Corrupted save file?

[Khajiit]

My house lost power last night while I was playing Rimworld. Today when I try to load my save, I can't. There are 3 red question marks where the game version should be and clicking "load" on the save does absolutely nothing.

It was permadeath mode so I can't go to an earlier save. Is there anything I can do?

[Glerk]

There is absolutely nothing that you can do.

[Astasia]

Probably not. One of many reasons I would never play perma death.

You can try opening the save in a text editor to see what the damage is, but that's a long shot and you'll need to know how to edit and fix things in there.

[Dirk Manderin]

SovietWomble on Twitch had this exact thing happen to him. He somehow rebuilt the save file enough to get it up and running again. He went back and looked at older streams to get the base layout right and used dev tools to "rebuild" everything. Other than doing something like that, you're screwed. No idea why it doesn't make a copy of the last save when a new save is generated.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Lucid Renegade:

No idea why it doesn't make a copy of the last save when a new save is generated.

It normally does, it keeps like 5 backups and cycles through them, making save loss from bugs or glitches pretty much a non-issue. The problem is the OP is using permadeath, and the entire thing about permadeath is there are no backups. Which is why it's honestly a terrible idea and you are much better off playing normal and using self control to just not reload unless something like that happens. If you really want to play permadeath though then there's always going to be that risk of corruption.

[The Gooch!]

I know it's probably too late for Isaac, but I had the same thing happen with my permadeath game and wanted to post what I did to fix it for the next person.

I found a recent backup in:

C:\Users\Gooch\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Saves\

It was tribename.rws.old.

rename that to end in .rws and relaunch rimworld.


You can also look in your steam cloud (if enabled) at:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

My cloud save was also corrupted. Probably because when I closed RW, steam sync'd the corrupted save.

[squaremeel]

I had a similar problem. I somehow fixed it by going into the save file and there were two files called SaveFile.rws and SaveFile.rws.old. I removed of the SaveFile.rws and changed the name of SaveFile.rws.old to SaveFile.rws.
SaveFile is just the name of you saved world.
I hoped this worked for you.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by squaremeel:

I had a similar problem. I somehow fixed it by going into the save file and there were two files called SaveFile.rws and SaveFile.rws.old. I removed of the SaveFile.rws and changed the name of SaveFile.rws.old to SaveFile.rws.
SaveFile is just the name of you saved world.
I hoped this worked for you.

Ya, this thread is over 2 years old, the game has backups now as The Gooch mentioned a year ago in the last necro.

[The Gooch!]

BUMP

[Trickelodean]

Originally posted by The Gooch!:

I know it's probably too late for Isaac, but I had the same thing happen with my permadeath game and wanted to post what I did to fix it for the next person.

I found a recent backup in:

C:\Users\Gooch\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Saves\

It was tribename.rws.old.

rename that to end in .rws and relaunch rimworld.


You can also look in your steam cloud (if enabled) at:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

My cloud save was also corrupted. Probably because when I closed RW, steam sync'd the corrupted save.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LIFE SAVER

[Glerk]

Originally posted by Trickelodean:

Originally posted by The Gooch!:

I know it's probably too late for Isaac, but I had the same thing happen with my permadeath game and wanted to post what I did to fix it for the next person.

I found a recent backup in:

C:\Users\Gooch\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Saves\

It was tribename.rws.old.

rename that to end in .rws and relaunch rimworld.


You can also look in your steam cloud (if enabled) at:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

My cloud save was also corrupted. Probably because when I closed RW, steam sync'd the corrupted save.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LIFE SAVER

Excellent contribution you've added to this long dead thread, Necromancer.

[The Gooch!]

Originally posted by Glerk:

Originally posted by Trickelodean:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LIFE SAVER

Excellent contribution you've added to this long dead thread, Necromancer.

I'm ok with this.

Originally posted by Trickelodean:

Originally posted by The Gooch!:

I know it's probably too late for Isaac, but I had the same thing happen with my permadeath game and wanted to post what I did to fix it for the next person.

I found a recent backup in:

C:\Users\Gooch\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Saves\

It was tribename.rws.old.

rename that to end in .rws and relaunch rimworld.


You can also look in your steam cloud (if enabled) at:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

My cloud save was also corrupted. Probably because when I closed RW, steam sync'd the corrupted save.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LIFE SAVER

Hahah glad it worked for you Trick!

[Morkonan]

That's a great find!

It's worth noting that some other games have redundant save files structured much like that for, one assumes, similar reasons. Warband is one of those that keeps a copy of the last saved game that doesn't have the standard saved game file type. It's similarly useful for corrupted file issues, but Warband corruption issues are much different and can easily stretch across saves without being immediately evident.

[Coach]

Originally posted by The Gooch!:

I know it's probably too late for Isaac, but I had the same thing happen with my permadeath game and wanted to post what I did to fix it for the next person.

I found a recent backup in:

C:\Users\Gooch\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Saves\

It was tribename.rws.old.

rename that to end in .rws and relaunch rimworld.


You can also look in your steam cloud (if enabled) at:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

My cloud save was also corrupted. Probably because when I closed RW, steam sync'd the corrupted save.

Brother I know it's been years since you posted this but thank christ you did