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20 ArticlesHow To Make Your Valheim Server Appear On The Community Server Listings
When you open Valheim, you’ll notice that there are server listings when you select the Join Game tab. These are called community servers. It’s worth noting that all servers, including these community servers, require passwords to join. --- Make your Valheim Server Appear on the Server Listings 1. Access your server's Control Panel and Stop the server. 2. Navigate to the Config tab. 3. Change the value to and press Save. 4. Restart your server. Valheim has a limit on the number of servers it can list, so some servers might not appear due to there being too many servers to show. Because of this, we don’t recommend connecting to your server via the community server listings, as this is an unreliable way of finding your server. Instead, we recommend joining via IP or Steam server listings. If you require any further assistance, please contact our support at: https://shockbyte.com/billing/submitticket.php
How to Find Your Valheim World Seed
There are many reasons why a server owner might wish to know the seed of their Valheim World; however, the Valheim developers don't make the seed of a world easily accessible through commands. There are third-party tools available to find the seed of a world that is not currently loaded on your server. --- Finding Your World Seed If you need to find the seed of your world, you can upload the world file to a third-party tool to find the seed. 1. Access your Control Panel and Stop your server. 2. Navigate to the Files tab. 3. Locate and Open the folder. 4. Download the file associated with your desired world. 5. Navigate to: https://valheim-map.world/getseed.html 6. Click Choose file. 7. Select your file, then click Open. 8. Your world's seed can then be seen at the bottom of the page. Now you have your Valheim World Seed! If you require any further assistance, please contact our support at: https://shockbyte.com/billing/submitticket.php
How To Enable PvP On Your Valheim Server
Despite being a PvE-focused game, Valheim still offers you the ability to fight other players. This PvP aspect of the game is restricted to duel-style engagements, where both sides must consent in order to engage in a PvP fight. It’s worth noting that if you lose a PvP fight (by dying), the same rules of death apply as normal - you will still lose your entire inventory, so be careful to only PvP with people you trust. --- How to Enable PvP It’s worth noting that you can only enable PvP for yourself. The player you wish to PvP against will also need to follow these steps for the PvP to work. 1. Join the server you wish to PvP on. 2. Open your inventory (TAB key by default). 3. At the very top right, click the 2 swords so that they become crossed (a message will appear in the middle of the screen saying PvP-Damage Enabled). 4. PvP is now enabled! Get your opponent to do the same to start the duel. Disabling PvP is done the same way, only this time the swords will become uncrossed.
How To Create A Valheim Character
The core basis around Valheim is having characters on your account - all of your progress (inventory, stats, progress) is stored on your character account. This means you can swap between worlds or servers, and keep your progress between them all. However, as dying can cause you to lose your entire inventory, it’s sometimes advised to create a new character for the purpose of joining a server. This guide will assist you with creating a new character. There is no limit to the number of characters you can make; however, they will always be sorted alphabetically, so be sure to remember that when making a new one. --- How to Create a New Character 1. Firstly, launch your game, and select the Start Game option on the Main Menu. 2. Then, at the bottom right of the Character Select screen, click the New button. 3. Customize the character however you like. Once you’re done, hit the Done key at the bottom right of the screen. 4. You’ll then be sent back to the Character Selection screen, so just hit Start to select your new character! --- How to Create Your First Character 1. For your first character, click the New button in the bottom-centre of the screen. 2. You can then customize your character as normal, and follow the steps above to finish off making your first character!
How To Change Your Valheim Server Password
All servers must have a password. When you order a server from us, a random password is generated; however, you can change this to whatever you want so that only people who know the password will be able to join. ::ProseNote{title="Important" description="Make sure that the password you choose follows these guidelines:<brMust be at least 5 characters long<brNot be the same as the world name<brIf the password you set is too short or the same as your world name, the server will crash." appearance="default"} :: Changing Your Server Password Changing your server password is super easy! Just follow these steps below in order to change your password. 1. Access your server's Control Panel. 2. Navigate to the Config tab. 3. Change the Password option to what you would like and click Save. Click on Generate to create a randomized, secure password. 4. Restart your server for the change to take effect. If you require any further assistance, please contact our support at: https://shockbyte.com/billing/submitticket.php
How To Ban, Unban And Kick People On Your Valheim Server
Valheim is a very PvE-focused game, so when it comes to playing on a Valheim server, it’s very important that you only give your server information (Password & IP) to friends or people you trust. However, if someone somehow gets your password, or you need to remove someone from your server, the game offers a number of options for Kicking and Banning players from the game. ::ProseNote{title="Important" description="If you do not know a player's SteamID or do not know how to find it, check out our guide here." appearance="default"} :: --- How to Ban Someone In-Game Before you can ban someone in-game, you’ll need to make sure that you are an admin on your server. You can check out our guide on doing this here - How to Give Yourself Admin on Your Valheim Server 1. Login to your server, and press the F5 key to bring up the Console. 2. Enter the command . Alternatively, you can to also ban them from the server. Note that banning someone by their Character name will ban their SteamID and thus all their characters from the server. 3. After a few seconds, the user will be banned from the server. --- How to Ban Someone Via Config Files You can view and edit your config files via the control panel. 1. Login to your Control Panel. 2. Navigate to the Files tab. 3. Locate and Open the file. 4. Add their SteamID64 to the file, being sure to have one ID per line. 5. Click Save. After a few seconds, the user will be banned from the server. --- How to View Banned Players Before you can view banned people in-game, you’ll need to make sure that you are an admin on your server. You can check out our guide on doing this here - How to Give Yourself Admin on Your Valheim Server 1. Login to your server, and press the F5 key to bring up your Console. 2. Enter the command . 3. This will then list all currently banned users. ::ProseNote{title="Important" description="Only STEAMID64's & Character Names are valid banned names. Anything else will not be considered a player and will have no effect on who is or is not banned. If you ban a Character Name, it should show up as a STEAMID64 after banning them." appearance="default"} :: How to Unban Someone In-Game If you have a whitelist on your server - or anyone inside the “permittedlist.txt” config file, then anyone not on that list will be banned. If you need help managing your whitelist, check out our guide on it here - How to Whitelist Your Valheim Server 1. Login to the server, and press the F5 key to bring up your Console. 2. Enter the command . 3. After a few seconds, the user will be able to join the server again. --- How to Unban Someone Via Config Files 1. Login to your Control Panel. 2. Navigate to the Files tab. 3. Locate and Open the file. 4. Remove the user's SteamID64 from the file (You can use Ctrl + F to search the file if it has a lot of users in it). 5. Click Save and Restart your server. --- How to Kick Someone Because kicking is not permanent (i.e. once it's done, there's no need to do it again), this can only be done from within the game. 1. Login to the server, and press the F5 key to bring up your console. 2. Enter the command . Alternatively, you can to also kick them from the server. 3. The user will be kicked after a few seconds. Running your Valheim server is pretty easy! You now know how to ban, unban, or kick players when you need to.
How To Backup And Restore Your Valheim Server
Backing up and restoring your Valheim server is simple and protects your game data from crashes, updates, or unintentional changes. This guide will help you save your server files and restore them when necessary, ensuring your progress is secure and easily reloaded. ::ProseNote{title="Important" description="Remember that your player data is stored on your own PC. This means that if your player data becomes corrupted on your PC, it won’t be possible to restore it from your Server Backup. If you want to back up your player data, you can check out our guide on this here - How to Backup Your Valheim Characters" appearance="default"} :: Backup your Valheim Server --- You can quickly generate a manual backup at any time on your server's control panel. 1. Navigate to the Shockbyte Panel and open your server panel. 2. On the left-hand sidebar, click the Backups tab 3. Click Instance, then select the server instance you would like to create backups on. 4. Click Start Backup to begin generating the backup. --- How to Restore a Valheim Server Backup If you wish to restore your server backup, then check out our helpful guide on doing so here: Restore Server Backups