steam-bugs-discussion

[rigid patrol]

There is one hop that starts with 192 but the ping only goes to 30. The game is open and I’m in the server during this check. Speed check is still .94

[stark meadow]

Can you DM me the trace route results?

[south lance]

If you're getting damaged at melee range while playing archer it's absolutely not the game's problem

And ranged combat in general is broken op

It is not

[willow tiger]

few askvins, valkyrie, morgen and hol lot of skeletons they all attack me in the same time in ashlands , and no matter which class your play u will be still getting damage

but i of course agree that mage and other ranged build more powerfull than melee

[willow tiger]

and then one more valkryie and few morgens again, so you just can't deal with them all without taking damage and it's too hard to runaway from them espically from valkryie

might be only i so lucky idk

[sonic estuary]

You have to make yourself vulnerable to get the strongest shield, that seems ok to me.

Otherwise you could refresh it after every hit and it would never break

[rich crane]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Datenträger 0 (C:)
Fanxiang S102 Pro 2TB Arbeitsspeicher
16,0 GB DDR3

should be the important ones i guess

[stark meadow]

Have you tried resetting your BIOS setting to default yet?

[rich crane]

No

[stark meadow]

That's the first thing to you should try.
As you can see, crashes due to unstable BIOS tweaks are the most common causes when it comes down to random crashes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/my_valheim_is_crashing_fix_for_crash_guide/

[rich crane]

its not just valheim tho the hole pc crashes when i play Valheim

[stark meadow]

Yeah, that's what usually happens when one runs unstable clocks.
There can be other causes that would induce full system crashes, mostly listed in Section1:Point6 of the guide.
Just try resetting BIOS to default first. Ever been to BIOS?

[rich crane]

yes i will try that thanks

[willow tiger]

It’s doesn’t work , when you refresh shield it’s only refreshing shield time but not hp so shield still keep be damaged, until it will be fully destroyed and only then you can cast new one with full hp

@sonic estuary Check this video, i show it here

[sonic estuary]

That’s completely intentional, so you can’t keep your shield up forever

[willow tiger]

But you anyway can’t keep up your shield forever because of the time limit it’s has

[sonic estuary]

You can refresh the timer by using the staff though

[willow tiger]

I agree, you can refresh time if spend your eitr and health

[sonic estuary]

But you need to become vulnerable by breaking your shield or waiting for it to disappear before you can get max hp again, so you can’t constantly have a max hp shield and be completely invincible.

[willow tiger]

But i predict that most people think that when they refresh shield they also refresh it’s hp and not only the time

[sonic estuary]

Even at 1hp the shield can block infinite damage

But maybe it should be made more obvious what using the staff is actually doing

[willow tiger]

Yes , but in fight(esp in ashlands) you get a lot of hits from ranged thing atleast

So you tanky 1 arrow/shot/hit and then fully new refreshed shield destroys and you lose your protection

[sonic estuary]

But then you get a full health shield after that

[willow tiger]

But hol lot of enemy still around you

[sonic estuary]

If you could refill the shield’s health at any time you could keep it up forever

[willow tiger]

To keep it forever you must spend your eitr, hp and limit your mobility which all three you need during the fight

So it’s still kind not so effective thing

At the moment you start fight with very damaged shield, loose it during 1-2hit and then get a lot of damage which often leads to death and all it because you was sure that when you refresh your shield it became new-fully restored and you ready to getting in hard fight, i mean like most people don’t know about this shield secret with non regen hp after refresh and most people dying because of it hidden surprise

Maybe game at least should tell people hot does this magic shield works

[sonic estuary]

That’s why I sent this. If players knew their shield wasn’t healed, that would fix the problem.

[willow tiger]

Well it’s solutions will be normal

But personally I’d prefer just fix it

[dawn epoch]

I had only one stmp that i deleted. Looks like every time i go to a different location and save, it just creates a new save and respawn at the same spot. I do have a lot of files in \892970\remote\characters

[stark meadow]

You have one more stmp file in the screnshotted folder, or was that the one you deleted already?

[dawn epoch]

I must be blind, what file is that?

Ah you mean in the file explorer folders?

[stark meadow]

Yeah, check that entire folder.

[dawn epoch]

Bro you are a legend

This fixed the issue

What are those stmp files?

[stark meadow]

Whn steam crashes during saving, it does not clean up those files, but it should.

[dawn epoch]

Aaah i see

Thanks, appreciate taking time to help out

[sand delta]

I need help this happens when i press start game

[gilded sluice]

remove your mods probably

[sand delta]

I have no mods started literally 2 days ago

I downloaded it on the xbox app on pc if that helps

[gilded sluice]

Hm... looks like something failed

[sand delta]

Do you know a solution?

[gilded sluice]

find your player.log In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

send it to me

[surreal herald]

Hey, everyone!! I have a issue with a finewood ... I made a new world and a new character just over a month ago, playing hard+, map+portal and more raids, no mods. I was killed several times near my portals, by the time i get back, my portals get destroyed, workbench is there, cores, eyes, only finewood vanishes. If i have a fine wood with me, its not in a tombstone.... all is there, just finewood is gone! Anyone has seen anything like it? That did not happen in the previous 3 worlds i had before!

[stark meadow]

Sounds like a broken installation. Can you reproduce the issue by destroying the portal yourself?

[vapid charm]

so... the queen clipped me out of the map #screenshots message

I have everything backed up, so I'm fine, but uhh yeah didn't know that could happen

definitely getting closer to this blob

I fell back into my world lol. Valheim is a klein bottle

[weary tulip]

Where are those portals located?

If you are in Ashlands, there is firestorm instead of rain and also ground on some places is too hot for buildings.

Main problem is finewood being turned into charcoal when portal burns.

[stark meadow]

Good point, that's probably it.

[surreal herald]

Thanks for a replies!... @stark meadow When i destroy it, fine wood stays there, i can collect it! @weary tulip No, not in ashlands yet, it happened 3 times in meadow/black forest and twice in a swamp. I didn't even found a coal, at least i would know it burned...

[stark meadow]

I would definitely recommend reinstalling the game yet, if you already haven't.
However, after uninstalling the game, double check that everything in Valheim installation folder got removed.
Have you seen any gaps in the terrain/ground, like huge chunkts of land loading slower or sometimes not loading?

[weary tulip]

There are mods reducing despawn time. maybe you are using some of them? And when your portal and workbench gets destroyed, you don't have base building anymore and stuff despawns after 3600 seconds - 1 hour

it's very strange behavior. It sounds like if some creature was taking it to annoy you :-D

Let us know if reinstall helped.

[hard bridge]

For reference, all the dungeons are actually super high up in the sky as far as the game engine is concerned 😉 that's the same reason you can sometimes find tetra on the ground near the entrances to frozen caverns.

[marble wolf]

Partially, though I don't know to what extent.

[surreal herald]

@stark meadow Slower loading/rendering.. i seen that, but only on a location i am building(there i watch carefully), other than that... i don't think so... but today i'm playing again, will definitely watch closer everywhere. Should i save the local files or it will be resynced back from the cloud? @weary tulip I don't use mods. i know about despawning when no objects are in range. But, how can i find everything else but finewood.

[weary tulip]

that's the only thing in this case what makes it strange.

Offered solutions were all quite general, including reinstall and removing all game related files.
Btw. have you tried reinstalling? Please confirm this, it's important.

[weary tulip]

Your problem is very specific which should lead to specific solution, yet at the same time it should be not present, or other problems should be also present.

On the highest level of game layer, closest to player, it can be caused by missing model or inverted normals on the model(model is there, but you see through it - you will get "pick up" text in this case)

[surreal herald]

@weary tulip i will play it today, see if those loading stuff is happening as MaCarBre said. If it happens again, will reinstall it.

[weary tulip]

As you can see, you must look at many different stuff, so:

1. do reinstall
2. if problem persists, set log level options to highest levels (debug).
3. Ask here for someone with experience with these debug logs, describe your problem and tests/situations when you noticed it again.

[proud ibex]

Been trying to troubleshoot my game hard locking. everytime i think i've got it fixed i'll get well into a play session and the game will crash again. its not leaving behind any crash log, it just freezes the computer, and i have to do a hard reboot. specs:

Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H 2.70 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

I've gone through the crash troubleshooting guide. any help or insight would be appreciated.

[gilded sluice]

send me your player.log file 🙂
In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[stark meadow]

I've gone through the crash troubleshooting guide. any help or insight would be appreciated.
What does this mean? That you already tried resetting BIOS to default? Do you have a GPU in that system?

[humble shard]

Black marble bench reads as wood bench when mousing over after building.

[gilded sluice]

known issue

[proud ibex]

next time it crashes i'll shot one to ya. right now its been running okay. the trick seems to be deleting the settings registry.

[gilded sluice]

deleting that sounds like a mod issue for sure

[proud ibex]

I've been going through the troubleshooting guide, i haven't messed with my BIOS but i reset it today and we'll see

[proud ibex]

i haven't modded yet, i wanna get through my first playthrough with my fiancee first XD

[gilded sluice]

ever played skyrim?

[proud ibex]

dunno if it makes a diff but it crashes only on my laptop

yes? though I cannot remember if i've played on this laptop

sounds like the fiancee has XD

[stark meadow]

Do you have a GPU on your system or only CPU with integrated graphics?

[gilded sluice]

back in the days. skyrim modloader could auto-sence Valheim and enable mods for it aswell without the players consent 🥲

[proud ibex]

GPU, 3070 laptop

[proud ibex]

okay lemme go digging XD weird that its only affecting the laptop though cause i know for a fact that we both have modded skyrim on our pc's

[stark meadow]

Should be fine, but install HWiNFO and have it in sensor mod reporting MAX temps.
After you crash in Valheim, check which MAX temps have been reported in it.

[proud ibex]

Got it! i'll get back to ya'll next crash :D

[gilded sluice]

don't need to crash

[proud ibex]

oh okay :D

[gilded sluice]

just start the game, load up a world and your player.log fills in info

[proud ibex]

gotcha

how much ya need?

[proud ibex]

sent

[low marsh]

Is there a bug atm with building? Been waiting for this to fall to the ground and then realised

[gilded sluice]

should start falling apart after 30 seconds 🤔

[low marsh]

Nah, was still up for hours after. Never fell as far as I know

[gilded sluice]

it shouldn't fall unless a player is there. and spends minimum 30 seconds

[low marsh]

I was building next to it for the entire time.

[stark meadow]

Try stopping building for some time.
Why is that in the air anyway? You removed support beams?

[low marsh]

Yeah, I took out the lower half, figured I'd let gravity do its thing whilst I was doing other stuff.

[hard bridge]

Looks like you're flying there... do you have any mods as well? Are you using any other commands?

[low marsh]

Just server dev commands and fly.

Mod is server dev commands*
Command used is fly*

Just to be clear

[hard bridge]

Ahh... yeah, if you're on a remote server things can sometimes get desynched with structural calculations and such, and I don't know about that mod but it might trigger that effect as well. My suggestion would be to see if it properly recalculates after restarting the server and your client.

And secondarily, mods are not supported in the main channels like this, it makes things confusing because they aren't officially supported in the game. If you're running into issues, make sure all mods are uninstalled and you still have the problem, or ask in #mods-issues

[low marsh]

To be honest, I'm just going to rip it down myself when I go on next. Was more curious if it was something in the game.

And that's fair, makes sense. I didn't see that channel, but as far as I know, this just enables Dev commands. Shouldn't interfere with anything else.

[hard bridge]

If I had a dime for every time a mod shouldn't have interfered with anything but it did for people asking for support here, I'd have at least a couple more bucks in my pocket 😉

[low marsh]

Yeah, silly of me to say.

If it happens again, I'll go through all that and report again in the correct channel. 😂

[lilac dagger]

Does someone else have a problem with Valheim and Firefox open at the same time?
When I have and when I tab out to Firefox on my 2nd monitor then the game crashes.
Is there some log that I can send in so someone can take a look at it?

Havent had that problem before.

Only happens with Firefox. Havent noticed it with other programs yet

[stark meadow]

Is there some log that I can send in so someone can take a look at it?
Yeah, you can grab player.log and player-prev.log after you crash, and before you open your game again.
On windows located at: %username%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

Regardless, I would recommend re-installing your graphic card driver with emphasis on selecting clean profile during custom installation of drivers

[lilac dagger]

Have done that every time with a new driver update. No change so far.

[cold pagoda]

I always have Firefox open when playing Valheim. Never had crashes, also not when switching between them.

[lilac dagger]

Had already opened the game again, but I can replicate it later after my little session. 😄

[gilded sluice]

never ever happens 🤔

and I do play the game quite alot

[lilac dagger]

must be something I did then. But I cant say what I do different than all the years before 😄

[gilded sluice]

usual problem is running out of RAM 🤔

Firefox tab's likes to use that stuff

[lilac dagger]

But it crashes with some notification from my adrenaline software. I have a rx5700xt. I will pay closer attention to that next time

[gilded sluice]

🤔

[lilac dagger]

At that time I havent opened any websites yet

[gilded sluice]

sounds like a GPU drivers issue more than firefox related problems

I do recommend most people to do a clean re-install of the GPU drivers every 6-ish months to get rid of any wierd stuff that can happen 😄

https://www.systweak.com/blogs/how-to-reinstall-amd-drivers-in-windows/

[lilac dagger]

But only when opening firefox it triggers that. I have tried with many others but it never happened with that.
I'll try a clean install from your recommandation tomorrow. Thanks!

[gilded sluice]

🫡

[viscid dock]

I hadn't rejoined the discord yet after the prior hack, so I didn't report this back when I saw it in July, but here is a rip in space-time. I haven't ever noticed a surface discontinuity in the game before (or since).

[gilded sluice]

What is close to that? 🤔

usually the world breaks (or broke) when it's a big structure nearby

[stark meadow]

This one is probably just an aftermath of an lava blob explosion.

[viscid dock]

Was I supposed to know that?

[gilded sluice]

What things are close to that rip in the ground?

You can always fix it by pickaxe it or useing a hoe

[viscid dock]

Sorry, I assumed your original question was rhetorical because of the emote. Nothing is close other than what's in the pic. It's only the natural gen, and no terrain manipulation when the pic was taken (no evidence of any lava blob explosion which usually makes a more even divot). Just running by and noticed it. Can't remember -- I might have pickaxed it closed after that.

[lilac dagger]

I tried that today and made a clean install of my GPU drivers, but the crash still happened.
My Adrenaline Software said something about a driver-timeout. Ive send now a bug report via this software.
Its really strange and its only happening with Valheim and Firefox in combination. Every other game is fine and valheim also doesnt crash with other programs. Dont know if it happens with other browsers.

I can send you some logs, if you'd like. Which ones from the appdata folder are helfpul for you?

[gilded sluice]

sounds like a drivers issue 🤔
super wierd

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. the fortress or the ashlands village isn't even close to the rip?

[stark meadow]

Did you check how your player.log file looks like after a crash? Tried disabling GPU acceleration in firefox?

[lilac dagger]

I dont know yet how to read them, but if they could hold some information to solve the problem then I will have a look.
GPU acceleration, I will try that.

[lilac dagger]

Wow! You have to explain to me, why that did work! 😄
No crashes so far. @gilded sluice

[silk cairn]

the furnace just ate all of my ores

didnt fill up, just disappeared all of it

[sonic estuary]

Are you in multiplayer?

[silk cairn]

yup

[sonic estuary]

It was probably bad connection at a bad time?

[silk cairn]

is there any way to get it back

[viscid dock]

The fortress is the shield bubble in the original picture and the house icon on the map in my picture. Not sure what you count as village -- the buildings shown in the picture aren't it? They are the buildings that have the fiddleheads in them. I went back, and the following 3 pics are 90 degrees clockwise each time from the original picture. I did apparently pickaxe the rip closed. You can see where it was as the altered terrain in these.

[latent sparrow]

When you get some time, would you mind taking a look at this parts list based on your recommendation and let me know if you have any swapout suggestions? I do appreciate and value your input. Thanks. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3gk67R

[ornate schooner]

ok. can anybody please explain why sometimes when i breakdown an item with my hammer, if my inv is full, why the pieces just disappear instead of staying on the ground? ive lost WAAY too much bronze and iron this way. And how do I fix it?

[olive night]

Not sure if this is the right channel, but does anyone know how to handle sound issues on Linux;
there's an open bug which is related to the Unity version which selects the incorrect audio channel on valheim launch, I can get around this for now by selecting one in my mixer.
However; when I use my headphones there's no audio when I switch to them, all other apps and games work fine (they don't use unity of course). <-- this is what I would like some tips on if anyone knows.

Also that Unity bug should be patched afaik, but I guess that requires another engine update so I guess it'll have to wait.

[gilded sluice]

without going into super-details on each thing in the list. it's not a bad list of parts. nice RAM with CL's good overall computer.
do you have a case already to put it in?
no extra fans?

[latent sparrow]

Thank you for replying. Going to reuse the case I have currently nzxt which has two large fans on top and one exhaust fan on left, and two fans bottom.

[gilded sluice]

sounds like enough fans 🙂

did you pick the 4070 super because of cost or any specific reason?

[latent sparrow]

can't afford higher, but was looking at Tom's hardware reviews

[gilded sluice]

ah

[latent sparrow]

If smiffe hardware reviews is published.. lol

i'd look at that lol

[stark meadow]

You can launch the game in proton mode to avoid the issue, or after the game gets launched with your main sound output being on headphones, you will have to minimise the game and re-apply the sound output to your headphones (swithcing main autio device from something else, and then back to the headphones).

[gilded sluice]

really comes down to what is important for you

[olive night]

Yeah so the last step doesn't seem to work, because I can get it to play on my speakers. But It must be a me issue I guess 😄

[stark meadow]

Sounds like a mod problem, or you deconstructing something that was placed on something specific.

[gilded sluice]

I'd argue a 4070 ti super is tiny tiny bit better because 16Gb Vram over 12Gb Vram. but also depends on what type of games you gonna play

[olive night]

As an AMD fanboy I would recommend AMD GPU

[gilded sluice]

like my 3060 ti couldn't play Hogwarts Legacy on all nice settings because to little Vram 😦

[latent sparrow]

oh wow

I tend to play Valheim, GTAV as of late.

I love survival games mostly, and they are starting to get graphic heavy.

[gilded sluice]

yeah.. sadly a 4070 ti super is 200$ more expensive

prince diffrence for me at my store is like 70€ so that's acceptable IMO. but not 200€ diffrence for 4Gb more Vram

[latent sparrow]

ahh ok that makes sense

Curious, do you recommend amd gpu or intel gpu for performance

[gilded sluice]

AMD atm

13 and 14th gen intel have had hardware problems when they just destroy themselves

but AMD gives lower temp, better performance and higher speeds

[olive night]

Especially with upcoming windows updates for some raisin

[ornate schooner]

It has happened both with and without mods. Though it happened only once on a mod-less server. As far as mods go, I have PlanBuild, Perfect Placement, Plant Everything, and Plant Easily. Could one of those be the culprit?

[simple phoenix]

I booted up valheim and I haven't played since before Mistlands was released and whether I'm playing solo or on a server my game seems to stutter every few seconds, both the game and audio will freeze. Kinda like a micro-stutter. Anyone else experience this? Maybe my cpu?

[simple phoenix]

Followed some guides from a year ago and tried reinstalling my graphic driver, disabling c states, enabling ram acceleration. Vulkan on and off, low/high settings. Reinstalling valheim, boot options, boot.config commands. Changed resolution to lowest.

Maybe mistlands/ashlands patched me out of the game since last I played it ran nice and smooth, however, many posts online say they have the same issue with no fix even with people having super computers compared to my PC. 😦

[gilded sluice]

sounds like mod issues

people just don't post "oh, this solved my problems" enough for people to find those posts

[stark meadow]

@simple phoenix list your system specs

[stark meadow]

You can try asking in #mods-issues if anyone had a similar problem. This is not a remotely common problem on vanilla (only one other report about player losing fine wood when deconstucting portals). We deal with vanilla game here.

[carmine narwhal]

I'm having a unity crash error everytime i open the game... after 4 attempts the game crashed my computer so hard it changed my wallpaper

Looks something like this - verifying files doesn't help 😦

Fresh install also doesn't help... anyone have any ideas?

[marble wolf]

Mods?

[carmine narwhal]

None

[carmine narwhal]

If anyone else gets the above - i was using the "Vulkan" version - just launch normally and it (should) fix it

[simple phoenix]

Don’t have mods

[gilded sluice]

did you remove all old mods then?
This 99% happens due to mod files still linger in the valheim directory

\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim

this folder

should look like this and nothing else

[gilded sluice]

ever had any mods?

[carmine narwhal]

Never had any

[simple phoenix]

my valheim directory looks like this. I've reinstalled a few times now.

Deleted all my characters and worlds from the app and the folder Irongate from AppData/LocalLow

It'll be once I'm in the title screen of Valheim I'll wait and then the audio and game will micro freeze. This is quite the pickle as I'm wondering if it's my cpu dying on me or something. My roommate does not have any issue and he has mods.

No mods installed.

RAM: 16gb
OS: Windows 10 64bit
CPU: Intel i5-7400 3.00GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

[gilded sluice]

let me see your player.log file then

[gilded sluice]

You don't need to touch the local low folder. that's only loading and saving worlds. no mods ends up there

it could be your CPU

or atleast the cooling sollution would need to be re-applied

[carmine narwhal]

How does one show/share this?

[gilded sluice]

you can drag and drop the file into a DM to me

[stark meadow]

Although it sounds like it might be a temp issue, you should first check if you have any optinal windows updatess reasy for download.
Have you monitored your temperatures?
If not, I would recommend downloading HWiNFO and checking which MAX temps are your components reaching while playing
Tried re-installing graphics driver?

[simple phoenix]

"Analysis of Valheim Log Files

Action:
    Provided multiple Valheim log files for analysis.
Findings:
    Missing Script Errors:
        "The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object '<null>') is missing!"
    Mesh Generation Warnings:
        "Couldn't create a Convex Mesh from source mesh 'default' within the maximum polygons limit (256)."
    Audio Errors:
        "Only custom filters can be played. Please add a custom filter or an audioclip to the audiosource (Amb_MainMenu)."
        "Missing audio clip in music respawn"
    Extended World Generation Times:
        "Done generating locations, duration:150888.0711 ms"
    Memory Allocation Statistics:
        High peak allocations and overflow counts in several allocators."

This is what my log tells me everytime. I enabled trace logs and developer mode. There are no mods installed and any residual mod files are gone from my computer. Thunderstore folder had an old valheim folder from years ago and it's gone, but problem persist. Reinstalled, verified game files, cleared steam cache, disabled steam cloud. Problem exists right from Title Screen.

There are no temp issues, throttling, or spikes from my hardware and I did a memory test on reboot, used CrystalMark to review my CPU and SSD Drive and everything is working fine. Used CPUID to monitor temps and everything is fine, no irregularities.

I've switched between Vulkan and DirectX and I don't think my AMD GPU likes Vulkan so testing was done via DirectX launch options. I updates my graphic drivers with no luck.

Reinstalled Visual C++ Redistributables

Updated BIO and Chipset Drivers

This has me scratching my head mannn

[stark meadow]

Which GPU is being listed on top of the player.log file as being used?
Have you tried disabling your integrated graphic card in the BIOS?

When you re-installed graphic driver, did you select a custom installation + clean profile?

[simple phoenix]

my AMD GPU is being used

I believe I installed the driver just defacto/express

Just to show the audio/game micro stutter

[stark meadow]

I can't tell if only audio is stuttering or you have frame freezes as well.

[simple phoenix]

it's both

[stark meadow]

If both, I would definitely do driver re-installation but with a clean profile.
Then I would open msconfig go to services tab, hide all microsoft services and then disable all the non-Microsoft services, and restart the PC so it starts without them, to see if any 3rd party app is responsible for this.

Tried disabling XBox game bar already?

[simple phoenix]

Yes I did the msconfig disabling. I will try reinstalling my drivers

[simple phoenix]

No change unfortunately

I appreciate your help but I think I'm going to shelf valheim for now

[stark meadow]

Do you know how did your CPU and GPU usage look like when Valheim is running?

[simple phoenix]

yes and when the game stutters there are no spikes happening on anything

no temperature spikes either

[stark meadow]

I meant in a exact sense, what was the CPU and GPU usage, for instance in the main menu?
It would probably be a good idea to check per core CPU usage.

Also, what did you mean by your AMD GPU not liking Vulkan?

Checked event viewer or windows reliability history monitor for any obvious error spam?

[simple phoenix]

GPU is around 20% in title

and CPU is 27%

By that I mean, when it freezes, my computer isn't freezing

[simple phoenix]

I checked it earlier and yeah, no errors

Have no clue what this all is:

Findings:
Missing Script Errors:
"The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object '<null>') is missing!"
Mesh Generation Warnings:
"Couldn't create a Convex Mesh from source mesh 'default' within the maximum polygons limit (256)."
Audio Errors:
"Only custom filters can be played. Please add a custom filter or an audioclip to the audiosource (Amb_MainMenu)."
"Missing audio clip in music respawn"
Extended World Generation Times:
"Done generating locations, duration:150888.0711 ms"
Memory Allocation Statistics:
High peak allocations and overflow counts in several allocators."

But it's in every log. Trying to reference a script and can't find it so the game constantly tries to find it and can't so that could be causing it.

And an audio clip that is trying to be found and can't be so this could be the cause as well

[stark meadow]

That's normal part of a player.log that everyone has, and not related to your issue.

It's unlikely that you will find an error in the player.log file if you re-installed the game properly (short and long re-installation process explained in the Section5 of this guide:https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/my_valheim_is_crashing_fix_for_crash_guide/).

[stark meadow]

20% GPU usage in the main menu seems off in the main menu.
How much GPU usage do you see in full screen at 1080p in the main menu, and quality preset?
Also enable Steam FPS overlay at least to check if FPS is properly capped at 60 in the main menu.

Do you have more than keyboard and mouse plugged in when it comes to input devices?

[rocky stag]

Not sure if a bug but a friend & me were summoning Moder & she flew away & died in mid air. Bug?

[stark meadow]

Doesn't sound like a vanilla bug. Anyone using mods?
It also could be that someone was using console commands, and they killed his via a console command.

[rocky stag]

No mods, no commands, I was host & friend was up to Moder so I offered to kill Moder on my world

[sonic estuary]

How much health did she have when she died?

[rocky stag]

almost full. landed maybe 3 or 4 shots from arrows on her. That was it.

[stark meadow]

If you were in debugmode, you might have killed her by accident by pressing K button on the keyboard.
Other than that, the only known issue that can cause this is one of the players using cheat engine, which suffers from a bug where things around the player running the app can suddenly receive 9999 damage. If the issue happens again in a different scenario, then you can be sure it's that.
In another words, it is extremely unlikely that it's a vanilla bug. Did somebody re-log right after the summoning process, or were you both there the entire time?

[rocky stag]

I had no commands active, I don't bother with them. Me & my friend were there the entire time, nobody relogged at all. it was the second fight after a previous fight, we fought her twice. It was the second fight that she died in mid air, so not sure if that helps or no. I'll have to ask about the cheat engine thing probably. Not sure if I'll get a straight answer though, cheers.

[worldly tulip]

i have played Valheim a long time but since yesterday i become a funny screen at the front screen , i have uninstalled the game, reinstalled and same

[gilded sluice]

mods?

looks very much like you need to clean your \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim folder

this is how it should look

[light helm]

My keybindings are not saving for some reason

[gilded sluice]

you also got mods or?

I know I've heard of that before 🤔

keybindings are stored in windows registry btw

[light helm]

Yes

I have mods

[gilded sluice]

we did put out a few micro-patches the past days. so many one of those broke some mods 🤔

[light helm]

Most likely yeah

I will try for the meantime to change them in the windows registry

[gilded sluice]

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\IronGate\Valheim

[light helm]

Thanks Smiffe! what I am currently trying to know is what is the hex or decimal number for each letter haha, asking chatgpt for help 😛

haha

[manic orbit]

somehow i have the feeling that isn't hexadecimals in that table xD

[light helm]

yeah chatgpt is wrong lol

[light helm]

I am still not able to change the keys:( Been an hour trying with windows registry, and different apps that allow to change keybindings

[scenic bone]

anyone know why the game is louder when i tab out of it?

[trim bay]

There are MASSIVE frame drops in multiplayer, some weird performance locking depending on who the network owner is of the chunk. "Lag" in terms of rubberbanding is not the issue.

I could provide more detail. Performance gets exponentially worse when following factors get thrown in:

• Multiple NPCs
• More players are in the server

^ These cut frames by up to 75% with bad circumstances. If I'm not the network owner (can run the game in 300+ fps easily with lots of instances) in an area with about 30 npc's present and 3 other people, my framerate goes down to the 20's.

Factors that play a much smaller role that affect personal PC's but not this issue at hand:

• Instances (static build pieces) present
• Ping

[gilded sluice]

you know how we use chunks and chunk owner?

1 person streams what happens in the area to the other 2 players (in your example)

[boreal gazelle]

I am getting this message when I load up Valheim, and it's preventing a friend and I from playing together. We aren't sure why we are suddenly getting this message, or how to fix it. Can anyone help please?

[stark meadow]

On which platfroms are you both playing? And does anyone have VPN running in the background (regardless of it being in use or not)

[boreal gazelle]

We both use steam, I usually do have Express VPN running, but it has Valheim as an approved program, although I don't know if that would prevent it from connecting or not. Let me ask if he has a VPN he is using.

He said normally he doesn't. Could my VPN be affecting that?

[stark meadow]

It's the most common cause of problems when playing via crossplay.

In some cases not only the tunneling won't work, but even the VPN running in the background without being active can mess things up.

You should play on non-crossplay server if all your teammates are on Steam anway, which works ok with VPN

[boreal gazelle]

I had it running when we first started playing Valheim and we had no issues. This just started happening within this past month. I'm not sure if it something with mod updates or not.

[stark meadow]

You can't have perfect control on how the tunnelling is being handled on VPN NAT, only on your machine, and express VPN can switch things up.

However, connection issues can be mod related as well

You won't know until you start eliminating variables. I suggest first having VPN completely not running in background (services has to be disabled and windows services app).

[boreal gazelle]

I'll start there, and I suppose we can go from there with the mods we have installed. Thanks so much @stark meadow. 😊

[modest cosmos]

I’m guessing there is a bug with Vineberries? The current server I’m on now, I’ve probably gone 20 days with zero vineberries. Did a change happened where they need a certain direction to grow or 100% light?

[gilded sluice]

the bug is that they don't start growing until you have run into the area where they grow

so go back to places you already been and look for them

[modest cosmos]

@gilded sluice sorry i should of been more specific. i am talking about when you plant your own. i am not getting anymore

[stark meadow]

The vineberries will despawn every time you log out, so avoid doing that until the bug is fixed. You need at least 1.5 days in the world for them to start spawning

[gilded sluice]

yea... it's a known issue atm 😦

[modest cosmos]

@stark meadow nope. the problem is worse than before. I remember when they DEspawned when you log out. They would at least come back. now they are not spawning at all. its been days Upon days and zero berries.

[stark meadow]

Days upon days with you being on the server playing?

[modest cosmos]

@stark meadow yes

[stark meadow]

Mods? Server is dedicated or someone hosting form their game?
Have you checked how they behave in singleplayer?
You can also DM me your world so I can check if something is wrong.

[modest cosmos]

@stark meadow well i have two servers with no mods they both have issues right now. they did work properly before

@stark meadow ok, well shoot me in the foot. strange how they just pop up now. but wow its been several in game days. probably at least 10. is that normal?

[gilded sluice]

pop?

did they go like from saplings to full grown?

[modest cosmos]

@gilded sluice I have had them planted for many hours, like i said they worked fine for a while now looks like super duper slow, does the timer reset when you log out? like 10 days in game?

[gilded sluice]

How the problem shows itself Yes. Every time you log out. It resets

[modest cosmos]

@gilded sluice it seems way longer than it use to be

[gilded sluice]

Well. Its a bug so..

We know about it so just expect it to not work as intended

[analog rune]

hey guys, i need help with something:

so I had an issue with my D-drive (Kingston 2TB M.2) where drive load shot up to 100% whenever playing Valheim resulting in system freezes and I did some stuff such as windows minimal startup and Steam reinstall to fix it. it resulted in all my Valheim worlds (potentially some other games having save issues too) getting wiped to the point where my characters are safe with their inventories, and worlds... are... still... there?? but they are "re-seeded" or the seed is the same, and the map looks the same in terms of discoveries, but everything and I mean EVERYTHING that i've built with my friends is wiped. same thing for my solo worlds, everything is wiped and most worlds were even completely wiped with no map discoveries, nothing.

now I found backups in cloud but whenever I try to load up a world, its just wiped, and for my most important world, says "MISSING DB" and I tried to locate the db file on my pc, and can find nothing

so tl:dr; my most important world is wiped in terms of buildings, but the map discoveries are the same, characters with their items are safe, but we got nothing else left any more. and we played almost up to Ashlands boss. so a TON of stuff is wiped (forever?) what can I do?

[gilded sluice]

um. your saves is stored on a few places

missing DB is usually because you only got 1 of 2 files for your world

world.db and world.fwl

[analog rune]

so why are some of my files wiped? and i cant locate the missing ones so what do i do now?

[stark meadow]

First things first, did you fix your drive? Checked if the drive is healthy via some tool?

[analog rune]

and how come cloud doesnt have it backed up?

[stark meadow]

No matter what you do after, you will end up with same problems if drive is not fine

[analog rune]

yes drive is new and no problem anymore

oh and i moved steam from D to C drive in the reinstall process, could this explain ?

[stark meadow]

Depends if you moves steam app or just the library for the games. Steam Cloud saves are always located only in the drive where steam is installed, regardless of your steam library location.

[gilded sluice]

could be

Valheim stores local files on C:

[stark meadow]

These are the main save locations on windows depending on your using Cloud saves or Local saves:
https://i.imgur.com/mTVKf1J.jpg?4

[gilded sluice]

the worlds and characters. besides the steam cloud

[analog rune]

im confused. so where should I look for the .db file

i think i saw most of my worlds' .db files in the right place but even with them, the worlds got hardwiped

[stark meadow]

On one of those locations, or you can download it from the Steam Cloud link in the browser, which I assume you already did.

Once you've gathered them all, screenshot them with their file sizes showing and date/time showing.

[analog rune]

i did not, do you have the link in a copyable form?

[stark meadow]

For the Steam Cloud viewer in the browser?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=892970

[analog rune]

thanks

[stark meadow]

@analog rune You should also enable file name extensions or else you will be renaming fils in a wrong way.
https://i.imgur.com/U0UwiJd.jpg

[analog rune]

i've got that down

so where should i place my downloads again?

[stark meadow]

In some random folder, screenshot them with date/time and size so I can tell which ones are corrupt.

If you think you know which ones are right, place them in worlds_local folder both world.db and world.fwl

When you launch the game, you have to then check if that backup is on the top in the manage saves menu, if it's not (locate it by size, date/time and the fact it has to have local disk icon), you have to select it and hit restore button.

[analog rune]

you mind if i DM the image?

[stark meadow]

Yeah, np

[analog rune]

sent

[marble yarrow]

I have noticed that the spinning wheel will lose its sound effect on and off. Returns if you move away and return, sometimes you can make it go away and return just by panning around the camera so structures come in view. Is this a known thing, otherwise I could save some video of it happening.

[near vault]

Is it typical to not find any flametal in fortresses? So far I have found flametal in 1 out of 4 forts. Just wondering if there is a known bug, or if this is normal. Thanks!

[sonic estuary]

It's random, you could be having average valheim luck.

[near vault]

Thank you. Off to the spires then!

[marble wolf]

You are checking both chests, right?

[bronze turtle]

I just logged into our dedicated server. All my items are here but my worn armor, menjingford, and wishbone are gone? They are the only things missing wtf

[balmy garnet]

Every time i join a server with my friend in it says they are blocked automatically on the leaderboard as soon as i join
The button on player list next to their name is red each time i join. I always unmute before i leave

[stark meadow]

Where were the items, in your inventory or chest?

[stark meadow]

Will send you a DM about this issue, as I would need to see your config files.

[balmy garnet]

There are many many computer forums and groups that can help you with that.

[warped yarrow]

Evening all, might be the wrong place but I’ve recently started playing with a buddy of mine from the USA (I’m in the UK) I setup a dedicated server on my server located in my garage and after a few hours of him playing Valheim, be that on the server or local his PC will freeze and the sound that’s playing will be like stuck and continue playing. It only started with Valheim. Anyone come across this? His temps look OK. His PC is about 12 years old but it’s got a 980Ti. Not sure of the cpu and the rest of it. Are there any Valheim ligs to check that might indicate if it’s Valheim causing it?

Personally I’m thinking it’s a hardware issue due to the age of the pc. But it’s weird that it started with Valheim. He can play warframe without any issues

[gilded sluice]

do you or your friend use VPN or wifi?

[warped yarrow]

Nope. My house is hard wired. I’ll ask if he’s on WiFi but I doubt it.

Would WiFi cause a system freeze? Seems unlikely tbh

[stark meadow]

Valheim puts a lot of stress on the GPU, so it's probably power↔gpu related.

How long does it take him to freeze?

[warped yarrow]

It can be hours but then another day it could be 30 minutes.

[stark meadow]

Is his power supply also 12years old? It might help if they would reduce render scale to 90%, limit their FPS or downclock their card slightly.
Generally, it's probably that type of issue mentioned in Section1:Point6 of the crash guide linked in the pinned comments.

[oblique plinth]

Hey, I got a small problem: I am unable to see new arrow or bow recipies. RN, I am about to head into the mountains with a finewood bow instead of a hunting bow, and all I can use are flint or fire arrows

[stark meadow]

Using mods? Iron/Bronze feathers nothing?

If you are vanilla, re-install your game.

[oblique plinth]

I am using modded for wizardy/planting any crop

[oblique plinth]

I got iron, and I got wood, and feathers. Nothing popped up

[sonic estuary]

Is the crafting station upgraded?

[oblique plinth]

Yes

[sonic estuary]

And you’re looking in the forge, not the workbench?

[oblique plinth]

Yep

I'll post my mod list here to see if maybe there is a conflict

01921b92-b898-b158-8303-d38372fca24c is the mod code for the thunderstore mod thing

[marble wolf]

If you're running mods it's best to test without.

[oblique plinth]

Won't that break the save?

[marble wolf]

Depends on the mods.

[sonic estuary]

You could backup your saves if you’re worried about breaking them.

[oblique plinth]

How do I do that?

[oblique plinth]

How do I back up a save?

[sonic estuary]

You can manually create backups by moving saves off the cloud if they’re saved there, and then copying those save files into a new folder. Valheim creates automatic backups accessible from the manage saves button on world or character select, so you can use those.

[oblique plinth]

Where do I find the save file to make a folder?

Sorry if I am asking dumb questions, I am just really confused and a bit new to modding ^^

[oblique plinth]

IS there anything I can do? You sort of just said depends on the mods and not much else, not trying to sound rude but I did know that it could be a risk due to some items(potions, a wizard staff, my mushroom farm, etc) could be at risk. How can I test this/fix this without risking all my progress essentially?

[marble wolf]

Without an intimate knowledge of each mod I don't know if anyone could say off the top of their head.

[oblique plinth]

So how do I save a backup file, like where do I locate it so I can at least secure a save to load into since I just got to bone mass and made a good base I don't want to loose it

😑

So nobody can help me fix this, great...

[stark meadow]

If you want to backup your current saves files you should copy this two folder and paste them to some safe location:
https://i.imgur.com/mTVKf1J.jpg?4

If you want to backup the game and your mods, you can copy your entire Valheim installation directory.
You can right click on Valheim in Steam library → manage → browse local files

Then I would just recommend re-installing the game (should not delete mods).
Next you can try vanilla game or you should go to #mods-issues

[oblique plinth]

Thank you for the help

[oblique plinth]

So when I get that done, what do I do after loading into a vanilla save?

also I can't see the appdata route

[stark meadow]

The act of backing saves and installation folder is done so you can restore to previous state if something goes wrong.
When you backup everything, reinstall the game and test if the issue went away.
If the issue doesn't go away, you can either remove all mods, or go to the mod channel.

[stark meadow]

If you have Steam Cloud enabled for Valheim, you should have both folders.

[oblique plinth]

Alright, I found the steam route and downloaded the saves manually

I got the character save, and the world FWL and Data Base File

How will I use those to launch?

[stark meadow]

I'm not sure what you mean by asking this.
Are you trying to ask how you will restore those saves later if something goes wrong?

[oblique plinth]

I think? Basically how do I use those saves, or access them now that I have a back up

Also, I did ininstall and redownload, and it did not work. I launched in vanilla

[stark meadow]

Backup is just a copy of saves on another location on the PC.
The originals aren't altered so the game should launch like before.
There is no point in explaining how to restore those backups and replace the current active saves in nothing went wrong.

[oblique plinth]

Still no arrows or bows

[stark meadow]

You haven't launched in Vanilla, because to launch a game without mods, re-installation of Valheim isn't enough.

[oblique plinth]

IT WORKED

I literally just touched a piece of gunk, and now I got the unlocks

But like, I touched thousands of gunk before this, so I got no idea what went wrong, or how to avoid this going back when I return to the modded save

[stark meadow]

You have the recipes now so it should be fine in modded as well

As to how it happened, you installation was corrupt, probably due to improper mod installation.

[oblique plinth]

Pray for me

Since if it's vanilla only, a ton of items just died

[stark meadow]

Yeah, you should have launched a modded game not vanilla.

[oblique plinth]

fuk

[stark meadow]

You can now restore a modded save I guess. Which might be more complicated that anythign you've done so far 😅

[oblique plinth]

It is saved locally at least

It did not work. On modded, I got no new arrows or bows even after touching the gunk

[stark meadow]

What ever you do, don't cut/move backups.

[stark meadow]

Then your mod installation is messed up, or the mod you are using has additional bugs, for which I can't help.
Someone in #mods-issues might.

[oblique plinth]

well...thanks for trying to help ^^ Hopefully I get some help from there soon, since in the mountains and plains, I'll need a bow yeah?

[stark meadow]

Yeah, you would definitely want a bow if it's your first play through.

[gilded sluice]

a 12 year old power supply probably outlived it's expexted worklife by 5-10 years

[warped yarrow]

Agreed. But he’s not in a position to replace it at the moment unfortunately.

[gilded sluice]

that sucks 😦

[warped yarrow]

Yep. If we knew it was 100% the PSU then he could start to budget for it. But seems a bit of a waste of money on a whim

[gilded sluice]

I mean..

what's next to break

cooling paste on GPU / CPU is probably very very solidifed aswell

[stark meadow]

I also agree that you should never buy stuff on a whime, but since I've been in a similar situation, you can always buy a stronger power supply that would fit your next PC as well.

[warped yarrow]

I have mentioned that as a possible next step

[stark meadow]

Let them try the software based fixes first that I mentioned, which can reduce the power draw.
When my power supply started failing, just unplugging my big TV from the GPU manages to keep the power supply running for another year.
However one should be aware that the old power supply can fry everything else on the build.

[warped yarrow]

I did pass on those recommendations, whether or not he tried them im not sure as i haven't spoken to him yet. He lives in the US and im in the UK so there is a bit of a delay. I did logon to the server this morning and he'd been busy building a new base on another island and some portals so it was at least working for a while before crashing (if i even did!)

Come to think of it im sure he runs 3 monitors. I'll suggest he unplugs one to see if that helps.

[fringe fog]

Hey there,
today I have had a really weired bug during my Livestream on Twitch,
Here is the Clip about my experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiDKZzBQn0w

[stark meadow]

Can you DM me your world file and a character file?

Bonus useful if you also have backups before this happened.

[fringe fog]

send it to you

[lyric mirage]

Hi hi! I'm finding that I'm picking up a number of items of which I already have partial stacks in my inventory, and they're not stacking together; they take up a new slot. It feels like a bug - is anyone aware of anything like that?

[stark meadow]

Yeah, there are some known stacking issues. However you might find something that we are unaware of, so if you notice which item, be free to write it down here.

[smoky granite]

Anyone having a issue when you first load up Valheim it locks up your whole system and you have manually restart your computer? Only started happening these last few weeks, around the last small patch.. No other game does these for me.. Ive even validated the files, fresh install.. still happens time to time..

[lyric mirage]

Oh, it's at the item level?

[stark meadow]

What are you system specs?

[stark meadow]

Some issues are item based, some related to the item position in the inventory. But generally just writing down the item is enough.

[ebon ginkgo]

hello there
i'm getting "Logging into backend service" when i try to connect to a server (not dedicated). me and my friends have been playing in the world for a month and now it gives this message to all of us and we can't connect to the world. any solutions?

i've also found the exact issue we're facing in a reddit post from 2 years ago and there's no fix in there

edit: just tried to connect to other servers, no such window as "Logging into backend service"... and loads them all...

[gilded sluice]

Sounds like either mods issue or you have some problem with hardware perhaps?
let me look at your player.log file In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[stark meadow]

Generally if there is more of you having issues with logging into background services, chances are that crossplay went out in your region.

If you are all playing on Steam, there is no need for you to run a server on with crossplay enabled (PlayFab)

[ebon ginkgo]

ik, but we weren't playing with crossplay

[stark meadow]

Do you still have the same problem or was it resolved?

[ebon ginkgo]

We still have it

[stark meadow]

In which region are you?

Does everyone gets the error when joining the list of community server for example?

[ebon ginkgo]

Yea we all do
We're in the middle east

[stark meadow]

Egypt for example is known to block playfab services (crossplay) on a government level, where VPN is needed to play on crossplay servers.

Every server is launched with crossplay by default if you don't specifically disable it

Let me know when you'll have some time to try Steam only server, will host it

[analog rune]

okay once again getting the issue of 100% D drive and valheim lagging out... afraid its gonna corrupt my saves again if i dont do something faster this time

there were some hardcore gaming sessions with no issues inbetween but here we go again

and again, event viewer says "Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort2, was issued."

seems to be only steam or valheim related

[stark meadow]

How long does it last? Try checking what file is being written or read when there is 100% disk usage.
Task manager → performance → Resource monitor (w10 blue link, on w11 three dots) → Disk → sort by Total bytes being read/written

[analog rune]

it lasts for minutes, sometimes up to 15 or so that the usage is at 100% or atleast spikes there for very long periods

usually i have just forced shutdown at that point

so how do i decipher what im seeing on resource monitor?

right now the disk usage has gone down to 0-1% though

after just quitting valheim and letting the pc sit

[stark meadow]

It shows by which files is disk occupied with

A problematic file can give you a clue into what's going on

[analog rune]

so should i be looking at the top one or?

and it doesnt seem to specify which disk its viewing, i have 3 plugged in

[stark meadow]

You should sort the list by total bytes by clicking at the name of that column

It's of no use to you know if the problem is not active

Next time, if you don't see any suspicious files, it's probably driver related

[analog rune]

im gonna try to "recreate the problem" and see what it says, but we'll see

[stark meadow]

Also grab Valheim Player.log file next time this issue happens

It's in the same folder as worlds_local folder

[hot dragon]

Hey, I've got this annoying bug, where sometimes the bloom & light goes crazy. And I can't see anything.
It's especially bad in Infested Caves.
Any ideas?
The bug comes & goes on its own. Even without moving.

[gilded sluice]

disable your mods first and see if that helps / is the issue

[hot dragon]

First thing I tried, still happens pretty consistently.

[hot dragon]

First thing I tried, still happens all the time.
Usually in mistlands & infested caves.
VERY rarely in Meadows.

[gilded sluice]

what mods do you use?

and what graphics card do you got?

[hot dragon]

I have a GTX 1070.
Freshly formatted machine.
These are the mods I had as of taking the screenshots.
But it's been happening even without mods.

[jagged hamlet]

Installed all the latest updates for the graphics card?

[hot dragon]

As well as updated firmware due to displayport issues.

(It's quite an old GPU)

[rigid jungle]

Hi! I'm a fairly new player and I'm looking for some help with an error I keep getting. I've looked through some posts that mention the phrase "meta file" on reddit but none of them quite addressed my issue.

I play on PC, and every time that I start my world, I get an error message saying that the meta file is missing and asks me if I would like to restore from the backup. I have included screenshots of the error message and the files in my worlds_local file and my worlds folder in the steam folder - any advice would be really appreciated ❤️ I don't want to start playing one day and have it be unable to restore! ratnest is the world that is not working and crowcity is the one that is, i think the problem is that no .fwl files seem to be getting created but i'm not sure what to do about that!

[gilded sluice]

could you send me your player.log file?

In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[stark meadow]

Have you made copies of your .fwl files like I mentioned on Reddit you should?

[rigid jungle]

yeah i have!

[rigid jungle]

will find this now!

[stark meadow]

Ok, have you tried then clicking "Yes" to that dialog where the game tells you that it can restore Meta file for you?

Seems like you have matching .fwl files now

[rigid jungle]

yeah, and then it restores it and i can play, but when i log out and back in again the same error reoccurs

[hot dragon]

Thank you for the help 🙏

[rigid jungle]

oh whoops just realised that was in response to someone else, ignore me!

[stark meadow]

That's a bit strange indeed. Usually stuff like this happens when one quits the game, rather then just logs out.
Are you sure that if you restore META file, play in a world and just logout (not quit), the same issue will occur?
This usually happens due to faulty graphic drivers crashing the game when one tried to quit it and saving it in progress.
Since you have NVIDIA Quadro T1000 with Max-Q Design, something like that could happen.
Do you have an FPS monitor enabled so you can see FPS in the game?

[rigid jungle]

i'll try restoring and just logging out now!

and no i dont have an fps monitor but i could set one up!

restored:

[stark meadow]

This is probably related to this kind of issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lmawc5/screen_will_turn_green_yellow_or_blue_let_me_know/
Solution is unknown due to lack of players reporting back how they fixed it. Pretty common on 1070 card.
I also have a 1070 (gigabyte g1) but never had an issue. Which 1070 manufacturer you have?
Is your monitor connected over HDMI,DVI or display port?

[rigid jungle]

after logout:

[stark meadow]

Try enabling FPS overlay is Steam settings

Steam settings → in Game tab

You should check if your FPS is properly capped to 60 when you are navigating through menus

Also, after the issue happens, send your player.log file then
So that the error/issue is captured in the player.log file properly

[hot dragon]

EVGA GTX 1070 SC GAMING (08G-P4-6173)
DisplayPort.

[rigid jungle]

ooh how do i check manufacturer?
i do often have a monitor connected via hdmi, though i always play on the laptop screen and the error still happens even when i dont have the monitor plugged in

[rigid jungle]

will do this now!

[stark meadow]

The HDMI comment was intended for another person. @rigid jungle you don't have to check that. On Discord you can see to which comment/person one replies to.

[rigid jungle]

seems to flick about in the range 25-40

[rigid jungle]

whoops sorry i noticed that after replying 😭

thank you for your patience i am not the best with tech generally 💔

player log after restoring

[stark meadow]

I don't see any BIOS updates available for that model.
Try to check if the issue temporarily goes away when you disable anti aliasing in the game or change your resolution back and forth. If it does, it's the same issue. I would recommend clean driver re-installation with DDU software at that point. Ever had a different card on that Windows system? Are you forcing some custom graphic setting through Nvidia control panel for Valheim?

[stark meadow]

Hm... seems like the issue might be happening because you renamed your world file at some point from ratnest to RatNest

Do you remember doing something like that?

[rigid jungle]

oh i well may have yeah! probably very early on

[stark meadow]

Ok, best to wipe all the saves clean then and reintroduce them as ratnest

You have made copies of everything here right?

[rigid jungle]

yep i've got copies of all of those things in a separate location on my computer now!

what does wiping the saves clean mean? deleting them is that?

[stark meadow]

Yeah, but you have to do it from the in-game menu.
Open up manage saves button, expand the backups for your RatNest world so you can see all of the backups in the game.
Then delete the top backup that has the RatNest name, then quit the game after that and let Steam sync up

Then we continue

[rigid jungle]

just this one? or all of them?

[hot dragon]

Nvidia Control Panel is currently set to default settings besides upping the hz and turning on 10 bit colors.
I'll try DDU and download Clean Nvidia Drivers.
I've had this GPU for 8 years at this point.
Brought it over from my old system.
I'll attempt resolution change & anti aliasing.
This computer is a pretty fresh install. Literally not even 2 weeks old.

[stark meadow]

Unlikely that it's a driver issue then. Have a spare HDMI cable to try also?

I've only used DVI and HDMI on my card so a far, and haven't messed with the color depth.

[hot dragon]

Actually, I've got dual screen setup. My other monitor is connected via HDMI.
I'll just mirror the two.

[rigid jungle]

@stark meadow
i deleted the top file, quit the game, restarted steam and then reopened the game, and this is the current status, still missing the meta file

[stark meadow]

Yeah, still not good

Go ahead and from the manage saves menu delete every backup file related to that RatNest save

So delete all of those. Quit the game. Don't launch it again. Let me know when you are done

[rigid jungle]

deleted them so it looked like this and i have now quit the game!

worlds folder looks like this now
@stark meadow

[stark meadow]

You still haven't deleted them

RatNest has to be completely gone

[rigid jungle]

ohhhhh the top folder too i see! ok one sec

[stark meadow]

Yeah, it's not a folder, it's just an active save

[rigid jungle]

OH gotcha sorry misunderstood what that was!

so yes to removing the world?
@stark meadow

[stark meadow]

Yes, remove it, Then quit the game

[rigid jungle]

ok done! removed and i quit the game!

[stark meadow]

Then we have to transfer you backups that you've made of your saves, from your backup folder, to the worlds_local folder at
%username%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[rigid jungle]

is that the backup from the remote > worlds folder? then going into worlds_local?

[stark meadow]

There is nothing in the removt → worlds folder now. Where did you put your backups?

I told you to make copies of the saves first, and you said you did?

[rigid jungle]

yep i've got copies of the worlds folder AND the worlds_local one

this is from the worlds folder

[stark meadow]

Yeah, good. Those saves now have to go to the original worlds_local folder
So copy all files from steam backp into the original worlds_local folder
Then launch Valheim and open manage saves menu

[rigid jungle]

and this is the worlds_local backup

ok worlds_local is now looking like this, is that right?

(i just pasted in the ratnest stuff)

[stark meadow]

That RatNest.fwl is no good

[rigid jungle]

i have an earlier backup which is lowercase if that's better?

[stark meadow]

yeah, use the lower case one

[rigid jungle]

awesome, got this now

ok my manage saves is looking like this now! @stark meadow

[stark meadow]

You can now select the top save and press the "Move to cloud" button

Then go play and logout to see if you get META error

[rigid jungle]

is that the higlighted one, or the first _backup one?

[stark meadow]

Here it is unclear, as usually the save with biggest file size is the latest one, so the first backup one should be the latest save

But that's now always true, it depends if you did any removal in your world and reduced it's file size

Do the thing for the first save for now

[rigid jungle]

ok will do!

omg it started without an error!!!!!!!!! and progress is up to date!!!!!

thank you SO SO SO much for your help with this, i NEVER would have figured all that out alone 💜

[stark meadow]

Np, glad it works 👍

[gilded sluice]

you still got problems?

[hot dragon]

@stark meadow
Just attempted, issue persists.
Attempted Changing resolution.
Attempted changing anti aliasing on, off, on, off.
Enabled scaling from Native to Automatic, to 95%, and back to native.
Issue persisted.

[hot dragon]

Terrible.

[warm mica]

Today I noticed my Valheim is crashing upon trying to start, I can't get anything to pop up after hitting the play button on Steam, and this is the crash error log:

I don't know how this stuff really works I just tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and I still have the same problem and I verified game file integrity and it also didn't change anything. I also haven't ever installed any mods that I can remember. If anyone has some tips I would greatly appreciate it!

[hot dragon]

Not from the staff here, but try manually deleting the files. In steam/steamapps/common/Valheim
Just delete the whole thing folder.
And rename
AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim
Rename the Valheim folder to Valheim Backup
Then uninstall via steam, and reinstall.
Helped me before with similar errors.
Take note, any characters you have saved locally, and any worlds, will go poof.
So back them up to cloud!

[gilded sluice]

try to do a clean re-install of your GPU drivers 🤔

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/57037

do this

[gilded sluice]

the local saves don't uninstall / is removed when you uninstall valheim 🙂

[gilded sluice]

looks like missing GPU drivers 🤔

is your harddrive okay? or did you rescently restore a backup of windows?

[hot dragon]

When you manually rename that folder, it would.
As that's where the local save files for characters & worlds are on Discord.

[marble wolf]

It would be even less likely to be removed if you renamed the folder as the uninstaller wouldn't have a clue where the folder was.

[hot dragon]

When he opens the game, he'll not see his characters.
Or worlds.
Which he saved locally.
From his perspective, they were just deleted.

[marble wolf]

I'll go with Smiffe's explanation.

[gilded sluice]

could be he installed on another harddrive

but they are always on C:

but say for example. you played prior to mistlands, then you uninstall and reinstall. since the game is in early access, sometimes when we do changes and the players don't keep up with patches, things can "fall out of sync" and you don't get the updated folder structure as intended for example

this is how it looks for me since I've had valheim since 2020

[hot dragon]

So that's not AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim ?

Also that's identical to my folder.

[gilded sluice]

it is

did you do the nvidia clean re-install btw? @hot dragon

[hot dragon]

Didn't have the time to play Valheim yet. Will do tomorrow!

[gilded sluice]

usually, doing a clean re-install of the graphics card drivers is recommended by AMD/Nvidia every 6 months or so to remove old drivers that isn't removed automaticly

[hot dragon]

This is an almost brand new install. But I'll do as requested ^-^

[gilded sluice]

how brand new? 🤔

is it windows 10 or 11?

[hot dragon]

I've factory reset it 2 weeks ago. Windows 11.

Hardware is extremely dated.
So I reset every 6 months or so.
Keeps PC quick.

[gilded sluice]

can you find the file called doorstop.ini ?

[hot dragon]

That's from Modman I think?

There is also one in game folder

[gilded sluice]

Move the file out of the game directory. This should quickly stop mods from loading btw.

[warm mica]

I don't know how I would have any drivers missing but I tried updating drivers for my GPU anyways. I also havent done anything odd lately with restoring windows or any drive issues that I know of. None of my other steam games ive noticed any issues with.
I also manually deleted all valheim files and reinstalled and no luck :(

[gilded sluice]

did you re-install valheim on diffrent harddrives?

[warm mica]

I think it was on my D drive before but I changed it to my C drive when I did the reinstall

[gilded sluice]

could possibly explain the problems with "missing files" 🤔

if you open the steam library, right click valheim and choose "properties" then browse local files

might be the reinstall-problem

where the game thinks your install is in one folder, and steam says it's in another folder

do you start with a shortcut or from steam library?

[scenic flare]

spears seem to sometime vanish when thrown at the ocean. this has happened to me on two occasions

[stark meadow]

They don't disappear rather can stick to the ocean floor. If you left them there for 2 in-game days, they will despawn.

[scenic flare]

you’re right my bad, I retrieved it when I jumped where I had thrown it

[wintry bloom]

Anyone else got its valheim crashing after a few minutes? Two times gave and error and close, the third the computer just turned off 😦

[stark meadow]

List you PC specs, and check Section1:Point6
https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/my_valheim_is_crashing_fix_for_crash_guide/

[flint wyvern]

I've been noticing an issue with the texture of the ocean water in my game where there are shimmering shapes on the surface that move like waves, but do not move in the direction of the wind like the actual waves. I've changed everything in the graphic's settings and nothing has worked. The only solution I've found so far is that starting a new game and going back to the game I was in "resets" the ocean, but the shapes return gradually within a minute or two.

Might be a related issue, I've also noticed that when emerging from a sunken crypt, the swamp water appears white for a second before going back to normal.

[warm mica]

I start from steam library. Also I looked in properties, and it shows Valheim in the C drive too. Should I try deleting everything and trying my other drive again?

[stark meadow]

there are shimmering shapes on the surface
Have a screenshot? Which GPU are you playing with?

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. 🤔
old harddrives?
Samsung 990 NVME's ?

[flint wyvern]

11th Gen Intel

I've been playing for a while now and haven't had the issue, so maybe there's something that triggers it?

[stark meadow]

Valheim needs a dedicated GPU to run properly, so I'm not sure if you'll be able to fix this
Inteal Arc and Iris GPUs have a similar problem tho

[warm mica]

Are you saying to install in a different drive or what are you asking? Sorry Im a bit confused. I was playing like last week with no issues and I hadn't done anything that I know of that would've messed anything up this severely. I made a backup of my characters/worlds so I dont mind trying anything :)

[flint wyvern]

Gotcha, thank you

[stark meadow]

If you can access specific graphic settings for a particular game (usually in graphic card control panel), you can try these, as these fix the problem on Intel Arc/Iris GPUs, but I'm not sure you have an option to tweak these:
Game Compatibility - Advanced
Frame Delivery - VSYNC ON
Post Processing - Sharpening On (12%)
3D Overrides - Anisotropic Filtering x16
Adaptive Tessellation: ON (Quality at 100%)

[stark meadow]

When you jsut un-install your game, without installing it immediately after, how does your Valheim installation folder look like?

Does it become empty?

[warm mica]

How do I find that folder after I uninstall Valheim?

[warm mica]

It looks like this: and theres data in these files

[stark meadow]

Delete all this files, and only then re-install Valheim

[warm mica]

Okay I just deleted them and cleared from recycle bin and now ill try reinstalling

[gilded sluice]

doesn't help with those mod files still in the folder

uninstalling and then re-installing doesn't remove any modded file 😦

[warm mica]

It worked somehow!! Thank you so much I have a feeling that since I have a ton of files- maybe I moved something important to a place where it shouldn't have been. But everything looks to be in order and I have my character/worlds on since they were on the steam cloud. Thank you kindly and thanks to everyone who tried to help!! I really appreciate your time

[stark meadow]

I'm amazed that your Valheim recently worked at all with mod files from 2022 being there XD

[hollow geyser]

Not sure if it's a bug, but I do believe that is a two-handed sword

[gilded sluice]

might been deactivated but lingering

[desert lintel]

I was hoping if anyone could help me out with this one! All my characters seem to have been reset. The game wont allow me to load a world, and the game isnt playing any music. The only reason why i think this might have happened is because my partner and I share a PC, and they recently logged me out of steam while valheim was running. Is there any way I can recover this?

[stark meadow]

Have you tried restarting the PC and re-installing Valheim?

[desert lintel]

Restarting yes, re-installing valheim no. I will give that a go now!

OH MY ODIN that was an easy fix thank you so much @stark meadow I was really worried that 500 hours would be gone!

[last ermine]

Is anyone else having issues with not being able to join any one else's server? My GF and I play nearly every day, even played yesterday with no issues. Today I can't get into her server, and she can't get into one of mine. We've tried modded, and vanilla straight through steam, (We play modded usually) and we cannot get in.

[stark meadow]

If your are both playing on Steam, try disabling crossplay before you start your server

[fathom vessel]

Hello, I was playing this game on an Xbox account, but since it’s no longer on Game Pass, I bought it on Steam. The problem is that I can’t retrieve my character and world saves... Is there a solution?

[gilded sluice]

Xbox console or Game pass PC ?

[fathom vessel]

game pass pc

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. I wonder if not there are files on the PC you can grab 🤔

https://www.easeus.com/backup-recovery/windows-10-game-save-file-location.html#4

do you have that folder?

it's usually hidden folders in windows so you need to enable "view hidden files/folders"

all our files are very close to be honest if you find it.
\Users\smiff\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate is where we store locally worlds and characters

[viscid dock]

Whenever I use the workbench, it always starts me in the middle of the list (maybe always at the Stone Axe?) even if I have ingredients of something to make that would appear at the top. All other crafting stations start at the tops of their lists. Is this a known thing, or something weird going on for me?

[gilded sluice]

um. do you enable debugmode? 🤔

[viscid dock]

No. Have never used commands in valheim.

[gilded sluice]

ok

because it's a "thing" if you aren't at a workbench, and open the build menu. it will sticky the last item you had selected

[viscid dock]

Any way to un-sticky it? I can't seem to deselect in the personal crafting menu.

I do see how if I select something different then it starts there.

[gilded sluice]

not really no

it's like. the game remembers what item you had selected last time before closing the workbench

[viscid dock]

Ah. Even in the workbench itself. So I fixed it by selecting the Fenris Coat at the top. Thanks! I see the forge works that way as well, so I guess it's consistent, but I know that if I have something in inventory that I can make, that thing that's makeable at the top of the list, rather than the last thing I made, seems to get selected on the other crafting stations. Is that what the workbench is missing?

Selecting Fenris Coat worked until I went through a portal to a different workbench, then it went back to Stone Axe. It's definitely wonky.

OK, it was opening inventory that reset it, even though I didn't touch the selection on the inventory crafting menu.

[gilded sluice]

nothing I have reflected on before

ah, was gonna say that

everytime you open your inventory. you have the 4 core item craftables

[viscid dock]

So I did confirm that even with something else selected (Silver Sword) putting ingredients (copper, tin) in inventory resulted in the Forge selecting Bronze at the top of the list. If I do the same on the workbench though (e.g. needles and feathers), it doesn't select the makeable thing. So, that's the main inconsistency.

[daring saffron]

Bug Report: I recently added two more furnaces for three total. On occasion, the kiln near the three smelters will eat resources

Restarting the server seems to help.

[gilded sluice]

eat resources?

picture? video?
running any mods?

[gaunt mist]

Visual bug? My character keeps having that heating effect after swimming in red (Ashlands) water next to the mountain biome.

It stopped after logging out tho.

[gilded sluice]

what is that green thing around your waist?

[sonic estuary]

Jade axes

[gaunt mist]

I was wearing Flametal armor and Ask trousers, tried to take them off to see if it went away with that.

[gilded sluice]

ah

[daring saffron]

I would press insert into the smelter and it would remove the iron from my bag but then the smelter would still show 0

No Mods. Server. I'm personally using a mac

I reset the server and the bug disappeared. Materials were still gone though.

[gilded sluice]

is it multiplayer?
did you exit a teleporter and shove materials into the smelters, and then it was gone?

[viscid dock]

I had an interesting little glitch today that I'm not going to spend the materials to try to reproduce, but I'll tell you what I *think *happened: I made the Slayer and I wanted to just test swing it a bit before doing the upgrade on it, after which I hit R to put it on my back. Went to the black forge and crafted the electric version and upgraded that, then went and dropped it in my chest. That's when I noticed the regular Slayer model was still on my back. (Wish I had pressed R to see if I would have wielded a nonexistent one or not.)

[stark meadow]

Yeah, It's known issue, low priority to fix

[wild current]

After a while, item stands seem to forget what kind of style the item had (also happens with items like capes on armor stands) If broken and on relogging, the item reverts to the correct style again. Version 0.218.21 no mods.

Edit: seems to be triggered while hovering over the item stands in repair mode.

[stark meadow]

Probably the same issue as yet unfixed bug that makes them revert to default on starting screen when viewing the character wearing them.

[rotund elm]

I'm trying to play Valhiem remotely from my laptop. Usually this works well but the stream option strangely doesn't show up sometimes

Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot?

Edit: NM. I remoted in and started steam manually, then I was able to remotely connect

[stark meadow]

You can also make a Steam Valheim shortcut that will always launch Steam first

[slow owl]

Started some new characters on a new world with friends to play the new content after a year away.

I was doing some resource gathering while they are offline, and "The Forest Is Moving" event occurred at our base even though we have not yet beaten Eikthyr

The wiki says the only trigger to start the event is beating that boss

Could anything else cause army_theelder to occur before Eikthyr is defeated?

[manic orbit]

it might be possible that someone killed Eikthyr while you were away. Are there any greydwarfs spawning in the meadows at night?

[slow owl]

Only 3 players, I am host, neither of them fought Eikthyr without me, and raids are set to the thing where it is dependent on the player

[gilded sluice]

oh. you have the world modifer for "player based raids" ?

[slow owl]

Yes; but all three of us are new characters

[gilded sluice]

yeah......

sorry to say. but it's not working flawlessly

we have some potential fixes for that. but for now. turn it off

[slow owl]

Thanks for letting us know!

We're willing to try out the potential fixes if more player feedback is needed to verify their success; but we're also fine switching to world based raids

[gilded sluice]

it doesn't really work like that 😅

[slow owl]

Apologies for misunderstanding, by "we have skme potential fixes for that" I thought you meant potential ways players could try on their end

[gilded sluice]

the fixes will be in the Public test branch whenever we do that next

[vivid willow]

this seems buggy XD

$279

Plus im not even russian and located USA east

[marble wolf]

Where are you even seeing that? @vivid willow

[vivid willow]

on steam i posted a link to a chat and this is what came up

im assuming they just messed the url up for the regions

[marble wolf]

Still trying to work out how that's a game bug.

[vivid willow]

Aren't you just a regular smart ass. This is a STEAM BUG SECTION. Thus a steam related bug.

You're obvisly not the guy to fix it so dont worry your little self about it

okay then bye bye now

[vivid crown]

Just a reminder to be respectful and civil when speaking with other members in this discord as outlined in the #rules-and-info channel. Thank you

of course if you believe someone is breaking the rules feel free to reach out with modmail to report them

[vivid willow]

https://tenor.com/view/no-snitches-allowed-batman-nope-gif-11102244007779059540

[sonic sun]

Hey folks! I was building some green pots in base and when deconstructing it from the build menu, it didn't refund the charcoal resin. Is this by design?

I tested it a few times to be sure it wasn't just falling through the floor or something.

[white arrow]

i don't see anything about that on wiki, while there are a few recipes that don't refund, usually it's think with like internal storage for fuel or like the defensive stakes

[marble wolf]

Yeah, that's a new one to me. Could be a genuine bug. Can you replicate this?

[delicate geyser]

no mods, ive reinstalled 5 times, ive restarted my pc

the game starts up on a square resolution. for some reason the recording is a square resolution toooo??????????????? on mmy screen the game has black bars on the left and right and my monitor is normal and game capture is normal

no vlaheim or r2modman files and then i reinstal and does the saame thing

turns out it works on my normal hd display when i unplug my 2k monitor?

anyone knows how to get it working on this 2k/main monitor?

[sonic sun]

I don't know if you mean me. I can try again on a future session and report back but if anyone could give it a go to verify if it's just me, I'd appreciate it.

[rotund elm]

Wow. I am having the hardest time getting my xbox controller to work.

I am running Ubuntu on my laptop, and Ubuntu on my remote machine. I am streaming Valheim from my remote machine. Steam recognizes the controller. I can control steam from my controller, but Valheim doesn't recognize it. I can switch it to mouse mode (clueless what that means) and then my controller can interact with Valheim, but not in any useful way.

I have been steaming with Valheim without issue for a bit now, but this issue just started popping up. I recently installed some things and rebooted the server, and initially I couldn't stream afterwards. I logged in via a remote desktop to start Steam, and suddenly I can now stream but the controller doesn't work.....WTH????

Can someone suggest some things to try?

[gilded sluice]

you probably have mod-files changing your screen resolution

try adding this to the launch argument on steam

screen-height 1080 -screen-width 1920

like this

[delicate geyser]

this worked.

its just weird since i shouldnt have mod files when ive re-installed and combed through every file

thanks tho 🙏

[gilded sluice]

some mods for valheim does wierd stuff with the aspect ratio. not sure why it does that. but it's a typical fix atleast

and you only need to force the setting once. you can now remove it and just adjust it ingame as you wish

[spiral anvil]

has the vineberry bug been fixed?

also, ashlands seems to make a big ocean in the north. keeping the mountains would have definately been cooler.

[marble wolf]

The Deep North will definitely be cooler.

[unique echo]

is there any news on the dev's working on the unity crash problem caused by the particles?

it's getting out of hand for real, can't play for 10mins without it crashing

[marble wolf]

What Unity crash?

[unique echo]

i always get to see this shit before my game get's closed

[marble wolf]

Looks like a driver issue.

[unique echo]

I know, i've update every driver on my pc, found the same claim when googling it

This is my system, should be good enough to play it smoothly

[wispy willow]

that's one of the systems affected by intel's manufacturing SNAFU

[unique echo]

i know it's pretty unstable, but i can run far MW3 at max graphics without a problem, that's what is throwing me off

i'm still sticking with it being a problem with unity since that's what's crashing and not my CPU/GPU

i've had preformance stats running and it's not getting to a point where it is getting to warm or overloaded

[marble wolf]

MW3?

[wispy willow]

doesn't matter

[unique echo]

Modern Warfare 3

[wispy willow]

and Modern Warfare 3 is not indicative of how much a PC is being taxed since it's a multi-platform release

AAA games can be surprisingly economical in their resource use

[gilded sluice]

Either broken mods. or do a clean install of your drivers

[unique echo]

No mods, refreshed install like you suggested, still same crash

[gilded sluice]

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/57037

do this ^

clean install helps

[unique echo]

This fix worked for me in combination with a bios update

[gilded sluice]

Seems most likely something is broken

You do know about the intel 13/14 gen processor voltage issue where the processors basicly kill themselves?

https://www.theverge.com/24216305/intel-13th-14th-gen-raptor-lake-cpu-crash-news-updates-patches-fixes-motherboards

[unique echo]

thanks for the article link, i have heard about it before and for now it's not trying to rapidly disintegrate, i even had a stresstest on my system with OCCT, my problem was due to a setting in my MOBA's built-in AI

[stark meadow]

Disabling Turbo boost cripples the CPU too much.
If your CPU is still under warranty, replace it as soon as possible, due to chance for physical damage being present on 13th Gen CPUs due to oxidation being very high.

If you bough CPU in a box, go to Intel directly, if not, you will have to contact who ever build your system.

[stark meadow]

Not yet. A new content update it cooking, so has priority atm.

[stark meadow]

Should be fixed on next patch.

[silver shadow]

I'm playing 100% vanilla, and I'm experiencing a small visual bug with the basic, round Wood Shield (specifically, the red + white pattern variation). I'll stick it on the wall using an item stand and go about playing for a little white. When I come back, the pattern is gone, and it looks like I only have a basic Wood Shield displayed, not the actual patterned one. (The texture is disappearing.) I have screenshots of this, but I can't figure out what I'm doing to trigger it.

[manic orbit]

when you take it off the stand and pick it up, does it return to the red and white patterned version?

[gilded sluice]

#steam-bugs-discussion message

just like this, right?

[silver shadow]

Yes! When I pick it up, it's showing in my inventory as the red/white version, and I'll place it back exactly where I had it and it'll still be the red/white version. But it's happened to me four or five times now, where I'll go out and play for a little while, come back, then it's the plain version again. I'm playing solo, so there's no one swapping it out on me behind my back. And to Smiffe: yes! I didn't realize someone mentioned it earlier

[gilded sluice]

probably some unload bug issue

[stark meadow]

There is a general issue when it comes to displaying non default colors on items, even after logging out, so prob the same issue.

[silver shadow]

Okidoki, I'm glad it wasn't just me. I thought I was losing it there for a second, but it keeps happening and I thought I should say something

[south oar]

Hello! im not sure if this is the right server to write but i have an issue where my inventory hud went away, and i just cannot get it back at all, i tried everything, and google was no help, does anyone know how to fix this issue? Mnay thanks ❤️

[gilded sluice]

press CTRL+F3

[south oar]

doesnt work, tried that

[gilded sluice]

Hm..

mods?

or previously had mods?

[south oar]

none

[gilded sluice]

press F2. does it do anything?

[south oar]

prievously yes, but this is new server, as well as reinstalled, and it just happend today after 2 days of playing

[south oar]

server statistics

[gilded sluice]

Hm..

press Escape key?

do you get a menu?

[south oar]

yes

[gilded sluice]

I wonder if someone enabled nomap then 🤔

[stark meadow]

When you press F3, is the registered as F3 on this site?
https://www.keyboardtester.com/tester.html

[south oar]

yes

[south oar]

sorry, im not sure what that is

[gilded sluice]

if you press V key. do you get a input written in the left corner of the screen?

and does TAB key open your inventory?

[south oar]

left upper corner

yes tab opens inventory

[gilded sluice]

nomap mode is when you play without the minimap

[south oar]

i do have mini map

[gilded sluice]

Well.. if you don't have anything in your inventory slots 1 -> 8. they auto-hide

[south oar]

I'm actually sorry for the waste of time

[gilded sluice]

np 😄

[south oar]

I'm sorry for being stupid

[gilded sluice]

we are all beginners at some point

[south oar]

I love you all , thank for the help ❤️

[gilded sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/welcome-gif-17947975675570061849

[placid grove]

Why do blood textures look so greyish-white at night now? Is this a visual bug? I don't remember them looking this way before.

It almost looks like snow.

[stark meadow]

Not sure if intended but was white during night since it was added.

[placid grove]

Any idea if there's an easy way to change it back to the way it looked before or if there's a mod that adjusts the appearance of blood textures out there somewhere?

[stark meadow]

No vanilla option to disable it. Try #mods-discussion for mod tips.

[desert fossil]

Ok, I've looked on the server and I can't find the answer: Anybody got their whole ashlands area lowered underwater entirely? I built a fort next to the biome (but not inside it) and when I loaded back in, the whole ground was under water, to the point where my construction was floating in mid-air and ended-up destroyed. Vultures spawned under water and the only thing we could see was spires everywhere, but no ground. Is this normal?

The only thing that stayed in place was the prop-rocks that float high above the ground.

[stark meadow]

You world.fwl file probably got corrupted during saving (part of a world save). Were you playing on a dedicated server or managing saves manually?

[desert fossil]

A Dedicated server I hosted on my PC. However, I checked some videos online (and tried to avoid too many spoilers, but had no choice to see if this was an issue) And it's probable that we simply didn't go deep enough in the ashlands waters to find the continent. (We only started playing it recently)

[stark meadow]

To fix the issue, you will have to find the .fwl file from some of your backups (world_auto-backup_timestamp.fwl) and use it to replace your current main one which is not correct (backup has to be renamed into world.fwl)

When running a dedicated server on the same PC you are playing it, you have to be extra careful not to run the world from the in-game settings as well (double server using same world save files). You must also be careful how you end the server process, as abruptly stopping it while saving is taking place will corrupt the save files for sure.

[little ingot]

How to fix this evrytime i login in 1min

[gilded sluice]

don't use wifi

or VPN

it's either of those 2

[little ingot]

I use LAN cord only

[gilded sluice]

so look for a VPN program

it could be the server hosting

but hamachii or any VPN program will cause that problem

specially if you use crossplay

[latent dust]

I am hosting the server. So i am in middle east and his in the east asia

but @gilded sluice his the only one that got always that problem. Some of em are alright though.

[gilded sluice]

are all others from the same country as you?

I know Egypt closed some of it's internet accesses 🤔

[latent dust]

nah all others are from his. i am the only one on the middle east

[gilded sluice]

ah

[latent dust]

i am in Dubai to be specific

[gilded sluice]

if only Squirtyyy is the one with problem. then he have something causing it

[latent dust]

Any possible fix?

[gilded sluice]

well. depends on what's the cause

[latent dust]

we really wanted to create a new seed and play again after a few years.

[gilded sluice]

if he is on LAN Cable, and you are aswell

no one uses VPN

[latent dust]

no one.

[gilded sluice]

no satelite internet, or mobile hotspot internet?

[latent dust]

No...

[gilded sluice]

then either of you have a VPN program running somehow

[latent dust]

lemme check on his side

neither of us, uses vpn though.

so we usually used to play with no problem at all, then we started a new seed then the issue occurs.

[latent dust]

@gilded sluice fixed it with file integrity with steam.

[gilded sluice]

that sounds like a wierd issue 🤔

did he use to have mods?

[latent dust]

no not really.

[wise pier]

Sometimes in the swamp I found iron ore just lying on the ground. And today, as I climbed the mountainside, I found... Fish...

[sonic estuary]

Sometimes fish spawned in frost caves fall outside the walls, and because dungeons are located far above the world they fall down to the land below.

[solid frigate]

had a friend join my world while I was playing and they spawned where they last were in the mistlands and then they died, respawned in their bed, went back to their corpse with a single weapon (black metal pickaxe) and some food, then before they got to their body their game crashed. They logged back in, only for them to have all of their gear from before they died on them, and the weapons they took to retrieve their gear completely disappeared. Its a weird bug, as the other person on the server and myself had 0 issues during all of this and we could not find the black metal pickaxe they had as it simply ceased to exist, and I know for sure they had it as I had given it to them.

[stark meadow]

Weird things can happen when the game crashes, that goes for any game, so this is not really a bug.

The game couldn't save their character state properly when they died, because they crashed.

Send them the link for how to troubleshoot crashes (pinned comment under this channel).

Next time they crash, tell them to come and post their specs and player.log file

[solid frigate]

okay! I will let them know, thank you

[viscid dock]

How long should an infested mine take to respawn its royal jelly, etc.? I have one that seems not to be, and wondering if it's a bug. Is there any difference for terrain/mines generated prior to the respawning change vs. after?

Is it a real-time clock, or an in-game days clock?

[marble wolf]

I would imagine that those mines generated before the change won't respawn.

[viscid dock]

Possibly, but looking for confirmation of the fact.

[viscid dock]

A mine generated after Ashlands release did respawn, so 90% sure that is the cause.

[marble wolf]

Was pretty sure, which is why I said it. But good to see you've narrowed it down.

[abstract vault]

Has the spawn prevention and build radius been unified? I'm not on the test branch and the game is 100% vanilla.

Earlier I was testing for the spherical nature of spawn prevention and ended up with two weird conclusion, one of them definitely seems like a bug. The other depends on the above question.

1st, the spawn prevention didn't seem to be a sphere anymore. I placed workbenches (lvl5, radius = 36m) at different heights and it didn't seem to matter. They prevented spawns in the build radius of 36m, no matter the height. Even at 36m of height, still prevented spawns in the complete 36m radius on the ground. Last I did the same thing, like half a year ago, this was not the case for the same setup.

2nd, this one definitely seems like a bug. While benches did prevent spawns in the full 36m radius regardless of height, as soon as I logged out and relogged in the world, the radius seemed to default back to 20m (the build radius was unaffected and still 36m). This was true even if the workbenches were built on ground, and should theoretically prevent spawns in the whole 36m radius even if it was still a sphere, they still only did so in 20m after restarting the world. Weirdly enough, if I destroyed the workbenches and rebuilt them, they were back to the full 36m until I restarted the world again..

Can anyone else verify this behaviour?

[sonic estuary]

I think the areas have been cylinders instead of spheres since Hildir’s Request

[abstract vault]

Only the build radius was made cylinder afaik

the spawn prevention was still sphere

last i checked, much after hildir's request

either way the unification thing is planned anyways so it didn't bother me but the second one is weird

[rancid moss]

I encountered a yagluth arena overriding a sealed tower

so I had to sail further east

[viscid dock]

Curious ... was the tower missing entirely?

[gilded sluice]

you got a screenshot? 😮

[bright coral]

Is there a way to detect the object corruption issue that was fixed in these recent Ashlands releases? Does upgrading to the release reverse the corruption?

[rancid moss]

noe, the tower was just missing

[gilded sluice]

wierd 🤔

[muted ruin]

Hey i need help, i can't connect to server

it say failed to connect

i tried to uninstall/ verify folder / reboot pc / connexion

[stark meadow]

On which platform is the server being hosted?

[muted ruin]

PC

[stark meadow]

Linux, Mac, Windows? Server has mods? Dedicated server? Crossplay enabled on the server?

[muted ruin]

Windows / no mod / Dedicated ? idk it's just local i'm trying to join a friend / and not it's disabledd

[stark meadow]

Does the server have this icon next to its name? 🔀 (intertwined arrows)

[muted ruin]

Yes !

[stark meadow]

Is everyone on the server playing on Steam, or do you also have players from Xbox, MS store, Applestore?

[muted ruin]

They are all playing on steam

[stark meadow]

You should then tell the owner to disable crossplay on the server. There is no reason to run it on the server if you don't have friends from cross platforms connecting, as it will only cause more incompatibility. You probably can't connect right now due to running VPN, your friend running the server on VPN, or your Internet Service providers might have you behind strict NAT.
Also, is someone hosting their world from their game (not a dedicated server), or is the server running independently of Valheim (dedicated server that can be connected to even when the game is closed)?

[muted ruin]

idk he don't have VPN on his computer, and i don't think it's my internet first time i have a problem like this on a game :/

And it's hosting from their world

[stark meadow]

Just tell them to logout, start the server again but with crossplay option toggled OFF.

You don't need it anyway, so no point in throubleshooting what kind of NAT issues you have.

[muted ruin]

They doing it actually

That work now ty 🙏 1 hour struggling

[stark meadow]

If you will ever need to run crossplay again, you will have to look into if you are running VPN services in the background, or having an ISP due to their CGNAT, or simply byb locking crossplay (e.g. Egypt government).

[short charm]

Swamp biome enemies hyper prioritise player built light sources (such as torches) is this a bug?

[stark meadow]

No, spawn prevention and build area hasn't been unified yet. There are some issues with spawn prevention depending on where the player is standing.

[stark meadow]

Prioritise light sources over what? Over players?

[abstract vault]

Oh? Can you elaborate a bit on the last part?

I honestly tried it on two different worlds at three different locations, and it always showcased the same behaviour of the prevention of upgraded workbenches/forges reseting to 20m after world restart. It was weird.

[short charm]

yes if the enemy aggroed the light source first they wont take note of the player

[short charm]

until its destoyed ofc

[short charm]

also ive noticed they will only attack light sources and doors when it comes to base structures

[stark meadow]

Creatures should always prioritise players if they are reachable.
For which enemy and light source have you notice otherwise?

[short charm]

Draugr, Ghosts, and Ooze enemies

[short charm]

as for light source ive only the standard wood placeable torch available atm so limited atm sorry about that

[stark meadow]

If you are in the centre of your spawn prevention radius, the spawn prevention granted by the extended workbench areas should apply normally even after re-logging. Issues happen when you are not at the centre of workbench spawn prevention area. Other issues can be related to you expecting for spawn prevention to work as a 3D cilinder, which it won't, except maybe the first time you craft a workbench, but if you reload the area (e.g. just walking out and in of render distance or re-logging), enemies will start to spawn inside of marked build areas if workbench isn't on flat ground.

How do you know that the spawn protection radius reverts exactly to 20m after you re-log?

[stark meadow]

So you are walking across swamps, enemies start attacking you, so you place a torch and enemies switch to attacking the torch?
Or are you first engaging with enemies by placing a torch around them, they attack it, you reveal yourself and they still don't target you?
Playing with mods?

[short charm]

I have built full bases and put down quick "camps" with teleporters and all and so long as there are no light sources or doors the structures remain ignored

And no I'm playing vanilla no mods

[short charm]

If the enemy spots torch first or door it'll prioritise that until its destroyed but if I'm spotted first it will go for me then torch/ door

[stark meadow]

So the enemy ends up hitting the torch, you are hitting the enemy and the enemy ignores you?

[short charm]

Yes

[stark meadow]

Haven't observed this at any point. Record it if you can.

[stark meadow]

Enemies get attracted by light sources from further away.
So they will see a torch before a workbench, but will attack both.

[short charm]

No problem boss

[abstract vault]

i have a properly marked setup, I tried having the workbench at 36m of which if you assume a sphere shouldn't really prevent any spawns but 🤷‍♂️ it prevents spawns till the 36m mark anyways. All of this has been weird.

I tried benches at different height, and everytime I logged back in, all marks beyond 20m spawned regardless of height. I killed them off and skipped time again, and they spawned after 20m mark again. I destroyed the bench and rebuilt it (didn't touch upgrades) and it was back to 36m. Repeated the restarting step, and now it was 20m. Wait lemme send ss.

I am using Spawner_imp_respawn
the respawning surtling spawn points basically for this

basically this setup, 36m high, 44m horizontally
a spawner every 4m

I did consider that maybe it's too many spawn points or something, so in a separate world I tried this with one spawn point at around 24m. Before restarting, an uprgraded workbench, completely suppressed it. But as soon as I started, that stopped and the range was back to 20m.

(i just checked my message history, and I had used this same setup back in february of this year, at that time, it definitely worked as a sphere and I don't think it had this problem?)

[plucky compass]

is this actually the only attack that happens, at day 200ish? and appart from 1 troll and surtling attack in the beginning this has been the only type

[marble wolf]

Days have no bearing on what raids you can get.

[little epoch]

Okay. I have a fairly high end PC (Ryzen 7600X, 6800XT). I've never had crashes. But it is constant crashes now. Firstly I was having issues where my CPU would over heat (which I've never had in any game ever), so I replaced my Air cooler with a water cooler - solved this issue.

Now I'm constantly getting game engine crashes with Unity. I've had enough of this as I keep losing my inventory as I save once in a while (but enough to lose stuff). Where can I get help where someone can look at the logs and work out what the issue is? I've had three crashes in the last hour for no apparent reason.

No GPU or CPU issues either, but game side.

I'm playing on my mates server - he's hosting off his PC.

[stark meadow]

When you check windows updates, then optional windows updates, see anything there related to AMD and chipset drivers?

You can DM me the crash.dmp and player.logs from those crashes

[little epoch]

Sent you a DM

[little epoch]

Anyone had an issue where they load back in after a crash and you can not stop left clicking? Like kicking, hitting anything. It don't drain your stamana either, and its infiniate, no matter what you do it won't stop.

[stark meadow]

Crashes can generally corrupt game files, so you should definitely re-install the game at this point as well. Although very low chance that the crash itself is caused by corrupt installation files.

[little epoch]

Will I lose the game saves tho? They're backed up on steam cloud i believe too

[stark meadow]

Re-installation doesn't touch save files, whether they are in Steam Cloud or just local (they are at different location than the game installation folder)

[plucky compass]

asksvin standing in the open and is taming

[plucky compass]

but always the same raid is meh. and always bats .... as bats are just annoying anyways

[marble wolf]

That's just RNG. You'll have at least the boss raid as well potentially plus probably the Troll raid assuming you're already at Mountains.

[stark meadow]

it prevents spawns till the 36m mark anyways.
Did the same test as you. Only one workbench placed higher and it does suppress spawns in a 3D cilinder with radius of 36m. At least not in general, as you can see here:

However, I did notice some irregularities depending on more than one variable, where it can so happens that the workbench seems to spawn suppress even on 3D cylinder range. Something is definitely off, will look further into this. The other issue of it not spawn suppressing when it should is confirmed as I said in previous comment as well.

[abstract vault]

I forgot to try being in the centre and verifying actually, I'll check it later for my setup.

[stark meadow]

Thanks for pointing this issues out. You don't have to do more tests, as I'm doing them now as well to make an official report to the Dev team. Currently checking in which build this got broken.

[abstract vault]

Aye

[turbid patrol]

I have a problem with Characters and Maps saved in the Cloud. I open them and play on them but after leaving and re-entering I suffer a Rollback of how I was I can't advance.
And I have discovered that if I do not disable the Cloud option on Steam I cannot create new characters.

[jagged hamlet]

Have you validated your files trough steam?

[stark meadow]

Check the last paragraph in the Section1:Point5 of this guide:
https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/my_valheim_is_crashing_fix_for_crash_guide/

[turbid patrol]

ty

[brave fox]

hello. did anyone have this? what is it? its not a big deal, little inconvenient i guess

[stark meadow]

Using any mods? How much RAM does your system have?

[brave fox]

zero mods. 16gb ddr4

[stark meadow]

Does it look like that ever after you restart the game?

[brave fox]

never looked like that ever. getting to 400hrs. only thing new, i wanted to try console yesterday, didnt work, deleted the option on steam

[stark meadow]

Ask if any of your friends have been using client side mods

Try restarting the game to see if it will go away

But actually, before that can you upload your player.log file and player-prev.log?

You can reach them by logging out and clicking on the show player.log button that can be found at the bottom left corner of the starting menu.

You can DM the files to me.

[brave fox]

resolved after restart of pc.

[stark meadow]

Did anyone else on the server have this issue?

[dusty coral]

Hi, my friends and I started playing last week. Three days ago, we built a house and everything was great until today. Today, I started building a large platform with a roof, and while I was nearly done with the construction, everything suddenly started falling apart. I was confused, wondering what was happening, and then suddenly everything collapsed, and I fell into a huge hole. The hole was about the same size as the platform but very deep and filled with water, and it wasn’t there when I started building. At the same time I fell, I noticed a huge hole had also appeared under the house, causing it to collapse. Is that normal, or is it a bug? Luckily, I was able to restore a previous save before the collapse.

[wintry barn]

Hi guys, I'm looking for some help with an issue I'm having while playing on my friends modded dedicated server. I am the only person on the server having the issue, so I don't believe it's a mod conflict of any kind. The issue is that when I attempt to move items from my inventory to a chest or workbench inventory (mod), the items won't go, they appear in the storage for a moment and then poof back into my characters inventory. What is worse is sometimes they just straight up disappear. The only error being thrown is
[Error : Unity Log] MissingMethodException: Method not found: bool .Chat.IsTakingInput()
Stack trace:
Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated, just tag me because otherwise ill never see the response.

[gilded sluice]

um no. that's the first time I ever hear a random hole just apear like that 😮

[gilded sluice]

---> #mods-issues

[stark meadow]

Have you noticed this holes appearing and lingering for longer when you explore the world?

[viscid dock]

Is Asksvin stamina regen a known issue? I haven't ridden this Asksvin in many hours (certainly 20+) of gameplay and its stamina didn't come back at all. As it is, why does it take multiple in-game days for it to regenerate?

[stark meadow]

You have to feed it. Not sure if you can feed it and leave, probably not.

[viscid dock]

OK. Knew that was important to hp regen, wasn't aware it played a role in stamina. Thanks.

[dusty coral]

For now, such a thing as in the picture hasn’t happened to me, but that hole is not a graphical bug. It looked like the terrain somehow collapsed inward. A lot of wood from the construction and a lot of stones, which are probably from that hole while it was forming, remained inside.

I apologize if something is wrong or unclear because English is not my strong suit.

[dusty coral]

And it's my first time seeing that.

[lone parcel]

not a critical bug, but if fire hazard is on, pulling out a torch in bed should set both the bed and you on fire, for the sake of consistency lol

[spiral anvil]

anyone notice a huge ocean appearing near the deep north with the ashlands update? seems unintentional

[tropic torrent]

Both deep north and ashlands lost a lot of real estate after the update. A lot of the placeholder 'land' in those biomes was dropped into ocean/water

[spiral anvil]

Ah. in one of my worlds it has resulted in two super-tall mountains becoming shorter with a hilarious number of floating boulders. Itd be a shame if those mountains never regain their former height when the deep north gets developed

[glass seal]

This is a small bug, but when I booted up the public test for the first time, my middle click controls were reassigned to "system left." At first I thought my mouse was broken but I just reassigned and it hasn't reverted back. Running on Mac M2 Pro.

[marble wolf]

#valheim-public-test or #bog-witch-feedback-only for PTB feedback.

[glass seal]

Oops sorry!

[low ocean]

There is a known issue about controls reverting like that in the PTB version, maybe that is the problem you've encountered.

I am sure they will fix it soon.

[spring stag]

hey does anyone know how you can send world files to a friend, so that friend can launch the same server from their pc?

[low ocean]

if you manually copy the files from your game directory, that should at least be one sure way to do it.

But you will need to send files back and forth that way to play the same up to date version

[spring stag]

my friend sent me the files from world and localworlds and i put those files in the appropriate files but i still couldt launch the server.

[low ocean]

Oh...

[spring stag]

it would either not appear or it would launch a completly new server

[marble wolf]

Do you have both the fwl and db files for your world?

[spring stag]

yea

these are in localworlds the folder "worlds"

[low ocean]

Sigh what world names 🙂

[spring stag]

and these in localworlds

[marble wolf]

I don't see a .db or .fwl file that's not a backup.

[spring stag]

where do we find the correct ones?

[marble wolf]

They should be in the same place.

[spring stag]

these are all the files we can see with .db and .fwl

[marble wolf]

Are your worlds in the Cloud?

[spring stag]

where can we find that?

[gilded sluice]

you can see that ingame in the file sorting system

also you can move files to cloud from cloud in the editor in client

[eternal plume]

Not sure if this is the place to post this but i'm having trouble launching Valheim

it keeps bringing up this thing and then ending itself

[stark meadow]

Try the short version of re-installation described in the Section5 of this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/my_valheim_is_crashing_fix_for_crash_guide/

[eternal plume]

thanks i'll try that

it worked-- thank you!

[marble wolf]

#bog-witch-feedback-only

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