How do saves work in the game?
Included save
There is a save included in save slot 50 on anything non-mobile, which will start you at the beginning of the newest update. We can't provide a save for mobile at this time.
Old saves
Your old save will work as long as it's a save from 0.5 or later, as saves from before then are incompatible. We try to avoid breaking saves as much as possible, but in active development it is nearly impossible to do so. The easiest way to transfer your saves, is to drag the save folder from the old version into the new one and overwrite—although you may overwrite save slot 50 that comes with the download. If you want to avoid doing so, then manually transfer the global
, config
and the specific save file you want, such as file1
.
Mobile saves
As long as the save is compatible with the new version, simply updating the app will transfer your saves over automatically. Deleting the app will wipe your saves—this cannot be undone. Because of how the saves work on mobile, you can't transfer saves to or from your mobile. If old saves are incompatible in a new release, you'll have to start from the beginning until we have found a solution. We are working on it.
From our Discord FAQ.
Basically, if you only copy over the save file, the game won't know the file is there because that information is stored in the global file. So you transfer the global file with it, or you could save in the slot you want e.g. slot 20, and then move save file20 over and overwrite.