steam-bugs-discussion

[gilded sluice]

we have a ongoing ticket with unity about it

[bright coral]

Whatever [g]libc came with your distro is likely fine if it's recent. It's different from the glib-related dependency You ought not to need any -devel packages as Valheim uses runtime linking. You'll want these packages if not included via larger packages:
https://software.opensuse.org/package/libatomic1
https://software.opensuse.org/package/libpulse0
https://software.opensuse.org/package/libpulse-mainloop-glib0
If you follow their "official distribution"s for tumbleweed via those links, it might lead you to the larger package they're included with though they should all let you "expert download" an individual RPM in worst case.
You'll need outbound UDP allowed in your firewall if it's not already, including stateful return packets allowed. If you're using any DNS man-in-the-middle proxies like Pi Hole, make sure you're not blocking random Microsoft Azure domains. Of note, you'll also not be able to connect from most Russian ISPs. If you still run into an issue, feel free to attach your Player.log here after removing or obfuscating anything private.

[pale fox]

If you activate a power while sprinting, during the activation animation, you keep draining stamina while the shift key is held.
This should clearly not happen as your character is stationary during power activations.

[gilded sluice]

there are 100's of these interactions in the game. it's small minor issues

it's mostly a problem since we don't want to "root" you to the floor rendering you unable to move

[torpid breach]

Hi,
I was playing Ashlands, I was in a cave and fighting against Morgen when it pushed my character out of the game area and then my hero was constantly falling down. I had to kill my hero. I lost my weapons and stuff and I can't collect them back like I normally would. Developers, Is it possible to restore my weapons and stuff back ?

[gaunt mist]

If you were not aware so far you are going to be:
dungeons layouts are located in very high altitude, so high that you cannot see them from the ground, so if you had have taken your cape you'd have ended up on surface faster.
So if you used the die command then the gravestone should end up on the location on surface you died in.

Sometimes some bigger mobs like Queen or Morgen can push you through the wall on your fall from the dungeon.

However, if your gravestone is nowhere to be found you can load back up save of your character and world.

[torpid breach]

I was falling like 15 mins constantly

[gaunt mist]

With cape on?

[torpid breach]

yes with cape on

[gaunt mist]

Yeah, it will take very long to reach the surface with the cape on.
Damage from falling is capped to 100 so you would have survived the fall if you had more than 100 HP.

[torpid breach]

Good to know, thanks!

[gaunt mist]

Btw, very important advice: prepare better foods for yourself, it will increase your survivability.

[stark meadow]

You can use the manage saves button in the starting menu to chose earlier save backups.
Be sure to select character tab and expand the backup list for your character.

[fringe brook]

hi, i have an issue with my mouse cursor not being visible in UIs ,it's present when i launch the game on the main menu but not in my inventory for exemple
i started having this issue after switching OS (arch linux)
anyone got an idea why this happens ?
i'm on wayland

[stark meadow]

You will most likely have to use gamescope to fix mouse problems
Or run the game in x11 rather than wayland

[fringe brook]

i tried both but i still get the same issue

[stark meadow]

Are you using multiple monitors? Have gamepad also plugged in?

[fringe brook]

yes multiple, no gamepad
i added --force-grab-cursor parameter to gamescope and it fixed it i think!

[ashen dagger]

We have a buddy we want to play with but he has a severe disability and has to play with a controller and map the buttons a specific way. The game doesn't allow for controller button remapping. is there a workaround on PC or is this a quick fix on the developer side?

[gilded sluice]

@ashen dagger sadly no.
There are a bunch of different controller layouts tho. Not just 1 if you (him) look in the settings menu ingame

[ashen dagger]

Ah ok yeah we tried that but he couldn’t reach and/or press all the buttons. He can do it on ps5 we were just hoping to play it with him before that port comes out.

[gilded sluice]

You can play on a PS controller on steam atleast. Unsure about Xbox compability.

When I try controllers in valheim. I try with s PS3 Clone (om steam pc) mostly

[ashen dagger]

Thanks he uses either a custom ps4 controller because the ps5 controller is too big/heavy or the adaptive controller. If the buttons can be custom mapped through a configuration on steam he could play.

[stark meadow]

Have you tried editing the controller layout via Steam input?

[ashen dagger]

I think last time he tried all he could and it wouldn’t work with valheim. Sounds like the accessibility issue with most PC games he’s played is the lack of controller button mapping in game. I’m going to take any and all of these suggestions and pass them along/ try them out next time I see him.

Thank you!

[gilded sluice]

and please report back your findings 🙂

we want to hear about people with special needs to see if we can make the game more accessable for them if we can

(within reason)

[ashen dagger]

Yeah you bet thanks. There’s an untapped market for sure, if it’s reasonable to map the buttons valheim might see more players at least 🤷‍♂️

[candid laurel]

I've used Steam Input to add extra keyboard binding for mods to my controller, it should work straight forward for basic 1 to 1 remapping like swap L1 and B. If they need anything complex like swapping certain buttons in specific situations its a lot harder but might be doable with layers.

[analog crest]

Hi, i have a Problem with my Valheim. It freezes every 2min For about 15 secs. I've tryd many things, but nothing helps. Has anyone a solution? I really lost the fun since then. Also it occured recently, i have played for 2years lag free.

[trail halo]

I've had 99% bug free valheim experience, so first just wanted to shout out to the devs for making such a stellar game! A few connectivity issues is all. Recently though, I've had problems with what I believe is an unintended gameplay mechanic. I believe it is tied to multiplayer. Parrying golems is inconsistent. It has happened with both types. Occasionally a golem will recover from stagger after 0.5 seconds instead of the usual 3-4 seconds. I parry golems just fine with a silver shield but when we get the "Stun immune" golem, even parrying him multiple times does nothing. He almost instantly recovers. I haven't found a satisfactory answer on steam forums or reddit. It seams that other people have experienced the bug, but other people assume they just don't understand block mechanics. Maybe I'll try and get a video to back up my experiences. Thanks for all the work you guys do!

[gilded sluice]

a video helps alot

do you have any mods running?

[trail halo]

no I'm only vanilla

[gilded sluice]

or playing multiplayer?

[trail halo]

yes playing multiplayer

[gilded sluice]

try it singleplayer and see if it's the same behaviour

[trail halo]

yeah, I'll try and get a video for today or tomorrow. Thanks.

[gilded sluice]

you can also add a few helps

so you can just try and try and try until it kicks in

like godmode, infinite stamina etc

[trail halo]

Sure, If I need to use dev commands I'll go that route.

[gilded sluice]

setkey staminarate 1

or something like that

gives you infinite stamina

[stark meadow]

Are you playing with mods? Playing on a laptop? What are your system specs?

[stark meadow]

There are two types of golems. By design, each golem has an attack that you can parry, and one attack that it recover from parry much faster.

[analog crest]

no mods, otherwise i would use mods-issues, Windows 10 PC, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 1660 Ti

[stark meadow]

Then your stutters are most likely happening due to thermal throttling.
The very first thing you should test is which maximum temperatures is your PC reaching when playing Valheim.
I recommend using free HWiNFO program (not programs that only report AVG temperatures).
Run it in sensors only mode and check under GPU and CPU which MAX temps are being hit.

[trail halo]

Here is a video that I just took that shows the differences. The third golem I found had the bug. The others two were fine. The time stamps showing the three stone golems I tested:

0:52-2:28 Cone Golem behaving normal
5:55-7:16 Brick Golem behaving normal
20:02-23:54 Brick Golem behaving abnormal

Possibly a multiplayer glitch.

https://youtu.be/dr4FtjFiI3s

[ashen dagger]

No luck with the workarounds, if any of the devs want to be a legend and add controller button reassignments in game that would be sweet. already made brother a place to sleep and some chests lets get him in here. I will talk to your boss about how this will increase revenue if needed just lmk

[gilded sluice]

@ashen dagger what kind of setup does he use for his controller? 🤔

[analog crest]

thanks for this program, but i think the CPU-and GPU-Temp is not the reason for the freeze, the hottest temp was 80°C at CPU and 71°C GPU, but there Valheim ran totally fine, lags occurred random at average temp. But for some reason, running the program while playing reduces the occurrence of lags

[stark meadow]

Yeah, those temps should be fine. Then it's something else causing this issue.
Try to see if it happens in your base after alt-tabbing out of the game while you are in the base.
Also, next time this freezes happen, open up your task manager and check which app uses a lot of CPU and GPU (for GPU you will have to add additional column in the task manager - right click on any column name then select GPU to show).

[tepid glade]

Yo everyone,
me and 2 friends are having massive problems in the Ashlands right now.

Since we entered that biome, the game is basically unplayable for us.
We’re getting extreme lag spikes all the time, and it feels like there are WAY too many enemies spawning at once. Like… this can’t be normal anymore.

FPS drops hard, desync everywhere, combat turns into a slideshow.
Before Ashlands everything was fine, but now it’s just pain 🥲

Anyone else experiencing this?
Is this a known issue or are we doing something wrong?

Any tips or fixes would be appreciated 🙏

[stark meadow]

How many of you are playing in total?

[remote jasper]

Does anyone else have the issue where, when you open Spotify while already playing Valheim on PC, my PC freezes for like a solid minute or more.
Sometimes it resolves itself after a long freeze, but most of the time it straight crashes and even causes my monitors to reset.
I don't remember this happening before, and it happens every single time now. But only with this game.

[zenith comet]

I use spotify with mine all the time and have never had this issue. I'm on windows, no mods and about 1/3 of my hard drive is open if that helps.

[remote jasper]

It's weird, if I have Spotify open and running first, it works fine. But if I launch Spotify AFTER I am already playing Valheim, both Spotify and Valheim(and the rest of my PC) immediately freeze, and after a long while one or both will crash, or one will prevail. I have no mods and a fairly powerful desktop.

[lethal cape]

For us we just have a little bit of lag as soon as we enter Ashlands but not that bad

[stark meadow]

In any case you should start the throubleshooting by re-installing the graphic drivers (choose custom installation and select the option to preform clean install.

Also test what happens when you have hardware acceleration in your browser disabled.

[zenith comet]

Other stuff running in the background and space may also contribute to the issue.

[ruby hound]

The trees in Black Forest have more fog than the air surrounding it.

[robust rain]

Tiles lose texture? They come back if I step on them

[gilded sluice]

LOD issue? 🤔

[robust rain]

Hm it was set to 0 idk why, that fixed it

[gilded sluice]

0?

[stark meadow]

Did you change any graphic settings before noticing this?

[gilded sluice]

it's the build piece itself

LOD is very aggressive on that specific build piece

[robust rain]

Changing lod fixed it

[stark meadow]

I understood that. The question is before you did the fix, and before the issue arose, did you change any settings?

[gilded sluice]

her LOD setting was set to 0

[robust rain]

Yeah I had changed it for a video and forgot, it's my bad, I'm elderly

[pale fox]

I'm not sure if this is related to the just-released patch, but It seems like bear aggro is a bit off.
I just accidentally ran head-first into a bear (we almost kissed) but when I turned to run around it I noticed it hadn't actually spotted me.
So I walked back, did a half-circle, and then it noticed me and started trying to chase.

Unrelated, but bears have the same problems trolls do: they get so easily stuck by even mild terrain inclines.

[ionic niche]

hello i have an issue since this morning on my multiplayer server there is a swamp empty from trees, and when i look at it on local game everyting is fine

[gilded sluice]

any mods on the multiplayer server?

[ionic niche]

just 1 to allow 30 slot

is ther a way to update some area on a server?

[unique raven]

2 garlands released and both have stupid hitboxes
i'd like the hitbox to be on the whole garland and not the ends of it cuz it's annoying to break them

[gilded sluice]

I mean.. just having the mod loader can do stuff

[stark meadow]

It has been the same for Yule Garland for a long time.

[gilded sluice]

yeah

sadly

[stark meadow]

Probably a networking issue.
Try to deconstruct all boats in the area, and check if there is an issue when you invite others to your world from in-game option (not dedicated server).

[craggy pewter]

Just updated and checked out the emote wheel. It doesn't load all the way unless you circle the mouse around the whole thing. Even then, some of the emotes go missing as you go.

[stark meadow]

that is intended

you should circle around in clockwise to each next emotes and anticlockwise direction to go back to previous emotes

[gilded sluice]

intended

go into settings and you can choose between diffrent modes

[craggy pewter]

btw the sweetbread is super cute

[craggy pewter]

Oh, I get it. There's more emotes than would fit in one circle so it has to scroll.

Sorry for being dumb 😅

[spare pagoda]

Game fails to start for me after update on linux; anyone else having issues?

https://pastebin.com/raw/kqxk6KXE

Same thing without bepinex: only no stack trace.

[stark meadow]

Then please post a log without BepInEx. This is vanilla only server.
Check that your valheim_Data and valheim.x86_64 start with non-capital letter (lower case).

[spare pagoda]

How do I increase the verbosity of a vanilla launch? All I get is this when launching valheim.x86_64 directly: ⁨[UnityMemory] Configuration Parameters - Can be set up in boot.config "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-granularity=16" "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-bucket-count=8" "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-block-size=4194304" "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-block-count=1" "memorysetup-main-allocator-block-size=16777216" "memorysetup-thread-allocator-block-size=16777216" "memorysetup-gfx-main-allocator-block-size=16777216" "memorysetup-gfx-thread-allocator-block-size=16777216" "memorysetup-cache-allocator-block-size=4194304" "memorysetup-typetree-allocator-block-size=2097152" "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-granularity=16" "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-bucket-count=8" "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-block-size=4194304" "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-block-count=1" "memorysetup-profiler-allocator-block-size=16777216" "memorysetup-profiler-editor-allocator-block-size=1048576" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-main=4194304" "memorysetup-job-temp-allocator-block-size=2097152" "memorysetup-job-temp-allocator-block-size-background=1048576" "memorysetup-job-temp-allocator-reduction-small-platforms=262144" "memorysetup-allocator-temp-initial-block-size-main=262144" "memorysetup-allocator-temp-initial-block-size-worker=262144" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-background-worker=32768" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-job-worker=262144" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-preload-manager=262144" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-nav-mesh-worker=65536" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-audio-worker=65536" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-cloud-worker=32768" "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-gfx=262144"⁩

[stark meadow]

Try deleting Preft file in the .config/Unity3d/valheim and then launching again

After ofc being sure that you are indeed running clean instllation folder + both files lower case

The crash is probably related to FPS being capped during intro screen. Can you launch on OpenGL?

[spare pagoda]

Launch with -force-glcore works

I can confirm the filenames are correct: ⁨ ⋯  steamapps  common  Valheim   arch  ↑5 +9  stat valheim.x86_64 File: valheim.x86_64 Size: 15072 Blocks: 32 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 0,55 Inode: 1826117 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ tzhuang) Gid: ( 1000/ tzhuang) Access: 2026-02-02 10:17:42.500547332 -0500 Modify: 2026-02-02 10:16:23.116349167 -0500 Change: 2026-02-02 10:16:42.220393859 -0500 Birth: 2026-02-02 10:16:23.116349167 -0500 ⋯  steamapps  common  Valheim   arch  ↑5 +9  stat valheim_Data/ File: valheim_Data/ Size: 464 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 0,55 Inode: 156054 Links: 1 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ tzhuang) Gid: ( 1000/ tzhuang) Access: 2026-02-02 10:19:38.246636641 -0500 Modify: 2026-02-02 10:19:38.246582449 -0500 Change: 2026-02-02 10:19:38.246582449 -0500 Birth: 2025-12-29 03:07:51.083707097 -0500⁩

[spare pagoda]

Tried this but issue still persists.

[stark meadow]

If you also crash on OpenGL, then it's not the issue I'm thinking of.
Do you also crash in proton compatibility mode?

[keen badger]

Lingering Stamina Mead doesn't have a model when placed from the serving tray.

[stark meadow]

Yes, can happen, but it's an older known issue.

[bright coral]

On Vanilla, logs are blocked from stdout by default. You can override with ⁨-logFile -⁩ or just check your ⁨Player.log⁩, which is where they are tee'd to with or without BepInEx.

[bright coral]

Can you give us your Mesa version as well as your kernel (and AMDGPU module package if not using the kernel's)?

[brittle flare]

I didn't see any other comments on this in the server. I can't seem to de-construct Fey Lights that I built. They don't highlight to de-construct them. Is this a user error, or is this how they're designed?

[desert zinc]

On a multi-player game, me and 5 other buddies hopped into a troll cave. I went first. And found the troll. Just as I attempted a sneak attack. He saw me. I alerted my fellow comrades outside the cave. The flowed in with haste to my side. But as I turned back twards the troll. I thought my eyes deceived me. But alas. It was all too real. The troll had called his comrades, and before us 6 vikings stood 6 blue trolls. 2 of them stared. We made a hasty retreat and survived by the tips of our capes. The cave lie guarded still. Any hope to enter is thwarted immediately by a log to the face. Pushing us back outside before we could get a chance to adjust our eyes to the darkness.

TLDR: an extra troll spawned in the troll cave for each of the 6 players causing 6 trolls in one cave that push you back out before you can move.

[stark meadow]

You deconstruct them by hovering over points where you also attack them (so ends of the garland).

[brittle flare]

Thank you for this. I just discovered that. I was targeting the middle and not the ends.

[stark meadow]

Dedicated server or someone hosting the game?
Anyone using mode?

[desert zinc]

Hosting Dedicated server from my own pc. No mods

My best guess is because we were all located in different parts of the world it had to do with latency and communication time. So might not be a bug bug. But I thought id post it here in case

[spare pagoda]

Running with Proton gives me this

Tried with both Proton-GE and Proton 9.0-4

[stark meadow]

Hm.. seems like a general driver/kernel issue.
Do you have any external FPS limiter running or any special Valheim launch settings in Steam library?

[spare pagoda]

My Player.log doesn't seem to update on starting the game client? ie it's from an older launch.

[spare pagoda]

I don't think so. I explicitly set my output refresh rate through sway if that's something that might make a difference: ⁨```output $primary_display mode 2560x1440@180Hz adaptive_sync on bg /media/pictures/the_legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_the_master_trials_dlc_4k_8k-2560x1440.jpg fill pos 2560 0

Oh you know what that actually fixed it

Rather it's not the VRR but setting the refresh rate on my monitor to 180

⁨```output $primary_display mode 2560x1440 adaptive_sync on bg /media/pictures/the_legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_the_master_trials_dlc_4k_8k-2560x1440.jpg fill pos 2560 0

Let me double check that my old config breaks it

Wait no it just works now lol I don't know what changed

Oh wait I'm running with gl-core doh

Okay nm the output config in my sway config has no bearing on the crash

[spare pagoda]

https://pastebin.com/raw/P31K7qDS Let me know if this is the info you're looking for

[stark meadow]

Think that crashes might be related to things disrupting boot process (so any kind of launch setting sending inputs during boot increases the chances of crashing).

[spare pagoda]

In that case then no

[spare pagoda]

I shouldn't have anything interfering with the game launch

I'll try a resintall

[bright coral]

Thanks, is your vulkan-radeon package the same ⁨1:25.3.4⁩ version as the rest of mesa?

[spare pagoda]

It is: ⁨Name : vulkan-radeon Version : 1:25.3.4-1 Description : Open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://www.mesa3d.org/ Licenses : MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND SGI-B-2.0 Groups : None Provides : vulkan-driver Depends On : expat gcc-libs glibc libdisplay-info libdrm libelf libx11 libxcb libxshmfence llvm-libs spirv-tools systemd-libs vulkan-icd-loader vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers wayland xcb-util-keysyms zlib zstd Optional Deps : vulkan-mesa-layers: additional vulkan layers Required By : lib32-vulkan-radeon steam Optional For : proton-ge-custom-bin sdl3 vulkan-icd-loader Conflicts With : None Replaces : amdvlk<=2025.Q2.1-1 Installed Size : 16.01 MiB Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <[e-mail]> Build Date : Fri 23 Jan 2026 06:56:53 PM EST Install Date : Mon 26 Jan 2026 12:44:06 PM EST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : Signature⁩

[tiny rivet]

Does anyone have problems with character textures after the update? Mine are totally crazy now.

I tried reinstalling the game, updating my graphics drivers, but the problem is still there.

It hadn't happened to me before.

[stark meadow]

Do you have Nvidia app?

[tiny rivet]

Yeah, I tried turning off the nvidia optimization as well

[stark meadow]

Ok, please also try restoring default Valheim profile in Nvidia control panel as well (not Nvidia app).
Then restart PC. Did you also test if you get the glitches in d3d11?

[tiny rivet]

Ok, thanks for helping me, to be honest I don't know how to check that (d3d11), that is a kind of run command?

[tiny rivet]

I tried this, I mean restoring the Valheim profile and rebooting my computer, but te problem is still there

[spare pagoda]

This did nothing for me unfortunately 🥲

[stark meadow]

Yeah, you should be asked how you wanna launch Valheim when you press start on Steam
But if you selected to not be asked again, then you would have to right click on Valheim in steam library and open its properties
Under general tab you can chose how you wanna launch Valheim.

[stark meadow]

And launching in OpenGL works?

[tiny rivet]

I understand, I'll try. (Doing this I realized that I have the command "-force-vulkan" as launch param seted

[spare pagoda]

Yes. If I launch with -force-glcore the game loads.

[stark meadow]

Remove that one, then select:

[tiny rivet]

Thanks, I did it. I selected the "play valheim" when the game starts and I deleted the param "-force-vulkan" too.

It seems the problem was fixed, thanks for helping me my friend

[stark meadow]

Will DM you a specific prefs file, wondering if you gonna be able to launch on Vulkan with it

[bright coral]

You've got a pretty up to date system. It's too bad you're still seeing Vulkan issues on the new engine 😢. Those stack traces and yours from previous all seem to happen in Unity's garbage collector, but that doesn't mean much to me in terms of where to take troubleshooting.

[tiny rivet]

Just a question, if I play the game using the no vulkan version, the bug that I mentioned deseapear, the problem with that is that the game looks work bad for a reason.

And if a play the game using vulkan, the bug with the character's textures is still there.

How can I fix it then?

This is my PC:

RXT 3090
I9-12900k
32GB RAM

[stark meadow]

Could you dm me a screenshot of how the game looks at d3d11?
Please also screenshot your in-game graphic settings

[tiny rivet]

Sure, when you say "d3d11" you are talking about the vulkan version, right?

[stark meadow]

No, the non Vulkan one that looks bad.

[tiny rivet]

Just to clarify, the game looks good but is not smooth.

It seems like stutering or something, it's strage because the fps are on 60 all time.

[spare pagoda]

Alright guys time to move to godot 😆

[stark meadow]

Have you tried Prefs files I sent you?

[spare pagoda]

You dm'd it to me? i don't think I see it

[vapid frigate]

Hi guys, my game keep crashing, i tried everything but nothing works...That's my log.

[stark meadow]

Game crashes with Unity popup?

[vapid frigate]

no

[stark meadow]

How then? Black screen, just closes without popup, freezes on returning to the game after alt-tabbing, freezes then you click into the widnow and it crashes...

[vapid frigate]

just closes without popup and return to desktop

[ashen pivot]

Anyone have issues with your ingots disappearing? I’m using ValHost to host a dedicated server and we’ve been using Valheim+ mod. I set it so that instead of of dropping, items will go to nearest chest.

Others have their own bases and have not encountered this issue.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[stark meadow]

Try removing entire like ⁨gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1⁩ from ⁨boot.config⁩ located in ⁨C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim_Data⁩ (location depends on where you installed Steam)
Which CPU do you have?

[stark meadow]

Try checking #mods-issues. This is vanilla only channel.
However, ingots can duplicate/disappear in vanilla as well if you travel a lot through portals while they are smelting.
Similar things can happen if you lose network packets.

[vapid frigate]

i can try, my cpu is ryzen 5 7600x and my gpu is rtx 5060

[serene sleet]

are anyones fey lights bugging out

i was hovering different wooden beam build pieces over a corner of a building where i had some fey lights constructed and the lights turned into something else

[quiet tundra]

Hello i can not access anyones worlds when invited, I get the same message of failed to connect and we have tried a fresh reinstal of the game, flushing the files and verifying them, restarting my router, and making sure cross play is off. None of this has worked so far any help would be appriciated.

[proud pond]

also cross play is not enabled, we've tried with and without a password. Other people are able to connect to the server

we weren't sure if this was the right place to ask but were hoping for some assistance if possible

[serene sleet]

weird lil thing

[stark meadow]

@proud pond Have you tested sending crossplay disabled + Steam invite while while Xander waits in the character selection screen?

[proud pond]

yes we have

[storm star]

hay im new to the game. only bine on a few months but ever since the new update it keeps crashing my friends steam game. on are shaired server and his solo game. is there anything we can do to fix it?

[stark meadow]

Can you screnshot your network adapters?

Start → type and open device manager → expand network adapters → screenshot

[stark meadow]

Who is crashing from the two of you and in what way are they crashing?

[storm star]

i was fine but he wasn't. ill ask him to. give me a moment. he was getting disconnected every time he came on. within about 20 minutes or less every time

[quiet tundra]

we have tried turning off fire wall that also did not work

and from what we saw drivers were up to date

[stark meadow]

Try right clicking on the Cloudflare Warp adopter and disable it. Then restart the PC.

[stark meadow]

Crashing (game closing) or disconnecting (returning to main menu)?

[storm star]

crashing

its freezing or just flat out not responding before kicking him he said

[quiet tundra]

that worked thank you!!!!!

[stark meadow]

Tell them to forward you their PC specs.
Tell them to try playing in d3d11 ("Play Valheim" option) when asked how they wanna launch Valheim on Steam.
Also tell them to test removing gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1 from boot.config file that is located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim_Data (depends on where they installed Steam).

[storm star]

@stark meadow i sent him the discord server he will be on soon

ok he cant come on because he doesn't have a phone number. nut he said he changed the way he launched it from volkon to just launching it and now he said its working. thank you for your time

[stark meadow]

Apparently it happens when you try to destroy it.

[serene sleet]

i didnt try to destroy it

[stark meadow]

Rain can do it for you.

[woeful nacelle]

I have these weird spikes sticking out from a build, no idea what's causing them.

[pale garden]

I literally just fixed mine, they're the "Fey Lights". Half mine had a broken texture like that and I had to break them and put them back up. Visual or graphical bug...?

[gilded sluice]

oh. could be damaged Fey lights 🤔

when they take damage, their model goes bonkers

[woeful nacelle]

@gilded sluice I just put them up, and it persisted after I took them down.

[woeful nacelle]

Was thinking that, and it remained after replacing them.

Though to be fair, I also didn't disable what few mods I run. All two of them. So it might be because of that.

[pale garden]

I've never ran mods for this game (yet), and it still happened to me too. Haven't made my way back home to see if they're still fixed or not though

[gilded sluice]

Hm... funky 🤔

doesn't happen for me tho

[gilded sluice]

MODS!

all mods are mega-broken atm

so....

yeah

but we are working with modders to solve issues with(for) them 🙂

[pale garden]

Still worth it to keep taking them down and putting them up again. I love the Fey Lights

[woeful nacelle]

I run Torches Eternal, so it might be that since it's related to a light effect, but it could be BepInEx as well. I'll have to remove the mods and try again. Was actually surprised that I didn't have to in order to load anything.

[steel monolith]

Screenshots with Steam F12 are no longer working for me in Valheim since the patch. It works in my other Steam games. Any ideas what to check?

[serene sleet]

how did u break them while they were in buggy texture mode

[serene sleet]

it's not mods doing it. i use no mods

[gilded sluice]

Hm... 🤔

works fine for me

F11 for ingame screenshot; F12 saves for steam screenshot

what happens when you click F11 and F12?

[steel monolith]

F12: nothing happens. No popup in the lower right of the screen, no audio like a camera shutter. cntl+F11 is also nothing nothing.

[gilded sluice]

C:\Users<username\ AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\screenshots ?

nothing?

but it's just F11, not Ctrl+F11

have you steam overlay turned on/off?

[pale garden]

It took a bit to get them down, but I had to aim where they connected to the poles (where the end of the Fey Lights touched to make contact with the surface I applied them to), and the distorted graphic turns completely green when you have it highlighted. You have to aim at the very end of the string of lights, not anywhere in the center of them. (It’s invisible since the texture is broken and you have to remember where it is)

[pale garden]

Here's a more detailed example of how to break them down again. You pretty much target the spot where they connect to surfaces, and the entire broken texture turns green when you have it highlighted. (Sorry they didn't break until now, but I figured I would show how to fix them)

[serene sleet]

ya i got it ty

[ivory fog]

Trying to be vague to avoid mid-game spoilers: since the update, I haven't seen any night spawns from after the fifth boss. Anybody know why not?

listkeys does list the required key

hm, I am in the centre of the world, perhaps they only spawn past a certain radius now?

[gilded sluice]

spawns only happens in mistlands afaik

[ivory fog]

Since when? After defeating Plains boss, they used to spawn in Meadows and Black Forest at night?

I've actually never seen them in Mistlands.

[gilded sluice]

Hm..

lets look at wiki 🤔

you mean killing yagluth and the queen night spawn?

or you mean fulings should spawn?

[ivory fog]

I was trying to be vague, but yes, I haven't seen any fulings in the meadows or black forest at night.

Also not sure what you mean by queen night spawn

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. that's wierd 🤔

ah no sorry. i was tired (it's getting late here in sweden)

I thought you ment the invasions from a boss,

[ivory fog]

No worries. Now that you understand, I think I'll delete those minor spoilers. :)

[gilded sluice]

dw

most people know by now 😄

[ivory fog]

Eh still :)

[gilded sluice]

but wierd you don't get nightspawning 🤔

[ivory fog]

it's a fun surprise

Would it possibly be related to Raid Rate: None?

Shouldn't be, but I do have that enabled right now, just an idea.

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. shouldn't but 🤔

[ivory fog]

lemme re-enable them to test

Okay I did get some with raids enabled. Let me turn them off again.

and now I've got them

That's weird. Didn't see any for two hours lol

[gilded sluice]

wierd

[glacial galleon]

has anyone had issues with textures getting stretched across the screen? like player and other enemy models, my boat was also doing it.

[stark meadow]

Don't play in Vulkan.

[glacial galleon]

10-4

That was in fact, the issue. Thank you lol

[fading panther]

anyone else have a issue with vulkan not launching after the new update? performance on dx11 vs vulkan was huge on my laptop, so I prefer to use vulkan

[stark meadow]

Yes, it's a bit unstable. Best use d3d11 until a hotfix comes.

[steel monolith]

Sorry, RL intruded yesterday. cntl-F11 does not work. No screenshots in C:\Users<username\ AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\screenshots. My Steam (F12) screenshots have always gone to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\steamid\760\remote\892970\screenshots ?

[gilded sluice]

no only F11 button, no ctrl

unsure if the button is having a conflict somewhere for you, since it's not a bindable key 🤔

[steel monolith]

Yes, f11 puts screenshots in C:\Users<username\ AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\screenshots 😀

[gilded sluice]

than that feature works as intended atleast

[steel monolith]

Yep. I plan to to a reinstall in a coulpe of hours when spme time frees up

[gilded sluice]

the game or steam? 😄

[steel monolith]

Sounds like both as it is a Steam issue (seemingly)

[stark meadow]

Probably related to Vulkan. Check if your Steam screens work in d3d11

[steel monolith]

I don't use Vulcan? I don't get the "do you want to use the Steam Overlay" prompt for Valheim. I do with other Steam games.

[gilded sluice]

then try with vulkan 🤔

but I suspect it's a steam issue somewhere

enable or disable steam overlay

[steel monolith]

ok

[stark meadow]

Then you are probably using Vulkan. At some point you selected to not be asked in which render to launch.

Check your launch settings for Valheim Steam library properties

(play Valheim is d3d11, so not-Vulkan)

[steel monolith]

So major embarrassment: Steam Overlay was off for Valheim. No I idea how, when or why I did that. Thanks for helping me overcome my obvious disabilities.

[gilded sluice]

nice

issue solved then 🙂

it's always testing testing to see what was wrong

glad that it was a easy fix tho

[steel monolith]

I should have checked that first, but yeah, it was easy. Soryy to have wasted your time

[gilded sluice]

oh no, no problem

helping users is part of my job 🙂

[pale mesa]

I think in the recent update, the 32:9 aspect ratio option was removed from the game

I have a 5120x1440 and the game only goes to 3440x1440

[stark meadow]

Please test both Vulkan, d3d11 and d3d11 with exclusive fullscreen (use exclusivefullscreen sommand in console)

[pale mesa]

One sec

Im on linux so I only have "Play Valheim" and "Play Valheim using OpenGL" options

[pale mesa]

Both have 3440x1440 as the max. The "normal" version creates black bars on the sides, and the opengl version stretches the window

[cedar edge]

vulkan is the unnamed default in llinux

[stark meadow]

Have you also tried exclusivefullscreen command in OpenGL?

[pale mesa]

In the steam launch options?

[stark meadow]

No, console command. Launch in OpenGL → In-game open Settings → Gameplay → Enable console → Press F5 → type exclusivefullscreen → hit enter → after that don't change any settings

[cedar edge]

fyi https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/PlayerCommandLineArguments.html

[pale mesa]

The game is fullscreen

The game was 5120x1440 by default, but whenever I change any setting it automatically sets it to 3440 and I have to say "didn't work"

I don't want to accidentally change something and be stuck in 3440

When changing settings in fullscreen mode, it still sets the game to 3440 in fullscreen, which stretches the render

[stark meadow]

Understandable, didn't think it as solution, just wondering if that works.
Might be fixed via next hotfix.

[pale mesa]

Ok, thank you

How do I disable fullscreen?

[stark meadow]

You can also run exclusivefullscreen command multiple times, but you will have to run it each time you change something

[pale mesa]

Is there an opposite of exclusivefullscreen?

Because I can't disable it in the settings without making the aspect ratio change

[stark meadow]

Is there something that bothers you about exclusivefullscreen mode that you wanna disable it now?

[pale mesa]

And should I submit a bug report somewhere

[pale mesa]

Just harder to switch between tabs

[stark meadow]

Try adding this line to your launch settings in Valheim Steam library properties:
-screen-fullscreen 1 -screen-height 1440 -screen-width 5120

[pale mesa]

That crashed with opengl and didn't change anything with vulkan

[stark meadow]

How about -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-height 1440 -screen-width 5120 ?

[pale mesa]

On opengl or vulkan

[stark meadow]

Try both

[pale mesa]

No longer fullscreen but same settings behavior

Ty for your help

[meager flume]

the new fairy lights are doing this weird clipping thing

they seem to only do it when they get water damaged?

[stark meadow]

Will be fixed soon

[meager flume]

sweet

[jovial wolf]

Any news on a new patch to fix the broken mod situation?

[tropic torrent]

No news yet.

[gilded sluice]

sadly not yet

it's not like a 5 second fix sadly

it needs to be verified and such

[solemn niche]

The news will come when the hotfix arrives, as always and just how we like it.

[silent juniper]

so you're saying the fix is completed and awaiting verification? Nice!

[gilded sluice]

@silent juniper Yeah, for that specific issue Yes. We are adding more fixes for other issues aswell.

[silent juniper]

Very cool! Good luck getting it all working!

[minor canyon]

anyone have an idea why my screen is black when I join my friend? self-hosted

Have same mod version too

[stark meadow]

Mod related issue. Try disabling crossplay.

[minor canyon]

oh ok ty, will try that

[solid locust]

anyone know if this is a glitch or if theres a way out? was fighting a morgen in a putrid hole and it smacked me through a wall to a section of the hole that has no escape

funnily enough there was also loot back here- idk if theres a way to break through the walls but nothing i do seems to deal any damage to the walls in the putrid hole

[gilded nacelle]

use another world to drop off your stuff, then use /die to go back to spawn then retrive your stuff?

id say use a chair to sit through the wall but you'd need a workbench

[cedar edge]

devcommands
ghost
fly
then just leave through the floor, the ground is 5000m below
or
devcommands
debugmode
and LeftCtrl+middleclick on the map to teleport to groundlevel there

[main mulch]

yeah, was wondering what was happening. good that it will be fixed, as it looks good in swamp base

It makes them invisible from below, appearing only from same height or above. which just looks interesting tbh

[torn leaf]

trying to launch Valheim after todays patch crashes my game on the Irongate logo and shows me this error "screen". anyone know what might be wrong?

worked not using Vulkan, so I guess it's something to do with that

[stark meadow]

Vulkan has some issues atm, so best to use d3d11. Should be addressed on the next patch.

[gilded sluice]

we didn't update today tho

[torn leaf]

my bad. meant to say after the most recent patch. I simply launched the game for the first time today after it

[gilded sluice]

did you ever have mods?

[torn leaf]

nope. never installed a single mod but did have steam choosing vulkan by default

[gilded sluice]

verify the game files and see if that solves that

[torn leaf]

kk will try that tomorrow. thanks

[urban flicker]

When roaming around I often find "bare patches" in the world that can take several minutes to fill in ground cover. Also, some structures have no ground supporting them and will start to fall apart. It can also take several minutes for a dungeon to spawn after loading.
Are these common problems that other people see?

[alpine sail]

I'm having an issue with the game stuttering badly (talking like 2fps) in fullscreen or windowed borderless since switching monitors. None of the Steam properties commands seem to work. I can play it windowed fine, or windowed borderless at 16x9, but I have an ultrawide. Can't find a solution. It's unplayable unless windowed or at 16x9. Worked fine on my previous ultrawide.

[stable nimbus]

Although the solution might've been discussed already and I’m new to this server. My buddy and I just started playing, and the last few times I logged back in my progression didn’t save even though I saved before logging off. Is there any way to recover my stuff or fix this going forward? Appreciate any help

[stark meadow]

These are usually a sign you have IO issues, like slow hard drive.
Do you have Valheim on a external drive, hard disk, RAID setup? What is your CPU/GPU?

[stark meadow]

Switch to d3d11 renderer (or OpenGL on Linux), by finding Valheim in your Steam library → Right click → Properties → General → Select launch Option → Play Valheim. Settings menu → Gamplay tab → Enable console. Press F5 to open console → type exclusivefullscreen→ hit ENTER → after that don't change any settings or else you will have to activate exclusivefullscreen again.

Dropping to 2FPS is probably a separate issue (like your OS/platform and PC specs).

[stark meadow]

Did your game crash before this started happening? Do you have Steam account signed in two devices? You probably don't have a more recent save then, but you should test if you game saves properly now at all (hop into world, change something in inventory, logout, log back in).

[gilded sluice]

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/yet-another-windows-update-is-wreaking-havoc-on-gaming-rigs-worldwide-nvidia-recommends-uninstalling-windows-11-kb5074109-january-update-to-prevent-framerate-drops-and-artifacting

it's not always our fault tho 🙁

[green saffron]

ok. so after I got my new hard drive and fixed my mods, I realized i lost progress, but idk how much. other than just looking at the sunken burial grounds and seeing if they are complete, is there another way to determine how much progress I lost? I only realized bc I notice some things I built in my camp are gone.

[stable nimbus]

Sorry I just saw this but thank you for responding. My game didn’t crash and I have my steam logged in on my pc and only mobile. I do see my latest backups which seems like it saved but when I press restore backup, it fails.

[stark meadow]

You can refer to what in-game day it is vs which one your remember it should be, you can also look at timestamp in autobackup files in the starting menu (manage saves, expland backup list for the world save on the world tab).

Saves made later also have larger file size on disk, so check how large is your currect save vs how large are your backups.

[stark meadow]

The action of restoring backup fails? Can you try to restore a character backup one more time, and then after it fails, go back to the starting menu, and in bottom left corner of screen click on the white Show Player.log button. It will lead you to a folder where you will see Player file. Send that Player log file to me directly.

[stable nimbus]

I’m not at my pc rn so once I’m able to, I’ll check it out. Thank you

[fresh plaza]

Game is literally unplayable

[violet pier]

Literally game ruined cant play it anymore

[stable cliff]

-# hithere! was unsure to report this since looks very machine-bound, playing Valheim on 3 pcs, depending on day of week and i have ths problem with just one.
-# never happened tho and started clearly on last update, the pc is the one i can keep higer graph setting also, and regular performance seemed even smoother.
have some kind of startup-roulette, usually misses the first and often second game startup tries, usually at the Valheim logo loading screen with no crash report, one time on Coffe Stain's logo with crash report.
-# startup crashes never happened before, in-game crashes happen sometimes, but not lately, when the game finally start it goes smooth

[stark meadow]

Best to not launch the game in Vulkan until the hotfix.

[stable cliff]

oh ok i see, always used Vulkan indeed, thanks!

[exotic musk]

Probably already a known issue but ovens tend to eat up Food when spammend while in Multiplayer. This is similar to the Charcoal Kilns or Furnaces, the all known 21/20, but in this Case the surpuls is just deleted instead of being cooked aswell.

[main mulch]

That has happened to me before too. Just be more patient with the oven(?). Because I don't think we are that busy that we don't have time to be bit more patient with cramming raw food in there.
Also the bug (21/20) does happen with the eitr refinery

[exotic musk]

Jup, its just a bit counterintuitive for certain "Containers" spamming is "encuraged" or the best way to fill them, while for the oven it might lead to a penalty

[cedar edge]

where does the steam dedicated server store characters?

[stark meadow]

Characters are saves on the client side, not server, unless you use server side characters mod ofc.

[gilded sluice]

it doesn't 🤔

[cedar edge]

lolwut

like i assume its saving them client side, and in <os specific>/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim/characters_local/
but that also seems like it would cnflict with the cleints saves,,, so im asking
why would it not save them at all?

i know where they are on my system and my dedicateds in linux, but i'm trying to advise a windows guy running a dedicated from the steam menu

[stark meadow]

Dedicated server app doesn't save character saves, the client does.

On Windows it's:
https://i.imgur.com/mTVKf1J.jpg?4

[cedar edge]

ok, so when a steam dedicated is using serverCharacters (sorry, forgot that important word), where are the saves?

[stark meadow]

Please mod questions #mods-discussion

This is vanilla only channel

[cedar edge]

double doh

[gilded sluice]

doh

you better ask the mod maker 😉

[spiral anvil]

Think I might have found a possible bug: bonfire is burning crystal walls in the ashlands

[fair jasper]

The no skill drain timer is incorrect. I have repeatedly noticed that it is higher than I expected it to be (for example, right now it says 8:29 left, but I know it's been more than 4:53 + 0:20 since my last death based on my rested buff). I'm pretty sure that last time I died I lost skills despite the 'no skill drain' still showing, so I think it's just the icon and timer that are incorrect and not the effect.

[young bay]

The Elder does not react to my arrow shots, standing still

[stark meadow]

It can trigger twice due to a bug.

[stark meadow]

Is it stuck, or a multiplayer issue?

[young bay]

doesn't seem stuck. it just doesn't react, looking away

[stark meadow]

Playing with mods? Singleplayer or server?

[young bay]

singleplayer no mods

[fair jasper]

sometimes I see all sorts of enemies (valkyries, loxes etc) not react to arrows if they are far away

idk if I've seen bosses act that way

[young bay]

to be precise, when I walked close it turned around and aproached me.
but that only happened after I ran out of arrows leaving 1% of hp to deliver final blow.
about 30-ish fire and flint arrows he didnt react to at all

[ionic sparrow]

I am encountering a very strange issue with the newest patch. My mouse wheel is not being detected in game at all and I'm not able to rotate buildings. Rotation works with the controller, but I can't get it to work with the mouse at all. I have even tried using a different mouse and also rebinding mouse wheel controls using autohotkey, but the issue persists. Reverting to the previous patch resolves the problem and rotation works just fine, but when I use the new update, I can't rotate anything. I have tried fully uninstalling and reinstalling with no mods, and have fully deleted the valheim folder from my registry, but still no luck. Any suggestions?

[stark meadow]

Saw your report on Steam. Which exact mouse model do you use?
Does scrolling work in map, for camera, in menus/starting screen (e.g. community servers)?
Also, is your scroll properly registered here: https://www.scrolltest.net/

[ionic sparrow]

I use a logitech MX Master 2S, but I've also tried using a cheap microsoft branded mouse I have lying around with the same result. And my scroll is properly registered on the scrolltest site you linked. I just tried scrolling on the map in game, and it didn't work there either. So it seems like the mouse wheel just doesn't register in game at all. Like I said, I even used autohotkey to rebind my scroll to ctrl+q and ctrl+e. That works everywhere, just not in game. It's so strange! It must be something particular to me and my setup with the new patch. Rolling back to the previous patch works as expected, but as soon as I update, mouse wheel is totally unresponsive

[stark meadow]

Do you have any logitech programs installed where you can influance scrolling behaviour?

So far we had one more report of scrolling not working on Logitech mice on MacOS

[ionic sparrow]

I do, but I have also tried disabling that as well

Not a full unistall though, just stopped it from running in the background

The scroll test sit did show 2 anomalies though for Basic Signal Detection, but the Stroke Algorithim Analysis is very healthy

[stark meadow]

Maybe logitech program still applies certain settings to the mouse even after closed.
Is there a smooth scrolling option there? Also at which pooling rate is mouse operating atm? (https://cpstest.org/polling-rate-test/)

[ionic sparrow]

It does have a smooth scrolling option, but I have that turned off. And I think I did polling test right, it gave a max of 140 Hz and an average of 125 Hz when just moving the mouse around

[stark meadow]

That should be ok then.
Any firmware updates available there?

Found a reddit thread for a MX Master 3 fix scrolling fix, so could you try these steps as well?
https://www.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/141ds1b/

[ionic sparrow]

The logi app says I have the latest firmware

[ionic sparrow]

I'll try it, thanks!

[stark meadow]

It's for MacOS, but there should be equivalent options on Windows as well.

[ionic sparrow]

Hmmm, the logi+ app may have changed. There is no option to set scrolling speed. I can set the pointer speed, which is just the DPI setting, but no option to set scrolling speed

There's an option to set the scrolling speed for the thumb wheel on the side, but not the actual scroll wheel

[stark meadow]

Can you the ‘Point and Scroll’ section and click the image of the scroll wheel, then turn the SmartShift option to OFF and set it to either Ratchet or Free Spin ?

It would also be good to test uninstalling logitech options+ just to confirm if the issue goes away or not

[ionic sparrow]

I already have the smartshift option off and set to ratchet. But I'll try uninstalling it now

I just tried uninstalling it and doing a reboot. Problem is still happening in game though. Such a weird problem...

[gilded sluice]

Wierd indeed. I also have a Logitech mouse and logi software. But no issues so far 🤔

Do you have any mods?

[ionic sparrow]

I have tried doing a full clean reinstall with no mods and it still won't work for me

The only way I can get the scrolling to work is to rollback to the last patch

Or switch to a controller whenever I need to build 😆

[gilded sluice]

how did you clean it?

[ionic sparrow]

Manually deleted all the files in the valheim folder and then uninstalling through steam. I also deleted the valheim folder in my registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\IronGate\

[gilded sluice]

and how does your install folder look now?

[ionic sparrow]

Well, I've reinstalled my mods after the last time I tested. But I can try doing a full uninstall again

Same results, scroll wheel not responding. Clicking the mouse scroll wheel for pinging the map works fine though

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. could be the fast scrolling thing then 🤔

Logi Options+ Configuration: Open the Logitech Options+ software, select your mouse, go to "Point & Scroll," and adjust the scroll wheel speed or disable "Smooth Scrolling" if it causes erratic behavior in Unity.

you seen this?

[ionic sparrow]

Smooth scrolling is disabled already, and I have even tried uninstalling Logitech Options+ completely

[naive patio]

The main menu screen under changelog says 2025 instead of 2026 for the newest version

[worldly lantern]

A while back I had reported that wild Lox no longer make any ambient sounds outside of combat. The only ones that still do are the lox calves. That still seems to be the case. Do the devs have a public list of bugs to be fixed or is there way to inquire about the status of reported bugs?

[stark meadow]

They stopped making ambient noises around hearth and home update (even before wolves stopped howling)

Not sure if intentional or not

[worldly lantern]

Back when I first reported it, I believe I was told that it was a bug and reported it on the official website. I had posted it on the suggestions channel and was told that it was a bug as they should still make sounds.

Can’t remember who as it’s been a good while since. I want to say it was Smiffle but I could be mistaken.

[stark meadow]

Not sure if @gilded sluice told you here to report it as a bug or feedback, but someone should have a second look at it.
I checked some of old youtube videos, and they were indeed making ambient growls.

[gilded sluice]

It is not me handling our contact email 🤔

[ionic sparrow]

I just wanted to flag this issue again. I know it seems to be an extremely limited bug, but it is really impactful and makes it difficult to play the game at all. Are there any other troubleshooting steps I can take? Again, it is only an issue for me with the current patch and rolling back resolves it completely.

[stark meadow]

I sent you a DM about it.

[keen ocean]

not sure if this is a bug but some down right horrendous alignment that seems to get worse when running/sprinting. only on female vikings our male plays are correctly animated

[junior vector]

Just a quick observation after reading a reddit thread about piece_beehive idle sfx loops not working properly.

The sound works fine when the hive is placed, but if player waits for the bees to sleep through the night & wake back up in the morning, the sfx loop doesn't start replaying for them until client reloads the objects by leaving area & coming back.

Can't find anything fishy in the ZSFX component either, and disabling & enabling the BeeEffect child of the hive doesn't help.

AudioSource.isPlaying & .loop are both True when checking with Unity Explorer as well.

[stark meadow]

Thx for reporting it. We had a similar thing happen with music in dungeons.

[still oracle]

I was playing the new update and noticed that I was able to cook on both the cauldron and cooking stations placed above an unlit hearth. I checked the fuel just to make sure it wasn't something weird happening with the weather because it was raining. It was at 0. I left the area and came back and was no longer able to cook.
The cauldron and cooking stations were placed prior to running out of fuel. I'm thinking it just wasn't updating after the fuel expired?

[stark meadow]

It's a known issue, originated in BogWitch update, but still not fixed.

[keen oyster]

I don't think this issue has been discussed a lot, and it's not so much of a bug as much as it is neglect... Some of the oldest items in the game have bad or no descriptions. For example, raw boar or deer meat have no descriptions at all; and, for example, the hoe's description is "A farmer's tool for working the earth." Experienced players don't care about that too much, but newbies might think this also has the cultivator function, which comes a bit later in the game. Another, later example, the black metal shield's description starts with "Fashioned from the strongest metal...", this is not the case ever since Flametal was introduced. Just a tip to glance over all the descriptions of all items to make sure they match the actual up-to-date state of the game, as facts might change over time.

[grim hollow]

Greetings peeps. Im having an issue that I join my friend's server and I get this popup and I get disconnected after a few seconds. We have been playing normally for the last 4-5 days but today this issue popped up. We disabled crossplay, reset my router, restarted pc, tried alot of stuff and still nothing. Any idea what can I do?

[lethal geyser]

Cyrillic fonts are still partially broken. The only difference from vanilla is the installed Bepinex mods have removed everything. I sent a report about the same thing about six months ago, but it probably didn't get through.

That is, everything related to this font from the error is broken for Cyrillic. The error appeared after one of the latest patches of the game. I had to make my own mod for this problem - replace this font with another one.

[gilded sluice]

please report those on https://valheim.com/support under "translation issues"

[gilded sluice]

Sounds like a VPN issue. or wifi problems

[grim hollow]

Not using VPN, and when my friend hosts from his PC the same world it works fine, but on the server i have that issue

[gilded sluice]

what kind of internet does you and your friend have?

wifi? satelite? mobile?

[grim hollow]

I have Wifi, he has ethernet

[gilded sluice]

how close are you to your router?

I would probably say the problem is package loss

[grim hollow]

1 meter away. Like I dont have issues with any game

[gilded sluice]

does not matter

package loss is package loss

[grim hollow]

Alrights, and what can I do about it?

Keep in mind we've been playing normally the last 4 days, so what changed now?

[gilded sluice]

if you are so close, test with a cable and see if the issue persist, it if does. something else is the issue

could be a neighbour also bought a wifi hotspot / router and now is creating issues for you

[grim hollow]

Dont have a cable to test it sadly. Also with all the testing that I did i saw that my wifi's MTU was at 1500 with a bit of packet loss. I changed that to 1200 thats supposed to not have packet loss and still the same thing. Not sure if that helps but just saying

[dim raven]

Is anyone else having a problem with sailing desync in multiplayer right now? We are all playing on the default_old version and with mods set to the correct version to account for this. Any time we sail together and anyone other than the driver touches the boat storage, it freezes the boat and then everyone is unable to open the chest or use the rudder, including the driver. The issue resolves upon everyone logging out and logging back in.

[stark meadow]

Try re-building the boat. In any way, sounds like a mod issue. Try to test vanilla in a new world with someone hosting normally.

[dim raven]

unable to break the boat, but we can try no mods too

[indigo atlas]

Where is the server machine? Remote or one of your homes?

[grim hollow]

Remote, it's a paid provider

[indigo atlas]

Ping the server to test your connection and check for issues. I'm sure windows has some kind of ping command you can do in command line.

Sometimes an ISP will start messing around and not say anything. This last year was a fun time with comcast for me, with at least a dozen maintenance outages after performance issues.

[novel willow]

Does anyone know why F5 doesnt work anymore for me after the Hearth & Home update. I used to be able to open the console but now no matter what I do it wont open. My F5 key works fine, and I have removed -console, launched then readded it in the properties. Yet still nothing worked. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

[lethal geyser]

Go to the game settings and turn on the console there.

[grim hollow]

It's kinda not that possible since I'm in a bad spot overall. My internet is satellite based even

[gilded sluice]

so you have wifi connection to your router which is a satelite connected?

so wifi starlink?

[grim hollow]

It's not star-link but ye same logic

[gilded sluice]

ouch

I can offer you a hug and my condolances

[grim hollow]

Yeap it's depressing I know 💀

Overall the only real issue is ping on most games but thats not even that much of an issue

[gilded sluice]

wifi can be prone to package loss depending on how many units shares the connection and how many walls, metal objects etc is in the way

but satelite is on a whole diffrent level

your "ping" goes up, as the game client drops packages and meaning your client goes "sorry server, re-send that that data again"

valheim will disconnect you if you have to much of that

[grim hollow]

It's kinda weird tho cause I've been playing fine for like 4-5 days

Perhaps due to the weekend the provider's bandwidth was more stressed thus higher ping & more packet loss idk

[gilded sluice]

it's the unpredictability of wireless internet

[grim hollow]

So the only solution is just a friend hosting the server and that's it?

[gilded sluice]

well. to avoid as much wireless as possible

specially satelites

since those aren't ment for gaming..

[grim hollow]

Welp it's only Valheim the issue tho :v

[gilded sluice]

yes

since valheim has alot of things you can do, that reqiures syncing information with the other clients

imagine your client cuts down a tree. that information packages is lost in the void of package loss. meaning

for you, the tree is cut down, for them. the tree is still standing

or you build a house, that data is never transfered since all those packages with "house has been build" is gone

so they can't see your house

[grim hollow]

Yeah I can understand that. It's just weird that any other game works fine, even more survival/sandbox but Valheim specifically has this issue and only on a dedicated server, when someone else is hosting it's fine

[gilded sluice]

other games have less things to sync

(less things you can do)

[grim hollow]

Perhaps

[gilded sluice]

and each game company have decided on what is a good / bad player experience due to lagging

[grim hollow]

For sure. Dont want to sound offensive but atm it seems to me that the server logic behind the game requires some changes. Or of course no change at all and people with satellite internet cant enjoy the experience but ye you get the point

[gilded sluice]

satelite internet isn't really for gaming :/

since a bird can block your internet traffic

we can't make bird go away with programming

[grim hollow]

Obviously, but there is never really that big of an issue, even with satellite internet. Small spikes sure but thats about it

[gilded sluice]

the problem is "how much shit is in the way of my data transfer"

rain? rainclouds? heat rays?

and the the speed is a huge limit

since ethernet cables can have alot faster speed, mening "re-sencind a failed package" is alot faster for ethernet, than satelite

and fiber it's even faster

[grim hollow]

Would love to live in a developed country that actually has fiber cables on most places, but since thats not the case unlucky for me. Still seems wierd from my side that specifically this aspect is failing to sync properly. Since maybe valheim has more stuff to work with than other games but still could be poor optimization choices when it comes to the server setups. Not expecting any change atm but just saying

[stark meadow]

The fault might also be on your friend's end.
Let me know when you are free to test connecting on my server.

[grim hollow]

Just got back into PC, i can try now

We tried multiple different host locations if thats in question aswell

[stark meadow]

Ok, will send you a DM

[crimson hedge]

i think the flower garlands are kinda bugged

we also cant take them off

they arent destroyable, neither with hammers nor with attacks

even breaking the builds behind them where they are attached to doesnt make them break

[gilded sluice]

known bug

will be fixed in the next patch

[gaunt mist]

They are, but you need to find the spot.

[onyx sparrow]

hi, where can I report that I didnt find my grave and lost all my stuff?, sorry im a bit new in the game

[gilded sluice]

not really no

no one besides you have access to your own world

[onyx sparrow]

okay

[gilded sluice]

but you can roll back your character with the backup feature

[onyx sparrow]

I did, and theres when the grave disappeared, I think i just messed up with my cloud saves

[stark meadow]

You have to be careful whether you are rolling back world save (location of tomstone) or character save (active inventory).

[onyx sparrow]

yes I actually was able to get my stuff back, now I understand how it works, thanks a bunch for your time

[keen wolf]

anyone else experiencing save issues that refuse to upload

i get the unable to sync thing every time i try to open the game now

[coral perch]

Any ETA on the audio issues being fixed in ashlands?

[stark meadow]

Next patch

[stark meadow]

Syncing saves is not that important if you play only on one device

You can't complete the sync even when your press sync button?

[gilded sluice]

soon™

[cedar edge]

are any server owners experiencing what looks like huge network desynch between players inside the US since a few hours ago?

[sand wing]

the crouch button on a controler (with steam input) is not working for me after the update, does anybody else had this kinda problem ?

[stark meadow]

You have to hold it now for it to works. It will soon be reverted to how it was working before.

[sand wing]

oh aright then, thanks

[inland mango]

While playing on a server with some friends, we discovered that destroying T.W.I.G. with non wooden weapons causes T.W.I.G. to drop double the resources that it took to make him. I could not replicate this on a single player world so it may just be on our end.

[gilded sluice]

might be someone with a mod 🤔

[bright coral]

Try hitting F2 to see if any published server modifiers are in play. It won't show all possible ones, but many.

[finite shore]

hi, anyone knows why this is happening? everything seems to be unlimited on my newly made world

[stark meadow]

Probably mods. Used any in the past?

[finite shore]

Yes i think i did try some mods before i quit valheim last year. i cant remember what mod that was. Is there a way to reset everything to vanilla?

[stark meadow]

The only way to do it would be to manually delete the contents from Valheim installation folder (just Steam re-install won't cut it).

And only then going for re-install.

[finite shore]

oh, i did try to uninstall and install via steam only. Thanks, will try this

[sand mason]

Hey guys, so the modifiers seem to be having issues. No matter how we start them the world modifier has a - in it

[gilded sluice]

it has a - ?

[stark meadow]

Are you talking about not being able to turn off certain modifier on dedicated server?

To delete modifers via start server config file, you would have to delete previous -modifers and add -resetmodifiers to it
You can't delete/turn-off modifiers individually though start server config file. This can only be done via console commands when you are actively on the server, as an admin.

[sand mason]

Thank you so much, working currently

[urban flicker]

Anyone else experience long dungeon load times? For me, when I go through a portal or walk into an area with a large dungeon or two it can can take 2, 5, 10 and even 20 minutes to load. When going through a portal, you are stuck there for up to 20 minutes.

[stark meadow]

There have been cases. Mostly related to slow IO.
What CPU and storage are you using for Windows and your Steam library?

Also check what FPS you have while loading a dungeon

[low ocean]

20 minutes to load? Do you really wait that long and not quit the game?

[gilded sluice]

20 minutes sounds like a broken harddrive if you're playing from local storage

or something is seriously wrong

[paper sparrow]

Question for the devs and other players ...

Today, I was in the mistlands and ashlands, and I used my Staff of the Wild to attack a seeker soldier and a bunch of charred and a morgen. The mobs took the poison damage, but the roots didn't whack them. Has the staff changed? Or, is this a bug? Anyone else get this issue?

[paper sparrow]

Welp, the "bug" was a "You have to update Windows, so we'll mess up whateverr you do until you update Windows" situation. It's fixed now.

[gilded sluice]

super-wierd tho

a windows update shouldn't mess with our game files

[past wagon]

Not sure if reported before, but whenever you’re inside a stone structure in the mountains, both mountains music and mist lands music play, sometimes overlapped

[bronze cliff]

Wolf eaten food but not healing - seeing +0.

[dense lion]

Is a game crashing a lot recently for anyone after alt tabbing on a pause menu? (music keeps playing in the background while game is frozen)

[deep pilot]

my game crashes just randomly now after the update

[fluid topaz]

i need help
where i can find folder lootmultiplier bc i want to change lootmultiplier
i use r2modman

[stark meadow]

This is vanilla only channel. Go to #mods-issues or #mods-discussion

[fluid topaz]

?

[stark meadow]

What are you PC specs and in what rendered do you play?

[stark meadow]

This is usually related to Nvidia drivers. Which GPU do you have?

[fluid topaz]

so can y help me or no? @stark meadow

[stark meadow]

We don't deal with mod related questions in this channel.
If you mod your game, developers can't help you with the game you modified.
You should ask for help other modders and mod authors, which is at the channel links I pasted above.

[dense lion]

7700 XT

[stark meadow]

Does it freeze every time you come back after alt-tabbing? Do you have in-game V-sync enabled?
If you do, disabling it might be a workaround. However this is usually indicative that drivers are faulty, so I would recommend a simple driver reinstall (select custom installation and option to clean game profiles). If it doesn't work then I would recommend doing full procedure: #steam-bugs-discussion message

It's also possible that there could be differences when you launch the game in Vulkan vs d3d11 (default), so test both.

[harsh laurel]

Me and my friends are playing on a locally hosted server off one of our PCs. When we log any ship that were in render distance just seemingly disappear. Not sure what happens but I know for a fact that boat is stopped in its place

[stark meadow]

Are you are talking about dedicated server, or someone just hosting their world via in-game option from their PC?
Are you sure it's just the boats disappearing, and not items from chests also?

[harsh laurel]

Sorry I meant hosting it via the in game option on their pc and yes it’s only boats disappearing

[stark meadow]

Does you friend stay in the game when you are not around, or he only opens the server when they are actively playing?
The boats are probably just getting destroyed by enemies or sometimes waves, rather than disappearing.
Do you have any workbench near the boats to prevent items from boat item drops from despawning in case they get destroyed.

[tropic torrent]

Even a workbench won't necessarily save them. AFAIK anything under 5m of water will be removed, even if a workbench is right beside it.

[stark meadow]

True but people usually leave boats on shore

[tropic torrent]

fair point, and I guess the wood would survive in that case anyway.

[deep pilot]

19-14900k 64gb DDR5 rtx 4070 super. i play in 1920x1080

[lofty horizon]

what's the problem, i constantly get thrown out of the servers im playing, like i can play for 5 mins then i get the picture of a pc and a cord with the X in the top left and get thrown out.

[stark meadow]

Do you play at default rendered (d3d11) or do you launch Valheim in Vulkan?
What's the nature of the crash (black scree, crast to desktop, unity popup message, pc restarts)?

[stark meadow]

Packet loss probably. Are there more clients on the server that have stable connection?

[deep pilot]

I launch in default render. I believe it’s a unity crash to desktop. no black screen and no restart, just a small window popup for a couple seconds

[lofty horizon]

my 2 friends, other is the host of course he has no problems and my other friend never gets thrown out. only i get thrown out

ive lost a lot of stuff like 30 silver cus i put them in a chest right before i got thrown out and they just dissappeared

[stark meadow]

Then it's most likely due to your PC starting to showcase degradation issues.
Are you aware of Intel 13th and 14th gen CPU issues? If you don't address is right now, it will get worse over next couple of months.

How old is CPU?

[stark meadow]

That narrows it down then to the problem being on your end.
Do you have any VPN installed (please screenshot and paste how your network adapters look like at: start → type and open device manager → expand your network adapters list → screenshot)

How's your router connection to ISP? (fiber, copper, vdsl, satelite, mobile, etc)
How are you connected to the router?
What your buffer bloat score? (preform this test? (https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?) (please also screenshot)

[hidden schooner]

SUBJECT: MAX SETTINGS ON 5070TI OC + I9 14900K + 32 GB RAM CAUSES CRASHING ON STEAM VERSION (NON VULCAN)

when i have my settings on max (draw distance anything over medium... and fps uncapped (over 60) with distant shadows.... the game crashes constantly causing me to lose progress. i tested it thoroughly and its 100% the draw distance causing the crash...

the newest windows 11 update was causing my dedicated server stability issues (connection problems and crashes) so i reverted the update to a previous version and that fixed it

but draw distance was causing game instability

just for me

build info

(the crash would always be a unity crash)

also a QOL update would be to make wind completely silent while inside a stone castle

i like sitting in base and listening to music but the wind in the plains is to fricken loud

[grave skiff]

Ooof. the dual axes alt attack does not play well with hills. It's a good thing there isn't a mountains tier one.

[gaunt mist]

It's not actually a bug tho.

[grave skiff]

the intended function is to yeet you 10' above the mob ?

I've always wondered how the game decides if you're "targeting" a mob. I know it will do a different attack depending on if it's going to hit a mob or not with axes

[gaunt mist]

The animation forces movement forward, not downwards, which causes the yeet if you're on the edge of a cliff.

Similarly with knife secondary attack.

It's not bug still, just how the animation for them attacks work.

[grave skiff]

It seems like the axes' attack doesn't seem to really jump you if you're midair while the knife one does

[gaunt mist]

It's not an actual jump with either animations.

[stark meadow]

If you are not playing in Vulkan, also like I mentioned in the comment above yours, probably Intel 14th gen stability issue.
How old is your CPU?

[hidden schooner]

brand new, not on vulcan

[stark meadow]

Then you probably have to update your BIOS on motherboard + select a different default profile (there's two, Intel and Motherboard default, choose Intel one).

[hidden schooner]

yeah i just checked

im on 2024 bios update

ill have to do that later

[stark meadow]

I would personal also recommend that you lock all the cores on same frequency (prevents some cors from boosting higher) and prolongs lifespan of the CPU at minimal performance impact. Can send you a video explaining why, let me know in DMs

[hidden schooner]

ill get back to you tomorrow or tonight after i defeat moder with 2 friends

dont want to shut down the server now because they are farming

[cedar edge]

lock all the cores on same frequency
thats a thing? i know i can do it manually, but i always assumed they throttled freq together (linux)
Sorry, was in conversational mode. What i should have said was: "video URL please"

[dense lion]

Ok. Think it is fixed. Reinstalled drivers, didn't work.
V Sync is disabled always. Vulkan also crashed.
In the end downgraded driver to one of the older versions and worked.

[fiery hornet]

We have the same problem. When I play with a friend he will be frequently kicked out. Most of the times when the food timers end. It’s not the pc or hardware. Even games with higher graphics play well on our pc’s. I think there is a bug in synchronization

[hidden schooner]

updating bios fixed my problem

[stark meadow]

Sent you the additional link in DM about that

[stark meadow]

There are no game related bugs that would lead to connection loss. You should have no connection issues by playing with only 2 people.

[fiery hornet]

We do and mostly in the evening. It never happened before. We buy after the last update

[stark meadow]

I would recommend to read through this one and do tests I mentioned there: https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/612032374411149472/#c612032512885010678

[fiery hornet]

Thank you. Will do that.

[stark meadow]

The issues can be on either side, so both of you should do the same tests. Let me know how it goes.

[fiery hornet]

I will let you know the results. 👍

[grave skiff]

Anybody had an issue with asks not taming? This is twice now when they'll just sit in the whole i dug and not eat

[stark meadow]

Raise the ground floor a bit and put a stone block inside

[grave skiff]

like a stone floor? or just a 1x1 block?

[stark meadow]

Any block

[urban flicker]

I've tested everything. There is nothing wrong with my system. I'm running this on Linux, and my PC is a pretty high-end. There is no performance problems with any other game or software.
I recently tried splitting the system up. I now run a dedicted world server on MacOS, and the client on Linux. That did improve things a little, but loading dungeons can still take several minutes. If I'm in-game and near it, it sometimes doesn't even have ground support and the outer structures start falling apart.

[urban flicker]

I do wait that long. Good time to stretch out. 😉

[urban flicker]

Nothing wroing with my system. THe game files are on an NVME SSD. Running IO tests shows no performace problems. I check the system stats when the game is running and loading the dungeon (or spash page). CPU utilization is low, disk IO is very long. It's not even trying. It seems to be mostly just deadlocked much of the time.

[gilded sluice]

which CPU you got and what RAM sticks?

you didn't run any mods did you?

[stark meadow]

Is SSD is in RAID, ZFS setup? How long are your game boot times? How much FPS do you have during that dungeon loading? Did you test new world to see if it's related to specific save? Do you have Transparent Huge Pages (THP) enabled on your distro? Running a VM?

[urban flicker]

Operating System: KDE neon 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-100-lowlatency (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

[urban flicker]

no mods, stock Valheim from Steam.

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. nothing that stands out. as likly issue 🤔

do you store locally or cloud saves?

[urban flicker]

Exactly, everything on my system works just fine, and fast. The FPS I have vsync on and frame limiting to 60 fps, and it's always at that. The graphics rendering is not the problem. The world building is.
I can also walk into areas where the ground is all blank. I wait a few minutes and then the ground cover fills in. But the play scene is always fast.
Also, the ground cover seems to be blocked by a nearby dungean loading. Only after it is "spawned", all of them if there is more than one, does the ground cover fill in.

[urban flicker]

cloud saves, but I have also tried local storage. Same thing. I've tried many different things, and many parts of the software stack have been updated over time. This problem is always there.

[stark meadow]

In the past 2 years, we only had few such reports. I haven't seen any resolution on Linux yet, but on Windows long dungeon loads have been related to IO issues (either disk or CPU related), like using external disks, playing over VM, antiviruses halting threads while Valheim was executing.

As I said, you should also check your FPS during load times. The final step of the asset loading process is something called "asset integration" which is basically making the assets loaded in the background available to the main thread. The integration step is also performed on the main thread but is time sliced per frame. Integration time limit is dynamic for loading screen, but during normal gameplay, it's set to just 2ms per frame. This means that on low FPS, locations will load slower.

[urban flicker]

I've had this problem for a long time now. It does seem to be uncommon. I don't have any of those IO issues. THe main games files on on NVME SSD, but Steam does put some files, like the save files, under my home directory which are spinning disk drives (RAID1). But I did try moving those to the SSD as well but it didn't change anything. My FPS is always 60 because of vsync/frame limiting.

[stark meadow]

So your Steam is installed on this RAID setup? That would mean that some cache files might still be there, like ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/shadercache/892970/ (app ID for Valheim). If so, I would also recommend re-installing Steam on SSD. Are you symlinking any of these files? Are you running any security feature that would resemble anti virus software on Windows?

Btw. went on to comment on your Steam thread to ask the other person 2 years ago if they fixed their issues, and realised you are the same person XD

[urban flicker]

Yes, same person and I've come up with work arounds for this. Mainly, just pause the game and tial the Player.log to watch for an equal number of "spawning" events corresponding to "loading" events. Those can be sever minutes apart. I count the number of loading lines, and wait for an equal number of spawning lines. Only then will I pop out of a portal. Mistlands seems to add extra time.

[urban flicker]

I checked the Steam install. It is on the SSD, and the cache files are also on the SSD. Under /games/steamapps/shadercache/892970. The /games is on the SSD.

[stark meadow]

Valheim won't go back to synchronous loading of location on main thread like before. Switching to asyncronous loading resolved many Vulkan crashes people has while sending input during load screens, which was the biggest issues at the time.

Tried temporary disabling Transparent Huge Pages (THP) (should clear after reboot):

echo never | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo never | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag

[urban flicker]

Cool, I'll try that.

[stark meadow]

~/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim/ is also on SSD? (no symlink?)
What does findmnt -T ~/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim return?

[wet bone]

if one player has PVP on, and another has it off, the player with PVP on can infinitely train their skills by attacking the PVP disabled player.

[urban flicker]

It's not, but there is nothing in it. That's the default location. It is possible to configure Steam to use a different location, so that's what I have done. So /games, which is on the SSD, is where everything is.

[urban flicker]

So tried that, no difference.

02/23/2026 09:45:42: Teleportation TRIGGER
02/23/2026 09:45:42: Teleporting Nightowl
02/23/2026 09:45:48: Loading dungeon
02/23/2026 09:45:48: Dungeon loaded with 45 rooms from old format in 0.15 ms.
02/23/2026 09:45:48: Loading room prefabs asynchronously
02/23/2026 09:45:48: Loading dungeon
02/23/2026 09:45:48: Dungeon loaded with 41 rooms from old format in 0.07 ms.
02/23/2026 09:45:48: Loading room prefabs asynchronously
02/23/2026 09:45:50: Activating default element Continue
02/23/2026 09:45:58: Skipping unloading unused assets
02/23/2026 09:49:45: Spawning dungeon
02/23/2026 09:57:18: Spawning dungeon
02/23/2026 09:58:07: Spawned Hare x 0
02/23/2026 09:58:42: Setting saddle:False
02/23/2026 09:58:42: Setting saddle:False
02/23/2026 09:58:54: Random event set:hildirboss1
02/23/2026 09:58:54: Starting music CombatEventL1
02/23/2026 09:58:55: Spawned Skeleton_Hildir_nochest x 1
02/23/2026 09:58:55: Spawned Skeleton x 2
02/23/2026 09:58:55: Spawned Skeleton x 2
02/23/2026 09:58:55: Spawned Skeleton_Poison x 1
02/23/2026 09:59:06: Activating default element Continue

so over 12 minutes to portal to the porch of a Queen in this map. The loading time is proportional to the number and size of the dungeons. Since I do this often, I now have an intuition on how long it will take. So if I see 2 40-50 room dungeons in Mistlands, I know it will be at least ten minutes.

I don't know why I put up with this.

[nova lynx]

hi was wondering if someone could help me with crashing issues only in the past 2days?

i have crash log reports

[stark meadow]

In what manner are you crashing? (black screen, freeze, pc restart, unity popup, etc)
What PC specs do you have?
Do you play in Vulkan or default?

[nova lynx]

unity popup, default launch.

Z790 eagle ax
i7-13700k
4060ti

[stark meadow]

If you are not using mods then crashes are most likely happening due to degraded 13th gen CPU.
Are you aware of issues that Intel has with those CPUs?

[nova lynx]

im not

[stark meadow]

To sum it up, Intel boosts voltage/frequency on some cores too high, which degrades CPUs of 13th and 14 gen faster, which then start crashing, first in some games like Valheim, later even when browsing and navigating windows. Your first course of action should be checking which BIOS you have installed on your motherboard (CPU-Z app, or go to start → type system information → System summary → BIOS version/Date), and then you should compare it with the newest BIOS on motherboard manufacturer website.

[nova lynx]

was just doing that, noticed my bios is currently on version f3

then i read this on the website

which is the version above mine

[stark meadow]

From which year was F3?

[nova lynx]

9/27/2024

do i just go straight to the latest of f6?

[stark meadow]

Best to update then + also important, after updating, enter BIOS and be sure that Intel defaults are applied for your CPU profile (not motherboard defaults).

There should be two kinds of defaults that you can load.

[nova lynx]

copy dat, i will be back with results in like 10minutes or so. appreciate you

[nova lynx]

im not seeing where the cpu profile is

[stark meadow]

Seems like it already is on Intel Default settings. Instead of preformance, what else can you select there?

[nova lynx]

everything that is in white

[stark meadow]

This line, to what else can you set it except on Performance which is already selected

[nova lynx]

oh apologies

performance or disabled are the only options

should I just try playing now since the bios update?

[stark meadow]

Hm, it's pretty confusing naming convention here, so I'm not sure which one you should select.
Best way would be to test how CPU behaves in frequency and voltage to know for sure.

Will also send you a video in DM that I think you should watch on this topic.

[nova lynx]

awesome thank you

[stark meadow]

In the video, he locks all cores to specific multiplies 56, which makes cores run at 5.6Ghz, but he's doing in on a different CPU.
Your CPU works on 5.1Ghz to 5.3Ghz, so you should lock in to 51, 52, 53 multiplies. The lower you go from those options, the more stable.

[stark meadow]

In your case, it would probabl be good idea to also set "Intel POR" option for "Turbo Power limits"

[pale fox]

The skill menu updates stats and bonuses when you open it, not while it is currently open, so if you remove a piece of equipment and then open the menu, you can still have a skill bonus being listed even though it is not active.

[stark meadow]

It's not really a bug, rather a lack of feature to update the menu actively. No change in skill updates while you have it open

[pale fox]

If a menu for displaying stats are showing the wrong stats, that is a bug.
Since, you know, menus for showing stats are supposed to show the stats as they are when you are looking at them, not a snapshot of what they were at an arbitrary moment in time.

[stark meadow]

Nothing from the right side of menu updates actively (skills, trophies, recipes, active effects) and it never was, because it was never intended to.

I don't see much point into doing so either. Maybe you can convince @gilded sluice

[gilded sluice]

me? 😄

I would probably say if the skills would update more often, it would use more performance

[fluid topaz]

can someone help

[stark meadow]

Are you playing on Xbox PC app?

[fluid topaz]

pc

@stark meadow

[stark meadow]

Do you have the game installed on Xbox PC app or Steam?

[fluid topaz]

STEAM

@stark meadow

why the quick stack sorter trash it doesnt work it doesnt show in inventory

[fluid topaz]

i have no problem with that

[fluid topaz]

@stark meadow

[stark meadow]

Where are you from? Egypt?

This kind of error is usually rare, and related to someone blocking playfab services

Have any VPN apps installed?

[fluid topaz]

xd

[gritty plume]

Hey just want to point out that the video link for Hervor’s journey from the last steam blog post isnt working for me. Anyone else having the same issue?

[gilded sluice]

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

should be this video 🤔

[gritty plume]

yeah it is this video. found it by manually searching the video. But there are links in the steam blog post. Every link for example the "Switch wishlist" link works for me except the video link.

it is just a minor inconviniece but was wondering if this is a me problem or a malfunctioning link

[stark meadow]

The link is fine, but you are not the only one for whom it doesn't work.
It's not related to Valheim. You probably won't be able to open other youtube links linked in Steam also.
Could be related to your VPN, antivirus, steam settings (hardware acceleration, smooth scrolling, clean steam download cache)

[gilded sluice]

YouTube was under attack last night. So try again today @gritty plume

[wet bone]

idk wtf happened but this is unnaceptable. im host.

it keeps freezing like this, after like 30 seconds of sailing, somebody please help if this is a known issue

[gilded sluice]

doesn't matter if you are the host or not

are you stearing?

did someone open the storage while you are stearing?

[wet bone]

idk if he opened storage or not

i wasnt steering, and either way, its an unnacceptable bug

this deserves a hotfix

the second time it froze he was afk

so i can assure you there was no storage opened

and he was holding the pole

sorry im just a bit upset

[gilded sluice]

it's look like the known bug

it's a connection issue

[wet bone]

to what? its a local server

i can understand if he got kicked

but im hosting there has to be something wrong backend if i got disconnected

[stark meadow]

You both were playing on same home connection? How exactly were they connecting to your server?

It looks like here you friend lost connection, so boat stoped while the server waits for them to reconnect

[wet bone]

why not store where he logged off relative to the boat and just put him back there

hes remote, im hosting via the "host server" button and he joined via steam

[stark meadow]

Ah, then it's not a local server. Local means your connection is on the same router.

Since you friend probably last touched the storage they were the one controlling the boat (network related)

[wet bone]

local relativce to me. i thought you were saying i lost connection to my own session

either way, its a pretty easy fix

[stark meadow]

No, it's not possible for you to experience that. But specific objects in the game are not necessarily hosted by you.
The boat was in your friend's control. There's no easy fix.

[wet bone]

i was steering the ship

just store where he is relative to the boat server side if he disconnectes, and put him back based on those local coordinates

im a unity dev i know its possible, i dont know how your backend works but there has to be a better way to do this than just freezing the boat with no explination

at the very least make a diaglog onscreen explaining whats happening

make it not jitter like crazy so people dont think shit crashed

you have to think of user experience first

i do believe it was a connection issue since my router had a few crash logs and had to restart, but this could be improved from a user experience standpoint

its very panicing and confusing

just pass a word to the devs is all i ask and thank you for making such an amazing game devs <3

[stark meadow]

Went about explaining why it's not an easy fix, but gave up on it XD I mean you are right, it's not a great system.
You can try loading earlier character and world save (separated save) (in-game manage saves menu) and see where that gets you (current save gets backed up). If you are lucky, you might have save just before you took the trip. If you wanna avoid this happening again, when you control the ship, don't let them open storage, and in case they do, you should also open yourself after to take back ownership of the ship (network wise) (think that re-sitting on the rudder also re-takes ownership). That way if they disconnect, you will still control the ship.

[wet bone]

Ok, thank you. Definable take a look into if there’s any way to at the very least communicate it to a player. Even a hacked together pop up saying “Ship owner has disconnected, the ship will be frozen until they reconnect”

Thank you for staying respectful even though I got a bit heated

Have an amazing day <3

[gilded sluice]

I am a developer 😄

but it's 11:05pm on a friday night

[wet bone]

Ah

its 5pm for me

[gilded sluice]

yeah. US I guess?

[wet bone]

i hope you enjoy your weekend! I have about 210 hours and have bought like 3 different friends copies i love this game so much

[gilded sluice]

nice ^^

[wet bone]

New York!

not new york city though

kinda confusing

[gilded sluice]

<-- sweden

[wet bone]

nice!

i wish man it sucks here in the US rn lol

love Sweden its a beautiful country

[wet bone]

now this one is just funny

its impossible to get in this crypt

[river dragon]

me and my friend just opened the game after a month or so of not playing havent played it since around the end of Jan this year and both our character saves and our world have gone...

neither of us have touched the valheim files on our computers nor have we uninstalled it since we last played only change has been updating the game when patches have come out

[stark meadow]

Check if you Steam Cloud is enabled in Steam general settings and additionally specifically for Valheim.

You should also check if you can see saves here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=892970
Login with your Steam account in the browser.

[river dragon]

ah thankyou, mustve turned it off by mistake or something...oops..

[gilded sluice]

yeah. randomness makes those impossible sometimes sadly.

[wet bone]

Yeah I know, if you spent all your time catching edge cases we’d never get the deep north XD

this one isn’t a bug but I thought I might share, yknow how worlds are stored in two files, one for terrain and one for objects, I once managed to corrupt one and somehow had one on a different seed than the other, so every alter made these giant holes or pillars lol

Not a bug imo since it took a manual fuck up with the files

But it was funny

[viscid owl]

So I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but here's my issue: F5 Console Will Not Open Despite Being Enabled

I am running the latest Steam version of Valheim (Build ID 21981559).

I have -console correctly added in Steam launch options, and the game confirms on the main menu that the console is active and can be opened with F5.

However, pressing F5 in-game does absolutely nothing. There is zero response — no flicker, no UI change, no freeze.

Additional details:

Steam version (not Game Pass)

Tested in single-player

Fully up to date

Disabled all mods (renamed BepInEx and removed winhttp.dll)

Verified game files

F1 and F2 menus work normally.

Tried Fn + F5 (no effect)

F5 works in other applications (Notepad)

Console still does not open in a completely vanilla state.

The console is reported as enabled, but the F5 key does not trigger it.

Has anyone experienced this on the current build? Is this a known issue?

[bright coral]

Any clue from yourPlayer.log for a session with the failure to bring up console? If not, you could look at your Valheim Settings for F5 being bound to something else or try something like https://github.com/ITachiLab/hotkey-detective?tab=readme-ov-file#running-steps when you try it to see if something outside of Valheim is trapping F5.

[stark meadow]

Probably related to your mods. You should try clean vanilla first (not just disabling mods but cleaning out installation folder)

[serene dome]

Im having some strange things happen when server gets laggy. Sometimes when killed we get duplicate and psuedo duplicate items. Psuedo meaning instead of duplicating my lvl 3 helmet, a lvl 1 duplicate appears in my inventory when I respawn but the lvl 3 will be in my tombstone. There is also random deaths with nothing around, usually when just entering the game...sometimes in our monster free bedrooms. Often our tombstones are not even close to where we died. All of us have respawned in the middle of the ocean nowhere near the land biome we died at. Great game btw.

[gilded sluice]

sounds like some kind of mods going on 🤔

[serene dome]

Vhvr and land Animals but it happened in Vanilla before we started VR.

[gilded sluice]

well. as long as you or someone runs mods. we cannot rule them out since I never ever heard those issues in vanilla

[serene dome]

Id also add lag causes vikings falling off the boatS as well. Im just reporting what bugs my group is running into. No worries if they never get fixed. We beat games and move on anyways.

[languid flax]

I'm having a strange "phantom fire" bug. Sometimes, when leaving the area of campfire, the fire buff is not removed and persists until I reenter and leave the campfire area. It's not just visual either, I dry faster with this and it triggers resting while in shelter. No mods, character and world created afer latest patch

[gilded sluice]

do you guys run with any world modifiers?

[gilded sluice]

do you play solo or with people?

[languid flax]

singleplayer

[serene dome]

The only world modifier is we set portals to easy. ie Everything goes through.

Ive never noticed any of these problems in single player

[gilded sluice]

no mods?

[languid flax]

No. Pure vanilla. It's rare, noticed it about three or four times in ~12 hours of gameplay

[scarlet cradle]

I'm having a similar issue, but there doesn't even have to be a fire nearby. Me and my buddy have been playing for around 15 hours now and have experienced the said "phantom fire" bug. We will be walking around and suddenly a fire buff will appear even if no fire is around. The fire buff stays for about 2 minutes and then disappears as we continue to explore.

[gilded sluice]

Th fire bug has been a thing for quite some time. Its a known issue at this time 🥲

[tired gorge]

Camera keep glitching out, fixes I tried so far

1. Relaunching the game couple times
2. Verifying game files
3. Reinstalling the game

[stark meadow]

Quickest fix would be to not play in Vulkan.

[tired gorge]

Why, with vulkan I have more FPS and the game is stable

what's the 2nd fix

[stark meadow]

Otherwise you would have to re-install your graphic drivers and select custom installation + clean installation options during installation process.

And then after that not use external FPS limiters for Valheim profile (just use the one built into Valheim), or the same bug can trigger, requiring re-installation.

[tired gorge]

A year ago I had a camera mod but I just deleted it now, do u think that's related to the issue?

[stark meadow]

No, we are aware of this issue on Nvidia cards.

[tired gorge]

Ohh, so it's a new thing

so how do I launch the game without vulkan

[stark meadow]

Btw. you should probably also re-do your FPS comparison between Vulkan and d3d11 now.
They should be about same FPS. Just remember when comparing fps, it's best to force clear weather and same time of day via devcommands, because FPS can vary a lot depending on those every second.

[tired gorge]

Thanks, one last thing. I had my armour equipped in slots that don't exist now (modding), so it's all gone

is there console commands to give myself new armour?

[tired gorge]

I will, I remember back then vulkan would give me 20-30+ fps

also I see there's new graphics settings.

[gilded sluice]

there are multiple commands for that

[tired gorge]

Holy sh** I just tried d3d11, is the game super-optimized now?

I'm getting 80fps on ultra which I couldn't play on Ultra before

[gilded sluice]

which GPU do you have?

[tired gorge]

GTX 1660Super

I never played this game on Ultra, was mostly high-medium settings

[shell copper]

anyone else usually crash when loading the game?

[stark meadow]

Can be related to the same thing we just mentioned above, so check if you are also launching in Vulkan and have Nvidia card

[shell copper]

i do launch with vulkna and i do have nvidia card

vulkan*

[hidden jewel]

i have noticed this as well.

My game crashes consistently when tabbing out on start up or clicking on start up. Basically any input crashes the game during start up.

[gilded sluice]

running any mods?

[gilded sluice]

that has always been a thing. don't do anything while it's loading

[shell copper]

Na

[gilded sluice]

which nvidia card you got?

I always recommend people with issues to do a "clean re-install" of drivers when they run into issues

click these. and then the clean install

and update your windoes. windows 11 have been super-bad latly with games and rescent updates 🙁

[stark meadow]

Yep, same thing, as already mentioned: #steam-bugs-discussion message
Playing in Vulkan + Nvidia card + new GFX tweaks + using external FPS limiters will result in crashes and glitches.

If you continue crashing without Vulkan, then it's something else.

[shell copper]

gtx 1650

[gilded sluice]

windows 11?

[shell copper]

10

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. ok

[shell copper]

I still do get updates on my win 10 even though they stopped the support cause of some free 1 year support

[gilded sluice]

yup yup I know

just make a microsoft account and they give you +1 year of updates

[copper relic]

i dont know if this is the correct channel to ask this in, but for some reason when i die with no skill drain i sometimes still lose skills, i even have a clip of one occurence

[stark meadow]

Would be nice to see the clip

[copper relic]

is it ok if i send it in this channel?

[stark meadow]

yeah

[copper relic]

https://medal.tv/games/valheim/clips/mdYVnCgYj_cXFJJeB?invite=cr-MSxLWFYsMjI2MjQ2NTc1&v=8

top left it says skills lowered

and i went from run 28 to around 27

[stark meadow]

How many times did you die in 30min prior to dying in this video?

[copper relic]

in 30 minutes?

if so then i died once

[stark meadow]

Did that death happen 2 min prior to the one in this clip or more like 12min prior?

[copper relic]

yeah about 2 minutes

thats where i got the no skill drain from

[stark meadow]

There's a bug where you can get no-skill drain twice in a row from one death, that's why I ask

Yep, just tested, if you die in that case (when second no skill drian shows up), you skills will be lowered

So you most likely didn't die 2min before the video death, rather 12min. Please review your clips if you have a longer recording

@copper relic

[copper relic]

i do not have a longer recording

but i suppose it was an error on my end then

[stark meadow]

Still, it's indeed a bug.

[copper relic]

alr

thanks for the help :D

[wet bone]

not really a bug but i crashed my video drivers with an overclock setting lol

[errant tusk]

lol , i think it's because of the cloud layer or something (i didn't use any mods)

[supple verge]

what's the problem with my valheim, before i got my this gaming pc, I'm using my 10yr old gaming laptop and i can play valheim smoothly, but now that i have powerful pc, I'm having this fps issue.

[pale fox]

Are Tunas supposed to be swimming and surface splashing at the bottom of the ocean?

[tropic torrent]

all fish do that if you run out of stamina while fishing and get the 'Lost Catch' message

[pale fox]

This one started on the bottom of the ocean, splashing around on the ocean floor.

I'm not even fishing in this picture, and it's not a behaviour I've noticed when fishing before.

[stark meadow]

Wrong GPU is probably being used. Start → type and open Graphic settings → Find Valheim on the list or add Valheim.exe → Select Valheim and choose which GPU to run Valheim under GPU preference

[stark meadow]

Not sure what is happening from the screen alone. Were you playing in multiplayer?

[pale fox]

Single player. I was just ruddering on the ocean, and while looking down saw some splashing on the bottom of the ocean near some coral cods.

That's when I took this screenshot.

That fish is at the bottom of the sea. I got a fishing rod and bait and noticed that it was a tuna afterwards. That's when I decided to post here and ask about it.
It made me realise I've never seen tuna swimming with coral cod. I see pufferfish swim with coral cod, but never tuna. And now I'm wondering if this is a bugged behaviour since pufferfish is a mistland biome fish and will only bite on misty bait but I keep seeing them in the ocean biome. But I don't see Tuna in the ocean biome (until I noticed this).

Not using any mods either. If that helps.

[median dome]

At 115% HUI Yagluth's "Activate power" is out of the screen. Maybe a recenter could help

[cloud crescent]

game crash, other people had same one in valheim help channel. sometimes it happens when i try to start the game (i need 3 to 4 tries to open the game) and sometimes during the playtime it crashes me and deletes my progress. I play vanilla and did update my drivers and delete shaders cashe.

@fallen heath has/had same issue

[gilded sluice]

could you upload your player.log file here?

[cloud crescent]

sure, where is it exzactly in the files?

[gilded sluice]

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

[stark meadow]

Did you read what I mentioned about Vulkan? #steam-bugs-discussion message

[gilded sluice]

most what happens in the game when it runs.
Personal info is mostly what GPU you got and your windows profile name is shown

I usually delete the logfile once I read it

[cloud crescent]

soo just disable the vulkan for now?

[stark meadow]

To fix Vulkan related character glitches and crashes when launching the game:

1. It's not about exclusive mode
2. Don't play in Vulkan
3. If you wanna play in Vulkan, you have to re-install your drivers (mandatory custom installation + select clean profile), and after re-installing drivers, you would have to **NOT **use Nvidia FPS limiter nor any other 3rd party FPS limiter for Valheim. Use only FPS limiter built in Valheim. If you use 3d party FPS limiter even once on Valhiem + Vulkan, you can trigger that driver related issue again, requiring another re-install to fix it.
4. There's no real difference in FPS when playing in Vulkan compared to d3d11 anyway (before there was)

[gilded sluice]

yeah. try playing without Vulkan.
And/or do a clean re-install of the nvidia drivers

[cloud crescent]

you are right its seams to be vulcan problem soo far. i did had a lot of graphicla stater around my character yesteday soo i deleted my shader cashe but lowering my fps from unlimited to 120-140 and dissabling v sinc and antyanalasing fixed that

[cloud crescent]

ty for the help

[gilded sluice]

problem solved?

[cloud crescent]

yup seams fine soo far. i deleted my player log, if you need it again let me know, ty

[gilded sluice]

nah it's fine

wanted to see which order things happend mostly

and if it loaded your actual GPU, or your build in processor GPU (for example)

or if any lingering mod files where loaded

etc etc

[cloud crescent]

uff i hope i didnt delete it 2 soon

[gilded sluice]

nah

I saw where it happend and it's most likly driver related

so either the new "common issue" with Vulkan, or your driver(s) where stacked ontop of 100's of small updates which usually breaks eventually

[rough thorn]

I remember a while ago seeing a conversation here about "bugged" fulings hitting the air. That happened to me with two fulings today, and now also with Brenna. I am in the Smouldering Tomb rn, and she just stopped in one place hitting the air. 🤔
She saw me, then I ran away and now I'm hiding so she can't see me at all, but she's there alone hitting the air. 🤷‍♀️

[stark meadow]

Can you send me your world save file?

And, were you using mods?

[rough thorn]

Never used mods in any playthrough.

I hit brenna again and did the same to test hit. she only runs after me until she arrives at a specific door. then I sneak, she stops seeing me an starts hitting the air and using her ability on the ground. Does that two or three times and goes back to her room. basically that.

[stark meadow]

Skeletons do attack doors in the dungeon

Are you saying she continues to attack the same spot even though the door is not there?

[rough thorn]

she doesn't leave a certain spot and doesn't come after me past that spot. she is kinda hitting the door but not directly. she is just kinda hitting it because she doesn't go further after that door anyway.

why wonder if something in the dungeon "terrain" or composition doesn't allow her to come further.

[rough thorn]

How can I send a world file?

I destroyed the door and still she doesn't come further

[stark meadow]

But she still attacks the door spot or?

[rough thorn]

yeah. she only comes to a certain point, like one or two steps after the place that had the door. She sees me. Im right in front of her. but she's casting the attacks in the same spot everytime.

if I hide now, she just turns and goes back to her room.

Yeah, it's not just Brenna. I tried leading another skeleton to the same place and he also doesn't come past that point. Might be something with the dungeon layout... 🤔

[stark meadow]

Seems like an issue with those dungeons we are already aware of (not the same as fuling story).

There's probably a stone on the floor they can't pass. Playing on harder difficulty also makes enmies larger.

[rough thorn]

Yeah... Makes sense. I thought that after trying with the other skeleton. basically, Brenna and the skeletons that are in her room don't come out. And skeletons from outside that room don't go in. It's like a barrier for them that ther can't cross.

[rough thorn]

I see 🤔 I'm playing with normal difficulty, but it might be a stone.

[stark meadow]

This is how they look

[rough thorn]

She hitting the air when she can't see me is different from the Fulings too?

[rough thorn]

yeah, there seems to be something like that on the corner of the corridor.

[stark meadow]

Not sure about that one

[stark meadow]

You can grab worldname.db and worldname.fwl files from one of these locations (depends on your using cloud or local saves).
Upload those two files to google drive, send me a link to those files and allow anyone with the link to access them. You can also upload those two files on valheim.com/support via bug reporting tool.
https://i.imgur.com/mTVKf1J.jpg?4

[rough thorn]

Also, I'm not even sure if this is related, or if my current seed is just supposed to be like this, but this world has some weird map locations. Might just be the world generator for this world/seed... But some places on the map are marked as a certain biome, and then in the game world they are not that biome but they have things there that belong to the biome that is marked on the map, for example.
One of them was a stonehendge in the meadows that I sent to the #screenshots chat the other day. Then I also found a place that was supposed to be mountain, according to the map, but it wasn't. And I found Plains terrain with birch trees covered in snow, high up in a mountain. Things like that.

[stark meadow]

Think I can reproduce the fuling hitting air situation, so you don't have to send me the world save file.
Active biome you stand on is only accurate in large map (minimap is inaccurate).

Certain trees and locations from other biomes can be found in wrong biome on occasions, we don't see it as big issue, more like a feature, but it is originally unintended.

[rough thorn]

In this case, both minimap and large map are incorrect.

[solemn niche]

I've noticed parts and bits being off myself. And for some reason, I've found older maps better than newer ones. Maybe it's just bad luck, but some of the maps I've recently generated are filled with tiny biomes scattered within larger ones.
I feel older maps was kinda better.

[stark meadow]

You can see plains in the minimap: #screenshots message you were probably technically in plains there. You can hover a mouse on a spot to check which biome you are in (only on big map).

[rough thorn]

Yeah, I've found small biome areas too. Like, a single pixel of plains in a swamp or something. But in this case the biome marked in the map is just incorrect. And in another place that has meadows, plains and mountains around it, theres birch threes covered in snow in place that has mountain height. I don't think those trees should be there. Then the Stonehenge location is in the Meadows and the border of the meadows and plains on the map there is also not correct. I mean, it's kinda fun tho.🤷‍♀️ Unexpected stuff. But maybe it wasn't supposed to happen? idk

[stark meadow]

Again, minimap doesn't show correct biome. Big map does, and to see in which you are standing it, you have to hover your mouse on your position on the big map. Minimap is just inaccurate for performance reasons.

Certain locations/objects appearing in the middle of other biomes are unintended (e.g. sunken crypt in meadows), but not seen as issues.

[rough thorn]

The Stonehenge might be ok in the large map (gotta go there again to be sure). But one place in the starting island that says "mountain" in both the minimap and large map, that one is not correct. it's 100% just meadows there. And the large map shows mountain, not just in the name of the biome, but in the appearance of the area in the map as well.

[rough thorn]

Yeah, those appear sometimes. I don't mind them... haha They weren't supposed to be there, but looks kinda cool.

[solemn niche]

Had a map a few months back that had troll-caves in Meadows, far from BF. Fair enough, had a laugh and went on. A further out Meadows had a sunken crypt several houndred yards from Swamp, in a hill. No other sign of swamp, weather-wise, map-wise or on the ground. Kinda funny.

[rough thorn]

I have that in this map too. There was a troll cave in the Meadows. I forgot about that one...

basically my current map has a lot of those "exceptions", I guess...

[solemn niche]

It's become regularly irregular

[rough thorn]

I went to check the Stonehenge location and that one is probably ok. It is clearly not in the plains but the map has some pixels there that say Plains, so that must be it.

The "mountain" location in the Meadows in the starting island shows mountain terrain in both maps, says "mountain" in the large map, and says meadows in the minimap.

The troll cave in the meadows says meadows in the minimap, but says black forest in the large map.

(The birch trees in the mountain I'd have to go there to check)

It's an interesting seed... 🤷‍♀️

[solemn niche]

Winter is coming, even the seeds are going nuts 🤭

[rough thorn]

Oh, actually, my seed might be easy to check. It's the famous seed with a super tiny Spawn island.
I wonder if it has these interesting locations in other players games too... I know many people have tried this seed.
In my case, I generated this world before the call to arms update tho, so it's not that new. Might have some differences.

[proud dagger]

Why is playing on steam multiplayer even with two players so laggy (with minimal network issues) ? Would booting up a dedicated server fix most related issues?

[stark meadow]

Could help, but I wouldn't recommend taking that directions before figuring out what's wrong.
You should not have any issues while playing as two player team.

I recommend going through this comment on steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/612032374411149472/#c612032512885010678

Check buffer bloat, VPN, 3rd party programs that act as network optimisers, etc...

[proud dagger]

thanks, will do

[fallen heath]

It would seem the problem is still happening for me. The exclusive mode helped me run for about 4 hours, but now it's back to crashing instantly. I have previously tried the nvidia custom reinstall as well, and I just tried again now and it's still happening.

[stark meadow]

You have a different issue if you are crashing in d3d11. What are you PC specs?

[fallen heath]

here they are

[stark meadow]

In what manner are you crashing? Unity popup and game crashes?

[fallen heath]

yup, the screenshot is included in #screenshots

[stark meadow]

Are you aware of Intel 13th and 14gen CPU degradation issues?

[fallen heath]

I am not, is there something I can do to fix that?

[stark meadow]

Yeah, Intel messed up with those CPU and they are degrading over time too quickly.

First you should install free HWiNFO tool, launch in sensors only mode and check which MAX temps on CPU and GPU is your system hitting after 10min of gameplay + after crashing. If that's ok, then you next step should be visiting your motherboard manufactures website, finding your motherboard model, download latest BIOS and reading how to install it. After new BIOS gets installed, you would have to apply Intel default settings (not motherboard settings) in BIOS settings. This can depend on the motherboard.

Recommended additional step, or necessary additional step if you continue crashing, is also locking your cores to not allow certain cores to boost higher (more advanced).

This is how it looks like in HWiNFO tool when CPU is overheating (notice Maximum column):

[fallen heath]

Yes I have tried these things and it has not worked. Also it doesn't seem possible for it to be a hardware issue as it would have compatibility problems with other games, or games ran using the same engine, which isn't the case.

What I noticed a bit ago was that my game was updated at the time it started to crash, and I will link the screenshot of the update in #screenshots. If a Developer or someone with knowledge of troubleshooting for the game could reply I would be extremely appreciative.

All I want to do is play a casual game with a friend, and this has been an absolutely nightmare experience over the last couple days.

[stark meadow]

It is very much possible to only Valheim to be crashing at not other games. Over time other games and programs start crashing as well. When Intel degradation issues came to light I talked to 50 players who had those CPU and only Valheim has been crashing. Here's a recent example: #steam-bugs-discussion message

Which other games are you running using the same engine?

[fallen heath]

I realized after watching my resources when it crashes, my gpu would spike right before. I thought it would show high usage during, but it's only during the crash.

I've ran every bios update I could find, motherboard, gpu, cpu, but nothing has worked so far.

[stark meadow]

On unstable systems crashes usually do happen during power, voltage spikes, and Valheim unfortunately has plenty of those. Unity popup is usually not a GPU issue, but can be. If you want, you can send me ew of your crash logs located at: %username%\AppData\Local\Temp\IronGate\Valheim\Crashes

Which motherboard do you have? Did you apply Intel default after updating BIOS? (BIOS has two kinds od default, Intel one and motherboard one).

[royal blaze]

#memes-and-clips message

[royal blaze]

this is without mods, two players, I am the server, but italso happened the other way around too

[stark meadow]

Yep, known issue

[royal blaze]

Awesome

[exotic radish]

A player on our server is experiencing a failure from Steam to initialize during game startup, modded. Can anyone provide help?

They've already restarted their computer, redownloaded the game, made a new character and mod profile, nothing is working