Originally posted by TTV_Zorlin3321:

doesn't matter, i just gave up and enabled creative mode and rebuilt my castle and stuff. at least i don't have to waste another week or two collecting stone and stuff. just sucks i had to lose progress at all, i liked the seed i got. lesson learned, turn the cloud storage the hell of and keep backups.

VH keeps backups on its own (worlds and character profiles). Per default up to 4 which means 6 in total:

I have no idea what you did but I'm pretty sure neither VH or Steam would delete all those files on their own.
And if they did the first thing to try is just restoring those files[1] - but it's probably to late for that now.

And you're sure none of those backups is/are anywhere in
With maybe different Windows/Steam users?

Steam cloud full? Local drive full?

And I'm reasonably sure that VH (or any other game) doesn't interact directly with the Steam cloud.
It only stores/loads the save states from the local cloud folder (and maybe triggers the Steam client to sync that folder).

Oh and you can do lightning quick global search in Windows over all drives with some tools.[2] In case you accidentally moved some folder...

Originally posted by ManAnt:

They don't care... Start a new world is the answer... always..

Who? IronGate? They only implemented the worlds_local + cloud save stuff to please some users where a mixture of different SteamIDs where used on the same local Windows account (or some other wired combinations).

It worked perfectly fine & as intended before but they changed it several times before the first normal release just to enable some unexpected use-cases.
But yeah, "they don't care"...


[1] there's a bunch of un-delete/recover tools available. Eg. Altap Salamander (v4.0) has this functionality + maybe Recuva?

[2] I know off Everything[www.voidtools.com] and UltraSearch[www.jam-software.com]. They don't crawl through the actual drives/folders/files, just the NTFS MFTs (or equivalent if possible).