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almost 2 years ago - /u/dvoidis - Direct link

Originally posted by --Ben-Shapiro--

Add a note to warn people about losing their world save! This is awful! We lost hundreds of hours of world progress updating our server. The world files just disappeared. Not even a warning to backup before we updated, everything is just gone.

Edit: Before you tell me to check my worlds_local folder in .config, it doesn't exist. I don't have that folder, just a 'prefs' file in the .config>unity>irongate>valheim folder path. No local world backups to move, nothing at all. We lost everything to this update.

your old worlds should still exist in worlds/ directory, the issue is that dedicated servers fail to load from that directory and instead creats a new world in worlds_local/ we are trying to get a fix out as soon as possible. Unfortunately if the issue already happened, its easiest to just manually copy your world from worlds/ to worlds_local/ and it should be fine. as far as we know, really sorry about this :(

almost 2 years ago - /u/dvoidis - Direct link

Originally posted by --Ben-Shapiro--

Thanks for the response! We will wait for the fix, hopefully we can get it back, I won't touch anything for a few days in case we can recover. Even if the save is lost, I learned my lesson in backing up semi-regularly lol

fix is out, but it wont automatically load your old world if its already borked. (since a new world has been created in worlds_local and is loaded instead) , try removing the borked world in worlds_local and your old original untouched world in worlds/ should load....in theory

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