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ValheimGuideTurn on Crossplay, share the join code, and friends on Xbox, Game Pass, and with 1.0 PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 can join your Valheim server.
Turn on Crossplay in your server's settings and restart. Your server gets a join code that shows on your server card, and friends on Xbox and PC enter it from Valheim's Start Game screen. With Valheim 1.0 on September 9, 2026, full crossplay extends to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 as well. Consoles cannot host their own dedicated server, so a crossplay server is how a mixed group shares one world.
Find the Crossplay checkbox in your Valheim server's configuration.
Saving prompts a restart so the server can switch over. Crossplay uses a different networking system (Microsoft PlayFab), which is what makes console connections possible.
After the restart, your server card shows a join code. Copy it and send it to your group. Anyone joining still needs your server password, so the code alone does not let strangers in.
Crossplay and mods do not mix. Valheim's mod loader only works with crossplay off, so a crossplay server runs vanilla Valheim. The dashboard guards this for you and will not let both be on at once. See Mods or crossplay for how to choose.
Xbox, PlayStation 5, Switch 2 (1.0), and Game Pass: Start Valheim, choose Start Game, pick a character, then use Join Game and enter the join code.
Steam players on a crossplay server: the same join code works, and the server can also appear in Valheim's Community server list.
Steam players on a non-crossplay server: they join by the server address on your server card, through the Community list, or by adding the address to Steam's server favorites.
The password is the lock. Valheim requires a server password, and everyone who joins needs it, on every platform.
Server browser visibility is your choice. The Show in server browser setting controls whether your server can appear in Valheim's in-game Community list. Turn it off and friends join by code or address only.
Crossplay runs through Microsoft. Join codes and crossplay connections go through Microsoft's PlayFab service. On the rare occasion PlayFab itself has an outage, every crossplay Valheim server on the internet is affected at once. When that happens your dashboard shows a notice on the server card, your world is safe, and joins recover when Microsoft's service does.