Is there any way to reduce smoke density?

[KTZ]

I want to place a hearth in my house but i cant see anything because of it's smoke visual effect.
Maybe someone know how to fix that by changing settings or using commands?

[Screenblast89]

Either build a chimney or add a smokeless angled roof, a stone fireplace will make no smoke at all.

[jonnin]

you need to vent it outside or have a very high ceiling, like 6m or so.
I prefer to make them against an outer wall and direct the smoke up and out with a slanted roof. Its a bit of a learning curve as you have to cover the fire or rain will put it out, but it has to vent, or it will smoke everything up and put itself out. Some images online should help, or read the wiki...
https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Smoke

[Gladi8er65]

You need to "control" where the smoke goes... Smoke particles are big... 2m x 2m is the size, so you must create a flue directly above the fire and it needs to be a 2m x 2m "hole" so the particles can pass through, and then either make a "covered" chimney on the roof, or create an enclosed area, overhead, where the smoke can hang out and eventually dissipate...
Example:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2923700195

The smoke shown is contained inside the "duct" and never accumulates any more than that, AND can't choke you while it's in there.

For many other ideas, I suggest this video that explains all about how smoke works and shows examples of what works and what doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5wvMTLYxWI

[Complaintdesk]

Smoke will dissipate with high enough ceilings. In a structure 1-2 sets of walls in height a chimney is needed directly above the source fire that extends above the height of the roof. Another alternative is to place a gap in the peak above the roof height. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2874976444

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

create an enclosed area, overhead, where the smoke can hang out and eventually dissipate...

Trapping the smoke in a narrow place is indeed very, if not most effective. There's no need for chimneys, extensions or large gaps if you know what you're doing.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2932934872

Having a high hall with slowly rising smoke and other features has an atmosphere of its own of course.

[jonnin]

this works just fine. The slanted roof shunts the smoke out into the open and keeps the rain off the fire. The hearth is surrounded by the rock walls here, you can't see it but its just a ] shaped wall around the hearth that blends with the oven exterior.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2924987564


from the other side:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2924987771

I personally put fires on my topmost story if possible, to avoid making a slice through the home. Time its said and done for oven and just 1 hearth (and I often have 2) its too much space, and then there is the tub...

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

i would recommend making a chimney.
having the smoke clutter at the top of your house can cause small framerate drops

[Jaggid Edje]

I noticed in every thread where this comes up, there's always several answers of "you don't have to make a chimney" and then an explanation of how to do it without a chimney. I'm just curious, do people not like chimneys? Or is it just an attempt to be 'realistic' seeing as Viking houses, irl, usually had 'smoke holes' and not chimneys?

I usually make a chimney, or just include a smoke venting hole in the roof, not counting the first house I built which just filled up with smoke and made me react to 'how cool is this!' (that the game actually has smoke physics). I personally really like how the smoke venting out of the hole/chimney looks, like in that lovely screenshot @jonnin posted above.

This is how I have mostly been doing fireplace and chimney, for hearths; with a stone wall frame around 3 sides of it, until I reach the thatch roof, then all 4 sides to make a chimney. Then on the outside, I cover it with wood posts atop which I put a thatch roof.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933028937
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933031556

For smaller outposts, I just use a slanted roof over the fire, slanted away from the interior. Like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933073345
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933073338

Originally posted by 𝔹𝔸𝕃𝕃O𝔾ℕ𝔸TH:

I want to place a hearth in my house but i cant see anything because of it's smoke effect.
Maybe someone know how to fix that by changing settings or using commands?

If after all of the above replies you still want to 'disable' the smoke, I'm not aware of any command in game for it, but there is a mod that removes the smoke effects that would be an option.

[Zep Tepi]

Most of the time, not using a chimney is just a personal choice. Other times, bats. No one wants a flaming rat with wings inside their home.

[Eradan]

I've built exactly 4 "houses" in Valheim. The first two and the last had chimneys, the third one (on the solo game I'm currently playing) doesn't. It really depends on what you build, and how you build it.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Most of the time, not using a chimney is just a personal choice. Other times, bats. No one wants a flaming rat with wings inside their home.

I kind of do, now that you planted the image in my head. But only virtually ... not into hurting critters any more than necessary (eg I will kill a pest, but not set it on fire).
If I could trap a V bat perpetually on fire in my home, I totally would.

[KTZ]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

but there is a mod that removes the smoke effects that would be an option.

Which mod is it? Just to mention: i want to reduce/remove visual smoke effect, not debuff

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by 𝔹𝔸𝕃𝕃O𝔾ℕ𝔸TH:

Which mod is it? Just to mention: i want to reduce/remove visual smoke effect, not debuff

I've seen several. Just some examples:
No Smoke[valheim.thunderstore.io]
No Smoke-Stay Lit[valheim.thunderstore.io] for those who also want to cheese the fuel requirements.
Smoke Collission[valheim.thunderstore.io] - This one lets you customize a lot of the variables associated with smoke, rather than removing it entirely.

I have no idea how the smoke debuff is with each version, as I don't use any of them. I imagine at least the last one preserves the debuff.

[KTZ]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by 𝔹𝔸𝕃𝕃O𝔾ℕ𝔸TH:

Which mod is it? Just to mention: i want to reduce/remove visual smoke effect, not debuff

I've seen several. Just some examples:
No Smoke[valheim.thunderstore.io]
No Smoke-Stay Lit[valheim.thunderstore.io] for those who also want to cheese the fuel requirements.
Smoke Collission[valheim.thunderstore.io] - This one lets you customize a lot of the variables associated with smoke, rather than removing it entirely.

I have no idea how the smoke debuff is with each version, as I don't use any of them. I imagine at least the last one preserves the debuff.

May Odin protect you.

[Seltzer King]

Coward! Face the smoke like a True Viking! *gasp* *wheeze*