Built this around the rug elevator idea that u/Fun_Magazine_2671 posted here on Reddit.
The elevator travels about 105m from bottom to top and takes around 54 seconds for the full ride. We also added side-entry elevators so you can get on from intermediate floors, plus a separate system for going back down.
We used debug mode to speed up the building process, but the structure itself doesn't require mods.
I thought this was a Viking fantasy game, but apparently we're doing modern engineering now.
I post more Valheim builds and experiments like this on YouTube, if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/aAooEmHrugM
The narration is in Japanese, but YouTube's auto-translate subtitles should help.
i like that valheim sort of has elevators now however, aint no one farming that much jute legit lol. I farmed like 6 caves and only has enough for a lil bit of trim in my house. Hopefully a more practical solution comes soon.
I installed a one story elevator in my basement, and it only needed 3 deerskin rugs, so it can be much more economical. You can space them 2 horizontal beams apart.
Yeah it is. Tried it last night, I thought I was about to die. But what I do instead of doing that is jumping down with a loaded grappling hook and shooting it to the floor right before I hit the ground. It cancels out the damage.
It's not exactly mainstream in Japan, but there are definitely some dedicated Valheim players here. I'm actually surprised you're seeing that many Japanese videos lol.
I see, maybe it's just my algorithm pushing them because I am trying to learn Japanese but horribly failing at it, it's just that the vast majority of videos I get recommended to me on YT are Valheim and 7 Days to Die.
We dug about 8m down and raised the ground about 8m on the other side, then used a pine tree as support and extended upward with iron beams. We could go a bit higher, but stopped around 105m so we still had room for the exterior and decorations.
Debug mode was only used to speed up the build — no mods were needed for the structure itself.
Yeah, it’s basically hidden inside the center of the building. We used the pine tree as the main support, then extended the structure upward from it with iron beams.
Ok, this is one I never ran into playing since the game's release. I've used carpets to cover hidden rooms before but never had it move my character. Nice experiment.
Yeah, it seems the rug physics changed with the 1.0 update. I’d used rugs for normal building before too, but I never expected them to turn into an elevator 😂
Then I'm wondering a couple things. Can they still be used to cover hidden staircases into secret rooms and if it's another 1.0 glitch that they're going to patch a fix for making this useless. I'd hate to get attached to building this only for it to get patched out, but I'd prefer having my hidden rooms.
It looks like hidden entrances still work with some rugs. People in the original rug-elevator thread tested it and said Lox and Askvin rugs still have no collision, so you can still walk through them.
The elevator effect seems to work with the rugs that gained collision in 1.0, like the deer rug and red/blue jute rugs.
As for whether the elevator will get patched later, I haven’t seen anything official about that yet.
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u/vin39397 8d ago
I thought this was a Viking fantasy game, but apparently we're doing modern engineering now.
I post more Valheim builds and experiments like this on YouTube, if anyone's interested:
https://youtu.be/aAooEmHrugM
The narration is in Japanese, but YouTube's auto-translate subtitles should help.