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You CAN set one up on your own, the tools are provided to do so. Most folks don't have the knowledge, though. You only have to buy it if you don't want to bother hosting it yourself. Not through the game, but an actual separate dedicated server running on your own hardware and connected to the internet.
Yes, if you want to play with your friends, you have to either A: host it, or B: host it by renting a server, or C: host it by setting up your own server (not through the in game interface, that's option A).
Your lack of understanding does not jank make. The world has to be running for people to connect to it. That is universally applicable to any game like this that I can think of. Even Grounded's shared save system requires somebody to be hosting the game while it's played.
Your starting point: go to your library, and search 'valheim dedicated server'. That is what you want, for hosting a persistent world on your own without having to rent a server. I do not have the capacity to help you from that point though, it's too frustrating and I'm not getting paid.
actually i understand completely, I have to rent a server via a third party and play an overpriced subscription for a service most single player games would already provide JUST so i can do something as simple as a co-op experience because the studio behind this game is either to incompetent or money hungry to provide the service itself.
I don't have a spare computer sitting around to just run servers off of so slaving my hardware to this single game so my friends can play is just insanely stupid and paying 10-15 dollars a month for a game i already paid for is basically just a monthly subscription. the reason i gave a short and sweet explanation before is because the sheer stupidity behind this concept in general wasn't worth a detailed explanation.
it's stupid, i shouldn't have to subscribe to a third party or sacrifice a computer just to enjoy a co-op experience with a single other friend. I'm not even talking multiple players, just one other. it's a sorry situation created by a sorry publisher.
Just host the game while you're online, then it's free.
What people call a dedicated server is just a machine that is always on and accepting connections. It could be any machine. Some people use their computer, others just rent a remote machine.
Servers cost money to buy and maintain. Conan can offer dedicated servers because it can constantly attempt to drain its users for potentially unlimited amounts of cash with every piece of content it holds hostage.
Valheim is a singular purchase with no source of unlimited revenue. Since the company doesn't have a constant drain on its resources by providing and maintaining servers, it can avoid the need to endlessly fleece its customers.
In short; you're actively demanding that the devs screw over the community as a whole just so you can ignore running your own server for free. "This isn't rocket science man" just extremely bad naivety, ignorance, and laziness.
critique the game not each other.
I don't understand your complaint, you seem to either want a service that is impossible given the laws of physics as we understand it, or one that is already provided free by Valheim. Servers require power to run, if your Computer is off, the server is off. You can host a dedicated server on your home computer and play valheim at the same time on the same machine as long as you got something better than a Turnip PC. You just have to leave the PC on but you don't need to be physically online in game for it to work, you just have to keep the separate Valheim Dedicated Server app running on the machine. Your friends can then join the server as long as it's kept up by you.
or are you asking for like LAN/Split screen, because that's the only other Offline multiplayer that exists.
So yeah, they essentially want a service that is impossible.