Old Save Game?

[Rainwhisper]

I haven't played in quite some time (over a year?), and I wanted to see how things have changed. Is it likely my old saves are compatible? Where might I find them (or where should I place my backups)?

[Albcatmastercat]

Saves go into Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\storage; they should be compatible if they were made on 1.0 and up.

[Rainwhisper]

Wow, it's been longer than I thought. March 19, 2015.

Looks like my saves were in a folder called "giraffe_storage"

Can those be migrated?

[Rainwhisper]

(I would hate to lose all this work:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403170591 )

[Albcatmastercat]

Originally posted by JoshuaV:

Wow, it's been longer than I thought. March 19, 2015.

Looks like my saves were in a folder called "giraffe_storage"

Can those be migrated?

I am not sure. You can probably do some world shenanigans, but I cannot promise anything.

(I did not test this):

Try making a new character and go to the first planet. Then, make a copy of your backup and name it the name of the world the new character is in. See if that works.

PS: The "name" is the number string on "storage\universe" .world

[Rainwhisper]

I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

[Rainwhisper]

No luck. It crashes. Has anyone made a conversion script? I hate to lose hundreds of hours of work (again). I rebuilt from scratch going from koala to giraffe.

[Albcatmastercat]

Originally posted by JoshuaV:

No luck. It crashes. Has anyone made a conversion script? I hate to lose hundreds of hours of work (again). I rebuilt from scratch going from koala to giraffe.

Sorry, I don't really know about that...

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by JoshuaV:

Wow, it's been longer than I thought. March 19, 2015.

Looks like my saves were in a folder called "giraffe_storage"

Can those be migrated?

So they were from pre-1.0. Sadly, there's nothing really that can be done. A lot (many orders of magnitude of "a lot") changed internally between Giraffe and 1.0, and I believe there was a coded character wipe to boot. I'm afraid you're not going to come up with anything to recover.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing. With how much that's changed, you'd be better off experiencing it fresh anyway.

[Albcatmastercat]

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

Originally posted by JoshuaV:

Wow, it's been longer than I thought. March 19, 2015.

Looks like my saves were in a folder called "giraffe_storage"

Can those be migrated?

So they were from pre-1.0. Sadly, there's nothing really that can be done. A lot (many orders of magnitude of "a lot") changed internally between Giraffe and 1.0, and I believe there was a coded character wipe to boot. I'm afraid you're not going to come up with anything to recover.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing. With how much that's changed, you'd be better off experiencing it fresh anyway.

In fact, you should very well try Frackin' Universe out if you are doomed to start anew.

[tamorr]

Unfortunately only 0.8 off the unstable around that time would have worked to tranfer. That was one of the 1.0 candidates before going to main branch release.

The files basically had a change in them which made it appear there has been a wipe; but in fact it is just compatibility problems. This happened before going from Koala to Girraffe versions. I'd say that is too long ago for it to work, and I don't think anyone did a conversion. There were lots of changes since that time, as well additions.

You will most likely have to start over. Of course you could use the admin mode to get quite a bit equipment back. Worlds on the other hand are lost. So all that can be done is to rebuild... What I had to do when 1.0 came out.