A C# application to perform automated backups of Valheim world files.
What + Why?
One of the hottest games on Steam since it’s release Valheim has been an amazingly fun game to play. I noticed a lot of people on discord and forums talking about having lost data due to some bugs, and decided to do something about it.
How?
I decided to develop the ValheimBackup application, a WPF application and companion Windows Service that can automatically backup world files by connecting to an FTP server and periodically downloading the files to the local disk. In this article, I will go over the design and development of the software, including details on problems I had to solve along the way.