You can't play like that

[pcfantasy]

Not a nice mistake. Survived 4 days, built a few things. Saved the game and today...about 24 hours later, I wanted to continue playing my save...but it doesn't work...I keep starting over...what kind of mistake is that?

[Padds]

the save isnt working or you cant find it?

its working fine for me.

[pcfantasy]

I go into the game, click on single player, click on load game, then I see the save game. Clicking directly on save game doesn't work. So I click on load. Then the game starts but I start again from the beginning.

[pcfantasy]

So, I restarted the game a few times. I was able to access my save game now...but...I had to start from the beginning...because all my buildings had disappeared. Only my collections (wood and stones) were still in the old building location. So I've now played this broken save game for a good hour and rebuilt everything. In about 10 hours, I'll load the game again...if the same crap happens again, I'd rather wait for a few more fixes...but it's no fun like this.

[s0laris]

There was a patch that fixed a serious save game issue, and some people reported their saved game lost afterwards.

[Simmeon]

Same thing happened to me. I'm guessing it's a bug or the fix corrupted our save.

[pcfantasy]

Something like that is annoying, of course. I just hope that it doesn't happen again...you build and build...you spend hours, days and weeks...and then the game is ruined.....

[Dread Arkive]

Welcome to Early Access. Never get too attached to your runs in these things.

[ThunderfulPaige | Community]

Hey everyone - a patch did go out on Friday to resolve some issues with saves being corrupted and unfortunately we are unable to restore anything that was lost.
If you are still having issues after patching please do let us know in the bug reporting subforum!

[ThunderfulPaige | Community]

Sorry for any inconvenience caused!

[shwans]

Played a couple of days, I was just past the first winter invasion. Had 30 ich villages all went very well. Wanted to continue the next day (real life day) and my safe was gone... foetsy. Really sucks. Gonna let it rest for couple of weeks. I see a safe game folder in appdata/blabla/savegame_dacxxxx with the timestamp of my last save but it doens't show in the game.

[Adi]

Originally posted by shwans:

Played a couple of days, I was just past the first winter invasion. Had 30 ich villages all went very well. Wanted to continue the next day (real life day) and my safe was gone... foetsy. Really sucks. Gonna let it rest for couple of weeks. I see a safe game folder in appdata/blabla/savegame_dacxxxx with the timestamp of my last save but it doens't show in the game.

This is terrible, please share the save file if you can. And the player.log/player-prev.log. It looks like a corrupted save, this is unexpected and we would really want to find the cause.

Inside your save folder, there is a little file named "meta". Please check the "saveOk" and "is session Owner" flags. If either one of those is false, then you cannot see the save in game.

[Vorshin]

Would liek a way for the map to say how many caves (iron) there are as i believe once you mined a cave and run out of iron its basically game over. 1 cave on the map is no good, 2 is fine but you should try to find a map with 3, but i get bored running around a map hunting to see how many caves it has (had 1 map with 2 caves, most only had 1 cave and its been boring a hell doing that.
Basically once you cut all the tree's or mined out the cave its game over (which ever comes 1st) since not much respawn. Stick tree's do and plants do at the turn of the year, trees, stone, bloodstone, iron do not.
Hope this gets addressed, either with boats or trade system-(that require boats).

[Jebbalon]

Originally posted by Vorshin:

Would liek a way for the map to say how many caves (iron) there are as i believe once you mined a cave and run out of iron its basically game over. 1 cave on the map is no good, 2 is fine but you should try to find a map with 3, but i get bored running around a map hunting to see how many caves it has (had 1 map with 2 caves, most only had 1 cave and its been boring a hell doing that.
Basically once you cut all the tree's or mined out the cave its game over (which ever comes 1st) since not much respawn. Stick tree's do and plants do at the turn of the year, trees, stone, bloodstone, iron do not.
Hope this gets addressed, either with boats or trade system-(that require boats).

Most maps should have 3 caves for mining.

[Vorshin]

Originally posted by Jebbalon:

Originally posted by Vorshin:

Would liek a way for the map to say how many caves (iron) there are as i believe once you mined a cave and run out of iron its basically game over. 1 cave on the map is no good, 2 is fine but you should try to find a map with 3, but i get bored running around a map hunting to see how many caves it has (had 1 map with 2 caves, most only had 1 cave and its been boring a hell doing that.
Basically once you cut all the tree's or mined out the cave its game over (which ever comes 1st) since not much respawn. Stick tree's do and plants do at the turn of the year, trees, stone, bloodstone, iron do not.
Hope this gets addressed, either with boats or trade system-(that require boats).

Most maps should have 3 caves for mining.

most maps i have scouted out only had 1 cave and it takes over an hour of running round scouting the island out of 9 maps i have had 1 map with no cave whatsoever, 2 maps with 2 caves on 2 maps and both were well away from each other with no flat land and plenty of irremovable rocks around as well as not being anywhere near the coastline, the other maps all had 1 cave only, making them all pretty much worthless and several hrs running around scouting the map out thats become dull and boring.

Tips i have been told, look for maps with at least 2 or 3 caves (maps with 0 caves are a waste of time, 1 cave ends the game very quickly, 2 prolongs it a while. at least 1 cave MUST be near a coastline, there must be a huge flatland area near the cave (trees don't block as they can be removed, but make sure there are not stone/rock piles that are irremovable).
Once you have found a map save the seed name, it will be good till an update comes out (which may change/alter that map seed for good), like others have posted here map seeds but updates have changed them for the worst so there no obsolete.