Here's a simple guide to retrieve the world seed for your Valheim server using console commands. World seeds allow you to explore your map on external websites, or can be used to generate new copies of your world in singleplayer.
Enabling Console
The Valheim in-game console is disabled by default, here are the steps to enable console if you wish to use commands while playing on your server.
- 1Open Steam.
- 2Navigate to
Library. - 3
right-clickValheim and enter properties. - 4Type
-consolein launch options. - 5Close the window and start your game.
Finding Your World Seed
- 1Connect to your Valheim server.
- 2Press
f5to open console. - 3Type
printseedsto print your world seed.
Tip
After running the printseeds command, you'll see an output that looks something like this:
- -925266684/MXADgi5IxT
Your world seed is the code after the /, in this example the world seed is MXADgi5IxT.
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