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Valheim: Choose or find your world seed
A new Valheim server has a World Seed box on the Basic tab of the Overview card. Type the seed you want (up to 10 characters) before you start the server…
Valheim 1.0: No Public Test Branch
Valheim 1.0 came out on September 9, 2026, and Steam removed Valheim's public test branch at the same time. The Public Test Branch toggle is gone from your…
Valheim: Join Your Server (Steam, Game Pass, Xbox, and the Community list)
Your server card shows one address, like odin.vesta.haptic.game:2456, with a Copy password pill one click away behind the arrow at the end of the strip.…
Changing Valheim World Settings on an Existing Server
Change the setting on your dashboard, then restart your server. Every start applies exactly what your dashboard shows, on an existing world as well as a…
Valheim World Modifiers and Presets: Tune the Grind
Valheim ships official difficulty settings, and they are not cheating: Iron Gate built them so every group can tune the grind to taste. On Haptic they are…
Valheim Admins, Allowlist, and Bans from the Dashboard
Valheim normally makes you edit adminlist.txt on the server by hand. On Haptic, admins, allowed players, and bans are lists in your server's Admins…
Deep North Not Appearing in My Valheim World
Valheim only generates new content in parts of the map you have not explored yet. The Deep North biome came with Valheim 1.0 and sits at the far north of…
The Valheim Player Limit, Explained
Valheim is a 1 to 10 player game and Haptic never caps players by plan. Where the limit comes from and what going past it with mods really means.
Valheim Lag, Explained Honestly
Which Valheim lag the server can fix and which comes from the game's own networking, with the fixes that actually help your group.
Valheim Backups and Restore on Haptic
Your Valheim world is backed up automatically: daily on Always On, and on every shutdown, restart, and sleep on Wake & Play, plus before risky actions like…
Valheim "Incompatible Version" After an Update
"Incompatible version" means your game and the server are on different Valheim versions, which happens for a few minutes whenever Valheim updates: Steam…
Valheim Mods or Crossplay: Choosing for Your Group
A Valheim server can run BepInEx mods or crossplay, not both at the same time. That is how Valheim itself works, on every host: crossplay switches the game…
Valheim Crossplay: How Console Friends Join Your Server
Turn on Crossplay in your server's settings and restart. Your server gets a six-digit join code that shows on your server card, and friends on Xbox, Game…
Valheim 1.0: Keep Your World or Start Fresh?
Valheim 1.0 is out (September 9, 2026) with the Deep North, the final biome. Your world survives the update, but new content only generates in parts of the…
Valheim Mods: What Your Players Need to Install
Valheim mods run in two places at once: on the server and on every player's PC. Haptic installs the server half for you, and each player then installs the…
Valheim: Upload your existing world
Since Valheim 1.0 your world is a folder named after it inside worlds_local (worlds from before 1.0 are two files, one ending in .fwl and one in .db). Drag…
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