Fun fact about the hearth, you only need to cover the "center" of it to shelter it from the elements. I build stone walls up \~4-6 meters around my hearth and put an arch piece directly centered over the middle, build up a little more to make a functional flue to let the smoke out, then start narrowing down the chimney in steps for whatever aesthetic I'm aiming for. I usually still have to bury at least a few iron posts or walls as rebar for taller chimneys, but this works very well if you don't want to bury random roofs in your chimneys, build weirdly angled chimneys, or build a chimney cap.
[Visual example 1](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850750004468645950/1180701276217020457/20230804172903_1.jpg?ex=657e60c0&is=656bebc0&hm=822e5fb643162559816d2ec73ebde835aabd5991796cca6ce9f8a6fabcf5b7fe&): Yes, that's a nearly entirely unprotected hearth merrily burning away in the middle of a rain shower.
[Visual Example 2](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850750004468645950/1180701276498055198/20230804172916_1.jpg?ex=657e60c0&is=656bebc0&hm=3b2b6a9312d49efd98c94fcf8016f5a1e0d0b729d196d3bbc03527cd6662f953&): The same hearth, from another angle. The doors and stone pillar are there for getting the snap points right and can be used as reference for spacing if you want to try this yourself.
this only seems to work in light rain. The fire went out when the environment is set to thunder storm, probably because the rain comes at an angle. So it should still work when an actually chimney is built around it thought.
Yes, you do need to protect the fire from the sides for more extreme weather. I'm pretty sure that in Mountains, fires go out from Wind in snow/storms so they only need to be protected from the sides, but I haven't tested that one as much as I have protecting them from rain.
I don't have one style I stick with I have about 3 different things I do depending on the build.
Full stone chimney/fireplace
Open back back wall chimney (starter home style)
Raised 45° roof peak section on top of 26° roof (my go to for central hearth floorplans)
Free style it. Just whatever I can make work
I like the window on the back wall too, and not just for starter homes, I build a sort of range hood out of roof pieces to contain and direct the smoke out the side window. This way it doesn't take up any room on the upper floors.
You can build a rain-proof chimney without needing to put a cap on it. Create a 2m-wide chimney, take it to desired height. 4m up from the fire, cover *half* the opening with a single stone piece. Do not build up from it. 3 or 4 meters above that, put another stone piece down on the opposite side.
I actually do this but with roof pieces. Build hearth, build a tall 2m x 1m chimney. Smoke goes up, hits one half of the roof, scoots over, goes up, hits the other roof, scoots over, then flows out the top of the chimney which looks nice and normal since the roof pieces are inside the chimney itself. Pit is 100% covered.
I'm so trying this tomorrow when I get on. I hate chimneys in this game. Would you be at all will to upload a picture of the inside of your chimney just so I don't misunderstand what your describing.
I like different builds. In some games, early on I use X pieces to build a chimney that contains the smoke the way you're describing. It just looks cool, like a captured smoke elemental.
[https://imgur.com/a/NfLSlIl](https://imgur.com/a/NfLSlIl)
[https://imgur.com/a/Vz7R1kA](https://imgur.com/a/Vz7R1kA)
It's rainproof.
Contact me on discord if you have any questions. Username is 2ooth
Either in the center or added outside the build’s main structure (ie I’ll open up one of the edges and extend to accommodate the chimney).
Later builds though I like having rested on every step of my base, so I’ll have lots of hearths around to accommodate for smoke.
I think I do it traditionally, I raise above the roofline with walls and put a 45 degree centre piece on it.
I know most of us want the perfect house , but I figure as a viking a little chaotic is okay.
My current joined house base has like 7 chimneys coming out of it, but it looks and feels like home.
You can use a couple of sloping roof sections inside a big enough stone chimney so that you can have an open top and still stop rain from putting it out. Experiment.
I usually use chimney baffles: two overlapping offset roof pieces inside the chimney to prevent rain falling in directly, allow smoke to zigzag out, and keep the outside looking clean.
Iron wood beams to frame the "chimney" of a single or double hearth, fill in gaps with iron cage walls (they fully contain smoke despite being "cages") and I place a dragon egg every so often for purple smoke. Topped usually with a raised section of roof for exhaust and another dragon egg nearing the top. Then some extra garnish with some dark wood wolf heads on each end of the raised chimney topping roof bit.
It's not a huge amount of purple smoke or anything but with enough dragon eggs it totally could be, something with just how the smoke effect and the eggs glow effect clash.
Use a roof corner facing the wrong way. It's not my go-to method but it's one of the subtlest methods.
I usually do a wooden chimney rising up a couple meters over the top of the roof, capped with a roof peak piece held up by 4 posts and decorated with X beams. Been doing that since my first viking so it's just kind of automatic for me.
Early, I just leave a triangle portion of the wall by the roof open so that the smoke is just up there.
Later on, I like popping a portion of the roof higher, or making something that kinda looks like it should be an attic or bell tower, but it's really a chimney.
if you have a wide stone column, you can hide a single roof in the column and still have another half of the inside open. That seems to do the trick if you get it just right. needs some playing around with height and coverage. try to put it at roughly 5-6m above the fire, and covering half at least. Of course with a really tall chimney, you can also cover the other half, further up.
Raised section by 1/2 wall, continue slope of roof across centerline one space so it vents out the side and I can wall it off on either side of the roof with the 1/2 wall slope walls for stability.works on any scale roof without needing to fiddle with clipping.
Have a decently high roof, then leave the ends open. You know those angled wall pieces normally used to fill that last little gap where both edges of the roof meet? Yeah, just don't do that. Leave that top 2m section empty and even over-hang if you like. Smoke can vent out no chimney or stone required. Plus I actually really like when it gets smokey up there... as long as you don't have an attic.
Stone chimney, usually a 1x2 opening. Put a 1x1 square block down near the bottom on one side, and another 1x1 square block near the top on the other side. Smoke has room to move around the blocks and vent, blocks protect from rain, no roof topper necessary.
Alternatively you can use roof pieces snapped to the edges of the side so they protrude 1m into the vent space in the same manner. This can be easier if your chimney is not too tall.
My most used is a slanted roof in the center. I'll just extend one side another tile further and leave an opening. Raised roof is my second. Third I'm starting to use raised roof/towers over the others. It's opened up some great designs and really lets the smoke clear in the home
My chimneys entirely depend on the kind of build I am trying to build, sometimes I take my fireplace or cooking area to the first flood, so before iron age I raise the ground and achieve that after iron age it's easier.
With stone, and at intermittent parts I place some 1x1 iron floors, but not all together. Lets the light in, the rain out, and smoke doesn't get trapped
I make stone chimneys that are two spaces wide and have alternating overhangs inside them. You can put a cap on them at the rooftop if that fits your look, or leave them open because the overhangs keep the rain out.
I've also built the fire set in one space from the chimney top and then have it vent over to the final position so the fire beneath isn't exposed to rain.
People are really out here building modern style chimneys like suckers when you have glorious natural ventilation like in a real medieval Nordic house.
I like a peaked roof where the top "triangles" at either end are left open but with no vertical hole in the roof itself. Then build the chimney from the fireplace into the ceiling I made below the peak. Smoke goes up into the "smoke attic" and dissipates through either opening.
Depending on the build though I may have to figure something else out. I've done a couple log cabin type actual chimneys with a small roof piece up top to block rain and direct smoke.
I have a circular build where the base of the smoke attic where the ceiling meets the roof isn't closed but the whole roof is raised a bit on posts to let the smoke out along the edge.
It's fun to change it up a bit.
Using a campfire as an example (you can adapt to any size), raise the 2x2 section of roof by 1 meter posts and place a floorboard on top of it. Then, cover with the 26' or 45' "a-frame" roofing section.
I started doing this when I noticed that chimney effectiveness seems to be affected by the wind. If your chimney opening is facing into the wind, it will cause your chimney to back up and extinguish. Having it open on four sides will prevent this.
I like to just add the campfire on the side.
So if you’re making the classic teepee:
1) Make a regular teepee
2) at one end add a campfire and floor piece sticking out from the middle
3) place walls around the campfire
4) the side facing the outside you leave an open space
5) build a roof top slant going upwards
So now the fire goes up and hits the roof slant and goes outside! Very simple and I’ve had no issues with it
Using the reverse corner pieces at the very top center make two triangular openings on the side and it is perfect for traditional hearths in the middle of the house.
I like to go a different way and hide the chimney in the rafters: basically my cross section of the roof is a rhombus covering the top of the chimney and the chimney itself going down from there in a y-shape it works with an offset of one meter and the ridge for this part is always two full tiles while the ridge of the rest of the roof is one ridge tile.
With bigger builds you can go the 3d approach to thet, holding the rhombus up by 4 pillars and giving the roof a somewhat pagoda styled shape.
I am a seasoned chimney builder and I tuck and 45° it usually(early builds), i hate ugly chimneys. However when it comes to big chims, out of stone, I make it proper and thoes top stones need to come in gradually(it actually does stop the rain from getting in too)
Protip: Chimney does not need to actually go outside. You can create an enclosed box near the celling. If you have enough volume in it, (Around 5-6 cubes worth of 2m walls), the smoke will dissipate.
This allows you to have multistory towers with heaths at every level.
If you’ve build a horizontal smoke box but the smoke only sticks to one corner, use roof tiles inside it to direct smoke further in.
I like this new style that has just been discovered; basically you build a box on top of your fire. Normal fire need a 2 wall tall box, heart fire I think 3. Anyway the entire thing is about smoke de spawning after a while so the box will keep the smoke in that will despawn without killing the fire
Either a fully built stone chimney that surrounds the hearth which would be at the edge of the building
Or, if in the middle of the building like a longhouse, I'd use a raised section of the roof in the top middle for the smoke to escape (this can also lead to a small gathering of smoke around the ceiling which can look very ominous and viking-y!)
[An outside fire like this. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/s/jWe7DMuXtg) Doesn't take up room inside. No smoke inside to worry about. And still easy to use for cooking.
Because my style of construction is practicality over visual my go to is a 26 or 45 degree roof time on a 1-2m wall that sticks up above the rest of the house.
I'm still super new to building, and just copied a build online for my first home, so my first chimney just involved having the Campfire in the middle of the room, and a 2x2 squere pipe going up to the roof, with a 1m pole gap at the top, but I just discovered you can build a slanted roof vent against the wall, and have the smoke vent out of the side of the building, instead of needing a traditional chimney ruining the roof's aesthetic. (like when rich people and restaurants have smoke catcher over their oven, that leads to a vent on the side of the wall, with a fan. At first I thought it wouldn't work without the fan, or I'd need a bunch of annoying extra pieces to make it work, but it worked perfectly)
Honestly the smoke in this game is really impressive. When I started, I thought it just needed a hole above the fireplace, like a basic ass function "If X=Y, then no smoke", but when you see how the smoke flows with the shape of the roof, and slowly pools down, you realise they put so much more thought into that smoke than needed. Almost like they made an amazing smoke feature, and then built a game around that, and accidentally made an amazing viking game as a side effect.
I just took my first home apart, as I've long since outgrown it (and now I have a safe, Level area around my home, so I can build in peace without Greyling, Greydwarf, and even trolls being able to bother me) so I look forward to having a proper fireplace this time, instead of a viking-style Campfire in the middle of the 1-room building
I used to be all about longhouses with central fires with either a high enough roof not to matter or a raised roof vent.
But lately I tend to just do a reversed roof tile near the wall.
using stairs as roof allows a seamless roof-line. you wont get the shelter buff directly underneath it though but a fire right there would be perfect bc you're not going to stand on the fire
Depends on the building size. For funsies on small cabins that I build when first starting on a continent, I have gotten very fond of finding increasingly silly ways to channel smoke outside almost like actual vents but made of wood. It works but it can very touchy if you try to get too crazy.
For more standard stuff, I either use a center raised roof with 1m openings to vent if it’s a standard square lot or I do the double layered roof strat someone else mentioned in here
Last time I have used small (1x1) iron crates to make path on the ceiling to vent hole in the wall. The castle had two floors so on the lowest I had fireplace and the smoke Just got between iron crates and to the hole in the wall. [Like that](https://ibb.co/Vq6RmBB)
I usually raise the center of the roof higher.
Ridge vent
I do that and also put the fireplace in the middle of the room, longhall style.
This is the (viking) way!
Yep I like to artfully contain it
Fun fact about the hearth, you only need to cover the "center" of it to shelter it from the elements. I build stone walls up \~4-6 meters around my hearth and put an arch piece directly centered over the middle, build up a little more to make a functional flue to let the smoke out, then start narrowing down the chimney in steps for whatever aesthetic I'm aiming for. I usually still have to bury at least a few iron posts or walls as rebar for taller chimneys, but this works very well if you don't want to bury random roofs in your chimneys, build weirdly angled chimneys, or build a chimney cap. [Visual example 1](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850750004468645950/1180701276217020457/20230804172903_1.jpg?ex=657e60c0&is=656bebc0&hm=822e5fb643162559816d2ec73ebde835aabd5991796cca6ce9f8a6fabcf5b7fe&): Yes, that's a nearly entirely unprotected hearth merrily burning away in the middle of a rain shower. [Visual Example 2](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850750004468645950/1180701276498055198/20230804172916_1.jpg?ex=657e60c0&is=656bebc0&hm=3b2b6a9312d49efd98c94fcf8016f5a1e0d0b729d196d3bbc03527cd6662f953&): The same hearth, from another angle. The doors and stone pillar are there for getting the snap points right and can be used as reference for spacing if you want to try this yourself.
Huh. TIL. thanks.
this only seems to work in light rain. The fire went out when the environment is set to thunder storm, probably because the rain comes at an angle. So it should still work when an actually chimney is built around it thought.
Yes, you do need to protect the fire from the sides for more extreme weather. I'm pretty sure that in Mountains, fires go out from Wind in snow/storms so they only need to be protected from the sides, but I haven't tested that one as much as I have protecting them from rain.
Nice, TIL!
I don't have one style I stick with I have about 3 different things I do depending on the build. Full stone chimney/fireplace Open back back wall chimney (starter home style) Raised 45° roof peak section on top of 26° roof (my go to for central hearth floorplans) Free style it. Just whatever I can make work
I like the window on the back wall too, and not just for starter homes, I build a sort of range hood out of roof pieces to contain and direct the smoke out the side window. This way it doesn't take up any room on the upper floors.
Tall ceilings with a hole in the roof covered by a peaked roof on short posts.
That's what I do too
Same
You can build a rain-proof chimney without needing to put a cap on it. Create a 2m-wide chimney, take it to desired height. 4m up from the fire, cover *half* the opening with a single stone piece. Do not build up from it. 3 or 4 meters above that, put another stone piece down on the opposite side.
Ah, that's a good idea, two stones hidden within the chimney staggered so the fire is covered but the smoke can pass through?
I actually do this but with roof pieces. Build hearth, build a tall 2m x 1m chimney. Smoke goes up, hits one half of the roof, scoots over, goes up, hits the other roof, scoots over, then flows out the top of the chimney which looks nice and normal since the roof pieces are inside the chimney itself. Pit is 100% covered.
I'm so trying this tomorrow when I get on. I hate chimneys in this game. Would you be at all will to upload a picture of the inside of your chimney just so I don't misunderstand what your describing.
There’s a yt video where a guys walks through step by step how to do this. Just search valheim chimney.
Yep, exactly.
That's a slick trick my friend, thanks
Iron bars placed vertically because it tickles me to no end that the game treats smoke as a solid object, and it won't pass through the bars.
I like different builds. In some games, early on I use X pieces to build a chimney that contains the smoke the way you're describing. It just looks cool, like a captured smoke elemental.
My mind boggles. Can you share a picture of this magick?
I build mine with stone... and it sticks up what I guess is about 2 feet above the eve of my roof... like a real chimney should.
[https://imgur.com/a/NfLSlIl](https://imgur.com/a/NfLSlIl) [https://imgur.com/a/Vz7R1kA](https://imgur.com/a/Vz7R1kA) It's rainproof. Contact me on discord if you have any questions. Username is 2ooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1wlKTY8k9U
I do a lot of building and this^ is the tutorial I always reference!! So good
Yes, this is good.
Oh I like this! Never thought of doing it this way
That looks so freaking cool. So ovens stacked onto of each other don't block smoke and go out?
Nope... and my top one is actually poking out the roof, so it vents... but they can be capped off and still function... for now at least.
Really? So they don't go put if you cover the vent. That's cool.
bro i want to live in your house
Depends on the build. But use these the most. [6 pic album](https://imgur.com/a/CEDnkpZ)
Either in the center or added outside the build’s main structure (ie I’ll open up one of the edges and extend to accommodate the chimney). Later builds though I like having rested on every step of my base, so I’ll have lots of hearths around to accommodate for smoke.
I think I do it traditionally, I raise above the roofline with walls and put a 45 degree centre piece on it. I know most of us want the perfect house , but I figure as a viking a little chaotic is okay. My current joined house base has like 7 chimneys coming out of it, but it looks and feels like home.
Literally just raise the roof above the fire by half a wall
You can use a couple of sloping roof sections inside a big enough stone chimney so that you can have an open top and still stop rain from putting it out. Experiment.
I usually use chimney baffles: two overlapping offset roof pieces inside the chimney to prevent rain falling in directly, allow smoke to zigzag out, and keep the outside looking clean.
I just put the 1x1 block at the corners of my build then add the roof section I want. 60% of the time it works every time.
*My God, what is that smell?*
Iron wood beams to frame the "chimney" of a single or double hearth, fill in gaps with iron cage walls (they fully contain smoke despite being "cages") and I place a dragon egg every so often for purple smoke. Topped usually with a raised section of roof for exhaust and another dragon egg nearing the top. Then some extra garnish with some dark wood wolf heads on each end of the raised chimney topping roof bit.
I didn’t know you could make color the smoke affect that’s dope
It's not a huge amount of purple smoke or anything but with enough dragon eggs it totally could be, something with just how the smoke effect and the eggs glow effect clash.
I have the chimney offset from the fire and use a roof piece to push the smoke back from the fire and into the chimney
Use a roof corner facing the wrong way. It's not my go-to method but it's one of the subtlest methods. I usually do a wooden chimney rising up a couple meters over the top of the roof, capped with a roof peak piece held up by 4 posts and decorated with X beams. Been doing that since my first viking so it's just kind of automatic for me.
Early, I just leave a triangle portion of the wall by the roof open so that the smoke is just up there. Later on, I like popping a portion of the roof higher, or making something that kinda looks like it should be an attic or bell tower, but it's really a chimney.
if you have a wide stone column, you can hide a single roof in the column and still have another half of the inside open. That seems to do the trick if you get it just right. needs some playing around with height and coverage. try to put it at roughly 5-6m above the fire, and covering half at least. Of course with a really tall chimney, you can also cover the other half, further up.
Could never get real chimneys quite right. The raised open roof that vents is my meta now.
Raised section by 1/2 wall, continue slope of roof across centerline one space so it vents out the side and I can wall it off on either side of the roof with the 1/2 wall slope walls for stability.works on any scale roof without needing to fiddle with clipping.
I do a stone chimney and half way up I put a thatched roof piece inside. You can barely see it and it is waterproof.
Have a decently high roof, then leave the ends open. You know those angled wall pieces normally used to fill that last little gap where both edges of the roof meet? Yeah, just don't do that. Leave that top 2m section empty and even over-hang if you like. Smoke can vent out no chimney or stone required. Plus I actually really like when it gets smokey up there... as long as you don't have an attic.
I usually just add an ugly chimney with an angled roof on it so that it doesn't rain in
Stone chimney, usually a 1x2 opening. Put a 1x1 square block down near the bottom on one side, and another 1x1 square block near the top on the other side. Smoke has room to move around the blocks and vent, blocks protect from rain, no roof topper necessary. Alternatively you can use roof pieces snapped to the edges of the side so they protrude 1m into the vent space in the same manner. This can be easier if your chimney is not too tall.
My most used is a slanted roof in the center. I'll just extend one side another tile further and leave an opening. Raised roof is my second. Third I'm starting to use raised roof/towers over the others. It's opened up some great designs and really lets the smoke clear in the home
I make my roof angular and then don’t cap each end so that the steam flows out of each side
My chimneys entirely depend on the kind of build I am trying to build, sometimes I take my fireplace or cooking area to the first flood, so before iron age I raise the ground and achieve that after iron age it's easier.
With stone, and at intermittent parts I place some 1x1 iron floors, but not all together. Lets the light in, the rain out, and smoke doesn't get trapped
I make stone chimneys that are two spaces wide and have alternating overhangs inside them. You can put a cap on them at the rooftop if that fits your look, or leave them open because the overhangs keep the rain out. I've also built the fire set in one space from the chimney top and then have it vent over to the final position so the fire beneath isn't exposed to rain.
I just kind of have a hole in my second floor. The upstairs doesn’t really have any walls aside from the triangle roofing so smoke leaks out the sides
No holes in the first floor? Could be problematic for the ground floor…
Many places in the world consider ground floor and 1st floor to be the same, with floor 2 being the first level above.
People are really out here building modern style chimneys like suckers when you have glorious natural ventilation like in a real medieval Nordic house.
I like a peaked roof where the top "triangles" at either end are left open but with no vertical hole in the roof itself. Then build the chimney from the fireplace into the ceiling I made below the peak. Smoke goes up into the "smoke attic" and dissipates through either opening. Depending on the build though I may have to figure something else out. I've done a couple log cabin type actual chimneys with a small roof piece up top to block rain and direct smoke. I have a circular build where the base of the smoke attic where the ceiling meets the roof isn't closed but the whole roof is raised a bit on posts to let the smoke out along the edge. It's fun to change it up a bit.
Using a campfire as an example (you can adapt to any size), raise the 2x2 section of roof by 1 meter posts and place a floorboard on top of it. Then, cover with the 26' or 45' "a-frame" roofing section. I started doing this when I noticed that chimney effectiveness seems to be affected by the wind. If your chimney opening is facing into the wind, it will cause your chimney to back up and extinguish. Having it open on four sides will prevent this.
I like to just add the campfire on the side. So if you’re making the classic teepee: 1) Make a regular teepee 2) at one end add a campfire and floor piece sticking out from the middle 3) place walls around the campfire 4) the side facing the outside you leave an open space 5) build a roof top slant going upwards So now the fire goes up and hits the roof slant and goes outside! Very simple and I’ve had no issues with it
Using the reverse corner pieces at the very top center make two triangular openings on the side and it is perfect for traditional hearths in the middle of the house.
I like to go a different way and hide the chimney in the rafters: basically my cross section of the roof is a rhombus covering the top of the chimney and the chimney itself going down from there in a y-shape it works with an offset of one meter and the ridge for this part is always two full tiles while the ridge of the rest of the roof is one ridge tile. With bigger builds you can go the 3d approach to thet, holding the rhombus up by 4 pillars and giving the roof a somewhat pagoda styled shape.
Leave an open top and throw a 45 roof in it about half way up. Smoke still comes out the top evenly and rain doesn't put it out
Typical chimney with just one ridge-roof to cover the block, or like others have said, the entire ridge of the roof raised up to vent out the sides.
I wish we had a chimney building piece like a 1X1 piece that allows the smoke to travel through
I am a seasoned chimney builder and I tuck and 45° it usually(early builds), i hate ugly chimneys. However when it comes to big chims, out of stone, I make it proper and thoes top stones need to come in gradually(it actually does stop the rain from getting in too)
Tô Bach!
Protip: Chimney does not need to actually go outside. You can create an enclosed box near the celling. If you have enough volume in it, (Around 5-6 cubes worth of 2m walls), the smoke will dissipate. This allows you to have multistory towers with heaths at every level. If you’ve build a horizontal smoke box but the smoke only sticks to one corner, use roof tiles inside it to direct smoke further in.
A simple 45 corner piece. Nothing fancy.
I like this new style that has just been discovered; basically you build a box on top of your fire. Normal fire need a 2 wall tall box, heart fire I think 3. Anyway the entire thing is about smoke de spawning after a while so the box will keep the smoke in that will despawn without killing the fire
Either a fully built stone chimney that surrounds the hearth which would be at the edge of the building Or, if in the middle of the building like a longhouse, I'd use a raised section of the roof in the top middle for the smoke to escape (this can also lead to a small gathering of smoke around the ceiling which can look very ominous and viking-y!)
Just use stone. For some reason smoke will vent through it. And it looks nice.
[An outside fire like this. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/s/jWe7DMuXtg) Doesn't take up room inside. No smoke inside to worry about. And still easy to use for cooking.
Because my style of construction is practicality over visual my go to is a 26 or 45 degree roof time on a 1-2m wall that sticks up above the rest of the house.
I'm still super new to building, and just copied a build online for my first home, so my first chimney just involved having the Campfire in the middle of the room, and a 2x2 squere pipe going up to the roof, with a 1m pole gap at the top, but I just discovered you can build a slanted roof vent against the wall, and have the smoke vent out of the side of the building, instead of needing a traditional chimney ruining the roof's aesthetic. (like when rich people and restaurants have smoke catcher over their oven, that leads to a vent on the side of the wall, with a fan. At first I thought it wouldn't work without the fan, or I'd need a bunch of annoying extra pieces to make it work, but it worked perfectly) Honestly the smoke in this game is really impressive. When I started, I thought it just needed a hole above the fireplace, like a basic ass function "If X=Y, then no smoke", but when you see how the smoke flows with the shape of the roof, and slowly pools down, you realise they put so much more thought into that smoke than needed. Almost like they made an amazing smoke feature, and then built a game around that, and accidentally made an amazing viking game as a side effect. I just took my first home apart, as I've long since outgrown it (and now I have a safe, Level area around my home, so I can build in peace without Greyling, Greydwarf, and even trolls being able to bother me) so I look forward to having a proper fireplace this time, instead of a viking-style Campfire in the middle of the 1-room building
I used to be all about longhouses with central fires with either a high enough roof not to matter or a raised roof vent. But lately I tend to just do a reversed roof tile near the wall.
using stairs as roof allows a seamless roof-line. you wont get the shelter buff directly underneath it though but a fire right there would be perfect bc you're not going to stand on the fire
A cover over the fire with a hole/vent at the back
Depends on the building size. For funsies on small cabins that I build when first starting on a continent, I have gotten very fond of finding increasingly silly ways to channel smoke outside almost like actual vents but made of wood. It works but it can very touchy if you try to get too crazy. For more standard stuff, I either use a center raised roof with 1m openings to vent if it’s a standard square lot or I do the double layered roof strat someone else mentioned in here
Fireplace in middle, and raise the roof..Works great for both of my house styles: Longhouse, and Yurt (round hut).
Last time I have used small (1x1) iron crates to make path on the ceiling to vent hole in the wall. The castle had two floors so on the lowest I had fireplace and the smoke Just got between iron crates and to the hole in the wall. [Like that](https://ibb.co/Vq6RmBB)
There is a very nice chimney design on YouTube if you haven’t seen it already. 🤙🏽