We start with the basics this time around and we go for the beginner house for the first entry and a very nice start towards getting creative in Valheim.

If you want to make the best rectangular house possible, then this modern Viking house is a perfect build template to expand on this common type of house.

This house is all about the fundamentals. An easy rectangle-shaped base to start your structure, some core wood for a much sturdier support beam compared to regular wood beams and poles, and a lot of allowances below to make a sustainable meat farm via tamed Boars. For your actual quarters, an outside staircase will lead you to the proper floor, where everything is housed, from crafting benches, a fireplace in the center for cooking food, and general space to put whatever you desire. While the outside is grand and good looking, the inside doesn’t exactly show it, and for some, it could be a good or bad thing, but that’s really up to your taste as the extra headroom can allow you to build a flat-style second floor that can be to whatever you want it to be. Again, since the headroom is flexible enough to expand upwards, you can go function over form on the inside, while still being a gorgeous-looking form on the outside. Some nice additions like fencing and a paved road also give this house a grand vibe which makes it a good example of what a rectangular house can be.

A house with a lot more grandeur, this advanced house design is still simple but with some smart layering and use of the dark wood, gives a sense of an amazing Viking complex a solo player can achieve.

When you look at the design, you may believe it’s tough to pull off something like that, but in reality, it’s just a lot of building resources banded together to form something more substantial in terms of visual depth. Granted there are some difficulties with the materials to get exactly this house recreated like stone, wood, and dark wood (more on that later), but for the most part, this is what a mid/end game house should be like in that it’s roomy, has more than 1 floor for putting whatever you desire in, and a good enough perimeter to be able to accent it by building extra bits like a garden.

The difficulty of a build like this is just the resources. Stone and wood are pretty easy to obtain, but if you want dark wood specifically, that would require you to take on the Growth, which is a black blob that spews liquid that damages and slows you down, putting you in a bad spot and likely killing you. You’ll have to take them on from afar as much as possible and repeat them for several times to be able to get the yields necessary to complete some of the things shown in the video. Overall, this is a build for those wanting more than a basic rectangular house while also being relatively easy to make.

Taking our focus to large houses, this one serves as a good platform for those looking to build a seaside house that doubles as your dock for your exploration-ready Longship.

If you plan on making a house on the edge of an island, this is one of the best ideas to copy or build upon as the size of the house allows for a grand look when you leave and return from a long exploration trip to wherever you set sail to. Ship docking aside, the house itself is a huge complex allowing for a large first floor, perfect for adding extras like a workshop, dining area, and general space to run around in when you’re transporting things to and from the ship. Speaking of around, the deck brings in some additional walking areas for you to check your picturesque view of the waters, perfect for activities like fishing and general storage expansion via outdoor chests. Your sleeping quarters will be on the top, which is a little more modest in size, but will be plenty for you to rest and if you want to check the sunset before you go to bed, the terrace will give you a better view of it.

If you want to have a house that has a huge amount of ambition, then what better way to do that than to make a treehouse.

It’s too easy to make a home on the ground, but above ground? That’s going to net you some serious style points for a house. While trees can be chopped and destroyed in the game, there are a ton of huge trees that can’t be chopped, and while that used to be the thing with the barren Mistlands biome, Valheim’s choice to rework the biome has erased the tall trees that can make it possible, therefore your only choice to have the treehouse be sturdy enough to build on is the Swamp biome as the trees there can’t be cut with axes or damaged by enemies.

On to the build now, it uses a circular design similar to the hut build but with the size being a bit more extended and a portion of the wall being open to a bridge to another circular house which, for a solo player can be used as another house or a separate area that can house another function such as storage. In between these circular house are bridges that have roofs on them to prevent damage from the constant rain and serves as the way to go from one area to another without needing to go down via the stairs on the main entranceway. The circular design varies in that some are more raised than others, while others have more intricate roof designs, and so this build is a sum of multiple designs making an amazing compound of elevated houses/areas that is so unique relative to any ground-based house.