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How to Upload or Download a Save-Game for Your Project Zomboid Server

How to Upload or Download a Save-Game for Your Project Zomboid Server

Project Zomboid
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Nov 10, 2024
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5 min read

If you have an existing Singleplayer save, you're able to upload this to your server at any time you'd like. On top of uploading an existing world, you can download this locally and convert your world to a Singleplayer save.

#Uploading the Save to your Server

  1. Access your Control Panel and Stop your server.

  2. Navigate to the Project Zomboid user directory on your computer. For Windows, you can find this under C:/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Zomboid by default.

  3. Click the /Saves folder to see a list of all your worlds. Depending on the gamemode you've chosen for your save, this will be located in the corresponding folder.

  4. Navigate back to your Control Panel and select the Files tab.

  5. Select the SFTP Connect and login to your server's FTP directory via an FTP client such as Filezilla or WinSCP.

  6. Navigate to /Zomboid/Saves/Multiplayer in your server's FTP directory. Upload the save folder on your computer to this directory.

  7. Rename the save folder you've uploaded to the world field that matches on your control panel. If this folder exists already, delete or rename the existing world folder.

Important

If you start the server after this point, your server will crash. You will need to convert your players.db file to the format Multiplayer uses or delete your players.db in your world folder. Do keep in mind that if you delete the players.db file, your player data will reset.

Setting the Active World

Now that you have officially uploaded your world to the server, you will need to set the active world in the Config area of the panel.

  1. Access your Control Panel and Stop your server.

  2. Navigate to the Config tab and locate the World Name option. Set this value to the name of the save you uploaded in the earlier steps.

  3. Save and restart your server to ensure the new changes apply.

#Downloading your Save

  1. Access your Control Panel and Stop your server.

  2. Navigate to the Files tab and locate the /Zomboid/Saves/Multiplayer directory on your server. Locate the world folder with the same name as the field on your control panel.

  3. Select the download button and then place the save in any of the gamemode folders located under C:/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Zomboid/Saves directory.

  4. Copy the players.db file from another existing Singleplayer world you have to the world you've just downloaded. The other Singleplayer world can be any world of your choice as this is just a placeholder to transfer your Multiplayer save data.

  5. Once you've moved a Singleplayer compatible players.db file to your world that you just downloaded, follow our Knowledgebase guide here.

  6. Start Project Zomboid on your computer, then press the LOAD button.

  7. Select the world you've just uploaded and press PLAY.

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