Valheim dedicated server hosting
for Vikings who never stop building.

A Valheim dedicated server keeps your world online when the host is not playing, so your group can build, sail and fight bosses on their own schedule. The world is saved in one place, and nobody needs a strong PC to host it.

To join from Steam, choose Join game, then Join IP, and enter the address and port shown in your panel. Every server gets a random password, which you can change in the Startup tab of the panel. The game requires at least 5 characters, and the password must not contain the server name.

Start with the plan that fits your group and upgrade later without losing anything. Your world, mods and settings stay on the server.

Vanilla runs the game exactly as Iron Gate ships it and keeps crossplay with Xbox players open. BepInEx is the mod loader almost every Valheim mod is built on, and it opens the whole Thunderstore catalogue to your server.

Choose one when you order, and switch any time from the Startup tab of your panel: the change applies at the next restart, without a reinstall. Your world stays on the server whichever loader you run, but take a backup first if you are about to add or remove a lot of mods.

Valheim allows at most 10 players on a server, so memory depends on the world and the mods rather than the player count. A fresh vanilla world uses around 1.5–2 GB. As your group explores more of the map, raises big bases and fills portals and chests, memory keeps growing.

4 GB runs a full group of ten on vanilla. 6 GB gives headroom for a long-running world with large bases, and 8 GB suits a modded server. Go for 12 GB or more for big Thunderstore mod lists. A Custom server can be any size from 4 to 16 GB, and upgrades keep your world in place.

On the BepInEx loader there are two ways to add mods. List them by their Thunderstore names in the Startup tab and reinstall: the server downloads each mod together with its dependencies. Or upload your own files to BepInEx/plugins through the file manager or sFTP and restart. No mods are preinstalled, so the mod list is entirely yours.

Many mods also have to be installed on every player's PC, in the same version as the server. Others run on the server only. Check each mod's page, and take a backup before a big mod update: after a Valheim patch, some mods need a few days to catch up.

Crossplay is off by default. With crossplay turned on in the Startup tab, Steam players can join the server together with Xbox and PC Game Pass players. Crossplay players connect with the join code the server prints in the console, not by IP.

Console players cannot load mods, so keep crossplay for vanilla servers. A BepInEx server with mods that players must install is a PC-only server.

Set the difficulty preset and world modifiers from the Startup tab of your panel: combat, death penalty, resources, raids and portals, or keys such as playing without a map. Admins go into adminlist.txt in your server files, one Steam ID (SteamID64) per line, and the same folder holds the ban list and the permitted list.

The game saves the world regularly and keeps its own backup copies. On top of that, the panel gives you one-click backups, and you can make a manual one before changing mods or world settings. Scheduled restarts keep a long-running world responsive without anyone watching the console.

The world runs on high-clock Ryzen and Intel CPUs, which matters for Valheim because most of the simulation runs on a single core. European nodes keep latency low across the region, while Voxility filters attacks with over 1 Tbps of mitigation capacity.

Already have a world on your PC or with another host? Upload the world files from your worlds_local folder to the saves/worlds_local folder of the server yourself, or send them to us and we will move them free of charge.