Backup save.

[Andy]

I had just built a portal and was going to return to town on island 4, when I was overrun by enemies and died. Now, I was using a stopwatch to time this to make sure I wasn't out at night, but for some reason they showed up anyway. Thanks, incompetent devs. 8 hours of progress lost. I'm so glad that you didn't bother looking into a feature that takes control and vision away from your character.
Either way, I'm just wondering where the backup save can be found, so I can undo what the incompetent devs did to me.

[Survivalisme]

Screwed up in your game and don't feel like blaming yourself for your mistake ?

No problem, use your special card : "incompetent devs" ! Always works

[Andy]

And what did I do wrong?

[Andy]

How the ♥♥♥♥ do I get gems back after dying because of a bug?

[Andy]

Well, since the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at Valve decided to not give me a refund, I decided to start over. After island 2, I went right back to island 1 to get the archer upgrade, and now my archers are incapable of taking down a portal, because they all fire in a straight arch and can't hit the units coming out of the portal, and the squires/knights are useless. I sent three squads, and they were destroyed within 30 second on the first ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ island! My old ♥♥♥♥♥♥ archers were able to kill the enemy units, because they fired randomly, so they would occasionally hit the charging enemies.
How the ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to play a game that's this broken? What the ♥♥♥♥ were the devs thinking, and why haven't they fixed this? Are you supposed to play without upgrading certain abilities, because they don't work?
What the actual ♥♥♥♥ is going on?

"wah wah boo hoo u r full of ♥♥♥♥"
Do you want me to record it and upload it to Youtube as proof?

[Capt. Latrios]

You get gems back by destroying the cliff portal.

And you're supposed to buff squires/knights by giving them coins so they can take hits. At that point, you should also be joining them so you can give them coins when the greed occasionally knock one loose.

Also returning to the first island after getting to the second one is a good idea, because if you bring gems with you when you return, you'll be able to pay for the Archery Statue so that your archers no longer suck eggs when it comes to shooting

[teleshoes]

1) greed USUALLY come out during the day, to arrive at your gates a little after nightfall. during blood moons or retaliations, you can hear them come out.
2) using a portal makes you blind to your actual surroundings, like scrying or having an out of body experience. your body is vulnerable while your mind is abroad. i cant imagine this isnt a deliberate consequence.
3) relying on your archers to MISS when firing on a portal doesnt seem like a sound strategy. also, i think your old archers only succeeded because the number of greed per night time wave is much smaller when you first start out. i think youre sending out the knights at a bad time (during the day, for example) and hitting a night time wave on the way or shortly after arriveing. if your squires get to a portal during the day, only one greed will come out every 6s or so. anyway, anyway, archery statue is the best buff in the game, hands down.
4) i dont think pocket watches exist in the monarch's universe. if she cant see the sun, she has to use instinct and guile. why do you get a stopwatch?
5) as soon as anything isnt absolutely effortless for the lowest common denominator of players, make sure to vent your frustration by blaming the developers for 'bugs'
6) BUT this game REALLY DID have some serious bugs (invisible vagrants, ignored walls, etc), so i cant blame you too hard. all the ACTUAL bugs ive seen have been long fixed.
certainly, none of the things youre talking about are actually bugs, and, in my opinion, all of your experiences described above are part of the intended kingdom experience. youre supposed to experience defeat, and learn from it.

[BloxSlot]

i run cobian backup while playing and backup the saves every 5 minutes, so for a game I could have 100's of automatically saved files that I can go back to. Just goiogle cobian backup, it's free, and you can configure to backup the folder of saves whenever you want.