How to Upload a World to Your Valheim Server

How to transfer a singleplayer Valheim world to your dedicated server.

Local Save Location

%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds_local\

You need both files: worldname.db and worldname.fwl.

Uploading

  1. Stop server
  2. Upload both files to the server's worlds directory via Files
  3. Set -world "worldname" in startup to match
  4. Start server

See World Save Files and Upload Existing World.

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