Deleted game, reinstalled to find out all saves lost

[Boby Wasaby]

I came around one day to find out that starbound was un-installed from my PC so I re-installed it to play the new 1.3 update only to find out that all my characters were missing... somehow my game got reset and I don't know how, is there a way to recieve my saves from the steam cloud so I don't have to farm everything I lost? (I farmed this game on my free time for almost 3 months straight, I'm not gonna lie when I tell you that I refuse to play this game if I lost 3 months worth of farming all the vanity items, mats, blocks and decorations to enjoy the game to only have it all lost)

[Evil_Doc]

I don't think there is a way. You can use the /spawnitem admin command to quickly restock your items, but you will have to rebuild any buildings / bases you had. Sorry for your inconvenience.

[E-q]

When you delete a game... It is FULLY deleted (with saves and other stuff) (most of the time)

How can you wonder that your saves were gone?

[Spoody]

The steam cloud ( from my knowledge ) shouldn't be affected when you uninstall a game; However, I see for a brief second once I close the game that Starbound syncs but after installing the game on my spare pc I never saw the save move over, this leads me to believe this game doesn't take advantage of steam cloud so I believe your saves were never backed up. This does bring up a tip of mine I use to prevent this, get yourself a cloud service and have it automatically sync your saves ( It's kind of a pain to sync each save folder but it gives peace of mind ) Sorry for your loss, I too collect most of the furniture I like. Let me know if you figure a way out, I couldn't find a way to force steam to sync a game, it kind of does it's own thing if that game supports it.

[Azure Fang]

You assume Starbound uses Steam Cloud. It doesn't. Due to how Starbound saves data, it likely never will, either. Sadly, you'll just have to grind again.

[Raysonlws]

make a backup from time to time direct from steam folder, inside strabound\storage folder, player and universe folder

[Grimmrog_SIG]

please in future be careful and pay attention which of your steam games use the steam cloud, just because a game is on steam doesn't makes it utilizing the steam cloud to save the games.

[Spoody]

Which gave devs who create games such as this where you sink hours into a world should really consider :/

[Boby Wasaby]

Originally posted by SpoodyFox:

The steam cloud ( from my knowledge ) shouldn't be affected when you uninstall a game; However, I see for a brief second once I close the game that Starbound syncs but after installing the game on my spare pc I never saw the save move over, this leads me to believe this game doesn't take advantage of steam cloud so I believe your saves were never backed up. This does bring up a tip of mine I use to prevent this, get yourself a cloud service and have it automatically sync your saves ( It's kind of a pain to sync each save folder but it gives peace of mind ) Sorry for your loss, I too collect most of the furniture I like. Let me know if you figure a way out, I couldn't find a way to force steam to sync a game, it kind of does it's own thing if that game supports it.

dammit, I don't even remember un-installing it, I just woke up one morning and noticed that it wasn't installed on my computer. I guess I'll wait a few more patches before I get back into starbound unless I want to cheat in all my stuff.

[Sugam]

I dont lose my saves if I uninstall and reinstall the game later. Sorry to hear your loss, but there is somthing that caused it. Files dont just disappear