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Valheim items lose upgrade levels on item stands after 1.0 (fix)

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September 25, 2026

Iron Gate — Patch 1.0.15 (official patch notes) ↗

Weapons, armour or fish on an item stand or armour stand come back at a lower upgrade level, or without their variant, after the world is loaded in 1.0.

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Iron Gate's Patch 1.0.15 post explains this as a side effect of the updated save format introduced in 1.0: the level and variant data of items on item stands and armour stands is lost in the conversion, and the issue was missed in testing. It was fixed in Patch 1.0.12, so a world first loaded after that fix converts correctly, but a world already converted before it stays affected. Iron Gate published a workaround built on the backup the game makes the first time a world loads in the new format.

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What to try

  1. 01

    Don't take high-level items off a stand without a backup

    Don't take high-level items off a stand without a backup. The 1.0.12 hotfix notes warn not to remove high-level items (fish, weapons, armour) from item stands without using backups if you have been playing 1.0, and say the fix only applies to items you have not been close to since 1.0 released.

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  2. 02

    Revert the world to the backup made on first load in 1.0

    Option one, from Iron Gate's Patch 1.0.15 post: revert the world from the backup made when you first loaded the new save format. Everything you built or changed in the world since then is lost with this method.

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  3. 03

    Copy the backup, retrieve the items, then bring them to your main world

    Option two, from the same post: make a copy of that backup, enter the backed-up world, put the affected items on your character, then go back to your main world and replace the broken items.

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  4. 04

    Get help in Iron Gate's Discord support channel

    If you need help, Iron Gate's Patch 1.0.15 post points affected players to the support channel on its Discord.

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