Dedicated server buildings wiped after update
Awesome. Game. Please keep it up.
After today's steam update, I restored the start_headless_server.bat with my old server invocation, and started the server back up. Same name, same port, same everything.
I loaded into the correct location on the map, and I am 100% sure it is the same map. I even see my map notes showing ore deposits, and places where I made beds, called out on the map. I spawned into the game right on top of where my bed used to be.
However- the map is as it was when I first logged into the game. All buildings gone, all trees unchopped, etc.
The only weird things I can think of about my setup is that I have the game installed to a non-C: drive (steam is installed on the E: drive). I wish I could get my Charcoal smelter back! That was a lot of work. :)
Comments: 4
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13 Feb, '21
HalduSame 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.
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15 Feb, '21
KozHappened to me to, although our server is with a provider. All basebuilding gone, all dungeons we did reset,etc.. We have our characters and our markers on the map.Hope the reset bug gets fixed soon as I love the game to bits.
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17 Feb, '21
OzycaeviasAlso experiencing this with a dedicated server. Exact same seed, but everything we built is now gone, though icons on the map are still there. The file is 2MB, though, implying it still has the data?
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18 Feb, '21
ZeniraI'm running a self-hosted dedicated server. There's a cron job that runs every 10 minutes that overwrites the .db and .fwl files. I made backups of these two files after logging out and exiting the game - with Valheim Dedicated Server still running - and noticed that every 10 minutes, my local files were being overwritten by the state of the world from the last time the dedicated server was started. This same overwrite occurs when the Valheim Dedicated Server is shut down.
In order to preserve your progress, it seems the host needs to make a copy of Niflheim.db and Niflheim.fwl before logging out of the game. These copies should be copied over the local files (for me, at C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds) before running the dedicated server.
I am not closing via any unexpected means (e.g. Alt+F4).