How to Upload Your Existing Vintage Story Save

Looking to move your existing single-player or multiplayer Vintage Story world over to your dedicated server? In this guide, we will walk you through finding your local save file, uploading it to your MintServers panel, and configuring your server to load it properly.

Finding Your Local Save File

First, we need to locate the world save on your own computer so we can copy it.

1. Launch Vintage Story on your computer.
2. Click on Single-player, then click the Open Saves Folder button at the bottom.
3. This will open the folder containing all your local worlds (they end in .vcdbs). Create a copy of the specific save you wish to upload and keep this folder open.

You can click the folders below to see exactly what this local path looks like:

Uploading Your World

Now that we have your world file, let's upload it to the server.

1. Log in to your MintServers Game Panel.
2. Stop your Vintage Story server before making any changes.
3. Click on File Manager in the left-hand menu.
4. Navigate to the data/Saves/ directory.
5. Delete any existing world files in this folder to avoid conflicts.
6. Click the Upload button and upload your .vcdbs save file.

Your server's file structure should now look like this:

Enabling Your Uploaded World

Finally, we need to tell the server to load this specific world file.

1. While still in the File Manager, navigate to the data folder.
2. Locate the serverconfig.json file and click it to edit.
3. Find the line that says "SaveFileLocation":.
4. Change the path to match the exact name of your uploaded save file. For example: "SaveFileLocation": "./data/Saves/myworld.vcdbs".
5. Click Save Content at the top right.
6. Go back to your console and Start your server!

Your server is now running your custom world! If you have any trouble getting it to load, please open a support ticket and our team will be happy to assist you.