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Foundry: Manage Save Games

Learn how to back up save games on your Foundry VPS, upload your own worlds, and activate them → Find out more

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Introduction

In this guide, we’ll show you how to manage save games on your Foundry VPS: how to back up local and server save games, upload your own save game to the server, and activate it.

Preparation

Connect to your VPS using Remote Desktop. For example, you can copy files between your PC and VPS during the Remote Desktop session by copying and pasting.

If you set up Foundry with the Game Server Installer, the save games are stored on your VPS here:

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C:\ZapX-GameServers\foundry\data\save

You’ll find a separate folder for each world.

Back Up a Save Game

Local Save Game

Local save games are ones you created while hosting a multiplayer game locally on your device. You’ll find them in the Windows LocalLow AppData folder, specifically at this path:

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../AppData/LocalLow/Channel 3 Entertainment/Foundry/save

Tip

You can open this path directly by pressing CTRL + R and entering the following path in the Run dialog: %userprofile%/appdata/locallow/Channel 3 Entertainment/foundry/save. Click OK to open the folder.

You’ll find all your local save games there.

Server Save Game

Stop the server using the FOUNDRY (foundry) - Stop shortcut to make sure the save is fully written. Then open the C:\ZapX-GameServers\foundry\data\save folder and copy your world’s folder to your PC. Start the server again using FOUNDRY (foundry) - Start.

Automatic Backups

Use the FOUNDRY (foundry) - Backup shortcut to back up your world, the archive, and app.cfg as a ZIP file in C:\ZapX-GameServers\_backups\foundry\. Use FOUNDRY (foundry) - Restore to restore a backup.

Your entire VPS is also backed up automatically every day. With an active ZapX Pass, you can restore these backups yourself and create your own backups. Find out more in Daily Backups, Restoring Backups, and Restricted Actions.

Upload a Save Game

Stop the server using the FOUNDRY (foundry) - Stop shortcut.
Copy your save game folder from your PC to C:\ZapX-GameServers\foundry\data\save on the VPS.

Tip

Make a note of the name of the save game folder you uploaded. You’ll need it in the next step to activate the save game.

Activate a Save Game

The server_world_name parameter in C:\ZapX-GameServers\foundry\server\app.cfg determines which world the server loads. Change its value to the name of the save game folder you uploaded, save the file, and start the server using FOUNDRY (foundry) - Start. For more information about the settings in app.cfg, see Foundry: Server Configuration.

Conclusion

Your own save game is now running on your Foundry server. If you have any questions or need help, our support team is here for you every day! 🙂

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

They’re in ../AppData/LocalLow/Channel 3 Entertainment/Foundry/save. The quickest way to open the folder is to press CTRL + R and enter %userprofile%/appdata/locallow/Channel 3 Entertainment/foundry/save.

If you set up Foundry with the Game Server Installer, they’re in C:\ZapX-GameServers\foundry\data\save. Each world has its own folder.

Stop the server, set server_world_name in app.cfg to the name of the uploaded save game folder, and start the server again.

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Foundry: Manage Save Games

Introduction

Preparation

Back Up a Save Game

Local Save Game

Server Save Game

Automatic Backups

Upload a Save Game

Activate a Save Game

Conclusion

Frequently asked questions

Foundry

Preparation

Back Up a Save Game

Local Save Game

Server Save Game

Automatic Backups

Upload a Save Game

Activate a Save Game

Conclusion

Game Server

Servers & Hosting

ZAPX

Resources

ZAP-Hosting