Watch the video:

0:00 - Intro/Explanation
0:27 - Find savegame
1:44 - Copy save game to dedicated server
2:32 - Configure server to use save game
4:15 - Join server with your save game

Migrating data

This guide explains everything you need to know about migrating your current offline/LAN savegame in V Rising to a Dedicated Server. Whether you’re running this on your own computer, on a VPS in the cloud, or one of the official V Rising hosting partners, we have you covered.

1. Locate your savegame

On the computer you’ve made progress on and have the savegame on press Start+E, Windows+E, or just open a File Explorer window as normal.

Copy and paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Stunlock Studios\VRising\CloudSaves\ into the path at the very top, then hit Enter.

This should open a folder where you see one or more Steam IDs. Each one in here have played V Rising on your system. There will likely be one, so open that one.

Open v3 and you should see each world saved on your computer. You will most likely need to sort by Date Modified in order to find the most recently played savegame.

Opening this folder shows all of the settings, as well as save states for the game. We will be copying the folder with the long name. For example, mine is: ef0cb1bc-6a84-47a2-ab8e-1027bc6f70b2.

2. Migrate to Dedicated Server

Open the Dedicated Server’s install folder. If you installed on Steam Right-Click the game and choose Manage > Browse Local Files.

Copy the folder (with the long name) into VRisingDedicatedServer\save-data\Saves\v3. This should place it next to world1 if you’ve just set up a brand new server.

3. Tell server to use our new world

The server will still work using world1 or whatever it was set up to from before. To point it to our new savegame we need to change the config.

If you start the server with Start Server.bat or something similar open that with a text editor and change -saveName "world1" to -saveName "ef0cb1bc-6a84-47a2-ab8e-1027bc6f70b2", for example. Remember to replace the long string of text with the one of your own folder.

If you’re running it on a VPS or hosting website this launch argument may be somewhere else, or nowhere at all. Don’t worry, as we’ll also set it in the settings files. The settings file options are overridden with the ones in this bat file (if you launch it from one).

Open VRisingServer_Data\StreamingAssets\Settings\ServerHostSettings.json and change "SaveName": "world1", to something more like "SaveName": "ef0cb1bc-6a84-47a2-ab8e-1027bc6f70b2",.

4. Enjoy your server

The next time you launch up your server you should be able to continue exactly from where you left off. Nothing crazy needed. No Palworld-like converter to keep the hosts inventory and progress: Everything is the way you left it, just now being hosted in another program, on another computer or even in another country.

I hope you found this guide useful!

If you would like to see more information on setting up a custom server, see the article on Setting up a V Rising Dedicated Server to do so for free (it has a video too!)