Character reader
The kill your next trophy drops on, and everything else your character file knows
Or drop the .fch file anywhere in this box. It's read in your browser and never uploaded.
With Steam Cloud on, which is the default, it's Steam\userdata\<id>\892970\remote\characters\<name>.fch. With it off, %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\characters_local. Log out to the main menu first so the file holds your latest session.
Any creature drop with a chance of 30% or less isn't rolled fresh on each kill. The game picks a number of kills, counts down, and drops the item when it reaches zero. Since patch 1.0.20 that count is saved in your character file, one per item and per star level, so it survives logging out. This page reads the counts and tells you which kill each drop lands on. 77 items work this way, among them most trophies and every armour mould a Krigen carries.
The size of the count depends on the chance. A Deathsquito trophy is a 5% drop: the first one comes within 40 kills, and after each drop the next is at most 41 kills away. A 3% mould takes up to 66 kills the first time and 67 after that. Stars double the chance on most trophies and keep a separate count, so a one-star kill doesn't use up the plain creature's countdown.
The count only moves when your own game rolls the loot. Playing alone, that's every kill. On a server it's whoever holds the area the creature dies in, usually the first player to arrive, so your kills can run down a friend's countdown and leave yours untouched.
- Every trophy the character has picked up, out of 70, with your kill count for each creature you still need one from.
- Known recipes, build pieces and items. A recipe appears in game once you have touched each ingredient, so the page lists the items that would unlock something the moment you pick them up.
- The inventory, with what each weapon and armour piece needs for its next quality level and at which station.
- Skill levels and how far each is toward the next one.
- Lifetime totals: time played, kills, deaths, distance, and kills per creature.
- One explored map per world the character has visited.
The same file carries the seeds behind Forge of Potential refines. The Forge predictor reads those.
Steam keeps cloud characters in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<id>\892970\remote\characters, where the numbered folder is your Steam account. With Steam Cloud switched off for Valheim they are in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\characters_local instead. Paste either path into the address bar of File Explorer. On Linux and the Steam Deck the cloud folder is under ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<id>/892970/remote/characters.
The game writes the file when you log out to the menu and on its autosave, so log out first if you want the last few kills counted. Files ending in .old and the dated backups are earlier copies and load the same way. PlayStation, Xbox and Switch saves can't be reached from a browser.
The file is opened by your browser and nothing in it is sent anywhere. What the page works out is kept in this browser so it's still here when you come back, and Forget removes it. In Chrome and Edge the page can also keep a link to the file, which turns the next visit into one click on Read the file again.