Our 100 days progress got deleted

[꧁ঔৣ𝙰𝓏𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔥ঔৣ꧂]

We were on our 130th day with my girlfriend. Today, we wanted to play some more but after we launch the game, our 100 days of progress got deleted. Our buildings were gone and everything was like on 31st day.

[GinsengSamurai]

Try the following...

1. Turn off Cloud saving.
2. Go here: C:\Users\me\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds and make a back-up of everything.
3. Delete or rename the yourworldname.db and yourworldname.fwl files. Rename the yourworldname.db.old and yourworldname.fwl.old files to yourworldname.db and yourworldname.fwl.
4. Start the game up and load into the world. See if that did the trick.

[꧁ঔৣ𝙰𝓏𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔥ঔৣ꧂]

Originally posted by Lecherous Lychee 🐸:

Try the following...

1. Turn off Cloud saving.
2. Go here: C:\Users\me\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds and make a back-up of everything.
3. Delete or rename the yourworldname.db and yourworldname.fwl files. Rename the yourworldname.db.old and yourworldname.fwl.old files to yourworldname.db and yourworldname.fwl.
4. Start the game up and load into the world. See if that did the trick.

Thanks for the advice but sadly it didn't work.

[GinsengSamurai]

This won't help your current problem unfortunately, but a suggestion for future save issues, is you can start a dedicated server if you have a low-end PC lying around. I run a mini-PC using 8GB RAM on a 150Mbps up/down internet and it runs fine for 5-6 players online. It chugs a bit at 7-10 players.

So far, no save issues on a dedicated server. I also make periodic back-ups of our world saves.

[꧁ঔৣ𝙰𝓏𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔥ঔৣ꧂]

Originally posted by Lecherous Lychee 🐸:

This won't help your current problem unfortunately, but a suggestion for future save issues, is you can start a dedicated server if you have a low-end PC lying around. I run a mini-PC using 8GB RAM on a 150Mbps up/down internet and it runs fine for 5-6 players online. It chugs a bit at 7-10 players.

So far, no save issues on a dedicated server. I also make periodic back-ups of our world saves.

How do you create dedicated server?

[GinsengSamurai]

This is on the notion you don't mind some technical work. It's pretty straightforward.

The following is how I did it. Note that I will use "Server PC" to denote where the dedicated server is and "Game PC" to denote your own computer where you play games from.

0. Connect the Server PC to the network via a LAN cable. I connected the server directly to my Telus modem.

1. Log into your router or modem, and locate Port Forwarding. It's usually under Firewall. Port forward ports 2456, 2457, and 2458 for both TCP and UDP with that of your internal IP address. You can find your internal IP address for your Server PC by going to PowerShell or CMD and type in IPConfig. Your internal IP is the IPV4 address.

2. With the Server PC, install Steam on it. Then login with your account.

3. In the Steam launcher for your Server PC, locate Valheim Dedicated Server. It might be under Tools instead of Games. Install it.

4. Go to where you installed the Valheim server app. Create a start.txt file and rename it to start.bat. Right click the start.bat file and edit it using notepad. Enter the following:

@echo off
set SteamAppId=892970

echo "Starting server PRESS CTRL-C to exit"

valheim_server -nographics -batchmode -name "Any Name" -port 2457 -world "TheNameOfYourWorldFileWithoutExtension" -password "ThePASSWORDtoYourServer"

5. Save that file and quit notepad. Right click the start.bat file and Create a Shortcut to the desktop. Close everything.

6. From your Game PC, launch Valheim, and at the Select World window, click "New", and check the "Start Server" box. Enter the same password and worldfilename you put in step #4. Start that game once and logout.

7. Go to C:\Users\me\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds in your Game PC and copy the world files (FWL and DB). Then paste them into the same location for the Server PC.

8. You might need to add Valheim server app to the firewall allow apps. Then run start.bat on the Server PC desktop.

9. To connect to the server, click the Join Game tab, and click Join IP.

If you're playing locally, type in your IPV4 address followed by the port like this: 192.168.1.67:2457

If your partner is playing remotely, they will type in your external IP (you can check this on Google by typing: my ip) followed by the port. Eg: 123.456.789.11:2457

10. Enter the server password and now you can play.

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Note, that I normally access my Server PC via RDP (Remote Desktop), so I don't need a 2nd monitor to see what's going on with the server.

If you want a more visual guide, just go to Youtube to look this information up.

[Lyptrip]

I tried altering the old file names as well. I got my world and character back…

The buildings that I built and resources I collected however, gone the way of Roanoke. Anyway I can get those hours, days, weeks back?

[Lyptrip]

Nevermind. I got it figured out. Apparently I needed to alter the world_local files in the same manner, then turn cloud saving back on. Everything's copacetic again. Happy day!