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.
- Open Steam.
- Navigate to
Library. right-clickValheim and enter properties.- Type
-consolein launch options. - Close the window and start your game.
Finding Your World Seed
- Connect to your Valheim server.
- Press
f5to open console. - Type
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.
