Because progress in Valheim is stored in your player information, this means that the server world only stores your builds and other such things. As a result, you may want to change the world; if the map isn’t very good, or you just want a fresh world to farm resources on.
Thankfully, resetting your server world is incredibly easy. You can choose to either delete your existing world, or simply create a new one, which is useful if you ever want to return to your old world.
# How to Change Your Server World
If you just want to change your world, rather than deleting it entirely - this is really easy.
- Access your Server Control Panel and Stop the server.
- Navigate to the Config Tab.
- Change the World option to what you want your new world to be called and click Save.
- To return to your old world, simply change this option back to what it was previously.
# How to Delete Your Server World
Maybe you want to remove your world entirely, either because you will never have a use for it again, or because you want a new world with the same name.
- Access your Server Control Panel and Stop the server.
- Navigate to the Files tab.
- Locate and Open the
\savedata
folder, and then the/worlds
folder. - You’ll want to delete the 2 files in there called
<worldname>.db
and<worldname>.db.old
if there is one; and<worldname>.fwl
and<worldname>.fwl.old
if there is one.