Backups

How Enshrouded saves

• The server saves the world only, in one file, savegame/world0.ksd, and each player's character lives on their own PC.
• Enshrouded writes the world every 30 seconds, even with nobody on, and keeps its last 10 copies in savegame/backup/.
• On a normal stop, Enshrouded writes the world within a second.
• Enshrouded has no manual save command, so we can't ask it to save before a backup.

The Server health card on the Overview page shows when the world was last saved.

What a backup holds

Your server's backup holds:

• The world, in the savegame folder
• The settings file enshrouded_server.json, which holds the role passwords, their rights and the list of banned players

It doesn't hold Enshrouded's 10 copies in savegame/backup/, or the players' characters, which are on their own PCs.

Clean or mid-play

• While the server is stopped: the backup holds what Enshrouded wrote when it stopped, and it's badged Clean.
• While the server is running: it holds the last write and is badged Mid-play, so the last 30 seconds of play may be missing.

Restore a backup

Press Restore on the backup you want. We take a copy of the current state first, then stop the server, roll the files back and start it again, and Enshrouded opens the world as it was when the backup was taken.

Before a wipe

We take no backup before a wipe, and a wipe deletes the world file for good. Take one yourself first with Back up now. The details are in the worlds guide.