Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Back up your save on your hard drive or a flash drive. If you get a cloud sync error you can go to Valheim in your steam library display and click on the cloud status icon to try to force a resync.

If you feel a game bug cheated you, you can use dev commands and spawn in all the items you lost.

thanks! i was too pissy last night to do any research on ways to salvage what had happened after that DC, i really appreciate your help!