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Closed I keep loosing Homeworlds and Characters!

Discussion in 'Starbound Support' started by rkilburn81, Dec 16, 2015.

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  1. rkilburn81

    rkilburn81 Aquatic Astronaut

    I have put 300+ hours into this game, and I recently keep losing homeworlds, teleporter locations, and bookmarked locations upon start-up, and now I lost all my characters!
    What gives? Is there any way to fix this?
     
  2. lazarus78

    lazarus78 The Waste of Time

    Do their files still exist?
     
  3. rkilburn81

    rkilburn81 Aquatic Astronaut

    I dunno, how do I check that?
    Playing using Steam.
     
  4. lazarus78

    lazarus78 The Waste of Time

    Go to the game's installation folder and go to ..\giraffe_storage\player
     
  5. rkilburn81

    rkilburn81 Aquatic Astronaut

    Found it, now what?
     
  6. lazarus78

    lazarus78 The Waste of Time

    Are the files still there?
     
  7. rkilburn81

    rkilburn81 Aquatic Astronaut

    Seems like it. File dates from yesterday.
    upload_2015-12-16_18-17-18.png
     
  8. lazarus78

    lazarus78 The Waste of Time

    Did you by chance download an update jkust before the characters went missing from the game? The recent update is not compatible with old characters and a new character is required.
     
  9. rkilburn81

    rkilburn81 Aquatic Astronaut

    No, my computer crashed and when I booted back up, my characters were gone. This happened a few times to my teleport locations and bookmarks, and so I just hoarded all my stuff on my ship. Now I lost the hundreds of hours I put into my characters. :/
     
  10. lazarus78

    lazarus78 The Waste of Time

    Well they are likely corrupt now. You could try opening them in starcheat and see if that fixes anything, but I wouldn't count on it.
     
  11. iBurresgate

    iBurresgate Space Hobo

    the same happened to me, first I lost my worlds and bookmarks and today it crashed again but now I lost the character I was playing atm (my other characters are fine)
    is there a revert for this os something? this is really frustrating I was almost getting into rubium and stuff
     
  12. Devamia

    Devamia Void-Bound Voyager

    Same here... I just lost a character. The game crashed while I was attempting to explore the new crystal areas, and when i returned, promptly crashed again in the same place. Afterwards, attempting to open Starbound up again revealed no saved characters. I experienced a slowdown before it happened, both times. I tried importing the .shipworld over to save at least SOMETHING, but I can't go to the outpost even after I complete the tutorial quests as well as the ship one. I have it selected in planet view and everything, but it just makes a beeping noise. I'll just keep my old files somewhere just in case, but this is really disappointing. I don't want to do everything all over again, I've lost a lot of collectibles and work.

    EDIT: I found an old backup of my character, and restored the files. I lost some progress, but not everything at the very least, thank goodness...
     
    Last edited: Dec 17, 2015
  13. rkilburn81

    rkilburn81 Aquatic Astronaut

    How do you restore the character?
     
  14. lazarus78

    lazarus78 The Waste of Time

    In the folder where your characters are, there should be 1-3 files with extentions of "bak1", "bak2", and "bak3". Just remove the file extension so that the file has a .shipworld extension.
     
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