Lock Character To Server

[Sanctus]

I'm hosting a Valheim server and am wondering if there is a way to prevent people from joining with end-game characters and ruining the progression for everyone. Seems like an option that should be common sense but I can't find any good info.

[wahl35]

End game character? There's end game gear but not end game characters. Stats? Someone who has really high stats shouldn't ruin your progression.

[mjt1447]

I like this idea. You could begin a game on line and anyone could join up to 10. If experienced players they could go through the first Boss in a few game days or much less if you have ten on line at once. You would have to in-cress drop rates and difficulty for a group but it could be done. Naturally only new characters and nothing brought from any other server.
Would be interesting if the players could coordinate at that leave without knowing each other in real life. As the group progressed They could find there own Islands and make there own homes as part of the game. Call it Valheim II.

[esbenmf]

Just ask people to make a new character when joining your new server?

And kick ban them if they don't. The game is NOT made to play with randoms.

[Veseljko]

Whenever i start a new server i demand everyone (including me) to add a prefix to their names. Only this way I am sure they all made a new character.
For example, we run PTB server now and everyone had to add PTB in front of their names.

[Sanctus]

Originally posted by Veseljko:

Whenever i start a new server i demand everyone (including me) to add a prefix to their names. Only this way I am sure they all made a new character.
For example, we run PTB server now and everyone had to add PTB in front of their names.

That's what I was thinking to do as a rough solution.

The assumption that everyone's friends won't want to cheat themselves ahead is kinda dumb since we all have people we know who will take whatever advantage they can get. And I can't verify everyone who will join the server.

[esbenmf]

If you can't even thrust people to make new characters, then I think you'll have bigger problems along the way.

[Soma]

This has been asked for by a large part of the community for a LONG time. I am sure the devs will address it before release. For now the only way to have a secure server is to downloads specific anticheat mods. Thanks for bringing it up again! I agree it needs to have the "option" to implement what your looking for.

[Mharr]

Smoothbrain's ServerCharacters mod.

https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/Smoothbrain/ServerCharacters