Terrain Flattening Mod

[SilverMoon]

Hi Builders,

What mod(s) are you using to flatten terrain for your builds?
I would like to flatten large pieces of land easily, and uniformly but dont know what to get. The terrainMasterMod is outdated, and Buildshare either doesnt have a flatten command, or I dont know it.

Any help/suggestions would be great!
TIA

[FluffyUnicorn]

try SKToolbox maybe?

[SilverMoon]

Originally posted by FluffyUnicorn:

try SKToolbox maybe?

Legend, ty

[electricdawn]

The hoe?... Works for me. :)

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by SilverMoon:

Hi Builders,

What mod(s) are you using to flatten terrain for your builds?
I would like to flatten large pieces of land easily, and uniformly but dont know what to get. The terrainMasterMod is outdated, and Buildshare either doesnt have a flatten command, or I dont know it.

Any help/suggestions would be great!
TIA

Just know with enough terrain edits your world will start to lag real quick.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by SilverMoon:

Hi Builders,

What mod(s) are you using to flatten terrain for your builds?
I would like to flatten large pieces of land easily, and uniformly but dont know what to get. The terrainMasterMod is outdated, and Buildshare either doesnt have a flatten command, or I dont know it.

Any help/suggestions would be great!
TIA

Just know with enough terrain edits your world will start to lag real quick.

This isn't as much of a concern as it used to be, not even close to it. Used to be that every swing of your hoe was an additional instance the game had to keep track of- So a extensively modified area could end up with 10-30k+ instances and dramatically hinder performance when in that area of the world.

Now it just keeps the most recently applied one Even after moderately extensive terrain modification my area has around 4-5k~ instances. The untouched and unmodified meadows forest I travelled to has over 7500. So.. Don't stress too much about extensive terrain modification anymore :)


To the OP, Check out PlanBuild. It's building tool is pretty awesome and one of it's functions is a terrain modification tool you can use to flattten wide areas to a specific height. Plus you can plan out your build using the planning function, make blueprints, have your plan auto-built by the builder machine (requiring resources) or just build directly (no resource cost), etc. I've been using it fine for a couple weeks now.
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1125

If you want something more vanilla, you could check out the HoeRadius mod, lets you increase or decrease the area of your hoe or cultivator's effect- Letting you hit small or massive targets. Even if it' not quite the flattening tool you want, I'd still recommend it for being able to shrink the area to be able to style your area more specifically, like putting patches of grass on a dirt road or whatever.
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1199

And the already mentioned SkToolbox also has some terrain leveling functions.
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/8

[SilverMoon]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Just know with enough terrain edits your world will start to lag real quick.

This isn't as much of a concern as it used to be, not even close to it. Used to be that every swing of your hoe was an additional instance the game had to keep track of- So a extensively modified area could end up with 10-30k+ instances and dramatically hinder performance when in that area of the world.

Now it just keeps the most recently applied one Even after moderately extensive terrain modification my area has around 4-5k~ instances. The untouched and unmodified meadows forest I travelled to has over 7500. So.. Don't stress too much about extensive terrain modification anymore :)


To the OP, Check out PlanBuild. It's building tool is pretty awesome and one of it's functions is a terrain modification tool you can use to flattten wide areas to a specific height. Plus you can plan out your build using the planning function, make blueprints, have your plan auto-built by the builder machine (requiring resources) or just build directly (no resource cost), etc. I've been using it fine for a couple weeks now.
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1125

If you want something more vanilla, you could check out the HoeRadius mod, lets you increase or decrease the area of your hoe or cultivator's effect- Letting you hit small or massive targets. Even if it' not quite the flattening tool you want, I'd still recommend it for being able to shrink the area to be able to style your area more specifically, like putting patches of grass on a dirt road or whatever.
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1199

And the already mentioned SkToolbox also has some terrain leveling functions.
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/8

Great, I will check those out too! ty

[MistrBill]

Originally posted by electricdawn:

The hoe?... Works for me. :)

You can get pretty good results if you know how to use the hoe, but there are some videos where they've got it smooth as a table top, and I sure can't do THAT with a hoe, or at least I've not figured it out.

[Trakehner]

Originally posted by MistrBill:

Originally posted by electricdawn:

The hoe?... Works for me. :)

You can get pretty good results if you know how to use the hoe, but there are some videos where they've got it smooth as a table top, and I sure can't do THAT with a hoe, or at least I've not figured it out.

I was able to. It's not impossible. Just takes alot of practice and patience.

Only thing I have noticed is that as you add onto your existing base, it does tend to make the ground lumpy in spots after awhile.

[vilem.krejci]

I probably wouldn't deal with it that much again. Slight inequalities rather improve the reality of the terrain, I would personally welcome something that would be able to wrinkle the terrain more accidentally. After all, even the ancient Egyptians did not have absolute plane under the pyramids and they are standing till today ;-) The hoe is IMHO enought ...