Back up and move your Romestead world

Your Romestead world is backed up every time the server sleeps, and every 10 minutes while it runs. You can also make a backup yourself, restore one, or download one as a zip from Backups. This page also shows where Romestead keeps worlds, and how to bring yours from single player.

How backups work on Wilderack

Backups hold your world and config.json, never the game files.

Make, restore and download a backup

Make one: open Backups, press the backup button and name it, like “before the cyclops”.

Restore one: pick it in Backups and restore it. We make a safety backup of the current world first, so you can undo. Then start the server.

Download one: pick it in Backups and download it as a zip. The link works for 24 hours.

Romestead’s own backups

The game saves the world every few minutes on its own. It also keeps one rolling backup of each world, and loads it by itself if the newest save won’t load. Our backups go further back, so you can undo days of play, not just the last save.

Where the world lives on the server

Worlds are in the saved_worlds folder, in the server’s main folder next to config.json. Each world has its own folder there.

Which world loads is set by AutoStartWorldName in config.json. Always copy or download a world’s whole folder. Single files from it aren’t a usable save on their own.

Bring your single-player world

Find it on your PC

Close Romestead first. Then open the folder for your device:

On Windows, paste the path into the File Explorer address bar or the Run box (Win + R). Each folder inside saved_worlds is one world, named after it. Romestead isn’t on Mac or consoles.

Your characters are saved separately, in the characters folder next to saved_worlds. You don’t need to upload them: each player brings their own character when they join.

Upload it

The easy way:

1. Zip the world’s folder, keeping its name.
2. Open Games > Bring your world and upload the zip.
3. In Settings, choose that world, then start the server.

The manual way, with Files or SFTP:

1. Stop the server on Overview.
2. Upload the whole world folder into saved_worlds on the server.
3. In config.json, set AutoStartWorldName to the world’s name, spelled exactly like its folder.
4. Start the server, and check that your world loaded before anyone builds.

If the server starts a brand new world instead, the name doesn’t match. See the server made a new world.

Your PC and the server should be on the same Romestead version when you move a world.

Move a world from another host

1. On the old host, stop the server and download its whole saved_worlds folder, or just your world’s folder.
2. Upload it with the steps in Upload it.
3. Set AutoStartWorldName to the world’s name and start the server.

Take a world back to single player

1. Download a backup from Backups, or the world folder from Files.
2. Close Romestead and put the world folder in your saved_worlds folder.
3. Start Romestead. If Steam asks about a cloud save conflict, keep the local files, so the cloud copy doesn’t replace the world you just added.