Building is insanely annoying

[HardRock]

I'm a new player, played minecraft alot. But building in valheim is annoying to the point, that I'm considering to delete this game.

1 - I get a hint to build workbench. ok, I place it and only THEN ingame hint says that I should place it under a roof, or it will not work.
2 - I try building walls around my already placed bench but there is no grid at all and walls dont snap to workbenches, so it looks incredibly ugly.
3 - then I get a hint to place a bed. once again there are no hints in bed description about how it should be placed. So when using it I get a warning that it should be under a roof too. Great... Build another ugly structure. And its not enough too, because error message changes to "bed should be inside a room".

What is considered a room? Enclosed space with roof and door? should it have wooden floor too? should it have fireplace nearby? No explanations at all.

Oh and I have hills everywhere i go. There is no flat surface to build something decent and no shovel. Rocks are lying around and I dont have tools to break them.

Whoever decided that gridless building is a great idea. I wish you never have any straight corners in your room, so furniture will always stick out one way or another.

[Oakshield]

Originally posted by @xaker89:

Originally posted by HardRock:

No explanations at all.

Maybe they should also expain to you how to beat the enemies, bosses, where to go, what to do and how to fully complete the game, this is what you need ?

Don't we have the wiki and guides for that?

I think what the OP wants is someone else build the bases and beats the bosses, with the OP being in the backseat, "explaining" how things have to be build.

Like as:

Main building 15x20m and 3 floors up, with the first wall made of black marble, second wall made of stone and third wall made of wood and using shingle roofings only.

Next building being the forge and smelter, being exactly 8 metres from the main building, with a 3m flowerbed next to both walls and a 2m walking path in between. With wooden torches standing at exactly 10.189 pixels from the corner and so on........

[Trippy]

The magic of discovering and learning something new is a wonderful thing if you open yourself up to this magic and don't immediately become frustrated about this "new magic". You have to have a bit of perseverance if, after 500 hours of play, you become aware of something that is the whole thing time is a burden then ok you can discuss it but this post is, how should I say, a bit embarrassing ;) Nevertheless, I wish you a lot of fun in this wonderful game

[Sunny]

y'all are being really weird and aggressive towards somebody who was just asking for some help

[saurce]

Originally posted by Sunny:

y'all are being really weird and aggressive towards somebody who was just asking for some help

Sent you a friend request. Maybe you can help me with something. Accept for details, I'd be happy to elaborate!

That being said, yes, building is kind of tricky at first. Use wooden posts to find a good starting point, and them build from there. Your builds dont necessarily have to align with the in-game grid, but there is a grid. You'll notice this when you start mining with a pickaxe. Its just hard to see from the surface because everything is voxel based.

[6h0$t942]

Valheim is much easier to play than minecraft though. I had to open the wiki for my alternatively sourced MC every 45seconds after getting out of the stone age in mc.
The workbench needing a roof bit can get a little exasperating though. Thankfully you dont need that for a build radius, so my various forts and bases before i got a mod to extend the range had workbenches and forges every standard 20m interval or whatever it is.

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by HardRock:

Originally posted by Oakshield:

But if all of that doesn't help and you need a grid - which you can actually lay out yourself using beams and / or floor boards - to help you building things; plus you need someone to hold your hand; you'd better wonder if this game is for you.

I hate gridless building in all games. Because it always looks ugly for me. Thats the only problem.

I want all buildings to be parallel to eachother, I want to place furniture exactly at the center of a floor tile or snap to the wall. I want floors to have equal height and windows evenly spaced.

Every time I see gridless building in games I cry inside.
Some youtuber makes a letsplay and then I see him placing a torch slightly offcenter on a wall, its just a few pixels, but annoying as hell. And then he says "now it looks nice and cozy". Wtf man, dont you see it was perfect and now it looks like a childs doodling?

Wait till you actually discover that none of the pieces actually fully line up and you can see the gap between them and that none of the pieces actually match besides the very basic 2x2 wood wall. All other pieces you can get in the game from future biomes don't match at all. there is stone, you can place the big huge block with other big huge blocks but any other stone type looks totally different and doesn't match.

You can do the same thing with the ugliness you get from mistcraps but once again, none of them line up and look like they belong together besides the amount of "Darkness" they used for the pieces.

Literally nothing in this game lines up or fits correctly.

P.S. same with their tar roofing.

[kekkuli]

This definitely deserves a clown.

[gerald2]

what most frustrate me is this damn "workbench is too exposed" stuff FFS its sometimes little space between ground an dwall and its fckin too exposed ....also terraforming in valheim is total crap.

[kono Dio da!]

Trees grant "Base stability" so you can build around a tree to get high buildings. Just be careful not to destroy the tree and defend it against enemies. :)

[Aurumworks]

@gerald2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3119482074

[swiftdoll]

Originally posted by Aurumworks:

@gerald2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3119482074

oh this is genius :o and there I was doing 6 piece shed for my field repair kits, duh

[Ghevd]

I usually build a "work shed" for every building project.

Slap down a work bench and put a wall directly behind it. Now a wall on each side of that center wall, but angle them twice so they are wrapping around the bench. 45 degree roof goes in the middle and two 45 degree corners on each angled wall. Wallah! One workbench that is "indoors".

Caught this little gem on youtube I believe. I'm guessing from Firespark81

[JiveTurkey]

One of the problems I have with building is when you make something ugly there's very little space else to build anywhere else. You really have to get it right on the first try.

[>< V ><]

I'm gunna have to chalk this up to ingenuity and creativity, because I find the Valheim building system to be the best building system I've ever played. What really makes it shine over other building games is the ability to clip, which allows for all sorts of creativity.

[Junⱪstyles]

OP, This is some kind of joke right? If you want your hand held you're playing the wrong game. Google is a thing along with youtube and the wiki. Crazy we know. But if you can't put in the work to learn the most beginning, basic strategy that young kids can figure out as others have stated, You should probably refund it and chalk it up to it not being for you. Because boy it gets WAY harder the more you progress. You're going to hate every aspect of the rest of the game since there is no predefined path and order of things to tell you how to do things. It's all there, but you have to put in the work and learn. What you describe as awful no grid building is there, as others have stated. You yourself just either aren't willing to learn, or put in the time and work it seems.