How to Find Your Valheim World Seed

Find your Valheim world seed so you can share it, look it up on a seed map, or create the same world somewhere else. A seed is a short, case sensitive code like MXADgi5IxT.

Quick answer

• Singleplayer: select the world on the world select screen. The seed is listed with the world’s details.
• Your WinterNode server: search the Console or winternode.log for the Initializing world generator seed: line.
• Any world you are playing in: open the F5 console and type printseeds. The seed is the code after the /.

Singleplayer

From the world select screen

1. Launch Valheim and click Start Game
2. Select your character and click Start
3. On the world select screen, click the world you want

The seed is shown with that world’s details. You do not need to load the world.

With the printseeds command

This needs the F5 console, which is off by default.

1. In Steam, right-click Valheim in your Library and choose Properties
2. Under General, enter -console in the Launch Options field
3. Start Valheim and load your world
4. Press F5 to open the console
5. Type printseeds and press Enter

The console prints a line like this:

-925266684/MXADgi5IxT

Your seed is the code after the /, in this example MXADgi5IxT. Ignore the number before it.

Multiplayer

From the server console (recommended)

Your server writes the seed to the console every time it loads the world. This works without any setup on your PC.

1. Log in to the Game Control Panel
2. Select your Valheim server
3. In the sidebar, click Console
4. Click Restart
5. Once the server is online, press CTRL+F and search for Initializing world generator seed:

The line looks like this:

Initializing world generator seed:MXADgi5IxT ( -925266684 ) menu:False worldgen version:2

The seed is the code right after seed:, in this example MXADgi5IxT. The number in brackets is not the seed.

From winternode.log

The same line is saved to a log file, so you can find it without restarting if the server has already loaded the world.

1. In the Game Control Panel sidebar, click File Manager
2. Under Quick Access, open winternode.log
3. Press CTRL+F and search for Initializing world generator seed:

The seed is the code right after seed:, the same as in the console.

With printseeds while connected

Any player can do this without admin access or cheats.

1. Add -console to Valheim’s Steam launch options, as in the singleplayer steps above
2. Join your server
3. Press F5 to open the console
4. Type printseeds and press Enter

The seed is the code after the /.

From Player.log

If you cannot use the console, your own game log records the seed each time you join a world.

1. Join your server, then quit Valheim
2. On Windows, open %AppData%/../LocalLow/IronGate/Valheim/Player.log in Notepad
3. Press CTRL+F and search for Initializing world generator seed:

The seed is the code right after seed:, the same as the server console line above.

By loading the world locally

If none of the above works, download a copy of the world and open it in singleplayer.

1. Download your world from /.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim/worlds_local using the File Manager or SFTP. On Valheim 1.0 this is the folder named after your world. On older worlds it is the .fwl and .db pair.
2. Copy it into %AppData%/../LocalLow/IronGate/Valheim/worlds_local on your PC
3. Follow the world select screen steps above

See Import Your World to a Valheim Server for more detail on the save formats.

Using the seed

The seed only controls terrain, biomes, and where locations spawn. A new world on the same seed has the same map, but none of your builds, explored areas, or boss progress.

To play the seed on your server as a fresh world, create a new world with that seed in singleplayer, then import it. If you cannot find your seed with any of these methods, contact our support team.