Valheim offers the opportunity to fully express creativity and build your own home. One player has apparently set a large goal for himself and has fully utilized the possibilities for building a base. He worked for 200 hours on his castle – with a beautiful result.
This is the base: The reddit user and YouTuber FallenQsnow has presented his construction project to the Valheim community (via reddit). According to him, he invested about 200 hours into it, completely alone and without the help of admin commands.
The result is almost a small village with a city wall, guard towers, a proper moat, and various buildings. FallenQsnow has two large warehouses, a crafting area, a kitchen, and a trophy room in his fully stone-paved city.
At the heart of it all, on a hill, sits his palace with a huge throne room, a small living area, and a portal room, from which he can probably travel anywhere in the vast world of Valheim. He even made a little video of the whole project:
As he himself says, he is not even close to being finished after these 200 hours: The castle will likely be expanded.
The low frame rate of the video is due to the number of building parts he has used there. FallenQsnow himself says on reddit that he usually has around 80 FPS while playing. However, in his base, he only gets about 10-20 FPS.
The title image is from FallenQsnow on reddit.
Dozens of hours for grind and building
What took so long? For the base, FallenQsnow needed immense amounts of wood, stone, and metals, as well as rarer materials like dragon tears, Surtling cores, and chains. He also had to defeat all the bosses – alone.
If you’re having trouble, you’ll find tips in our guide on how to summon and defeat all bosses in Valheim.
He gathered all the raw materials alone, without the help of friends or admin commands. Every stone and piece of wood were manually gathered, as he says. Just for the wood stacks at the entrance of the base, he needed 300 units of wood – and those are only for decoration.
Through the work and gathering of raw materials, he was able to bring some of his skills to level 100, like mining. It was also essential to increase combat skills like archery so he could actually kill the bosses.
The bosses are important to obtain new materials, such as more ores or access to the workbench. He had to carefully make sure not to die, otherwise, he would lose 5% of his skills. He died only three times – twice while building.
Can I do that too? FallenQsnow apparently has a lot of experience with the building system in survival games. On his YouTube channel, there are dozens of videos from Minecraft showcasing his skills. Some of them are more than two years old.
He can therefore draw on a lot of expertise in building in such games. Don’t expect that you can achieve this as a newbie after 200 hours too – but with some practice, you can create your very own creations. Our guides will help you:
Valheim and Minecraft are not the only games that enable such massive projects. Base building and housing are important themes in many games, especially in survival games. Here on MeinMMO, we have presented 7 MMOs with base building where you can really get lost.
