How to Record Valheim with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Valheim records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. Your shaky first hut in the Meadows, the swamp slog against a boss, the longship crossing through a storm, everything from the moment Valheim starts through Steam until you leave the world and close the game ends up in one video. Valheim has a way of throwing a troll at your base right while you are chopping trees, so you never know when the big moment is coming, but you do not need to, because recording is already running. This guide walks you through recording Valheim with DOR, a free Windows app, and then saving, trimming and sending boss kills, builds and voyages to your server friends.

• Keep your whole Valheim session in one video, from your first day in the Meadows to leaving the world, without a record button.
• Save the moment you summon Eikthyr at the altar and bring it down, or the night you hold off a troll raid, as separate clips.
• Use AI Voice Notes to turn your pre summon planning and boat banter into timeline text, then find a scene from one line.
• Combine your first Eikthyr kill, the Bonemass swamp brawl and Moder on the peak into one server chronicle.
• Join a longhouse build from several nights into a finished hall video and post it to your server Discord.

Before you record Valheim: install and recording mode

Valheim is not demanding on hardware, so getting ready to record is quick. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos. Valheim uses full session recording, which means one video runs from launch to exit no matter where you play, whether that is your own world, a friend's world or a dedicated server. Boss nights and building nights can stretch for hours, so if you want those files on a specific drive, see changing where recordings are saved first. The table below lists what is worth knowing before you record Valheim.

Record Valheim with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR and install it. It takes about a minute and there is nothing to pay. Once it is installed, leave DOR running. If your group talks over voice while playing, just check that your usual headset mic is plugged in.
2. 2Launch Valheim and load a worldStart Valheim from Steam and pick your character and world. Recording begins as soon as DOR detects the game. With a new character, everything from your first steps in the Meadows onward ends up in the recording.
3. 3Check that recording is runningOnce you are in the world, glance at the DOR app to confirm recording is in progress. If the game is not picked up, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. After that, play as usual, whether you are felling trees or hauling ore back to base.
4. 4Save a clip after a boss kill or a finished buildWhen the boss you summoned at the altar goes down, or you finally place the last roof piece on a longhouse that took hours, press the clip save shortcut right away. The last 30 seconds are saved as their own clip, so you will not have to dig through a long recording later.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsWhen you are done for the night, leave the world and close the game. That night's full session video and every clip you saved show up together in My Clips in the DOR app. Log in again tomorrow night and a new session is added.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each launch and exit of Valheim becomes one session, and anything you saved with the clip save shortcut appears as its own clip. To find a boss fight inside a session several hours long, look for your group gathered in front of the altar, which is the most reliable landmark. For voyages, look for the moment everyone boards the longship at the dock and the moment new land comes into view. A new biome is easy to spot where the colors of the landscape change sharply. Set a start and an end point to trim the part you want, then export it as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. A boss fight trimmed as one block from just before the summon to the kill keeps both the preparation and the win. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as your first boss kill or a finished longhouse. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your liked runs stay safe.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole session recorded, saving the scenes you will rewatch as clips on the spot makes putting your server history together much easier. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of gameplay is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can pick 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. In Valheim, good times to press it are right after a boss falls, right after you hold off a troll raid and the house goes quiet, right after your longship finally reaches the shore through a storm, and right after you pull the wrong support beam and the roof caves in. Boss fights look best at 60 seconds so the exchange before the final hit is included, while a quick building collapse fits neatly in 15. Lengths and shortcut settings are covered in saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

On a Valheim server, lines like 'Bring maces for Bonemass', 'Boat's out, check the wind' and 'Troll incoming, get inside' never stop. DOR records game audio and your mic together, and AI Voice Notes moves that conversation onto the recording timeline as text. If you later wonder who shouted 'Moder's breathing, move left' and when, find that line in the timeline text and select it. You will be watching the boss fight again from that exact moment. Your planning before a summon is kept as text too, which makes a handy reminder of what went wrong before the next attempt. If your own voice sounds quiet in the recording, check your input device in recording games with mic audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

The road from Eikthyr to the final boss deserves to live in one video. In the library, check your first Eikthyr kill, the Bonemass swamp brawl, the longship through a storm, the finished longhouse, the troll raid you held and Moder on the peak, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into a montage that works as your server's chronicle, a good thing to have before you move on to the next biome. If you would rather join several nights of building in date order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Hours of longhouse building turn into a few minutes once you line up the segments you trimmed each night. Add text like 'Day 1' and 'Finished' plus background music, and server friends can follow the progress at a glance. Try a shake zoom on the moment a boss collapses and a glitch transition where one biome cuts to the next. Voyages and new land look best in 16:9 for YouTube, while a quick troll raid works well as a 9:16 Short. Vertical framing tips are in recording games for vertical Shorts. Download the finished video as an mp4 or share it as a link.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in the browser without the app, so a boss kill posted in your Valheim server Discord can be watched on a phone by everyone who fought. Your friends' points of view are not in your recording, so if each person records with DOR and you swap links, you can collect the same boss fight from several angles. Tips on picking moments by server activity are in sharing Valheim boss and build videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Valheim recommended settings and troubleshooting

Valheim is light enough that the default 1080p at 30fps already captures Meadows grass and ocean waves crisply. If you want dodges in boss fights and long voyages to look smoother, pick 60fps, and on a laptop or an older PC use the 720p/30fps mode to cut the load. Settings for weaker machines are covered in recording games on a low end PC. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so keep whatever display mode you already use. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your in game frame rate is small. Server nights tend to run until morning, so for steady long recordings see recording long gameplay without stutter. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or world data.