an inventor Walheim The player has brought one of the game's sealed towers “up to code” by expanding it with a giant fire escape. Their feat of ladder engineering adds to an ever-growing list of impressive creations that Walheim The community has written up to date, while serving as a clear suggestion for how to approach potentially one of the greatest challenges in the Plains biome.
Since patch 0.217.14, end of August 2023, each Walheim The map seed consists of three Seal Towers scattered across its plains. These large structures are a type of dungeon, but unlike traditional dungeons, they are located in the overworld and do not require a loading screen to enter. Players can encounter sealed towers organically or locate them using Hldir's map. While it may seem 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 the upper ground and descend to the base level, where the area boss awaits.
The Valheim player visits the mountain for the first time and immediately regrets it
The Walheim player experiences some surprisingly bad luck during his first visit to the game's dangerous mountain biome.
The Walheim player climbs a sealed tower with a giant fire escape
In an attempt to overcome the initial challenge of the sealed tower, Reddit user Gdim15 recently built a large 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 a comprehensive – if arguably excessive – method for scaling WalheimSealed towers.
Gdim15's Sealed Tower Fire Escape is harder to build than it looks
Gdim15's impressive feat of engineering garnered over 3,700 upvotes and found itself on the front page of the r/Valheim subreddit shortly after it was posted in mid-January 2026. The player explained that the fire escape was built without iron wooden beams, which would have made it easier to reinforce. Stability and braking. Instead, Gdim15 relied on repeatedly “anchoring” the construction to the sealed tower, that is, adjusting the design, with the core wood making contact with the tower at all other levels to maintain stability. In practice, this means that each horizontal bracket consists of two long core wooden beams and a short connector beam that connects the bracket to the tower wall. Overall, this giant requires a great understanding of fire escapes WalheimThe construction mechanics and construction was more difficult than it may first appear.
While an engineering marvel in its own right, the Gdim15's fire escape is a bit of an overkill solution for a sealed tower scale. That's in no small part because these structures have been discovered WalheimThe Co Plains biome has balconies that allow them to be entered from below the upper levels. Even players adamant about starting from the roof can reduce their physical burden significantly by extending the ledges and platforms that usually extend along the walls of these impressive spires.
Navigating these small ledges can be challenging, however, which is why the Feather Cape is extremely useful for climbing sealed towers, as its fall speed limit (which essentially allows for gliding) and 100% fall damage reduction ensures that any mistakes made along the way aren't fatal. However, getting it to one of the towers requires a compromise because the cape is vulnerable to fire, which is the number one element players want to protect in this location due to the fireball-slinging fulling shamans. In this regard, the Gdim15's massive fire escape offers a no-nonsense, if resource-intensive, alternative to sealed tower climbing without relying on mobility gear.
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Iron Gate Abbey
