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How To Change Difficulty On Your Valheim Server

Valheim lets you change the difficulty of certain things in-game by setting World Modifiers. You can adjust any of the available world modifiers directly from our Game Panel.

Changing World Modifiers

  1. 1
    Log in to the Game Host Bros Panel and stop your server.
  2. 2
    In the sidebar, go to Startup Parameters.
  3. 3
    Find the World Modifier setting you want to adjust from the drop down menus.
    • Combat
    • Resources
    • Death Penalty
    • Raid Rate
    • Portals
  4. 4
    Restart your server.
Danger

Valheim itself has issues with changing existing World Modifiers, to reset your existing World Modifiers follow the steps below.

Resetting World Modifiers

If you'd like to change existing World Modifiers you may need to follow these steps, here's how it's done.

We always recommend making a Backup before making any major changes.

  1. 1
    Enable console, then connect to your server as an admin following our Valheim Admin Guide
  2. 2
    Open console with f5.
  3. 3
    Type devcommands.
    • You should see devcommands = true.
  4. 4
    Enter these commands, setworldpreset default and then save.
Tip

Press f1 and you'll now see that your World Modifiers have been cleared.

  • setworldpreset default will clear your existing world modifiers; save will initiate a save of your server.

Once done, refer to the above steps here to set new World Modifiers.

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