Valheim Knowledge Base
Complete guides for your WDC GameGrid Valheim server. Learn how to set up your server, enable crossplay for Steam and console players, configure world modifiers, install BepInEx mods, manage players, back up your world, and follow the full biome progression from Meadows to Ashlands.
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Setup and Configuration
Valheim Server Setup Guide
Complete setup guide for your Valheim dedicated server on GameGrid. Configure server name, world, password, crossplay, and connect your first players.
Valheim Server Settings Reference
Complete reference for every Valheim server setting available in the GameGrid control panel: launch arguments, save intervals, backup configuration, and world modifiers.
How to Connect to Your Valheim Server
How players join your Valheim server: the crossplay join code (the default on GameGrid) and direct IP for Steam-only servers.
Valheim Crossplay Guide
How crossplay works on Valheim dedicated servers: the PlayFab backend, the six-digit join code, and why a crossplay server is not joined by IP address.
Valheim Server Ports and Firewall
Which UDP ports Valheim uses, how port allocation works on GameGrid, and why you never need to configure port forwarding.
Valheim World Modifiers Guide
Complete guide to Valheim world modifiers: combat difficulty, death penalties, resource rates, raid frequency, portal rules, and presets.
Administration
Valheim Admin Commands and Player Management
How to become an admin on your Valheim server, and the full list of in-game console commands for kicking, banning, and managing players.
Valheim Command Manager
Schedule Valheim bridge actions to run on their own - world saves that are given the time they need, restart broadcasts, and item drops for everyone online.
Valheim Player Management
Manage players on your Valheim server: the admin, permitted and banned lists, the Platform_UserID format they take, and why a restart is needed.
Valheim Server Updates
How Valheim server updates work on GameGrid, and what to do when a game update breaks your mods.
Mods
Economy and Game Tools
Valheim Economy and Item Delivery
A currency and shop on Valheim, with nothing for you or your players to install: prefab item ids, items dropped at the buyer's feet, and chat-based account linking.
Valheim Game Tools: Live Map, Dashboard, Chat, Events and Leaderboard
The five tabs on the Valheim Game Tools page: a world map drawn from your own seed with live player markers, world info, live chat you can talk back on, joins, leaves, deaths, raids and boss kills, and a leaderboard.
Valheim Live Map
The map your own server draws from your own seed: who can see a player’s position, the three terrain styles, fog, every layer and what leaving it on costs, and exactly what a public share link does and does not show.
Backups and Worlds
Valheim Backup and Restore Guide
How Valheim world saves work, where save files are stored, and how to back up and restore your world on GameGrid.
Valheim Save File Location
Where Valheim stores world save files on the server, and how to access them through the GameGrid File Manager.
How to Import an Existing Valheim World
Upload your existing Valheim world from singleplayer or another server to your GameGrid dedicated server.
How to Reset or Wipe Your Valheim World
Delete your current Valheim world and generate a fresh one. Always back up first.
Performance
Valheim Server Performance and Optimization
Fix lag, desync, and rubber-banding on your Valheim server. Understand building limits, network settings, and the zone-owner model.
Valheim Server Optimization
Advanced optimization tips for large Valheim servers. Building limits, save interval tuning, and mod recommendations.
Gameplay
Troubleshooting
Valheim Common Issues and Troubleshooting
Solutions for the most common Valheim dedicated server problems: connection failures, server not showing in browser, password errors, and crashes.
Valheim Connection Issues
Fix "connection could not be established", timeout errors, and crossplay connection problems on your Valheim dedicated server.
Valheim Version Mismatch
Fix "incompatible version" errors when Valheim releases a game update and the server or clients are out of date.
FAQ
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