Playing with a friend, how can we enter our world separately?

[Seba]

We usually play together, but there some times where one or the other wants to log in by himself. I created the world and I can log in by myself just fine but he can't enter it if I'm not around.

Is there something I'm missing here?

Thanks much.

[The Time Traveler]

Aren't the worlds saved pc side? I dont think they can "borrow" your world while you arent in it. You can circumvent this by...staying logged on with your world open/passworded.

But the safety of your character with the way this game is, is not assured.
Maybe build a giant stone box to reside in for these server holder positions?

The best thing you could do is copy the files over to a cheap pc that runs the server seperately and buy a 2nd account(the game is nice and cheap at least). Bury the server character in a hole in a mountain and surround him with rock and stone. build your base on top of him. Voila. permanent server thats is basically "online".

[Ebyl]

You would need to run the game on a server and have it always up and available. You can do that yourself or pay a service to host one for you.

[Aukyron]

You need to:

A) Setup a server on your computer for your world to be live at anytime

or

B) Pay for a server host

[The Time Traveler]

But yea. i agree. there should be a way to create a permanent server that just "stays online" but server side. That you can take down when want. But doesnt require your pc to be on 24/7. Or at all.

[Seba]

Originally posted by Ebyl:

You would need to run the game on a server and have it always up and available. You can do that yourself or pay a service to host one for you.

When you say server, you mean as in a third party solution? Not the "community server" option in the game?

I know, I'm silly.

[Ebyl]

Not necessarily third party. You can build a server (doesn't need to be expensive or powerful) and host a server version of the game on there. I'm guessing you could also host a server instance on your own computer. But either way, whatever is running the server version of the game needs to be available for connection anytime someone wants to connect.

If you're willing to pay someone else to do it, third parties will host a server instance of the game for you.

[Ebyl]

The issue with a normal hosting of the game is that the game is not available if you're not logged in to it. So your friend can't play unless you have the game active and are logged in. Hosting a server version of the game means its available for connection at all times (assuming the computer its on is up and running, etc.).

[Ebyl]

You don't even need to pay for another copy of Valheim if you're hosting it yourself. You get access to the server version from Steam (I think) once you have bought the game.

[The Time Traveler]

Originally posted by Ebyl:

If you're willing to pay someone else to do it, third parties will host a server instance of the game for you.

Those people are monsters. Actual monsters. The prices they ask for the rigged nonsense that will constantly have problems unless you UPGRADE your package is akin to being robbed in the 12th century by bandits. They used to hang people like that back in the day. For real.

Sure if you wanna get caught in their little loop of constantly needing to upgrade the package and need more for your stuff to work, by all means. suggest the highway that leads to bandits.

[The Time Traveler]

Originally posted by Ebyl:

You don't even need to pay for another copy of Valheim if you're hosting it yourself. You get access to the server version from Steam (I think) once you have bought the game.

Well... i mean if you dont want YOUR character standing around waiting to be murdered by a randomly spawning troll....youd buy the second copy and run that iteration for the server.

[Ebyl]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Originally posted by Ebyl:

If you're willing to pay someone else to do it, third parties will host a server instance of the game for you.

Those people are monsters. Actual monsters. The prices they ask for the rigged nonsense that will constantly have problems unless you UPGRADE your package is akin to being robbed in the 12th century by bandits. They used to hang people like that back in the day. For real.

Sure if you wanna get caught in their little loop of constantly needing to upgrade the package and need more for your stuff to work, by all means. suggest the highway that leads to bandits.

I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ what they're like. I'm offering options.

[Ebyl]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Originally posted by Ebyl:

You don't even need to pay for another copy of Valheim if you're hosting it yourself. You get access to the server version from Steam (I think) once you have bought the game.

Well... i mean if you dont want YOUR character standing around waiting to be murdered by a randomly spawning troll....youd buy the second copy and run that iteration for the server.

No... Person A buys the game. Person B buys the game. They now both have clients. Person A (or B) gets the server version of the game for free, loads it up on a server PC they own, and sets up the networking. They make sure it is up 24/7 and ready to accept connections. Person A and B can connect anytime they want. You only need one copy per person. You don't need n+1 copies.

[Mharr]

The stand-alone server code puts very little load on a computer, it's mostly just a traffic cop that tells connected clients who's responsible for which part of the world. If any player has a fixed IP and a machine they can comfortably leave running 24/7 you're golden.

[Seba]

Originally posted by Mharr:

The stand-alone server code puts very little load on a computer, it's mostly just a traffic cop that tells connected clients who's responsible for which part of the world. If any player has a fixed IP and a machine they can comfortably leave running 24/7 you're golden.

Appreciate the input. I think setting up a server might be a bit above my computer knowledge, and I'm not sure if my PC will be able to handle it, but at least I know there's no way ingame of sharing a world separately.

I'll see what we can do.

[Mharr]

Originally posted by sweater:

Appreciate the input. I think setting up a server might be a bit above my computer knowledge, and I'm not sure if my PC will be able to handle it, but at least I know there's no way ingame of sharing a world separately.

It shouldn't be above your tech skills by much. You install the server from Steam, go into its files and edit a .bat in notepad, then run the .bat

Getting your router to point incoming connections at the server is the trickiest part depending on the make and model, one option is to leave the server running on an old backup machine and make that your network DMZ. (The one machine connected directly to the internet, 2000AD style.)