Uploading a Vintage Story Save to Your Server

You can move an existing single-player or local world onto your FSH server by
uploading its .vcdbs save file and pointing the server config at it.

Two things first:
The save's game version must match your server's version. Vintage Story locks
clients and worlds to a specific version, so a save from a newer/older game
build may not load. Update the server (or the save's source game) so they
match.
The server must have been started at least once so serverconfig.json
exists, and must be stopped while you edit it (edits made while running are
overwritten on shutdown).

1. Find Your Save on Your PC

Press Win + R, type %appdata%, and press Enter.

Open the VintagestoryData folder.

Open the Saves folder.

Locate the world you want — it's a .vcdbs file (e.g. myworld.vcdbs).

2. Upload It to the Server

Open the File Manager and navigate to:

data/Saves

Upload (drag and drop) your .vcdbs file into this folder.

3. Point the Server at Your Save

The world the server loads is set by SaveFileLocation, which lives inside the
WorldConfig section of serverconfig.json.

Still stopped, on the Startup tab clear the World Seed and World Name
fields if you've set them. Those egg settings write to WorldConfig on boot
and can override your save choice — leave them blank when loading an uploaded
world.

In the File Manager, open:

data/serverconfig.json

Find the WorldConfig block, then the SaveFileLocation line. By default it
points to .../Saves/default.vcdbs.

Change its value to the file you uploaded, using the server's path:

"SaveFileLocation": "/home/container/data/Saves/myworld.vcdbs"

Replace myworld.vcdbs with your actual file name. Use forward slashes, and
keep the surrounding quotes and the comma/format intact.

Save the file, then start the server.

Your uploaded world should now load.

Troubleshooting

Server generated a new/empty world instead: SaveFileLocation didn't take.
Confirm you edited it while the server was stopped, that the path and file
name are exactly correct (it's case-sensitive), and that World Seed / World
Name are blank on the Startup tab so they don't override WorldConfig.

Server won't start after loading the save: Almost always a version
mismatch — the save was made on a different Vintage Story version. Match the
server version to the save (set the Release version variable and Reinstall),
then try again.

Can't find the file you uploaded: Make sure it landed in data/Saves, not
the server root or data/. Saves only load from the Saves folder.

Uploading a Vintage Story Save to Your Server

1. Find Your Save on Your PC#

2. Upload It to the Server#

3. Point the Server at Your Save#

Troubleshooting#

1. Find Your Save on Your PC

2. Upload It to the Server

3. Point the Server at Your Save

Troubleshooting