Still looking for a flat piece of land to build.

[Lone Wolf]

seems like everywhere i look its all hill.

[Suzaku]

The world is a lumpy mess. You'll have to grab your pick and hoe and flatten it yourself.

[knighttemplar1960]

Meadows or plains. Look for a low hill. Shave the top off the hill and raise the surrounding terrain to get a large flat spot to build on.

[Fryskar]

Flatten it with a hoe? Or even a pick of needed.

[OctoberSky]

Also depends on the luck of your seed. Sometimes your spawn island will have very rugged topography and others may have smooth. If you are not averse to using the world generator[valheim-map.world] you can see if a proposed seed has varied terrain. One time I used the generator to find the "perfect" world and cycled through nearly a hundred before I found one I liked. After that I simply went with whatever the game dishes up. After a while you learn enough building techniques to adapt to whatever terrain you spawn around.

[Katitoff]

Nothing nowhere is flat.

Hoe around and find out.

[stvlepore]

Once you can work stone you can make stone walls with stairs, like a terrace.
Makes a attractive landscape feature.

[mjt1447]

Pick and Hoe are your best friends

[UncleAcidic]

it's easy (especially early on) to fall into the trap of "ground MUST be perfectly flat to build".
if you just WANT it that way, then fine, but you will get better results working with the shape of the land. allow the terrain to inform your building decisions.

but if you do want lots of flat ground then prepare for LOTS time and effort. it's doable but very labor intensive and in most cases will never be perfect. the only flat spots you will find naturally in Valheim are underneath pre-existing structures and I'd be wary of terraforming near them because there is still a bug that resets terrain that you have changed near certain structures in the game. I have a remade Draugr village that is unusable now because of this glitch.

the circles of 5 stones are AWESOME build spots. the stones are indestructible and the ground inside is pretty flat to begin with.

[heather1348]

In the early game before you get a pickaxe, this can be a little challenging. The hoe will help to flatten areas that are already somewhat flat, but it isn't possible cut down larger hills or break up boulders, so finding a good location is sometimes challenging. Usually, at that point in the game, I don't build large structures anyway. The easiest way to get a first base up and running is to find an abandoned building in the meadows and renovate it. The hoe is sometimes necessary to clear out weeds from the interior, but the ground is usually flat. Later on, with the pickaxe, it is easier, and when stone blocks become available, stone foundations work well on ground that is a bit hilly.

[Zep Tepi]

Maybe clear out a draugr village. Or if just starting, look for one of those farm sets close to the black forest. Those make good base locations anyway.

[LoveIsHere]

Working with what terrain has to offer yields much better results. It looks more natural and gives very interesting ideas from time to time

[hazelrah]

good. build a defensible home on top of a hill.

[RagnCharran]

If you just need a small area, there are nice flat patches inside the circles of five large stones in the meadows. I like to use them as gardens.

But otherwise I just build on stilts (wood then upgraded to stone once I have that option), so the ground may not be level but my floors and elevated walkways are. I tend to build on islands so the stilts are necessary to stay above storm waves anyway.

[Zep Tepi]

If you go to the seed I'm playing on now (marked as Rando, those are capital i's not one's), there are some meadows with small ponds east of start. It's all low area so it should flatten well. It's also pretty, and if you prefer there are two farms with natural maypoles nearby, close to the mountain.

Zoom in and there are a few more interesting seeds in that list.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992241136

[hallaloth]

I like trying to find 'flat' meadows to build on too, preferably on the coast. I rarely find any that are amazing, but it is fun.

My current seed is the most 'mountainous' meadows I've ever seen and the place I picked for my meadows base is almost naturally terraced. I'm slowly starting to dig the sides and flatten them to create a shelved terrace for my defenses and start to tier buildings and such. It's actually been fun working the landscape, though doing builds on the edge makes scaffolding for the frame/roof a huge pain, but so worth it for the fantastic view.

I'm still waiting on iron to do stonework, but yes, the pick/hoe can help wonders.