How to Download the Savegame of Your PixARK Server

You can download your server's save to your PC at any time – for example as an additional backup or to transfer it to another server.

In PixARK all mutable data lives in a single folder: Saved. It contains the voxel world, the player and tribe data, your configuration files and the logs.

Caution

Stop your server before downloading the files. While running, the server constantly writes to the save – otherwise you would download an incomplete or corrupted state.

Download the savegame

1. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

2. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP.

3. Open the directory
   Navigate to the following directory:

   /ShooterGame/

4. Download the folder
   Download the complete Saved folder to your PC:

   /ShooterGame/Saved/

   Note

   Always download the entire folder instead of picking individual subfolders. World, player and tribe data are stored in separate subfolders and belong together – if one of them is missing, the save is unusable.

5. Start the server
   Start your server again.

What is inside the Saved folder?

Content	Description
World data	The entire voxel world including all buildings and terrain changes
Player and tribe data	Characters, progress, inventories and tribes
Config/WindowsServer/	Configuration files, among them the GameUserSettings.ini
Logs/	The server logs

Note

The configuration folder is called WindowsServer on your Linux server as well. That is intended – PixARK only ships a Windows server binary, which runs on Linux servers through a compatibility layer.

Restoring the savegame

If you want to transfer the save back to a server later, follow the guide Add Savegame.

Regular backups

For automatic or regular backups you can also use the backup function: Create Backup.