Originally posted by electricdawn:

That is why it is important to always have backups of one's important data. Not just your Valheim save game, but all your data on your computer. Computers can fail. For whatever reason.

+1 to this ! Kept me employed for decades hardware fails SUCK! this was only a power fail ! i once had to tell a laptop owner their HDU was Dead.. 5 years of their thesis ...no backups! HDU sounded like a hammer!