Single Player

[CypherNode]

I want to start a single player game based on just building stuff and seeing what I can create. I created a world and did not select start server and started the game, yet it seems that isn't single player mode. trying to use the console to generate resources so I can build and doing that does not bring up the menu when I hit F5. How do I get it into single player mode?

[Megahurts]

Single player is just a server for one.

Have you enabled the console? It was changed a few weeks ago from the original release setup. Can't tell you the steps but I know it's pretty simple...Google or probably someone will be along to tell you how.

[avatar.zero]

Originally posted by Megahurts:

Single player is just a server for one.

Have you enabled the console? It was changed a few weeks ago from the original release setup. Can't tell you the steps but I know it's pretty simple...Google or probably someone will be along to tell you how.

From the Steam client, go to the Library, right click on Valheim, and select "Properties".

At the bottom of the "General" tab is a section named "Launch Options". Add "-console" (without quotes) in the textbox here, then close the Properties window.

You will now be able to bring up the console with F5.

[CypherNode]

Thank you both, I'll do that when I get home today.

[jonnin]

more precisely,
single player starts the server when you begin playing and will kill the server when you stop playing: time will stop totally between sessions.
single player on a multi player server, you would 'start' the server and it would run whether you were in the game playing or not. I do not know how that behaves, though, with only one player it seems like all that would happen is time passing, maybe crops and such grow but unclear if monsters attack the homes / etc when no one around (I think not).

even if playing single on a multi player server, no one can log in without your password and possibly an IP address or something.

Or, in short, do not start the server at all in single player is probably the best bet unless you want to grow something offline or something.

[SwampDragon]

I wouldn't say 'pain is weakness', but I would say using console for resource collection is.


[o/j, non-defensible comment, play how you like, etc]

[Ryzilynt]

Originally posted by jonnin:

more precisely,
single player starts the server when you begin playing and will kill the server when you stop playing: time will stop totally between sessions.
single player on a multi player server, you would 'start' the server and it would run whether you were in the game playing or not. I do not know how that behaves, though, with only one player it seems like all that would happen is time passing, maybe crops and such grow but unclear if monsters attack the homes / etc when no one around (I think not).

even if playing single on a multi player server, no one can log in without your password and possibly an IP address or something.

Or, in short, do not start the server at all in single player is probably the best bet unless you want to grow something offline or something.

Even on a multiplayer server, if no one is logged in nothing happens, time does not pass, crops do not grow, torches and fires do not burn out, and mobs do not attack.

Nothing happens in Valheim unless your character is around.

[CypherNode]

Originally posted by jonnin:

more precisely,
single player starts the server when you begin playing and will kill the server when you stop playing: time will stop totally between sessions.
single player on a multi player server, you would 'start' the server and it would run whether you were in the game playing or not. I do not know how that behaves, though, with only one player it seems like all that would happen is time passing, maybe crops and such grow but unclear if monsters attack the homes / etc when no one around (I think not).

even if playing single on a multi player server, no one can log in without your password and possibly an IP address or something.

Or, in short, do not start the server at all in single player is probably the best bet unless you want to grow something offline or something.

Yea I play a lot of different survival games like this. I will usually have a main save that progresses through regularly then a creative type save to create stuff with and if I really like what I create in there then I'll go to my regular save and farm the resources needed to build it there. Thank you

[CypherNode]

Originally posted by SwampDragon:

I wouldn't say 'pain is weakness', but I would say using console for resource collection is.


[o/j, non-defensible comment, play how you like, etc]

Yea it is just to be able to build a lot of stuff, kinda like a creative save and I'll have a regular save that won't have any cheats that I'll actually progress through regularly.

[warrenchmobile]

There are different ways to play the game; one might even say there are different games within the game.

A purist's position might be that one can accept hints from Hugin the Raven but must figure everything else out for him or herself. No looking up videos online, no consulting the Valheim wiki, no watching youtube videos. Progress through the game, kill all the bosses, complete Odin's mission as he intended. No console, no devcommands. If SwampDragon does not completely agree with this approach he's not that far off. Neither am I. If Odin wanted you to use the console and devcommands to defeat his enemies, he would have made you a god.

I don't think Pain is Weakness is interested in using the console or devcommands to accomplish Odin's mission. I think he wants to play two games, one in which he completes Odin's mission without using the console and a separate game in which he wants to see what kind of elaborate buildings, bridges, docks, etc. he can construct. I personally don't have any problem with that.

[CypherNode]

Originally posted by warrenchmobile:

There are different ways to play the game; one might even say there are different games within the game.

A purist's position might be that one can accept hints from Hugin the Raven but must figure everything else out for him or herself. No looking up videos online, no consulting the Valheim wiki, no watching youtube videos. Progress through the game, kill all the bosses, complete Odin's mission as he intended. No console, no devcommands. If SwampDragon does not completely agree with this approach he's not that far off. Neither am I. If Odin wanted you to use the console and devcommands to defeat his enemies, he would have made you a god.

I don't think Pain is Weakness is interested in using the console or devcommands to accomplish Odin's mission. I think he wants to play two games, one in which he completes Odin's mission without using the console and a separate game in which he wants to see what kind of elaborate buildings, bridges, docks, etc. he can construct. I personally don't have any problem with that.

Hit the nail on the head.