How to start a new world on your 7 Days to Die server

Change Save Name on the Settings tab, Game Settings page, and restart. The server starts a brand new world under that name, and your old world stays on disk. Set the old name back to play it again.

Start a new world and keep the old one

1. Open your server in the panel, click the Settings tab, then Game Settings.
2. Type a new name in Save Name, for example Season2, and press Enter. Up to 32 characters: letters, numbers, spaces and _ . -.
3. Click Restart now.

The new world uses the map in World. To start on another map at the same time, change World too: How to choose your 7 Days to Die map, world size and seed.

Go back to an old world

1. Set Save Name to the old name, exactly as it was, capitals included.
2. Set World to the map that world was made on, with the same seed and size for a random map.
3. Restart the server.

To see which worlds you have, open Files and look in .local/share/7DaysToDie/Saves: one folder per map, and one folder per Save Name inside it.

What carries over

• Kept: the admin list, bans and whitelist (serveradmin.xml), your settings and your mods.
• New: the world, everything built in it, and players' characters, levels and inventories, which belong to a save.

Delete an old world instead

To clear the world you play now and start over under the same name, use the wipe: How to wipe your 7 Days to Die server.

To free the space an old world takes, download it first (How to download your 7 Days to Die world), then delete its folder in Files with Delete folder. Deleting it cannot be undone without a backup.