The developers of the Viking survival game Valheim are once again struggling with a bug that has the potential to massively annoy players. Because in the worst case, players could lose their world progress due to a reset bug.
Via Twitter Iron Gate Studios has now issued a warning about a new reset bug in Valheim. “We are aware that there has been an issue lately where players from #Valheim were experiencing a game crash and their worlds were being reset. We are working on this and hope to have a patch available for testing very soon,” it said there in warning.
Workaround for the reset bug
Also, as work on the reset bug continues, the developers have come up with a workaround for the issue Reddit linked. The steps to restore the save for the world are described in section 5 there. The short version is as follows:
- For security reasons, save all current saves mentioned in Section 3.
- Start Valheim and switch from Cloud to Local in the main menu, both the world you want to restore and the character, and then exit the game
- Among the backups created in step 1, find the world with the largest file size
- Copy this world backup file, place it in Valheim Appdata’s worlds_local folder and overwrite the existing file there
- Rename the world backup file you just copied by deleting characters so that only worldname.db remains as the file name.
- Load your game
A detailed variant is also described in the corresponding Reddit article. But there is an even easier way. In another Twitter post, the developers explain that you can also easily create a backup of your save by moving the contents of the “Cloud” folder in the parent folder “Steam userdata” to the “Local” folder and then back in “Cloud” sets.
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