Issue with save

[Eryhnar]

Last night after closing the game I got an "Error synchronizing cloud" message. I Thought "Fine let's see tomorrow." Today, launching the game it gave me 2 options cloud save or local telling me the one I did not choose would be lost. Both said today with 40 min difference. Turns out, it was not true, the one I ended up choosing is a day older and does not have most of the upgrades, and has not even finished the game while the other one had finished the game 4 times.... Is there a way to restore it somehow?

[Urza]

same problem. I went with cloud save because it was a more recent date

now I have the steam achievement for beating hard mode, but none of that is reflected in my save

[Hengenvaara]

Same problem here. Lots of hours of yesterday progress are lost =((

[Eryhnar]

Yeah it sucks hard. I ended up having to redo about 10 hours of progress. And beating the game again without the meta just sucks. Having it to just losing it oof.

[拿POI仑·潘Duang贡]

find ...appdata/locallow/bolang/magicraft, manually bbackup, and use the cloud sync, later if it is wrong then you copy n paste while you are having the game running but not started a run for catch up your progress

[拿POI仑·潘Duang贡]

I won hard and nightmare in 2 runs and lost all my progress, then I came up with this idea that I should back up myself instead of using cloud sync

[Eryhnar]

I tried looking to see if the game had a backup system. There is a file called backup but I could not make it work. I even tried my windows backup but it was just as old. I do manually back it now but an auto backup would be nice. Anyway I am going to stop following this thread. Just note everybody that you should have a manual backup somewhere or not use the cloud.

[The Roaming Pumpkin]

I think I figured out a workaround.

Thanks to the poster that showed me where the saves are located (appdata/locallow/bolang/magicraft)

I disabled Steam cloud for Magicraft first just in case.

I opened the BackupData1 in Notepad then copied the entire contents and replaced the contents of WorldData0 with it.

I did the same with BackUpFinishBuilds to overwrite FinishBuilds.

Booted it up and sure enough, there's my save from the night before.

[Skaln]

Sadly this isnt the game at all, this is steam and has always been apart of steam cloud saves. I always go for the data on my PC over the cloud because they both are supposed to be saving, and the PC should generally never fail to save.

[Skaln]

Originally posted by Eryhnar:

Yeah it sucks hard. I ended up having to redo about 10 hours of progress. And beating the game again without the meta just sucks. Having it to just losing it oof.

Im sorry, and dont mean to rag on you at all.... But ever try experimenting a little, or do you only ever play the meta in games and not learn how to do things for yourself?
It just hurts my ol gamer soul to see that as a possibility.

[Shangaria]

Originally posted by The Roaming Pumpkin:

I think I figured out a workaround.

Thanks to the poster that showed me where the saves are located (appdata/locallow/bolang/magicraft)

I disabled Steam cloud for Magicraft first just in case.

I opened the BackupData1 in Notepad then copied the entire contents and replaced the contents of WorldData0 with it.

I did the same with BackUpFinishBuilds to overwrite FinishBuilds.

Booted it up and sure enough, there's my save from the night before.

I tried this, sadly didn't work for me, lost hours of progress and feel so defeated needing to do it all over again...

[VerdantDragon]

Same exact problem.

Played a large number of runs, beat hard and Nightmare 1, came back to log in.. all the the progress lost...

Tried the recommended procedure to recover the data.. did not work

Discouraged to play again if this can happy at any time.. and this issue exists since 4 months (june 2024) and still not fixed.

[zinkof]

When a synchronization error occurs, if you select the DATA at the bottom, it will be saved as the last DATA completed.
The Steam DATA at the top only has the latest time, but is actually older DATA.
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동기화 오류시 아래쪽 DATA를 선택하면 마지막에 종료한 DATA로 저장되더군요.
위쪽의 스팀DATA는 시간만 최근시간이고 실제로는 더 오래된 DATA 입니다.

[Kiyomi Alice]

Originally posted by The Roaming Pumpkin:

I think I figured out a workaround.

Thanks to the poster that showed me where the saves are located (appdata/locallow/bolang/magicraft)

I disabled Steam cloud for Magicraft first just in case.

I opened the BackupData1 in Notepad then copied the entire contents and replaced the contents of WorldData0 with it.

I did the same with BackUpFinishBuilds to overwrite FinishBuilds.

Booted it up and sure enough, there's my save from the night before.

This method worked for recovering my files!

Yesterday, I played all day and completed the level on Nightmare difficulty. However, when I opened the game today, my file had reverted to Normal difficulty.

I’m glad this method fixed the save rollback issue I was experiencing. Thank you very much!

[SlimePlort]

Same that backup trick solved my issue thanks. I love this game, but it's ridiculous to have such a damaging bug at 1.0 release and not tell anyone about it.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by The Roaming Pumpkin:

I think I figured out a workaround.

Thanks to the poster that showed me where the saves are located (appdata/locallow/bolang/magicraft)

I disabled Steam cloud for Magicraft first just in case.

I opened the BackupData1 in Notepad then copied the entire contents and replaced the contents of WorldData0 with it.

I did the same with BackUpFinishBuilds to overwrite FinishBuilds.

Booted it up and sure enough, there's my save from the night before.

Also worked for me, ty