this we'll get to that in a minute here and we look at these so we have blue green green and then we take a look at the top here let's get away from that sun glare we have one two three so we have an extra one here because we're we've built less wall so we've lost stability for our ceiling pieces because we built wall pieces and if we continue to build wall pieces it will become less and less as we build them so if i jump up here and we build let's build two more wall pieces so there we go we got two more and now you can see it's yellow that one just turned to the dark orange and then this one's gonna go through and change color now that one's red and now it should this one should break as soon as it realizes yeah there it goes so as you build up you also lose stability out which is relatively interesting now the other interesting thing comes from the support beams so you may think okay well that's cool but i can just slap a support beam on there and i should be fine now if we snap a support beam to the side here you can see that that's going to go dark green and then it's going to lighten back up to where it was so if we just highlight over this and then we delete we immediately look at that you can see it did not change color or change to a better better color i guess you could say or more stable color it changed right back to what it was after it registered now we have it on there and if you think okay well that's supported now i should be able to add another piece on the end and if i do you can see that it breaks same thing if we i know somebody's going to say something so i'm going to do it if you add two on there you're like oh it's got to be super stable now but no if i add a piece on there and then we patiently wait it breaks now i'm not breaking that i'm just highlighting over it i'll do it and immediately look away you can see now it just broke instantly okay so how do the support beams work then if that doesn't actually give us support well from what i can tell they reset your support based on how many out they are and the part that they're touching let me see if i can explain that a little bit better here it's kind of hard for me to you'll see so this one here is our one that's connected directly to our foundation piece we're going to call this our foundation piece because i'm calling blue foundation so that's connected to our foundation piece so this one is the next stay most stable in color right so if i snap a piece to this one a support beam that means this support beam is going to be the same as this piece here because it's the second piece connected to this the same way that's the second piece that's connected to this so we connect it there and it is now the same as this piece here now if i connect a third beam it's going to be the same as this piece here and it will change this piece to be this piece so we'll be able to add one more to the end so let me do that we're gonna just grab this support beam and we'll push it through there and you'll see the colors re-register so there we go now it's going to go to a lighter orange it's the yellow now instead of the dark orange you can see that is now the dark orange and then now we can snap another piece to the end there and then that's going to go through and register and that's going to turn dark red now that's only going to get us one additional piece this one's eventually going to break see it break so how are you supposed to use the support beams then well i think what you're supposed to do is use the straight beams so if we grab one of these core wood pieces and we stack it uh right i want to get it right in line with it here it just needs to go through it it doesn't actually have to be on one of the snap points so we do that you can see that is now green that's now the same as this piece here so this piece is blue this is green this piece is now the same as this one now we attach another piece here and we attach another piece here now i want you to look at something here if we take a look here that's green that's green that's a little bit darker green and then we have yellow but if i grab a support beam and i snap them on both sides now we have a situation where they're all green and then that one is now yellow so we've extended our ground support out based off of the support beams here so i think what it that's i think that's the way that they intend it to be used now granted you can use it the through the side here like i showed you but using it from the side you you can't just snap it it's not going to do you any good to do that that is useless so now you're probably thinking well what about these long wood beams here so these really don't do much either if i put one here and then we extend them out and we try to put another piece on the end after it all updates it's going to go through re-register everything and it's going to break wait patiently and there it goes so it takes a minute to update to realize what's going on i think it's going through and re-registering all of the pieces and recalculating um but we have a extended time even if i stick a piece on the end here it'll be the same situation they're actually both going to break as it goes through and registers and there goes one and there goes the other so it took it much longer time to break but it still eventually broke so i'm pretty sure these beams are just used for building convenience and snapping points if we take a look here you can see i have these on pillars just the four corners all the way around like so and then i have a bunch of those beams across here but what's interesting is if you look those beams are the same color as the the ceiling pieces and then we head towards the middle and we actually lost support towards the middle this is all yellow though adding those beams doesn't really do much but what it does do is give us additional snap points for other pillars and it gives us easier snap points for ceiling pieces and i think they're just there for convenience if i snap this pillar piece here and then we take a look now they all update and then these have gotten just a little bit greener compared to these which are not and if we stack those beams so if we put one down and then we use these and bring them out from the side you will see that they act the same way that the floor pieces do so we're just going to stack them out here like so and then you see we can't stack anymore so we got one two three four the same count that we got over here with one floor piece and then four ceiling pieces so now let's talk about stone and wood mix because this is where things get really interesting and are going to allow for so many more building options so i was testing some stuff here and if we take a look we have a stone wall here and every wood piece that's connected to the stone wall is a foundation piece you can see that that one is blue and that one is blue it does not matter what color your stone foundation piece is you can see here we go all the way up and we end up ending in orange but our wood piece is blue and is considered a foundation piece and this also works with pillars i have a stone pillar on top of it it's green but the wood piece that it's touching is blue which tells the rest of this to act as though it's touching another foundation piece so if i delete these and we take a look that goes right back to dark red so you can use the stone found or stone pillar pieces or any of the stone pieces combined with your wood pieces to drastically increase the stability of the wood so that means that since this is blue we have now reset this piece here to act as a foundation piece wall that will allow us to come out an additional four so if we attach them here we can now go one two three and four maybe if i can get it to snap so now that's going to turn dark red and i won't be able to snap another one if i try we get nothing it's going to eventually break there it goes so you can mix the stone with the wood for drastically improved support results as opposed to using just a normal wooden pillar because if we take a look over here here's i just used i'm going to delete that real quick so you can see the the difference so if we take a look at this one you can see it's green and then dark green and then yellow and then that one is green so this one added support to this one but it's the same as this piece here so blue to dark green blue to dark green as opposed to the stone which goes from green to foundation blue piece and now this is your dark green piece okay so that's pretty much all i have for this one hopefully you found it informational and helpful if you did consider hitting the subscribe button and the notification bell so you can be notified when i upload other valheim videos and i don't just cover valheim i cover all kinds of different games so you never know when i'm going to be making guides for a game that you may be playing all right that is going to wrap it up for this episode if 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Channel: FireSpark81

Views: 176,477

Keywords: Firespark81, firespark, Valheim, Valheim game, valheim building tutorial, Valheim stability, Valheim building stability, valheim building tips, Valheim how building works, Valheim tips, Valheim building

Id: gD3YQGufXgA

Length: 16min 36sec (996 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021