How to force a save

[Walter Matthau]

Lost a chunk of time gathering from a game crash.

Is there anyway to force a game save on the fly? single player of course.

If I'm gonna spend a few hours up on White Sky gathering ore, it'd be nice if I could backup every ten or fifteen minutes, ya'know?

[Ryker]

cheat saveworld

[Walter Matthau]

Oh! We'll that was pretty straightforward. Thanks Ryker! You'll always be my number one!

[Seal Lord]

I used this command but I didnt see any indication it worked. is this normal? and if so is there a way to confirm that it worked?

[skyguard]

You can confirming it is saving by doing this: I stand in front of a chest, enter the save command than right after click to access the chest, the chest should open but with a delay of a few seconds.

[rcrandall85]

Old as this thread might be...this is my method.

console command: cheat saveworld

I have the SavedArksLocal file bookmarked in my Quick Access. I created a folder in my Dropbox specifically for ARK Rescue. Every time I save I cloud back up a copy of the file manually. I have more than one monitor so I don't have to switch away from the game, which makes this a bit less of a pain in the butt. BUT unless I really want to go back and redo three hours worth of construction, I call it a worthwhile use of my time...

As for confirming whether or not the console command works, the date modified on the file changes if the save went through.

[Jimbodiah]

lol, 2 year necro.

[Biscuit Brick]

Originally posted by rcrandall85:

Old as this thread might be...this is my method.

console command: cheat saveworld

You necroed this to tell him the same thing someone else told him 5 years ago. Nice.

[Zetyr]

Actually, I really appreciate the update Rcrandall

Originally posted by rcrandall85:

"Every time I save I cloud back up a copy of the file manually."

"As for confirming whether or not the console command works, the date modified on the file changes if the save went through."

I have been looking for a good method to improve being able to restore world save points. I had my game crash after loading about 30 dinos into Tek Cave and the save world over-wrote to right before the crash. I was able to use an older file, but it put me back about 2 hours in prep work. This is probably the best method I've found yet to avoid those situations on big game moments.

Thank you!

[luxztizer]

*Necro*

If you don't have dropbox or just want to keep an archive of saves you can use batch code I wrote to zip the folder, date and time stamp in the file name and then move it to a subfolder. Only works in windows.

powershell compress-archive *.* ArkSave.zip
for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%/%time::=%") do rename "ArkSave.zip" "ArkSave_%%g_%%e%%f_%%h.zip"
move *.zip .\_Saves

To use put the code in a text file and save it as a .bat file (make sure show extensions is on).
Step 1 zips the folder (batch file needs to be in the same directory as the saves
Step 2 extracts system date and time and puts them into variables then uses those variables to rename the zip file
Step 3 moves the zip file to a folder in the same directory I created called _Saves, but realistically you can move it anywhere.

[Lori37]

dude, don't necro something from 2015.... times have changed stuff...

[gnostromo]

Originally posted by Lori37:

dude, don't necro something from 2015.... times have changed stuff...

Oh shut it already.

Whining about necro is the worst of the worst. The necro was actually helpful. You on the other hand are a waste of air.
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Oh and sorry for the necroing, your pal in christ, Gnostromo

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This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.