LAN Coop help please

[Major_Valentine505]

I got this for myself and my wife we both love it but for the life of me I can not get it to work with LAN coop and we don't have the best internet in the world either so that's nearly a no go option too. Is there any way to get this game set up to be played between two computers using an Ethernet cable?

We have done that a lot in the past with multiple games but I can't find any way to get it working with Valheim or if it is even possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This game is awesome alone but we really want to explore together.

[tmellen]

For Lan Coop, start the game running a server from your computer, press SHIFT-TAB and then invite her to play the game on your friends list.

Worked for us until we went dedicated.

[Major_Valentine505]

Originally posted by tmellen:

For Lan Coop, start the game running a server from your computer, press SHIFT-TAB and then invite her to play the game on your friends list.

Worked for us until we went dedicated.

Ok but how do we do this and get it to run through our ethernet cable connecting our laptops or is this not possible?

[Major_Valentine505]

asking all this mainly because we have crap internet and can't always be connected so for us a lot of times its best to use our ethernet cable to play coop games

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Remote play is not supported, as this sounds more like remote play.
You start your game select sever with friends. Internet is required.

[Pudge Fish]

I have it running on a LAN. Using a hub and a 3rd computer as a server, I /we play co-op.
Theoretically, you should be able to. if you both connect to a router, the more powerful PC might run both the server and the game. They would both join by IP. Setting up the server is a bit fiddly, but there are tutorials on many respectable web sites. (I failed 3 solid attempts before finally getting everything working).

If you're tech savvy and know how to get IP addresses and set paths, I'd give it a whack for fun. Especially if you have an old PC laying around and a 4 port wifi router!

[Major_Valentine505]

Originally posted by Pudge Fish:

I have it running on a LAN.

If you're tech savvy and know how to get IP addresses and set paths, I'd give it a whack for fun. Especially if you have an old PC laying around and a 4 port wifi router!

May try to do this sadly I'm not the best in the world with computers. I can setup an Ip and change workgroup names but that's probably considered remedial in comparison. I do have an old PC but no router. When it comes to internet we use hotspot from our phones. Works for the most part like streaming and gaming normally but our service is finicky due to us living in the middle of no where.

Hopefully if it's not now in the future they will show Coop through Ethernet cable connection a little love. I will keep trying some different things though and if I get anything to work I'll post it here.

Thanks for the replies!

[ThorN]

I believe what should work is enable the "Start Server" checkmark when you start your local game. Then, your wife should be able to join you via your IPv4 address.

Alternatively, if this doesn't work, you may want to download the Valheim dedicated server to your computer and run it. Then you start the game on the same computer, join your own server via localhost and your wife once again via your IPv4 address.

Originally posted by tmellen:

For Lan Coop, start the game running a server from your computer, press SHIFT-TAB and then invite her to play the game on your friends list.

Worked for us until we went dedicated.

This is for internet, not LAN.

[Buck Fell]

Take a look at this thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldbergEmu/comments/lim2af/valheim_lan_server/

You may also want the goldberg emulator https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator
which emulates Steams online services so you can play purely via LAN.