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Basics
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How To Become An Admin On Your Valheim Server
Valheim server admins have the ability to ban, unban and kick players from your server. Server owners can assign admins in the adminlist file on the Kinetic Panel.
Read guideHow To Add Thunderstore Mods To Your Valheim Server
A step-by-step guide on how to add mods from Thunderstore to your Valheim server.
Read guideHow To Upload A World To Your Valheim Server
Valheim server owners may wish to upload an existing world to Valheim server. This will allow them to continue a single player or custom world on their server.
Read guideHow to Download your Valheim Server World
Valheim server owners may wish to download their servers worlds to keep a backup, find their seed or to play on single player. This can easily be done by finding the world.fwl file.
Read guideHow To Add A Whitelist To Your Valheim Server
Learn how to add a user to the whitelist in valheim. The users team 64 id will be needed in order todo this.
Read guideHow To Find Your Valheim Servers World Seed
Valheim server owners may wish to find their worlds seed. Although it isn't possible to find a Valheim world seed easily in-game there are third party tools that can find the seed of a Valheim world.
Read guideHow To Enable The Console For Valheim
Valheim server owners may want to be able to access the in-game console to run certain moderation commands on their server. In order to do this they will first need to make a change to Valheims startup parameters on Steam. Once enabled the console can be opened in game by pressing the F5 key.
Read guideHow To Kick And Ban Players From Your Valheim Servers
Valheim server admins are able to kick, ban or unban troublesome players from a Valheim server easily using the in game console. In order to follow this guide you will need to be a Server Admin.
Read guideHow Enable PvP On A Valheim Server
While there isn't a global option to enable or disable PvP on a Valheim server it is possible for individual players to to opt in and out of PvP(Friendly Fire) at any point. When dying to another player, you will drop your entire inventory and lose any food/potion related buffs.
Read guideHow To Remove Your Valheim Server From The Community List
By default, all Valheim servers are shown on the in-game community server list. Valheim server owners can choose to hide their server from this list using the Kinetic Panel.
Read guideHow To Join Your Valheim Server
The easiest way to join your Valheim server is by adding it to the in-game server list using your server's connection address. To follow this guide you will need to know your server's Connection Address which can be found at the top of your servers Overview page.
Read guideHow To Enable Crossplay For Your Valheim Server
Valheim server owners can easily enable crossplay in the settings area of the Kinetic Panel. Crossplay allows players on different platforms (Steam, Microsoft Store and Xbox) to play together on the same server.
Read guideHow To Install BepInEx On Your Valheim Server
Valheim server owners who wish to install mods on their server will first need to install BepInEx. BepInEx is the foundation for many of the most popular mods available. This guide, we'll walk you through the steps to install BepInEx on your Kinetic Hosting Valheim server.
Read guideHow to Reset your Valheim Server World
If you would like to start over on your Valheim server it is possible to easily reset your world by changing the world name at any point using the Kinetic Panel.
Read guideHow to Add World Modifiers to Your Valheim Server
Configuring your Valheim server will allow you to adjust Resources, Raids, etc
Read guideHow to set a password for your Valheim server
Setting a password for your Valheim server will restrict who can join the server.
Read guideHow to change your Valheim Server name
This will be the name displayed for your Valheim server.
Read guideHow to update your Valheim Server
Updating your Valheim server will get the server running the newest patch
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