Originally posted by Reften:

Originally posted by jonnin:

Modding is unsupported and at least a greater than zero risk. However, while so far the devs have not done it, the EA game is in flux and at some point a big update or the 1.0 release may also break old save games. Modding adds to the risk, though.

The bottom line is that you are not ensured a world that will survive through to the release of the game. Most likely, given their approach so far, you will have that.

The real threats to your worlds and characters are outside the game, honestly. Messing up cloud saves can lose progress or entire worlds, for example.

So, honestly, the only advice I have is to set up a daily backup of your game files if you want to have a long lived world, and when in game, log out once in a while to force saving and updating of your auto backups (game provided) or manuals (your own backups).

Thanks...is there a way to simply not update Valheim any more? (I play through steam) or at least delay to give mod developers a chance to catch up.

Yes, you can turn off auto updates, the problem will be you can no longer launch the game from the steam interface as it will attempt to update it.

Go to your library, right click on Valheim, open the properties, and under updates select only update when I launch.

The solution is to navigate to your Valheim installation folder and send a shortcut to your desktop.

Don't forget to bookmark or track your mods somehow so you can easily check for updates so when everything has an update or is confirmed to be working you can update Valheim.