An inventive one Valheim players have brought one of the game's Sealed Towers “up to code” by augmenting it with a colossal fire escape. Their feat of stair construction adds to the ever-growing list of impressive creations that Valheim community has written thus far, while serving as a living proposition for how to potentially approach one of the biggest challenges in the Plains biome.
Since patch 0.217.14, released at the end of August 2023, every Valheim mapseed has included three sealed towers scattered across its plains regions. 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 find them using Hildir's map. While it may seem intuitive to assume that a spire-shaped structure must 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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The Valheim player ascends the sealed tower with a huge fire escape
In an attempt to overcome the Sealed Tower's first 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 escapes span 28 levels, including the ground floor, and branch off at several points to connect to various openings in the tower. The result is a comprehensive – if excessive – method of scaling Valheim's Sealed Towers.
Gdim15's Sealed Tower Fire Escape is harder to build than it looks
Gdim15's impressive feat of engineering garnered over 3,700 votes and quickly 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, providing significantly better support and making the structure easier to build and build. break. Instead, Gdim15 relied on repeatedly “anchoring” the construction to the sealed tower itself, i.e. adjusting the design so that core wood made contact with the tower at each level, rather than all others, to maintain stability. In practice, this meant that each horizontal brace consisted of two long cored wooden beams plus a short connecting beam that tied the brace back into the tower wall. All in all, this giant fire escape required an excellent understanding of Valheims building mechanics and was trickier to construct than it might first appear.
While a technical marvel in its own right, the Gdim15's fire escape is a bit of an overkill solution for scaling a Sealed Tower. It is not because these structures exist in Valheim's Plains biome tend to have balconies that allow them to be entered from well below the top level. Even players who are adamant about starting on the roof can usually reduce their material load significantly by extending the ledges and platforms that usually spawn along the walls of these imposing spiers.
Navigating these small ledges can be a challenge though, which is why the Feather Cape is incredibly useful for climbing Sealed Towers, as its fall rate limit (which essentially allows for gliding) and 100% fall damage reduction ensures that any mistakes made on the way up are non-fatal. However, bringing it to one of the towers requires compromises as the cape is weak to fire, which is the first element players will want to guard against in this location due to the Fireball-slinging Fuling shamans that populate it. In this context, Gdim15's massive fire escape offers a no-nonsense, albeit resource-intensive, alternative to climbing a sealed tower without relying on mobility equipment.
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February 2, 2021
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Iron Gate AB
