All base structures disappeared after steam update

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Steam appeared to do a quick update, and I logged into my previously fine local seed. I can see that my spawn is still set to where my bed was, but nothing is in the world in terms of structures I made. I made these structures over 2 - 3 days.

Happy to provide logs if someone lets me know how? All my items are still equipped and untouched. I took a screenshot of me standing on my "bed" / spawn point and attached.

Under consideration Suggested by: evolevolevol (10 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Dec, '22 • Comments: 29

Comments: 29

10 Feb, '21
Ice Skirmisher
The same happened to me. Logged on this morning and my world was still explored, however all of my structures and environmental changes were wiped. You could still see my bed icon on the map though.

I wasn't sure if it was because of the patch or if it was because I had multiple servers with the same name. Seems like the patch did it though.
11 Feb, '21
oosk
Had the SAME issue today (10th Feb 21) but fo rme the game crashed to desktop and on reloading the local game, entire bases (multiple) were completely gone. I had my items but no structures or anything. Any and all alteration I had made (mining leveling ground etc) had been wiped and the game world had reverted to how it was on origin.

Also happy to sub crash reports.
11 Feb, '21
cor3adept
We have encountered something similar on a dedicated server. All structures and terrain modifications went poof. We were able to recreate this issue by restoring a backup and rebooting our server.
12 Feb, '21
raythebae
Same thing happened to me and my bf, 60 hours of play, gone.
12 Feb, '21
Ben Clark
Same thing happened to me with my dedicated server instance. Duplicate Reported here: https://valheimbugs.featureupvote.com/suggestions/158936/dedicated-server-buildings-wiped-after-update
12 Feb, '21
Izz
Same thing happened to our dedicated server. Game crashed. Tried to log back in, login screen was black and didnt let us enter password. After restarting the server a couple times, we could finally get back in but everything was reset to zero (buildings, dungeons, deposits). Had to reload a world back save from a couple hours ago, then same thing happened after 2 hours. Now every time I reload a world back save when our stuff was still there, it inevitably happens again. It started happening Feb 10th.
12 Feb, '21
antonio
+1 all me progress is erased :S the good thing about all this (irony) is that I was doing a series for youtube. GG
13 Feb, '21
Sam
I'm not sure if a steam update had anything to do with it, but the game appeared to lag while saving, then crashed to desktop. When I logged back in, all structures I had built and changes I had made in the world were gone. This was during solo play, and my map still showed markers I had made and areas I had explored, but no spawn point marker.
13 Feb, '21
Pineapple
Just happened to my server, tons of hours of work gone.
Server had a steamupdate not so long ago.
13 Feb, '21
Haldu
Same here, using a dedicated server. Happened before at the 10. of feb., afterwards we made frequent backups. Today, both our backed-up and regular save files are corrupted, wiping all non-map marker, non-character progress.
14 Feb, '21
Ggisgood
I also faced the same issue today after setting up the seed on a dedicated server. Server crashed just after I finished my new frontier base, started in the same place, but all bases were gone. Thankfully I did a backup this morning. The server would not load after the crash, I had to validate files in steam and update through steamcmd before I was able to launch the server again.
15 Feb, '21
Koz
Same thing happened on our server, all basebuilding gone. Tried 12 backups I had made and only one of them worked (and it was half a day behind). Happened again and luckily the backup was only 20 minutes earlier. The first week was flawless no issues at all, but after the latest update it caused this reset bug. Very annoying, LOVE the game to bits, every aspect is amazing, just that this bug has been a real bugger, hope it gets fixed soon. Good luck to the devs, love the game!
15 Feb, '21
Spencer B
Same here, lost 3 days worth of progress. Everything we built got reverted to it's initial state.
17 Feb, '21
Bucky
Spent all day building a massive stone castle on top of this super tall mountain on my buddies server. Next day the server is wiped in the same way everybody says. No structures or terrain changes but same seed and markers remain. Very tragic. I almost fired the game back up again today anyway because the game is so fun, but maybe I will mourn this great loss for a few days XD
17 Feb, '21
XiaHan
Happened in my server also, whole map "reset".....we didnt do backup so lost everything including our base/gear
17 Feb, '21
Smon
same happened to me on my local save, except it wasn't just my structures, all the trees rocks mobs etc were gone too, landscape was completely bare
17 Feb, '21
Gibbs
Updated the game today via steam, went to my dedicated server and all the buildings/terrain were reset back vanilla world settings. Lost 2 days worth of progress with friends. I backed up the files and tried to reload but no luck. The map is still updated which is strange.
18 Feb, '21
somthing
my house is gone and i rebuild it and then quit and came back and it was gone please fix it in the next update
18 Feb, '21
TJ
Loaded up my main world today. Everything wiped clear. Not even stones, trees or mobs. Mini map still shows bed icon.
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20 Feb, '21
Felix
@Simon same here. was in Bossfight with Bonemass, we died and ended for the day, Next day everything including trees rocks mobs buildings and ships are gone. had just built the Longship too
20 Feb, '21
Doggie
Had the world reset happen to me this morning.
No crashing or ALT+F4 quitting in my case. Instead, I installed the game on my travel laptop to test it out, as I mostly play on my desktop PC.

Upon selecting my character and world, everything seemed to work OK.
However, I realized that the Portal + some flags I had placed into my structure were mysteriously gone, as if the game'd jumped back in time a couple days.
I quit the game and instantly launched Val on my desktop. Steam prompted me about the data in the Cloud and on this PC being different, and that I'd have to choose whether to download my cloud saves to this machine, or upload this PC's saves to the cloud. I chose the latter, hoping that'd correct the time paradox on my laptop too.

Upon launching the game and my world, the problem immediately occurred. I literally fell to a ground, from a height of around 2 floors, as my "Tower house" was now gone! I fortunately managed to import my laptop's older files to the desktop.
20 Feb, '21
ABA
my day 1 world is gone, been on it since release. and its gone as of today. i loaded in to everything being gone. theres no trees or rocks or anything in my world now.
21 Feb, '21
hiddensong
Yup, sameses...but different. I spent around 12 hours last night (February 20, 2021) finally getting smelting underway. I logged in today (February 21, 2021) and my building was back to the way it was prior to yesterday (<=February 19, 2021). There is no data saved for the day in question. Before yesterday (February 20, 2021) it has data saved and todays (February 21, 2021) log-in has data. However the needed data is not in the system save file. WTF!?
22 Feb, '21
Colton
Same thing happened today, solo world spawned back in and everything was reverted back to Day 2. Anything that wasn't in my inventory disappeared.
23 Feb, '21
S
Same happened to me, lost a total of 90 hours between my group of 3. We had no crashes, none of us left via altf4. When I got back on, the world was vacant, but my map was still the same just with no trees or anything, but my discovered areas and bed was still marked. It seems to be the .db file. We had no backup, please tell us if my file is fixable!
23 Feb, '21
Boom
Loaded up my solo world today. Everything wiped clear. Not even stones, trees or mobs. Mini map still shows bed icon.
23 Feb, '21
nkov
my house is gone and i took some days .fix it in the next update
28 Feb, '21
RenoRosco
Happend to me this morning on steam version 0.146.11. Singleplayer mode and i am pretty sure that i have not used Alt-F4.
Logged in this morning and my whole world is gone. no trees, stones, nothing. But the bed icon is still set on the Map.
04 Mar, '21
OniAkua
Happened to me multiple times. I found it was an issue with the Steam Cloud. My family plays on one computer with multiple steam accounts. When one person would exit the game and the files were loaded to Steam Cloud, then the next person would log in and it would overwrite the world they saved since all the world files are stored in the same folder. Then when the other player logged on, the world would be in a previous state, but the character data would remain unchanged. MY SOLUTION: turn off Sync to Steam Cloud for this game and host all files locally.