Save file size

[Ataxio]

Simply curious how my save file compares. I'm at like day 350 and 220mb.

Wondering if its going to hit a point where the save file is bigger then the game install it self :P

Post em

[LegacyOfTorment]

Day 200. 37MB. Much smaller...

I have played rather slowly though. Beaten Bonemass no more. One big base, only 2 other very small bases.

I guess the save file (or maybe not I dont know) and network transmission are poorly optimized. Seems like brute force solutions to just get something up and running.

I mean I send 120kb every second to the server even if I am perfectly still not doing anything.

I guess they will optimize it at some point in the future.

[Ataxio]

Holy crap mine seems bloated..

I did make a LOT of terrain edits & have spent nearly 100 hours detailing my home.. I'm guessing that's the issue.

[Samoth]

what files? where to find for comparative analysis? plz.

[Ataxio]

heh... well in hindsight i'm prolly an idiot. I was looking at the whole "Valheim" folder in AppData/LocalLow/IronGate/Valheim. You can click on that little log tab at the login screen for a shortcut.

This factors in ALL worlds and characters, so I should be isolating my world and player.. Tho I only play in my home seed and have the 1 guy.

edit:
My player is 28mb and my world is 80mb

[jonnin]

40MB, size on disk, 21MB (windows compressed folder).
I have 2 large homes and 6 or so small outposts. Terrain edits are just enough for those, nothing too excessive, a pair of 20x20 raised platforms for the homes and one more for a farming area in plains. Only other terrain edits are knocked down buildings, mined rocks (almost all of them near my outposts in a large radius) and chopped down trees (many of those too).

[LegacyOfTorment]

Originally posted by jonnin:

40MB, size on disk, 21MB (windows compressed folder).

compressed folder. does that not make it take more time when it saves (every 20 minutes or whatever it is) the game though. maybe that does not bother you though.

[Samoth]

On my trader seed logging base camp, it's 5k instances for almost nothing. A 4x7ish box with roof tiles. :)

[jonnin]

Originally posted by LegacyOfTorment:

Originally posted by jonnin:

40MB, size on disk, 21MB (windows compressed folder).

compressed folder. does that not make it take more time when it saves (every 20 minutes or whatever it is) the game though. maybe that does not bother you though.

it depends on your system which way is better. I do not have SSD, my PC was back when those were brand new and costly. But SSD or not, the question is 'does my cpu compress faster than my hard drive can read, or is my disk faster than my CPU?'. If the cpu is fast enough, it will decompress it faster than the disk could read it and memory could load it and all the shuffles. If the cpu is slow, the disk is faster, compression makes less sense. Ive seen it go both ways but rotating disks vs CPU, the CPU often wins. SSD, no contest, the disk wins.

I am running out of space, and on the edge of buying a new one (prices are up right now, though -- a decent box looks like $4k or something). My next one will be an I9 with 64 gb ram & current gen video card, so it will last 5 or so years before I have to do it again... but I compressed a lot of folders to get some space back.

[Bojji ranger]

i'm like day 280 and my save file is around 350mb, kinda understandable tho since I play with 7 people in my server with like 10 settlements

[A Damp Squid]

that is kind of how PG works isnt it? Everything you see is pulled from a pre made "stamp" (or atleast in the 2d world long ago it was stamp) so there are only so many stamps stored in game but they can get used multiple times, adding all the building boats items laying around trees and stuff..
1gb isnt big at all so passing it is without question on some builds
BUt idk how this stuff works anyway

[Wariat117]

minimap and pins are saved on character
so you can easily bloat your character size by joining lots of servers or entering lots of different worlds :D

[Mharr]

Nowadays the 'stamps' are often another tiny procgen system.

Originally posted by Wariat117:

minimap and pins are saved on character
so you can easily bloat your character size by joining lots of servers or entering lots of different worlds :D

Ah, Valheim logic. You get fat by hiking thousands of miles and it's always safest to go swimming right after a big meal. (Also bring some booze with you.)

[Asheira]

Was at the limit for the Steam cloud size, so had to turn that off.
5 worlds combined can add up lol

[maestro]

I don't like any game using my app data folder since that's my OS drive but most games don't give you a choice and sacrificing my precious little SSD space for a game I currently play most is ok.

[A Damp Squid]

Originally posted by Maestro4202:

I don't like any game using my app data folder since that's my OS drive but most games don't give you a choice and sacrificing my precious little SSD space for a game I currently play most is ok.

I have the same issue