Valheim Server Hosting

Your local world is two files that share a name: a .fwl and a .db. Upload both into the server's worlds_local directory over SFTP, set the world name in the start parameters, and your base, portal network and boss trophies carry across. Valheim stores characters on the client, so every player keeps their skills and inventory the instant they connect to the new address.

If a save ever looks wrong after a patch, the panel holds ten rolling daily backups and Valheim's own .db.old file stays visible in the file manager for a manual rollback. Download a copy over SFTP before any risky terraforming session and you always have a clean point to return to.

Valheim modding runs through BepInEx. Upload the Unix pack to the server root, place plugin DLLs such as Valheim Plus or a server-side quality of life mod into BepInEx/plugins, then restart from the live console so the configs generate under BepInEx/config. Most plugins expect matching versions on the client, so keep your list documented and pinned for players.

When a Valheim update lands ahead of your mod list, the one-click version changer lets you hold the server on the build your plugins support until the authors catch up. That single control saves more modded worlds than anything else in the panel, and it takes one restart to apply.

Valheim supports crossplay between the PC and Xbox editions, so enable it in your launch settings and hand out the join code. Latency still decides whether you dodge a Deathsquito, so choose the closest of our nine locations: San Jose or Salt Lake City for the west, Ashburn or New York City for the east, Brussels and Frankfurt for European clans, Toronto for Canada.