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How To Upload An Existing Vintage Story Save To Your Server

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of uploading a custom world file to your Vintage Story server. These steps are for both single-player and existing multiplayer world transfers.

If you get stuck at any time, Game Host Bros offers free save transfers. Just reach out to a bro on Discord.

Finding Your Save Files

  1. 1
    Open Vintage Story.
  2. 2
    Click Single-player > Open Saves Folder.
  3. 3
    Create a copy of the save you wish to upload.
AppData
Roaming
VintagstoryData
VintageStory
Saves
serene kingdom story.vcdbsExample save file.

Uploading & Enabling Your World

After following the steps above, here's how to upload and then enable a world on your Vintage Story server.

Uploading Your World

  1. 1
    Log in to the Game Host Bros Game Panel and Stop your Vintage Story server.
  2. 2
    Go to File Manager.
  3. 3
    Navigate to data/Saves/ and delete any existing files.
  4. 4
    Upload your .vcdbs save file.

Once uploaded, your server files should look like this:

data
Saves
serene kingdom story.vcdbsExample save file.

Enabling Your World

  1. 1
    Log in to the Game Host Bros Game Panel and Stop your Vintage Story server.
  2. 2
    Go to File Manager and enter the data folder.
  3. 3
    Open serverconfig.json.
  4. 4
    Edit SaveFileLocation to match the name of your uploaded save file.
  5. 5
    Save your changes and then start your server.
         "WorldConfig": {
       "Seed": null,
       "SaveFileLocation": "./data/Saves/serene kingdom story.vcdbs",
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