Me and a buddy were making a map yesterday and we were forging it for about a half hour. Then took a break for a bit. After that we went forging for another half hour but when a friend joins us unexpectedly the lag ruined the map deleting most of the items. So we did everything over, restarted the whole game, and had him leave and I saved the map a bunch of times while we were forging the map for about 2 hours. Then we got off to finish it the next day and when I check this morning almost all the items that we had are gone!!! Now we have to spend probably another 2 hours to hopefully rebuild everything that was and I’m still scared to make anything now cause everything might delete again!!!
Can someone reply cause I don’t even know what this means or what to do…
Go to the Forge lobby. Even if the map is already selected, reselect it from your Local Files and see if the copy there is also damaged.
Forge has an autosave/backup feature, but it’s very unintuitive. Every time you exit Forge, a new copy of the map – exactly as it was when you exited – is placed in your Temporary History, and then that copy is selected in the lobby. However, the name is exactly identical to the one you manually saved in Local Files. So what I’m thinking is that your normal, undamaged copy is in Local Files, but your damaged copy is selected in the lobby and is stored in Temporary History.
> Go to the Forge lobby. Even if the map is already selected, reselect it from your Local Files and see if the copy there is also damaged.
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> Forge has an autosave/backup feature, but it’s very unintuitive. Every time you exit Forge, a new copy of the map – exactly as it was when you exited – is placed in your Temporary History, and then that copy is selected in the lobby. However, the name is exactly identical to the one you manually saved in Local Files. So what I’m thinking is that your normal, undamaged copy is in Local Files, but your damaged copy is selected in the lobby and is stored in Temporary History.
yea, you gotta make sure every time you save you add something different.
personally i use version numbers like
superawesome map v1.0
superawesome map v1.1
superawesome map v1.2
superawesome map v1.3
etc.
> yea, you gotta make sure every time you save you add something different.
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> personally i use version numbers like
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> superawesome map v1.0
> superawesome map v1.1
> superawesome map v1.2
> superawesome map v1.3
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> etc.
Same. I have around 80 to 90 copies of my first map, all different versions, and somewhere between 30 and 50 copies of my latest.
That sounds excessive, but when one considers that “Save” is horrendously broken and “Save As New” is the only reliable way to save a map,…