Worlds and uploading yours

Worlds in Dragonwilds

Every Dragonwilds world is one .sav file, and the file's name without .sav is the world's name. Your server can hold several worlds, and at every start it loads the one named in the World name field of the Settings tab. Every world is in the table of the World tab, with the active one marked.

If no world has that name yet, the server creates a Standard world with it as it starts.

A world name is at most 16 characters, and capital and small letters in it are different. Players search for your server by this same name.

World type and difficulty

Dragonwilds sets the world type, the difficulty and every world setting when the world is created in the game, and saves them inside the .sav file. The server has no setting for them, and the world your server creates on its own is always Standard. For a Custom or Creative world, create it in Dragonwilds on your PC, then upload it.

Upload a world from your PC

The worlds you play on your PC are in:

%localappdata%\RSDragonwilds\Saved\SaveGames

1. If the world is new, enter it in Dragonwilds and wait 1 to 2 minutes, so the area around you loads completely
2. Leave the world: press Esc, then Exit Game
3. Stop your server, because a world can't be uploaded while it runs
4. Press Upload world in the World tab and pick the world's .sav file from the folder above. Its name without .sav must be 16 characters or fewer, with no space at its start or end
5. Once the world appears in the table, press Activate on its row. This sets the world name to the file's name for you
6. Start your server

Switch between worlds

Every world in the table has an Activate button. It sets the world name in the Settings tab to that world's name, and your server loads it at the next start. If your server is running, restart it to switch. The old world stays in the table, so activate it again whenever you like.

Create a new world

Press Create world and type its name: up to 16 characters, with no space at its start or end, and no /, \ or two dots in a row. The name becomes the world name, and at the next start Dragonwilds creates a new Standard world with it. If your server is running, restart it to create the world. Your current world stays in the table, and Activate brings it back.

Delete a world

Press Delete on the world's row, and the world is gone for good. We don't take a backup before the delete, so take one first if you might want the world back. The active world can't be deleted, so activate another one first. If your server is running, we stop it and start it again for you.

Download a world

Press Download on a world's row to get its .sav file, for your PC or another server. Keep its name as it is.

Backups

A stop or a restart writes nothing to the world, and it keeps what the game last saved. Your server's backups hold every world in the table, with your settings and mods. We take one automatically before every game update. Restore one from the Backups page.