Originally posted by Slynx Jewel:

Originally posted by RAIDMissionary:

Not sure if I am wording this correctly. Can you play single player, have bases etc, then have friends join you or join friends and you have the same world/progress, base, or is it starting over? I'm not familiar with mmo games much

you can. and it's fairly simple. when you're creating the game just press a button "start server" and after it's loaded invite your friends to join.

but this will work only while you're playing. if you want a world that is accessible 24\7 - you need to instal valheim dedicated setver. it's in steam's tools

This response correctly answers the OP questions.

While we're here I'll add that the one thing you can't do is rename a world because it breaks the metadata file and all your buildings vanish. Use this site to fix: https://geekstrom.de/valheim/fwl

Originally posted by RAIDMissionary:

Not sure if I am wording this correctly. Can you play single player, have bases etc, then have friends join you or join friends and you have the same world/progress, base, or is it starting over? I'm not familiar with mmo games much

you can. and it's fairly simple. when you're creating the game just press a button "start server" and after it's loaded invite your friends to join.

but this will work only while you're playing. if you want a world that is accessible 24\7 - you need to instal valheim dedicated setver. it's in steam's tools

nice thanks

You can move characters to other worlds, but you cant change a world from single to multi, so you can move your sp toon to a server.
Valheim is not a mmo, its limited to 8 - 10 players (unless modded).

Player and world saves are independent of each other. So yes progress is saved on character skills and inventory between worlds.

You can also open your solo game up to others as you choose to get help with stuff or hang out.

Originally posted by Flare |UKCS|:

You can move characters to other worlds, but you cant change a world from single to multi, so you can move your sp toon to a server.
Valheim is not a mmo, its limited to 8 - 10 players (unless modded).

What are you talking about? Opening your world to other players takes one click for friends or a click and setting a password for everyone else.

Yes, you can set up your SP world to be a server for others to join. It is more like Minecraft as in you have to be playing for others to have access to your game world to play in. The world is still YOUR world so they won't be able to play in that world without you. But yes, you can open up any world you have as a server for others to join with or without a password.

Originally posted by Beckelhimer:

Yes, you can set up your SP world to be a server for others to join. It is more like Minecraft as in you have to be playing for others to have access to your game world to play in. The world is still YOUR world so they won't be able to play in that world without you. But yes, you can open up any world you have as a server for others to join with or without a password.

This isn't true either. The game comes with a dedicated server executable that you can run to host your world at all times. Simple to get running on a LAN, slightly more complicated for open Internet access. Or you can hire a hosting service and upload your single-player world for them to host. That's got its own difficulties, but none of them are insurmountable.