V Rising How to Migrate a Private Game Save to a Dedicated Server

Private Save Folder:: can be accessed using ‘%appdata%\..\LocalLow’
\AppData\LocalLow\Stunlock Studios\VRising\Saves\v1\example-file-name (i.e: a181f3c3-f56b-4bf6-b003-44230d21abd5)

Server Folder:
steamapps\common\VRisingDedicatedServer

Settings Folder
steamapps\common\VRisingDedicatedServer\VRisingServer_Data\StreamingAssets\SettingsThese paths will change depending on your own Steam setup

>> Creating the Server save folder
1: Navigate to Server Folder and type ‘cmd’ into the address bar at the top. This will open the directory in command prompt.2: run ‘VRisingServer.exe -persistentDataPath exampleFolder‘ where exampleFolder is the name of the dedicated server save folder. This can be anything.3: Hit Ctrl+C once this runs to close the server. We just need it to create the file path for us.>> Migrate private save folder
1: Head into serverFolder\exampleFolder\Saves\v1\privateSaveFolder and copy in your private save file

2: Open the copied private save file and change the ServerHostSettings.json ‘Name’ field to match the name of the Dedicated Server

>> Set Dedicated server to use the correct save folder
1: Go to SettingsFolder\ServerHostSettings.json and change the SaveName field to the name of your privateSaveFolder (i.e: a181f3c3-f56b-4bf6-b003-44230d21abd5)

Take this code, replace the data path with the name you chose, and save this ‘start.bat’ and you can then double click this to run with the persistentDataPath you chose.

@echo off set SteamAppId=1604030 echo “Starting V Rising Dedicated Server – PRESS CTRL-C to exit” @echo on VRisingServer.exe -persistentDataPath .\[replace this with your savefolder name]

VRisingServer.exe -persistentDataPath .\exampleFolderPath