Game Freezes in Same Location for All Players on Local Server

57 votes

This is a repeatable freeze, and Valheim becomes unresponsive.
Seed: MxiGNw3Tsl
It happens to all players in the same location, but only if they are in THAT location. I host the server (no mods), froze up in this location after another player died, which spawned a few other bugs: one player's tombstone was no longer available after i got my hosted/personal server game back online; other player lost all items they found recently (no longer in inventory).

I am unable to locate a recent bug posting for this, and think it should remain relevant, so creating a new report for visibility on the issue.
I also upvoted the following, as they tend to identify the exact same issue:
My game freezes in a certain area of the swamp biome - Suggested by: Luis Daniel (27 Apr)
cannot access part of map - Suggested by: ian jeremiah (24 Feb)
Repeatable Crash in Specific Area - Suggested by: ternaldo (15 Feb)
Bug: Game crashes at a specific part of the swamp - Suggested by: Xenoun (15 Feb)

Known issue Suggested by: Galdrador (30 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 22 Oct, '23 • Comments: 11

Comments: 11

30 Jul, '21
Smiffe Admin
Hi Galdrador,

This indeed a known issue that only fix right now is to just plainly avoid that area on the map :(
We have a fix comming but it's with the game engine itself, and not in the programming.
14 Aug, '21
Michelle Scott
I have also encountered the game freezing up and crashing. This happened on 2 different servers. And this just started happening last week.
05 Nov, '21
JD
Commenting to confirm this issue is still current. I'm running a private server with no other players, no mods. Came across a Stone Ruins site with a few Skeleton present. Defeated the Skeletons and decided to start building on the site. Within a few minutes, the game crashed. I restarted and was respawned back to my original start location, before I went to the Stone Ruins site. I returned to the same Stone Ruins site and the same crash happened again. Restarted a 3rd time and had the game crash in the same fashion, at the same location. I'm sad as it was the perfect spot for what I had in mind to build. Hopefully a fix can be issued soon!
08 Nov, '21
Smiffe Admin
This issue will be resolved with 0.204.4 version we will release :)
28 Nov, '21
SurfistaxD
Hi, after update 0.204.4
On 11/28
My server always crashes in a certain location, what can I do to fix it? Since the location it locks is the full-featured main base
Will I have to start from scratch?
05 Dec, '21
Ohmaitofu
I'm still having this exact issue. It's happened to my other 2 friends that play with me. I can load up another world no problem, but now I believe my character is stuck in this spot that has it freezing. My memory spikes to 99% when I get to this spot.
07 Dec, '21
Jarred
I have been playing Valheim, and I have been experiencing an issue where a certain stone ruin in the black forest keeps freezing my game whenever I or my other friends go near that area. We have had the same issue in a crypt in the swamp biome. Wondering what the fix is for this issue. we have tried multiple times restarting the server and trying to go back into that area, but so far have been unsuccessful.
07 Dec, '21
Smiffe Admin
All of you who have world-freeze issues.

Could you please join discord https://discord.com/invite/valheim and send me your worlds with screenshots on where this happens?
https://easyupload.io/ is a good site to drop multiple files and then share links =)

C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim is where you find worlds folder. I need xx.db and xx.fwl files from your world where xx is the name of the world with issues)
27 Feb, '22
Danielle
This is happening to me at the moment. Has a fix been found for this? I have lost months of work =(
07 Jun, '22
Jay
I have this issue as well for a certain area of the map that has Modor and I now can't even attempt to beat the boss.
19 Jun, '22
Smiffe Admin
This issue should be solved in our latest public-beta-test =)