World reader

Every object in a Valheim world is saved with its position and a little data of its own. A portal keeps its tag, a chest its contents, a tombstone the name of whoever died there, a tamed animal the name you gave it. This page walks the whole save and pulls those out.

Portals are paired by tag, the same way the game links them. A tag only one portal carries goes nowhere, and three or more portals with the same tag link at random, so both get flagged. The storage search adds up every stack in every chest, ship and cart that players built and tells you which one holds it, using a sign next to a chest as its label.

Portals, beds, ships, carts, tombstones and bases also go onto the seed map as pins for that world's seed, next to your own. Loading the world again replaces them and leaves your pins alone.

Since 1.0 each world is a folder of files, not a single file. With Steam Cloud on they sit in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<id>\892970\remote\worlds; with it off, in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds_local. Pick either folder and the page lists the worlds inside. A dedicated server keeps them in its own worlds_local folder.

The game writes the world when you quit to the menu and on its autosave, so quit first if you just moved things around. Worlds saved before 1.0 are a single .db file next to a .fwl, and those read too. Only the world you choose is opened, so a big folder is fine; a world with a large base takes a few seconds.

Nothing leaves your computer. What the page found stays in this browser until you press Forget. Your character file, with trophies and drop countdowns, goes in the character reader.