Bought the game at launch , been using cloud saves the entire time. Never had a problem.

Copied from internet link
due to changes not sure if file locations are the same but you want to look for the .old thing.


How to Back Up Valheim Save Data

To back up your Valheim save data, navigate to the game’s files. You can find them here: C:\Users\Username\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\. In the event that your AppData files are hidden, you can manually pull them up by typing %appdata% into the Windows search bar.

Folders for characters, and worlds can be found there. Create a copy of these folders and place them somewhere easily accessible, such as the Desktop.

Follow the same filepath and seek out the .db.old and .fwl.old files. The “old” portion designates previous versions of worlds and characters that have been saved. Deleting the “old” from the file name can restore those points.

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Bought the game at launch , been using cloud saves the entire time. Never had a problem.

That helps not even an iota. WE DO have a problem. Our games are completely gone, or I imagine they are somehow still in our PCs, but we don't know how to access them.

Originally posted by Dini:

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Bought the game at launch , been using cloud saves the entire time. Never had a problem.

That helps not even an iota. WE DO have a problem. Our games are completely gone, or I imagine they are somehow still in our PCs, but we don't know how to access them.

It does tells something. He must be doing something you guys have not.

Anyway this might help

8. World save issues - Character/world gone.
Valheim saves both character and worlds in separate folders in:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim
Sometimes a save-file gets corrupted. Go to your above mentioned directory. Your world will have files named with .old rename the files and remove the .old extensions and answer YES, when it prompts you if you want to overwrite a current file with the same name.
One easy solution to try is simply to stop Steam Cloud Sync.
If you have some program or anti-virus that prevents files from being created and/or edited on C: you will prevent any kind of character/world files from being created or any progress saved on them.
If you share computer (with different logins) with a family member, but you both share Steam account. You can have issues with Steam and Cloud Saves. Example:
Player 1 logins on computer, starts Steam. (then Steam Cloud saves will sync files on launch) then when you exit the game, Steam Cloud saves will sync again) if then player 2 launches the game from the shared Steam account, player 2’s local files will be prompted by Steam if player 2 wants to overwrite the files on C: - This can lead to issues if players 1 and 2 don’t always have Steam connected and sync every time correctly. (like quickly close the computer for example so Steam doesn’t get the time it needs to sync correctly)
If you are having sync issues or can't find your local savefiles, download your Cloud Saves here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
On a dedicated server, if you don’t close the client correctly, you can get corrupted files.

Originally posted by Leffe-(SWE):

Originally posted by Dini:

That helps not even an iota. WE DO have a problem. Our games are completely gone, or I imagine they are somehow still in our PCs, but we don't know how to access them.

It does tells something. He must be doing something you guys have not.

He never mentioned taking any measures. It doesn't help unless he added more info, which he didn't. Basically saying I DON'T HAVE PROBLEMS SO DON'T FIX IT doesn't help, which isn't quoting, just sounds like he's saying it. So what should I have to do? I played the game since launch, never did anything special, never changed a single thing, I just left it all be. Never had problem this whole time til they made our games automatically go cloud.

Originally posted by Leffe-(SWE):

Originally posted by Dini:

That helps not even an iota. WE DO have a problem. Our games are completely gone, or I imagine they are somehow still in our PCs, but we don't know how to access them.

Anyway this might help

8. World save issues - Character/world gone.
Valheim saves both character and worlds in separate folders in:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim
Sometimes a save-file gets corrupted. Go to your above mentioned directory. Your world will have files named with .old rename the files and remove the .old extensions and answer YES, when it prompts you if you want to overwrite a current file with the same name.
One easy solution to try is simply to stop Steam Cloud Sync.
If you have some program or anti-virus that prevents files from being created and/or edited on C: you will prevent any kind of character/world files from being created or any progress saved on them.
If you share computer (with different logins) with a family member, but you both share Steam account. You can have issues with Steam and Cloud Saves. Example:
Player 1 logins on computer, starts Steam. (then Steam Cloud saves will sync files on launch) then when you exit the game, Steam Cloud saves will sync again) if then player 2 launches the game from the shared Steam account, player 2’s local files will be prompted by Steam if player 2 wants to overwrite the files on C: - This can lead to issues if players 1 and 2 don’t always have Steam connected and sync every time correctly. (like quickly close the computer for example so Steam doesn’t get the time it needs to sync correctly)
If you are having sync issues or can't find your local savefiles, download your Cloud Saves here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
On a dedicated server, if you don’t close the client correctly, you can get corrupted files.

I'll look into this, cuz my world I think was always saved on my PC so it has to exist.

YEP SAME HERE, PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS.

Actually my game crashed, then that's when all my bases and everything I did in my world was reverted to previous to my arrival in it. It IS the same exact generated world too. Just all bases, all landscape changes, reverted to fresh generation.

Originally posted by Dini:

YEP SAME HERE, PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS.

Actually my game crashed, then that's when all my bases and everything I did in my world was reverted to previous to my arrival in it. It IS the same exact generated world too. Just all bases, all landscape changes, reverted to fresh generation.

Thats what I had. I had one time where my game just randomly crashed (its never done that before and I have a close to top of the line computer.) and it undid everything even stuff done before the last world save. then the past two times Ive saved and quit its lost everything again, even stuff that had been there when the world did a world save. Theres no point in playing the game now. Nothing is saving, I've tried it with cloud save on and off.

Wow, so the game normally doesn't crash for me either.... it just froze and I waited like 2 minutes when I finally gave up. The game was freezing and lagging more than usual too, and I had a friend on my game too. Something weird about the cloud saves, and I am NOT for cloud saves in general. I like it staying on my PC and thus far there never were issues with local saves, now cloud was FORCED on us and now we're losing everything.

Seriously devs ya gotta fix this and get rid of cloud saves or at least give us the option.