Originally posted by Cap'n Bells:

no one else uses your puter? or maybe security breach online?.. just thinking

no lol
i'm 95% sure it was a cloud saved world that didn't get synched and so got wiped.

Originally posted by L1m3r:

Originally posted by TTV_Zorlin3321:

doesn't matter, i just gave up and enabled creative mode and rebuilt my castle and stuff. at least i don't have to waste another week or two collecting stone and stuff. just sucks i had to lose progress at all, i liked the seed i got. lesson learned, turn the cloud storage the hell of and keep backups.

VH keeps backups on its own (worlds and character profiles). Per default up to 4 which means 6 in total:

<YourWorldName>.db/.fwl
<YourWorldName>.db/.fwl.old
4x <YourWorldName>_backup_auto-<ISO-DateTime>.db/.fwl

I have no idea what you did but I'm pretty sure neither VH or Steam would delete all those files on their own.
And if they did the first thing to try is just restoring those files[1] - but it's probably to late for that now.

And you're sure none of those backups is/are anywhere in

OLD: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds NEW: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds_local CLOUD: ...\Steam\userdata\<YourSteamUserID?>\892970\remote\worlds

With maybe different Windows/Steam users?

Steam cloud full? Local drive full?

And I'm reasonably sure that VH (or any other game) doesn't interact directly with the Steam cloud.
It only stores/loads the save states from the local cloud folder (and maybe triggers the Steam client to sync that folder).

Oh and you can do lightning quick global search in Windows over all drives with some tools.[2] In case you accidentally moved some folder...



[1] there's a bunch of un-delete/recover tools available. Eg. Altap Salamander (v4.0) has this functionality + maybe Recuva?

[2] I know off Everything[www.voidtools.com] and UltraSearch[www.jam-software.com]. They don't crawl through the actual drives/folders/files, just the NTFS MFTs (or equivalent if possible).

...dude stop coping, we all know steam cloud is ass, i've lost countless hours to its buggy mess of synchronization. yes, i searched all 3 directories. it was my fault having cloud enabled

no one else uses your puter? or maybe security breach online?.. just thinking

Originally posted by TTV_Zorlin3321:

doesn't matter, i just gave up and enabled creative mode and rebuilt my castle and stuff. at least i don't have to waste another week or two collecting stone and stuff. just sucks i had to lose progress at all, i liked the seed i got. lesson learned, turn the cloud storage the hell of and keep backups.

VH keeps backups on its own (worlds and character profiles). Per default up to 4 which means 6 in total:

I have no idea what you did but I'm pretty sure neither VH or Steam would delete all those files on their own.
And if they did the first thing to try is just restoring those files[1] - but it's probably to late for that now.

And you're sure none of those backups is/are anywhere in
With maybe different Windows/Steam users?

Steam cloud full? Local drive full?

And I'm reasonably sure that VH (or any other game) doesn't interact directly with the Steam cloud.
It only stores/loads the save states from the local cloud folder (and maybe triggers the Steam client to sync that folder).

Oh and you can do lightning quick global search in Windows over all drives with some tools.[2] In case you accidentally moved some folder...

Originally posted by ManAnt:

They don't care... Start a new world is the answer... always..

Who? IronGate? They only implemented the worlds_local + cloud save stuff to please some users where a mixture of different SteamIDs where used on the same local Windows account (or some other wired combinations).

It worked perfectly fine & as intended before but they changed it several times before the first normal release just to enable some unexpected use-cases.
But yeah, "they don't care"...


[1] there's a bunch of un-delete/recover tools available. Eg. Altap Salamander (v4.0) has this functionality + maybe Recuva?

[2] I know off Everything[www.voidtools.com] and UltraSearch[www.jam-software.com]. They don't crawl through the actual drives/folders/files, just the NTFS MFTs (or equivalent if possible).

Always backup your saves if you're uncomfortable with starting from scratch. Weird ♥♥♥♥ happens very infrequently at the OS and hardware level that game developers have trouble dealing with, precisely because it's so infrequent they don't get to observe it, and the Steam cloud layer adds an additional source of potential errors.

They don't care... Start a new world is the answer... always..

...yeah checked all 3 locations and no...no mods lol

Originally posted by TTV_Zorlin3321:

...yeah checked all 3 locations and no...no mods lol

no "mods" your looking for dbf files with corresponding name as your in game world
edit: and a corresponding .fwl file with same name

Oh wait you havent played in over a year? theres a pinned doc..where is my save file... yours is on the .old style pre Hearth n home..

edit its in neighbouring folder.. C:\Users\***\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds

doesn't matter, i just gave up and enabled creative mode and rebuilt my castle and stuff. at least i don't have to waste another week or two collecting stone and stuff. just sucks i had to lose progress at all, i liked the seed i got. lesson learned, turn the cloud storage the hell of and keep backups.

Ok here goes..I might ask MODS :-)that we assemble and get this pinned as a topic. (incase its incomplete :-) )

So world files are in 3 (at least places)

1) Single Player using January 2023 versions and beyond
C:\Users\***\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds_local

2) Single Player using Steam cloud saves here
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

3) now Single Player and Multi Player ALSO apparently save to here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\yourSteamIDnumber\892970\remote

Good luck and Skall!

Sorry no idea. I turned of cloud storage and backup my local saves just in case.

If you can't restore your save you can always spawn in a stuff so you don't have to start from zero again.