A Viking’s Voyage
to a Humble Hut (Valheim)

If you’ve known me for any length of time, you’ll know that I’m currently obsessed with Valheim. [cite: 142] If you don’t know me, then you should probably know that I am, in fact, currently obsessed with Valheim. [cite: 143] In either case, chances are, you may not know what Valheim is which is a really important bit of information to have since I’m writing an essay on how to build an adorable little hut in said game. [cite: 144]

Valheim (Valheim) is a survival and sandbox-style video game developed by Iron Gate Studio, released in early access in February 2021. [cite: 145] Players take on the role of fallen Vikings who are dropped into a vast forest with nothing but their underwear. [cite: 145] The objective is to navigate a massive, procedurally generated world filled with diverse biomes, either solo or with up to ten friends. [cite: 146] Throughout the game, players can craft tools, build shelters, level up their skills, and defeat powerful bosses to prove their worth for Valhalla. [cite: 147]

Now with that information in mind, I walk you through a starter hut build I found on YouTube (FireSpark81) which uses only two most plentiful materials, ones that can also be gathered with bare hands if you must. [cite: 148] What resources? Two-hundred and thirty-three wood (wood) and five stone (stone). [cite: 149] Yes, all that wood, and only five stone, this becomes apparent later. [cite: 150] You don’t need it to start, but you’ll want it sooner than later. [cite: 151]

Preparation and Material Gathering

If you’re in the Meadows – the starter biome – there will be Beech trees all over. [cite: 152] The regular to large trees will give about twenty wood apiece, so assuming you’ve made yourself an axe, get to chopping until you’ve felled about a dozen, however many it takes. [cite: 153] Your work will probably attract Graylings, who will drop wood and stone (among other things) when killed, reducing the need for trees. [cite: 154] Whether you’ve gathered the materials or brought them all to the site (the wood alone is about 5 inventory slots and 400+ ponds, so multiple trips!) you need to prepare your site. [cite: 155]

Find a flat-ish piece of ground, and using the hoe tool level a circle about ten-meter diameter around you. [cite: 156] Ot doesn’t need to be too flat, just want to avoid any unsightly clumps of dirt poking up through your soon-to-be snazzy floor. [cite: 157] In Valheim, the workbench comes before construction, so drop that in roughly the middle of your circle. [cite: 158]

Construction Steps

The floors come first, so we’re going to start off by selecting the wood wall half from the build menu. [cite: 159] Go to the edge of the circle, and place it on the ground parallel to the circle edge. [cite: 160] Now pick a direction, and move another half wall to be set next to it using the ‘snapping points’. [cite: 161] Rotate it one ‘click’ inward, and place it. And again – move, set, rotate, place, repeat. [cite: 162] After you’ve done this with sixteen pieces, you should have a circle-ish wall 1 meter high. [cite: 163]

We’re going to put the floor on top of the half wall, so it’ll be above any bumps in the terrain. [cite: 164] Repeat the exact same process with the wood floor two-by-two tile, snapping the outer edge of the tile to the inner of the half wall, when done you’ll have the outer edge of a floor. [cite: 165] Whichever direction will be your ‘front’, snap another floor tile to that tile, bringing the floor in, and then another two more so you then have three tiles going across your floor. [cite: 166] Then place two on either side of what is now the middle tile, and then fill in the gaps. [cite: 167] What you should now have is a ring of two-by-two tiles circling the edge, and making a three by three square in the middle. [cite: 168]

The thing we did with the half wall and outer floor tiles? [cite: 169] Yeah, we’re going to do the same thing with the wood wall piece, and then another layer of half wall on top of it. [cite: 170] Set, place, move, set, rotate, place. The exception will be wherever you want your door to be, put a wood gate there instead of a wood wall and wood wall half. [cite: 171]

Next, select the thatch roof 45 degree and – you guessed it – go around the wall. [cite: 172] Set, place, rotate, move… Now the tricky part is you’re going to add another layer of thatch roof to this one, and snapping can be tricky. [cite: 173] I find it easier to rotate first, then move, set, and place. [cite: 174] Once that is done, you’ll have a 45-degree conical roof with a little smoke-hole at the top. [cite: 175] We need to tend to that so water doesn’t get in, though. [cite: 176] Select the thatch roof 26-degree and snap it to the wall-roof line on one of the sides, attach another to it, then do the same on the opposite side of the hut, then put a roof ridge 26-degree between them. [cite: 177] That gives protection from rain while still letting smoke vent! [cite: 178]

Finishing Touches

This is the basic hut complete. [cite: 179] Now you’ll want to knock out that middle tile, maybe raise the terrain a little to be even with the floor, and set your campfire there (that’s where the 5 stone comes in!). [cite: 179] Move your workbench from outside to inside, build a bed, and you have yourself a sturdy, roomy, cozy little hut that can fit most anywhere, and hold most of the things that you need most anywhere. [cite: 180]

You can watch the video (FireSpark81) for ideas on stacking some chests, setting up a portal, a forge table, expansions for both the forge and workbench, etc. Itty bitty living space, Infinite possibilities!!! [cite: 181]

Works Cited

FireSpark81. “The Most Efficient Tiny Hut Valheim Build Guide.” YouTube, 25 Mar. 2021, youtu.be/gjYHmw60O0s?si=IHSyj2NTE5_HYWoq. [cite: 182]
“Stone.” Valheim Wiki, Fandom, Inc., Sept. 2024, valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Stone. [cite: 183]
“Valheim.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Mar. 2025, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valheim. [cite: 145]
“Wood.” Valheim Wiki, Fandom, Inc., Nov. 2024, valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Wood. [cite: 184]

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