How to save a character, and start a new one?

[Twelvepak]

So I am playing solo, on a hosted local server on my PC. Whenever I loggoff, and run it again, it picks up where I left off. I want to try some new character builds on my machine, without losing my current one. Which files should I save a copy of so I can start a new server without losing my first character?

[Zalzany]

When you go to sp mode it will ask if you want to continue, don't continue suppose to wipe the whole map, and your character. I just wiped mine to test it it worked. Don't hit continue is all you got do.

[Twelvepak]

But I don't want to wipe the one I've got going. That's what I'm trying to figure out. How to start a new singleplayer/co-op session without wiping my current solo game.

[MugHug]

Suspect we need to find the character/session files and back them up. A bit of file swapping to switch from one to another.

[Norry]

Honestly in single player, you could use admin to put yourself back to what you had so making a new one isn't such a big deal. Just take a few notes so you can cheat yourself back to what you were. (Though admittedly, copy/paste or renamed files would be easier. At least this would do for a workaround until)

[Twelvepak]

Yeah, that's what I want to do. In rummaging through the files though, I can't tell which ones.

[Zurar]

I haven't tried it, but you can try going to ...\steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\ and rename the "Saved" folder to something like "Backup" and launch the game and see if you're still on the old char. Note: Since the config files are also stored here, all your settings will likely reset, too, including keybinds. Alternatively, you can just try moving all the files inside the folder except for the config folder, and that should keep your bindings/settings.

[MugHug]

Suspect X:\Steam\steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved might be worth investigating.

It seems the files starting with the name 'game' are part of a complete save and when you create a new toon the previous save is renamed to 'game_backup_1', 'game_backup_2' and so on. The higher the number the older the save.

The dates of these files clearly relate to that session, etc.

But on deleting 'save' and renaming one of the older files to just 'save' it identifies an old save but when you hit continue it just goes to new character creation.

Wonder if a complete save is more then this one file.

[Twelvepak]

Making a copy of the Saved folder in teh Sandbox folder, then removing the original worked. Thanks for the tips

[Pancakes]

Here's hoping they add a few more save files down the road.

[Blackwolfe]

Would be wonderful being able to have more than one character on singleplayer/local. And a ruleset for servers saying how many chars you can have on that server.