Originally posted by pipo.p:

The game saves on each periodic world save, on disconnection, and also (presumably) on death. Now, you know what to expect from those save files. The .old save is only the previous save. It can well be 5 minutes old if you disconnect 5 minutes after a world save.

If you manually copy those save files elsewhere, when you can restore a much older game state, in case of a reset.

Yeah now I know... :( Would have been nice to know before. I've just never needed backups in a game before. Not unless the game loaded up with a warning saying as such "Hey this game is unstable and may crash or corrupt, please make backups of your save". I've seen games share such warnings, but Valheim doesn't. I DO realize it is still in Early Access, but given how stable the game usually is, I was under the impression the game was just that... stable under normal circumstances. You'd think making use of the hoe or pick axe is normal circumstance.