Understanding The Basics Of Roofing – Valheim
Gain a basic understanding of the roofing system in Valheim! We will go through the common uses for the different pieces, when and where to use what slopes, how angled support beams operate, the basics of building circular and octagonal and touch on a few popular real world roofing styles!
0:00 Intro
0:20 Building Pieces
0:48 Differences In Slope
1:39 Overview of Basic Pieces
1:59 Inside Corner Uses
2:14 Ridge Uses
3:00 Circular Building
4:09 Octagonal Building
5:22 Angled Wood Beams
8:23 Hip Roof
8:55 Gable Roof
9:14 Gambrel Roof
9:32 Dutch Gable Roof (Option 1)
9:51 Dutch Gable Roof (Option 2)
10:04 Clerestory Roof (Option 1)
10:31 Clerestory Roof (Option 2)
10:57 Closing Remarks
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You can hide a ladder in the 45 allowing you to walk up. You’ll see the steps poking out a little bit.
The stairs will also be hidden under the 26 roof slats!
When I needed to get up onto the roof to do some work on it during construction, I just bolted some wood floor sections on it to stand on, and tore them down when I was done, lol.
I am gonna have to use that! Awesome info, thanks!
I am shocked how much I enjoyed learning about real life roof names
Lol, I know! I’m already thinking about more intermediate and advanced real life roofs to try and copy in Valheim!
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My smooth brain now understands what the inner corner pieces are for.
Glad it helped!
haha I was having the same issue
Hopefully we see some additional options in the Hearth and Home update!
I’d love plain wood roof for making slopes without the thatch poking through everything, and speaking of which, it’s so annoying how the thatch clips through the ceiling and other things, i hope they adjust that
Agreed, I am excited for it! Serpent scales + resin to make shingles that have blue stability! 😛
Seriously how the heck have you only got 500 subs? This was so clear, professional and informative.
Subbed and shared with my friends 🙂
Now almost 4x that at 2K subs.
@Moshthun Thank you!
He’s almost doubled. Give it a bit of time, this dude is gonna blow up.
Thank you!
This is one of the best Valheim how-to that I have seen. I’ve watched a lot! Thanks so much!
Thank you, that means a lot!
Excellent video man. I love this game but the roofing was frustrating me. Cheers for putting time and effort into recording, editing, all that. Thank you!
Thank you! I’m glad it helped!
Oh my god, what an AMAZING VIDEO! Thank you so much for all of this, I’m new to this game and really LOVE building but sometimes I get stuck on a concept and can’t see how certain pieces ‘could’ have lined up – UNTIL NOW! …INSTA-SUBBED!
Thank you! I’m glad it helped!
9 year truss designer here… I approve this video.
Awesome, thanks!
BLESS YOU so much for making this video!!!!! roofs have been driving me bonkers, esp the inside/outside corners ?
I’m glad it helped!
Thanks so much, this information saves me so much time and going solo I spend crazy amount of time just gathering things it is hard to get to my buildings 😛
For sure! I am glad it helped!
You can also use stone flooring as a roof if you support it with iron beams.
That’s cool! I’ll have to cover some more advanced roofing at some point and include that!
So Another roofing pattern i tend to use is to use Two Inveted corner pieces, Placed so that their outer sides are touching a straight away piece, or a standard corner piece together to make a roofed opening to which smoke is capable of getting out.
Oooo Clerestory roof (option 2) could be a really nice chimney concept if I use the cross beam! Thanks for all the ideas!!
For sure!
Putting a roof on my giant circular portal hub is taking days and I’m noticing the clipping and snapping is getting tough the higher I go, might just scrap it. I flew too close to the sun… Either way, thanks for the tips!
@kathrynck Placing a clerestory on a circular building sounds like it’d look cool!
You could do a full 16-angle circle at the base, and then at some point nearer the center, transition it into a octogonal by skipping every other roof & angle.
Worth pointing out, circular roofs in valheim work better I think with a Clerestory Roof step up, which is a perfect time to reduce the number of angles you’re using by half. If you window the clerestory step, it gives you ventilation for your fires/braziers.
Also a “spiraling roof” shape can disguise the clipping issues of a circular build as intentional design elements.
Yeah, I prefer octagonal over circular because of that, although it has its own problems! Hopefully you get something worked out!
Brilliant video, especially when explaining the angled roof beams and their lack of support! Thanks very much
Thank you, I’m glad it helped!
A+ for having actual tips, and architectural nods in a concise video. Actually learned some stuff here that was great.
Thank you! I’m glad it helped!
This was significantly helpful, my brain stops working when I get to the roofs.
Awesome, I’m glad it helped!
Such high quality content, i cant imagine something like that.
Thank you!
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