Originally posted by Lecherous Lychee:

That is strange that everyone here so far is getting lag. However, my friends and I haven't met any lag from my dedicated server.

I host a dedicated server at home using the following specs for 8 players with no mods. We did an 8 player boss fight not long ago and it was fine.

Mini-PC with a 120mm USB fan attached to the underside for extra cooling.
- CPU: Intel Celeron J4125 2GHZ
- RAM: DDR4 8GB
- GPU: Built-in Intel UHD 600
- Storage: 120GB SSD for OS, and a 120GB SSD for the game.
- Internet: Telus 150MBits/s Fibre Optic Ul/Dl.

The only time it lagged was during the 5 seconds world saving instance. The other time that lagged, was when five players were logged into the server, while I was playing ESO. ^_^ So I promptly logged out of ESO, and a few minutes later, the players reported no further lag.

The sort of lag I'm talking about here only occurs if the players have a large difference in ping and are near eachother in game. e.g. if one lives near the server and might get like 20ms while another lives in a different region and has more like 200ms. For some reason in Valheim these players meeting causes issues that neither experiences alone or with other players of a similar ping.