How to Back Up and Restore a Stationeers World

Stationeers worlds represent a lot of careful work, and the game only writes them out on a save. Knowing exactly when that happens is what protects a base.

When Stationeers actually saves

• On the autosave interval, set by SaveInterval in settings.xml, in seconds.
• On a clean shutdown.
• When an admin runs a save command.

Anything else, including the process being killed, loses everything since the last save.

Take a backup

1. As an admin in game, run:

   serverrun save "myworld"

   or type the save command in the panel Console.
2. Stop the server from the panel and wait for it to report it is offline.
3. In Files, find the saves folder and download the folder for your world.

Do this before a game update, before a settings experiment, and before anything you would be upset to lose.

Restore a world

1. Stop the server.
2. In Files, upload your saved world folder back into the saves directory.
3. Open settings.xml and set SaveName to the folder name.
4. Start the server and watch the console as the world loads.

The world came back empty

• Check SaveName in settings.xml. A name that does not exist makes the server generate a fresh world, leaving the old one untouched on disk.
• Check the saves folder in Files. Folder sizes and modified dates tell you which save is the real one.
• If you edited settings.xml while the server was running, the change was overwritten on shutdown and the server may have gone back to a different save name.

Lower the risk

• Reduce SaveInterval if you lose progress regularly. More frequent saves cost a short pause each time.
• Turn on AutoPauseServer so the simulation is not running unattended between saves.
• Take a download before every game update. Stationeers updates occasionally change how worlds load.

What to send support

Open a ticket with the save name you expect, a listing of the saves folder, and the last hundred lines of the console from the start where the world went missing.