Where are valheim worlds stored
Find the location of your planet save folder
If you are looking to upload your own store on AxentHost to play in your world with your friends, you need to find your Valheim world save location. This guide explains whete to uncover your save.
Valheim automatically saves your world each time you quit the game. This prevents information loss and ensures your society is saved at the very last state it was when you played on it. It differs from a dedicated server where you should manually retain your valheim world before quitting since your computer is not the host.
Easily find your Valheim world save location by tracking these simple steps :
- Find your valheim world saves folder on your computer. You must locate it in there : C:\Users\{YourUser}\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds
You can also easily access the AppData folder by hitting Windows Key + R and typing %appdata%, then going back one folder to take you to AppData. Then follow the previous path. - Now that you've found all your worlds, find the planet you want. All its comparable files should contain the earth name.
- You can make a reproduce of the wanted world files, we will upload them to AxentHost.
Upload your Valheim world rescue to your How to move a Valheim world save
If you need to move a world save from one server to another, or from your local machine to a server, this shouldn’t be too painful ;)
The default location that Valheim saves world files is:
Windows:
Linux:
If you have rented a server from a game server provider, double check with their support information where they store save files, as they may use a custom location.
There will likely be 4 files stored for each world:
Where “world” is the name of your world. If you want to double check the name of your world, you can see it in-game by pressing .
The files are backups, and not strictly necessary for the purpose of the transfer.
World re-nameing
Do not change the name of your or files, as this will break things.
If your circumstances absolutely require changing the world name, use this tool: https://geekstrom.de/valheim/fwl/
FTP Transfer Modes
If you are interacting with a server to upload/download files using FTP, (and you’re on Windows) using WinSCP is recommended.
If you use FileZilla (or other software) instead, make sure that the file transfer type is set to BINARY.
WinSCP uses binary transfer for files by
Import Valheim World to your Valheim Server
You can import your Valheim world, from either another server or your client, by altering the contents of the directory on your server. You may want to import your society to transfer settings that can only be set on the client, or to save your progress from another server, but in either case the process can be simple if you know what steps to take.
Locating the save files
Importing from your Client
Windows Clients, using Steam or Xbox, will store the society files at or on the Cloud, where you'll have to Move it to Local in order to import it to your server. That directory, assuming you're storing the worlds locally as mentioned before, should hold and files bearing the names of your worlds. It will also contain any backups that were automatically made by Valheim while you were playing.
After locating the folder and the world files you want to upload, you can select the and files bearing the identify of your world, excluding any that contain the word or , and compress them for upload. You'll want to upload the compressed file to your server's directory and then decompress it using the File Manager. Finally, you&#
Valheim: Upload World
Follow this guide to get help locating the planet saves on your computer.
In this guide
Locate Local Saves (PC)
The conserve folder for your local Valheim saves is:
From June 2022, worlds are stored in the Steam cloud by default. Move on to the section about Steam cloud saves to find that save folder.
Are you using the Game Pass version of the game? Then you would first need to boot up the game, click “Manage Saves”, and then “Move to Local” in order to find the files in your computer’s folders. - 1
- Open the Windows File Explorer
- 2
- Navigate to “This PC” and then select “Local Disk (C:)”
- 3
- Go to the “Users” folder and elect your user.
- 4
- Navigate to the “AppData” folder and then go to “LocalLow” -> “IronGate” -> “Valheim
- Note: The AppData folder might be secret by default. Check out this guide on how to view hidden folders on Windows 10 and 11.
- 5
- Glance for the "worlds_local" folder. Here you should find your society files with the “.db” and “.fwl” extensions.
- Note: If you can’t find your world in this folder, go back one step and go to the folder "worlds” instead, it might be there if you haven’t used the world since June 202
I am trying to locate the world save files for Valheim, but all my google searching has only led to one location (appdata\locallow\...), there is no locallow folder in my appdata. I am on a new pc so that might have something to do with it.
My pc has two drives, C and D. C drive has my OS, some other programs, and steam. D drive is the one with my steamlibrary files for Valheim.
I have tried showing hidden folders and searching around but this locallow folder still seems not to exist.
Thanks for your help! Denunciar este mensaje
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How to move a Valheim world save
If you need to move a world save from one server to another, or from your local machine to a server, this shouldn’t be too painful ;)
The default location that Valheim saves world files is:
Windows:
Linux:
If you have rented a server from a game server provider, double check with their support information where they store save files, as they may use a custom location.
There will likely be 4 files stored for each world:
Where “world” is the name of your world. If you want to double check the name of your world, you can see it in-game by pressing .
The files are backups, and not strictly necessary for the purpose of the transfer.
World re-nameing
Do not change the name of your or files, as this will break things.
If your circumstances absolutely require changing the world name, use this tool: https://geekstrom.de/valheim/fwl/
FTP Transfer Modes
If you are interacting with a server to upload/download files using FTP, (and you’re on Windows) using WinSCP is recommended.
If you use FileZilla (or other software) instead, make sure that the file transfer type is set to BINARY.
WinSCP uses binary transfer for files by
Import Valheim World to your Valheim Server
You can import your Valheim world, from either another server or your client, by altering the contents of the directory on your server. You may want to import your society to transfer settings that can only be set on the client, or to save your progress from another server, but in either case the process can be simple if you know what steps to take.
Locating the save files
Importing from your Client
Windows Clients, using Steam or Xbox, will store the society files at or on the Cloud, where you'll have to Move it to Local in order to import it to your server. That directory, assuming you're storing the worlds locally as mentioned before, should hold and files bearing the names of your worlds. It will also contain any backups that were automatically made by Valheim while you were playing.
After locating the folder and the world files you want to upload, you can select the and files bearing the identify of your world, excluding any that contain the word or , and compress them for upload. You'll want to upload the compressed file to your server's directory and then decompress it using the File Manager. Finally, you&#
Valheim: Upload World
Follow this guide to get help locating the planet saves on your computer.
In this guide
Locate Local Saves (PC)
The conserve folder for your local Valheim saves is:
From June 2022, worlds are stored in the Steam cloud by default. Move on to the section about Steam cloud saves to find that save folder.
Are you using the Game Pass version of the game? Then you would first need to boot up the game, click “Manage Saves”, and then “Move to Local” in order to find the files in your computer’s folders.- 1
- Open the Windows File Explorer
- 2
- Navigate to “This PC” and then select “Local Disk (C:)”
- 3
- Go to the “Users” folder and elect your user.
- 4
- Navigate to the “AppData” folder and then go to “LocalLow” -> “IronGate” -> “Valheim
- Note: The AppData folder might be secret by default. Check out this guide on how to view hidden folders on Windows 10 and 11.
- 5
- Glance for the "worlds_local" folder. Here you should find your society files with the “.db” and “.fwl” extensions.
- Note: If you can’t find your world in this folder, go back one step and go to the folder "worlds” instead, it might be there if you haven’t used the world since June 202
I am trying to locate the world save files for Valheim, but all my google searching has only led to one location (appdata\locallow\...), there is no locallow folder in my appdata. I am on a new pc so that might have something to do with it.
My pc has two drives, C and D. C drive has my OS, some other programs, and steam. D drive is the one with my steamlibrary files for Valheim.
I have tried showing hidden folders and searching around but this locallow folder still seems not to exist.
Thanks for your help!Denunciar este mensaje
Aviso: Esto SOLO debe ser usado para denunciar spam, publicidad y mensajes problemáticos (acoso, peleas o groserías).