Valheim world save location

How To Transfer A Valheim World Save


Want to move your Valheim world to another computer or server? Whether you're upgrading to dedicated hosting or just sharing progress with a friend, transferring a Valheim world is easier than it sounds. All your progress: builds, terrain changes, and world data, is saved in a small set of files you can copy and paste.

In this guide, we'll show you how to transfer Valheim world to dedicated server. This is very easy since Valheim saves are usually stored in their default location on your computer files. Even when a new world is created, you will still find the files in the exact location.

Finding Your Existing Valheim World Save On Your Computer

To find an existing Valheim world on your computer:


You will need to find the world file location



On your keyboard, use and open the following directory:



Once you see both of the

.fwl & .db

files. These are the world files


Downloading A Valheim Cloud Save From Xbox or Steam

To download a Valheim world cloud save to your computer:


In the

Select Character

screen, click on

Manager Saves





Navigate to the

Worlds

tab



Choose the desired world, and click on the

M

Valheim: Upload World


Follow this guide to get help locating the world saves on your computer.

In this guide

Locate Local Saves (PC)

The save folder for your local Valheim saves is:

From June 2022, worlds are stored in the Steam cloud by default. Move on to the section about Steam cloud saves to find that save folder.
Are you using the Game Pass version of the game? Then you would first need to boot up the game, click “Manage Saves”, and then “Move to Local” in order to find the files in your computer’s folders.

1

Open the Windows File Explorer

2

Navigate to “This PC” and then select “Local Disk (C:)”

3

Go to the “Users” folder and select your user.

4

Navigate to the “AppData” folder and then go to “LocalLow” -> “IronGate” -> “Valheim

Note: The AppData folder might be hidden by default. Check out this guide on how to view hidden folders on Windows 10 and 11.

5

Look for the "worlds_local" folder. Here you should find your world files with the “.db” and “.fwl” extensions.

Note: If you can’t find your world in this folder, go back one step and go to the folder "worlds” instead, it might be there if you haven’t used the world since June 202

Import Valheim World to your Valheim Server


You can import your Valheim world, from either another server or your client, by changing the contents of the directory on your server. You may want to import your world to transfer settings that can only be set on the client, or to save your progress from another server, but in either case the process can be simple if you know what steps to take.

Locating the save files​

Importing from your Client​

Windows Clients, using Steam or Xbox, will store the world files at or on the Cloud, where you'll have to Move it to Local in order to import it to your server. That directory, assuming you're storing the worlds locally as mentioned before, should contain and files bearing the names of your worlds. It will also contain any backups that were automatically made by Valheim while you were playing.
After locating the folder and the world files you want to upload, you can select the and files bearing the name of your world, excluding any that contain the word or , and compress them for upload. You'll want to upload the compressed file to your server's directory and then decompress it using the File Manager. Finally, you&#

How to move a Valheim world save


If you need to move a world save from one server to another, or from your local machine to a server, this shouldn’t be
too
painful ;)

The default location that Valheim saves world files is:


Windows
:


Linux
:

If you have rented a server from a game server provider, double check with their support information where they store save files, as they may use a custom location.

There will likely be 4 files stored for each world:






Where “world” is the name of your world. If you want to double check the name of your world, you can see it in-game by pressing .

The files are backups, and not strictly necessary for the purpose of the transfer.

World re-nameing


Do not
change the name of your or files, as this will break things.

If your circumstances
absolutely require
changing the world name, use this tool: https://geekstrom.de/valheim/fwl/

FTP Transfer Modes

If you are interacting with a server to upload/download files using FTP, (and you’re on Windows) using WinSCP is recommended.

If you use FileZilla (or other software) instead, make sure that the file transfer type is set to
BINARY
.

WinSCP uses binary transfer for files by