Character gone from friends save file on co-op after update

[Necro]

As title says, I've lost my character on my friends file, him and another mate jumped on this morning to farm some crops, saved it jumped off, now I have no toon when I try to join, I am positive it was saved last night as we closed and opened the game at some point with noone losing progress and being where they logged off.

Terrible first impressions for this game so far can this be fixed or am I just out a bunch of my time aswell as my other friend who has probably lost his character on the same file aswell?

[Morri]

Do they still have a savefile from before the old 2.0.0.5? (you normally see the version when you select a savegame to load) If they load that (once installed the new (current) 2.0.0.5 version) you should have your character back.
If that is not the case; do let us know.

Edit:
Unfortunately, if you don't have a save from before anymore where the character is still there, it can't be recovered anymore and the person affected will have to make a new character. :(
It shouldn't happen anew with the newest 2.0.0.5 version though.

But in all honesty; I recommend saving under a new name regularly just to make you have a backup in case something goes wrong again.

[Sekcio2]

ITS POSSIBLE to recover friends character
I used HxD editor.
MAKE A BACKUP OF SAVEGAMES FOLDER
1. Find old save file where your friend still has a character and equipment (just open .sav file and ctrl+f and search for name of character that have been lost, if it’s there that means this is a good save file where your friends/friends still has everything)
2. open in HxD old save from previous step and latest one with progress and lost characters.
3. Find at the bottom name of the HOST character and copy everything from the name to end of the file (old save)
4. Paste everything you copied to latest save in the same place starting from HOST character name till the end of the file.
5. Save file with latest progress.

Equipment of every character will be loaded from the old save!!! BUT world progress is gonna be the latest from the latest save you edited. It’s the best I came up with.

[Morri]

Thank you for this Sekcio2.

We don't really recommend messing with the save files, as it can lead to unexpected errors later on. But in this case, it could maybe save someone hours of progress.

Use with caution though, and take a backup before changing the file.

[Bonkers]

The fix sadly doesnt work. Even if taking very old backups, this character cant be connected to the steam id anymore, even though everything is still written in the file. I can just create a 5. character on these files.

Do you know if theres work in progress regarding that, Morri?

Originally posted by Morri:

Thank you for this Sekcio2.

We don't really recommend messing with the save files, as it can lead to unexpected errors later on. But in this case, it could maybe save someone hours of progress.

Use with caution though, and take a backup before changing the file.

[Morri]

Originally posted by Bonkers:

The fix sadly doesnt work. Even if taking very old backups, this character cant be connected to the steam id anymore, even though everything is still written in the file. I can just create a 5. character on these files.

Are they starting the game through Steam, the normal way? (And not through the .exe as adminstrator)?

[Bonkers]

Originally posted by Morri:

Originally posted by Bonkers:

The fix sadly doesnt work. Even if taking very old backups, this character cant be connected to the steam id anymore, even though everything is still written in the file. I can just create a 5. character on these files.

Are they starting the game through Steam, the normal way? (And not through the .exe as adminstrator)?

Yes, all normally starting through steam without administrator or launch settings.
Even through .exe and admin on top, its still same case

[Abbrev.]

I had this problem. In my case, I had switched back to 2.0.0.2 when it was the public version AFTER I tried the 2.0.0.3 beta, which was just a little too buggy for me to play.

Turns out the it wasn't the save file that was corrupted, (I figured out it was happening in ALL my save files even backed up ones from before I started messing with the beta, which was my clue). it was the game version files that got corrupted from going between versions. Uninstalling the game and re-downloading it fresh made my character come back. There is hope!

[Morri]

Originally posted by Abbrev.:

I had this problem. In my case, I had switched back to 2.0.0.2 when it was the public version AFTER I tried the 2.0.0.3 beta, which was just a little too buggy for me to play.

Turns out the it wasn't the save file that was corrupted, (I figured out it was happening in ALL my save files even backed up ones from before I started messing with the beta, which was my clue). it was the game version files that got corrupted from going between versions. Uninstalling the game and re-downloading it fresh made my character come back. There is hope!

Thanks for posting. I'll keep this in mind as well to advice others to try a fresh install of the game in case they have the same issue!

[Bonkers]

Was a good idea, but sadly didnt help for me. Still thanks for the input

Originally posted by Abbrev.:

I had this problem. In my case, I had switched back to 2.0.0.2 when it was the public version AFTER I tried the 2.0.0.3 beta, which was just a little too buggy for me to play.

Turns out the it wasn't the save file that was corrupted, (I figured out it was happening in ALL my save files even backed up ones from before I started messing with the beta, which was my clue). it was the game version files that got corrupted from going between versions. Uninstalling the game and re-downloading it fresh made my character come back. There is hope!

[Bobsenas]

I managed to save my character by searching for "PlayerUniqueNetIDs" with Notepad++.
It should then have sets of SteamID + a game specific ID (I would assume) for every player/character on the server.
I made a new world/save and saved it onto a new save file, then went into that file and copied the new "game specific ID" and replaced the old ID on the previous save with the new ID that matched my SteamID.

Two players looking something like this, without line breaks.
PlayerUniqueNetIDs SetProperty | StrProperty 6
12345678910111213_+_|0002b6b45yg39gty38gh7ty39gy7g9dg3
6
12345678914151617_+_|0002b8b45g8934589037h037895603t
QuestInventory