World deleted

[KessekZula]

After a Pc crash my whole world was deleted i was lvl 40 my whole game until now is gone
Any fixes for that ??

[DarkEternal]

You don't have cloud saving turned on?
That's PLBKAC.
Have fun restarting!

[neock]

when you get to the main screen it tells you about this, and posable ways to fix it

[Duneman]

Hopefully you enabled cloud saves... You might then lose only a few hours back to the previous sync.

[Big Balls]

yes, just follow this quick guide

1. cry
2. create a new world

[KessekZula]

its all saves but how do i use the saved files to get a new world ?

[Roland]

If I was you, i would worry about the PC crash first.

You might notice there isn't a lot of people saying the game is crashing, and the game crashing is very different form your whole PC anyway, so I'd be more concerned about what's wrong with my system than some save you can just start over (and will probably want to by the time full release comes out and things have changed)

[AdahnGorion]

Welcome to Early Access

I suggest you read this
https://store.steampowered.com/earlyaccessfaq/?snr=1_5_9_

[Lord Haart]

Not ur 'whole world' as such, u mean just the world in Pally :-)

[GrandTickler]

dont listen to the people recommending cloud saves. thats the very way to lose your save files lol. instead just load a backup file from C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\76561197985591481\4ECA596C489F000C1B177C95DCB08DB5\backup

these are made every hour

[Roland]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

dont listen to the people recommending cloud saves. thats the very way to lose your save files lol.

Only if you don't' know how to read dates when it asks which one you want to keep.
Been using cloud saves on hundreds of games ever since they added the feature and never lost a save with a game that has them.

Games that didn't for a long time, like Terraria, are another matter entirely and those are the only ones I ever lost saves on; never, ever lost a save due to cloud saves. (again, because I read the dates carefully when prompted)

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

You don't have cloud saving turned on?
That's PLBKAC.
Have fun restarting!

Lmao, NEVER enable Cloud Saves. It fixes nothing and causes more losses of saved games than you would believe. Smart gamers manually back up saved games folders which you can always restore whenever you want. Players who are not smart use Cloud Save.

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Roland:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

dont listen to the people recommending cloud saves. thats the very way to lose your save files lol.

Only if you don't' know how to read dates when it asks which one you want to keep.
Been using cloud saves on hundreds of games ever since they added the feature and never lost a save with a game that has them.

Games that didn't for a long time, like Terraria, are another matter entirely and those are the only ones I ever lost saves on; never, ever lost a save due to cloud saves. (again, because I read the dates carefully when prompted)

i feel like there have been a lot of cases where there is no choice and cloud saves just automatically take over, causing people to lose progress. not sure if that was caused by game devs or steam itself, but i rather be safe than sorry.

[Siha Rakhet]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

dont listen to the people recommending cloud saves. thats the very way to lose your save files lol. instead just load a backup file from C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\76561197985591481\4ECA596C489F000C1B177C95DCB08DB5\backup

these are made every hour

Can you tell me how to load these backups? I had a power outage for a moment and it removed my world.

(Edit! I figured it out! A wonderful video on Youtube by TroubleChute named "Rollback Saves | Restore Progress | Simple AUTOMATIC Backup/Restore Guide for Palworld" worked perfectly!
If anyone else looses their world on PC, I HIGHLY recommend following this video to get your world back!)

[Roland]

Originally posted by Siha Rakhet:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

dont listen to the people recommending cloud saves. thats the very way to lose your save files lol. instead just load a backup file from C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\76561197985591481\4ECA596C489F000C1B177C95DCB08DB5\backup

these are made every hour

Can you tell me how to load these backups? I had a power outage for a moment and it removed my world.
I've attempted to do it through Steam>Restore From Backup and it won't see the .sav files.

Because Restore GAME Backup is not for saves and does nothing to saves. That is entirely for backing up game folders; it's mainly intended for backing up mods or for making offline archives. (bit of a relic from when everyone still had CD/DVD burners, that still has niche uses)

[Roland]

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/how-to-recover-deleted-files/

I've had mixed results with EaseUS in the past; it's been 15 years since i needed it so maybe it's better, the fact that they are still around says something.

Windows apparently has their own little recovery tool on the store now, so that's cool, and probably where I'd start.

In a perfect world Windows would just have a previous version of the folder available, but rarely do people have backups that intense. So check there first, but I'd be installing the tool while checking because it's likely gonna be necessary (and wouldn't be a bad tool to have on deck anyway)