Lost my character after 4k hours in this game :(

I play Valheim A LOT. over 4,000 hours. I have many worlds and I have some huge builds. My PC just crashed and when I logged back into Valheim I have lost my character. I have made a new character and can visit my worlds but the map is undiscovered and I have no clue where anything is. Do I really have to start again? I am very upset about this as I have invested so much of my time. Any ideas?
8:13 pm, May 31, 2023
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Nerevar replied to Lost my character after 4k hours in this game :( May 31, 2023 @ 12:50:55 pm PDT

you have 4000 hours and you dont have any character backups? not even manual ones?
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Faceplant8 replied to Lost my character after 4k hours in this game :( May 31, 2023 @ 12:54:03 pm PDT

There should be backups of the character either in you steam online save or in your characters_local directory. (Under AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim I believe).
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