Some Vikings have figured out how to completely hide the entrance to your home in Valheim . You won’t need a door anymore, and hardly anyone will know how to access your most important items.
This is the trick: With a chair and a stone wall, players have tricked the game mechanics of Valheim and created secret bases. This works due to a glitch involving interaction and overlay between building objects and the player’s character, known as a “clipping glitch”
How do I build a secret hideout? Building it is quite easy, however, you will need both a workbench and a stonecutter. The materials are fairly straightforward:
- build a 4×2 stone wall directly next to where your entrance should be
- place two chairs facing opposite directions
- it is important to rotate the chairs correctly: one facing the entrance, one facing the exit
- attach a second 4×2 stone wall to the first. It will now overlay the chairs
- tear down the first wall if you don’t want to keep it
With a little finesse, you can also place the wall directly on the chairs. However, it’s easier with the snap feature of the building tool.
If the chairs are in the right position, you can use them up close, even if the wall is right in front of your face. You will “clip” into the wall and can move in or out of the hideout by moving forward. In the video, you can see what that looks like:
If you want to use such a secret hideout, you should hurry. The developers are working on fixing bugs, and this clipping could well be seen as a bug. In a previous patch, landscaping became much more expensive through a bug fix.
Secret base and hidden items in Valheim
What good does a hideout do me? If you are playing alone on your own server, such a hideout has little pragmatic use. Enemies will still attack your base. However, if you live underground, it will be harder for them to reach you. In our guide, we explain how to build your own living cave.
On servers with multiple players, you can completely hide your base or simply a loot room. A single stone wall or even a small structure is quite inconspicuous, and you can simply hide a chair in the wall of your castle to create a secret passage downwards.
This can still be hidden: With the trick, you can also make items completely disappear. If you build a post and place an object stand on it, you can store an item there and then hide it in the wall. If you don’t want your friends to take your favorite sword, this is the ideal hiding place.
It is also possible to clip through walls created by the game with a chair. According to some players, this allows you to access the crypts in the swamp without ever having obtained a Swamp Key .
However, during our test, we ended up getting stuck inside the crypt and could neither get in nor out. We had to free ourselves with admin commands from the prison. If you want to try it yourself, you should practice on your server first.
Without (much) cheating, but with the most advanced Viking technology, you can easily catch fish in Valheim by building a fish trap. You need the fish for snacks that are particularly useful in the endgame:
