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You can play Valheim solo if you choose, but there’s a lot to be said for the co-op experience. The game supports up to ten people in multiplayer, and travelling to purgatory with a whole Viking clan on your side can certainly be a great help.

Whether you’re building a settlement from the ground-up or facing off against nightmarish bosses loosely inspired by Norse mythology (only much scarier), teaming up with other players means more people working to solve the problem.

Because co-op is very much baked in to Valheim’s design, you have a number of good options when it comes to multiplayer.

Smaller groups who always intend to play together can create a locally hosted game. For established groups with more complex requirements, a dedicated server might be the…

Co-op is one of the biggest strengths of Valheim. Up to ten players can get together to hunt, build, craft, and survive the realm’s many threats. Plus, it’s even possible to settle and reshape a persistent world by playing on a dedicated server. Best of all, since the Valheim dedicated server requirements are so low, just about anyone with a spare PC can host their own world. Here’s what you need to know to get started.

Valheim | Dedicated server requirements and specifications

If you’ve decided to host your own Valheim dedicated server, you’re in luck: the system requirements aren’t very high. Older PCs or laptops should be able to run the server application easily thanks to its reasonable system requirements. Here’s what you’ll need:

• CPU: Quad-core processor (i5…

Looking to set up a Valheim dedicated server? Building majestic forts, slaying Valheim bosses, and raising tankards of mead with your pals is part of what makes Valheim such an addictive survival game – but the way Valheim multiplayer works is somewhat complicated. You can create multiple characters, and their inventory and skill progression will transfer across multiple Valheim servers, allowing you to drop into a friend’s server and set out on adventures together without having to start from scratch in a new map.

However, if you’re not interested in playing on your own, and your Viking journey has taken place exclusively on a game server hosted by someone else, you’ve probably run into a few issues. Valheim is still in early access, so – in our experience – the…

Valheim is catching fire as the newest survival game sensation on Steam – and it’s only in Early Access!

To play online, you have a few options – including hosting your own multiplayer lobby with friends, and creating a dedicated Valheim server.

Here’s how to create a Valheim dedicated server or host multiplayer games with friends.

How to Host Valheim Multiplayer

To play Valheim online with a small group of friends, you won’t have to go the extra mile to host a Valheim dedicated server.

Here’s how to simply host a multiplayer game in Valheim for your friends.

• Create your world (and pair it with a random or custom seed)
• Go to the Start World tab, highlight the options for Start Server and Community Server

Valheim is one of the most exciting new survival games in years, giving you the full spectrum of Viking life: Mead, boats, swords, and obsessive attention to domestic details. If you want to go a-viking with up to 10 people Valheim‘s the best thing for it, here’s how to set up a Valheim dedicated server or how to host Valheim multiplayer yourself locally. Your multiplayer options might be confusing at first, especially if you need to transfer a world from one type of multiplayer service to another. 

Valheim can have a player host the game locally from their computer, storing the game world as their own personal file and essentially just inviting others into their game world for drop-in co-op. It’s good for a pair or trio who only play together.