Village save completely lost after crash??

[Tyrax]

I'm not sure if this is a steam cloud problem, but I started a new village today, saved a few times then crashed at 50 population - as per usual. When I restarted the game, the village was nowhere in the load menu, like not even the actual village tab, as if all saves were gone...

EDIT: For anyone reading this in search of a temporary solution, until devs fix it: Navigate to the save folder, find the folder for your village and delete the latest autosave - which most likely is a 0kb corrupt file. The the village should re-appear in your load menu. If not, delete the quicksave/save before that too

[Dragonet]

Any fix for this? this happened to me today.

[Baeri]

Hi

I had the same problem. I tried everything, even reinstall the game. But this solution worked for me. I started a new game, waited for the first autosave, then maked a manual safe, go back to menu and the old saves are back.

Hope it helps

[Tyrax]

Originally posted by Baeri:

Hi

I had the same problem. I tried everything, even reinstall the game. But this solution worked for me. I started a new game, waited for the first autosave, then maked a manual safe, go back to menu and the old saves are back.

Hope it helps

I can confirm that worked, but after the next crash the saves were gone again in the list (even if they are in the folder)

If any dev is reading this - please look into how the save files list is generated in the menu.

[Baeri]

Originally posted by Tyrax:

Originally posted by Baeri:

Hi

I had the same problem. I tried everything, even reinstall the game. But this solution worked for me. I started a new game, waited for the first autosave, then maked a manual safe, go back to menu and the old saves are back.

Hope it helps

I can confirm that worked, but after the next crash the saves were gone again in the list (even if they are in the folder)

If any dev is reading this - please look into how the save files list is generated in the menu.

This is not a long-term solution. I have deactivated the cloud for security reasons and make regular manual backups. I think the game has a general problem with saving, possibly a checksum error. After loading a savegame I have very strange behavior, buildings that are already built, but the hammer symbol appears again. As soon as a building is completed, a checksum check is performed and the symbols are gone. The developers need to do something about this.

[Tyrax]

Originally posted by Baeri:

I have deactivated the cloud for security reasons

What do you mean by this?

And you are right about checksum - I navigated to the save folder, deleted the latest one and then the village re-appeared in the load screen.

[Tyrax]

For anyone reading this in search of a temporary solution, until devs fix it: Navigate to the save folder, find the folder for your village and delete the latest autosave - which most likely is a 0kb corrupt file. The the village should re-appear in your load menu. If not, delete the quicksave/save before that too.

I can't mark my own post as answer, so I added it to the OP as Edit.

[Baeri]

Originally posted by Tyrax:

Originally posted by Baeri:

I have deactivated the cloud for security reasons

What do you mean by this?

And you are right about checksum - I navigated to the save folder, deleted the latest one and then the village re-appeared in the load screen.

Because i think the synchronisation can be corrupted, im not sure. But yes, you can delete the latest save file and restart the game. It needs a trigger to find the save folder. It can be fixed by the devs easily.
But i think they have a lot of fixes to do in that game :)

[Bengan Trålar]

Just happened to me too. Made a new save and then i found the old autoasaves ingame when i presses load. Also make sure cloud saves are on and save alot!