18 January 2026

Valheim Player Builds Massive Tower Fire Escape

By newsgame

An inventive Valheim player has brought one of the game’s Sealed Towers “up to code” by expanding it with a colossal fire escape. Their feat of staircase engineering adds to the ever-growing list of imposing creations that the Valheim community has authored to date, while also serving as a vivid suggestion for how to potentially approach one of the biggest challenges in the Plains biome.

Since patch 0.217.14, released in late August 2023, every Valheim map seed has included three Sealed Towers scattered across its Plains regions. These large structures are a type of dungeon, but unlike traditional dungeons, they exist in the overworld and do not require a loading screen to enter. Players can encounter Sealed Towers organically or locate them using Hildir’s map. While it might appear intuitive to assume that a spire-shaped structure needs to be traversed from bottom to top, Sealed Towers are actually completed in reverse. Players must enter from higher ground and descend to the base level, where an area boss awaits.

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Valheim Player Ascends Sealed Tower With Massive Fire Escape

In an effort to overcome the Sealed Tower’s initial challenge, Reddit user Gdim15 recently built a massive fire escape and attached it to the structure. They humorously described the ambitious project as bringing the tower “up to code.” Their fire escape spans 28 levels, including the ground floor, and branches at several points to connect with various openings in the tower. The result is an extensive—if arguably excessive—method for scaling Valheim’s Sealed Towers.

Gdim15’s Sealed Tower Fire Escape Is Trickier To Build Than It Looks Like

Gdim15’s impressive feat of engineering amassed over 3,700 upvotes and promptly found itself on the front page of the r/Valheim subreddit shortly after being posted in mid-January 2026. The player clarified that the fire escape was built without ironwood beams, which offer significantly stronger structural support and make it easier to build higher without pieces losing stability and breaking. Instead, Gdim15 relied on repeatedly “anchoring” the build to the Sealed Tower itself, i.e., adjusting the design so core wood made contact with the tower on every level, rather than every other one, to maintain stability. In practice, that meant each horizontal brace consisted of two long core wood beams plus a short connector beam that tied the brace back into the tower’s wall. Overall, this gigantic fire escape required an excellent understanding of Valheim‘s building mechanics and was trickier to construct than it might appear at first.

While an engineering marvel in its own right, Gdim15’s fire escape is a bit of an overkill solution for scaling a Sealed Tower. That’s in no small part because these structures found in Valheim‘s Plains biome tend to have balconies that allow entering them from way below the top level. Even players adamant to start at the roof can usually significantly reduce their material burden by extending ledges and platforms that typically spawn alongside the walls of these imposing spires.

Navigating these tiny ledges can be a challenge, though, which is why the Feather Cape is immensely useful for climbing Sealed Towers, as its fall speed limit (that essentially allows for gliding) and 100% fall damage reduction ensure that any mistakes made on the way up are not fatal. Be that as it may, bringing it to one of the towers requires compromise because the cape is weak to fire, which is the number one element players will want to guard against at this location due to the Fireball-slinging Fuling shamans that populate it. In this context, Gdim15’s massive fire escape offers a no-nonsense, if resource-intensive, alternative for ascending a Sealed Tower without relying on mobility gear.