Can I transfer Terraria progress to a different steam account?

[Laserjones]

Hi all, my son has been playing Terraria via my Steam account for some years. No he's got his own Steam account. Can we somehow transfer his progress so that he can continue the game in his own account (after buying the game, of course)?

[Auric Carnage]

Sure. Transfer the save files from your documents to his Terraria save folder. You may do this with usb, cloud storage or a clever use of steamshare/cloud saves.

Go to your documents, "my games," Terraria and then transfer the character file(s) in question to the same directory on another computer.

If you're sharing the same computer, then there shouldn't be an issue since Terraria reads from the same directory no matter what account you're using.

Steamsharing is another nice way to transfer files via steam cloud save. Simply log in with the characters in Steams cloud (there's a button for this on the save file in-game) and then uncheck the option for steam cloud once the files have been downloaded from the cloud. Log out and allow your son to log in and voila. The file should still be there.

[TINYCATFACE]

i beleve so if you can find the world file you can put it on a hard drive and paste it into his world files dont quote me tho

[Laserjones]

Originally posted by Auric Carnage:

Sure. Transfer the save files from your documents to his Terraria save folder. You may do this with usb, cloud storage or a clever use of steamshare/cloud saves.

Thank you very much - highly appreciated! :-)