Saves keep getting corrupted

[KiwiNuken]

Playing Automaton Beta. Have mods. Game plays normaly. Saving on exit or saving normally and then exiting, it doesn't matter. Sometimes some of the backups can be loaded, sometimes it's all corrupted. Anyone else facing this problem?

[Dan2D3D]

HI, it's not good move to play with Mods in a few days Beta test, in my opinion because some Mods always have to be updated to the new game version after a update.

You will spend your time testing Mods and will not know if the AI Blocks Bugs you will find are caused by Mods.

If you really want to spend your time on testing Mods =

Follow the steps we all do after a game update to find the mods that needs to be removed and reported.

How to test a world or find broken/conflicting Mods :

1 - Select your save.
2 - Click the "Save as" button on the left.
3 - Change the save name to create a *copy.
4 - Withdraw or add one Mod at a time in the copy.

5 - Report to the Mod author (on WS item page) when broken Mod found so he can fix/update his Mod, always very kind to let them know.

*copy
Never test with your original save, better create a copy and fix the original save when solution found in the copy, this way you will not mess up your save.

[Dan2D3D]

I will add :

Even if you report to the Mod author = We will not update till the right game version is out.

[Dan2D3D]

+ I can confirm that Vanilla worlds don't go corrupted in the Beta version so it is surely a Mod not up to date the problem.

I test every days and no corrupted saves playing in new created No Mods world :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2937400825

[Stoneslinger76]

Try useing "save as" save_1 wait for it say saved, then save as save_2 wait for save and then exit. Be sure to have a fair bit of free drive space. I don't have file problems with saves in a few years of play, then I dont use mods either.

[KiwiNuken]

Yep, wasn't really expecting the whole thing to be stable as of now, but corrupting the whole save consistenly is kind of weird. Will do some testing and see if I can find out what mod is causing it. If I find out I'll come back here and report. Thanks.

[Kaii-Killer]

Have you ever scanned your hard drive "C drive" for errors?

[Stoneslinger76]

Originally posted by KiwiNuken:

Yep, wasn't really expecting the whole thing to be stable as of now, but corrupting the whole save consistenly is kind of weird. Will do some testing and see if I can find out what mod is causing it. If I find out I'll come back here and report. Thanks.

Background awaiting windows updates may effect this problem. I find it will create rotor and piston problems amongst other small glitches.

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by Stoneslinger76:

Originally posted by KiwiNuken:

Yep, wasn't really expecting the whole thing to be stable as of now, but corrupting the whole save consistenly is kind of weird. Will do some testing and see if I can find out what mod is causing it. If I find out I'll come back here and report. Thanks.

Background awaiting windows updates may effect this problem. I find it will create rotor and piston problems amongst other small glitches.

You are the first talking about that and don't think WIndows update can corrupt a game save, I have Windows update in pending and never had problems with that.

[KiwiNuken]

The culprit seems to be either AI Enabled or Crew Enabled mods. Will test further to be sure.

[Dan2D3D]

Now you know that some Mods can corrupt a save in a Beta test and why it is better test those 6 blocks in a new created Vanilla world.

[Skymoeba]

If you remove the mods the save can be recovered