Everything gone, character and world

[BananAnanas :]]

Me and my gf have been enjoying the game for about 40 hours now, but today when booting up, her character and world is gone.

Trying to find a fix for this but only found a thread from 2023 with similar issues.
I read about steams cloud sync messing it up, could that be it? and is there any way to get everything back?

Pretty damn frustrating, things like this is expected in Rust, but not here...

[Cuchilain]

do a google search on general steam cloud sync issues, because sometimes, if there is a desync it will overwrite a local save with a blank then upload that to steam. It shouldnt. It does. Happened to me years ago on a 40 or 50 hour game and i had to do a theeng were you go into your steam cloud files and choose which upload you want. It was 6 or 7 years ago.

[🎇TYPHOON🎇]

Rust doesn't work like that. The world is only saved on the server and usually the server admins have configured their world to reset every X days. That's why your stuff will be gone after a set amount of time. It was automatically deleted by the server.

That's not true in Smalland. Every player will have a world save in a folder on the player's own computer.

The world save is located in
"C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\SMALLAND\Saved\SaveGames\Worlds"

So check that folder on your gf's computer. If the world is not there, then it's gone. However, this should not happen just like that. Someone either deleted it by accident, logged into the computer with a different account name, or it could indeed be a Steam cloud desync, but that happens very rarely. I've never had this once in 20 years of using the Steam cloud. But I have a strong internet connection. Only reason I could think of why Steam would desync your cloud saves is, because your connection is really, REALLY bad.