How to Back Up and Restore Your Valheim World

 

    A Valheim world is hours of building and exploring, and plenty can go wrong: a troll flattens your base, a mod corrupts a save, someone terraforms the wrong hill. gamever backs your world up automatically and lets you restore in a couple of clicks, plus force a save on demand. This guide covers all of it.

 

Turn on automatic backups

 

    Open Settings → Schedule & Backups:

 

 

Setting	What it does
Enable backups	true = the server takes scheduled backups automatically.
Backup every	The interval (e.g. 6h) between automatic backups.

 

    Set Enable backups = true, pick an interval, Save. Now there's always a recent restore point.

 

Restore (roll back your world)

 

    Open the Backups tab in your panel (or My backups in the sidebar). You'll see your backups listed by time:

 

1. Pick the backup from before things went wrong.
2. Restore it — the server rolls the world back to that snapshot.
3. The server restarts on the restored world.

 

    A restore overwrites the current world, so if there's any chance you'll want "now" back, take a fresh backup first.

 

What's in a Valheim backup

 

    Valheim's world is a pair of files — <World>.db (the world data) and <World>.fwl (the world metadata/seed). A backup captures both. If you ever restore or move a world manually over FTP, always keep the .db and .fwl together — see moving a world and the new save system.

 

Force a save on demand

 

    Valheim autosaves periodically (and on a clean shutdown/restart), but to force a save right now — e.g. before you try something risky:

 

• Type save in the Console (Overview or Console tab) as an admin, or
• Restart the server from Overview (it saves before cycling).

 

    Then take a manual backup so that exact state is captured.

 

Back up before anything risky

 

    Always snapshot before:

 

• Installing or updating mods.
• Switching the beta branch.
• Resetting or changing the world.
• Big terraforming or building sessions.

 

Additional Tips

 

• Turn backups on day one — don't wait for a disaster.
• Restore from before the problem — pick the right timestamp.
• A restore overwrites now — snapshot the current state first if unsure.
• .db + .fwl travel together — never split the pair.
• Force a save with the save console command before experiments.

 

Conclusion

 

    Protecting your Valheim world on gamever is two steps: turn on Enable backups with a sensible interval, and restore from the Backups tab whenever you need to roll back. Both world files are captured together, you can force a save with the save command any time, and a bad night in the Black Forest is never more than a click away from undone.

 

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