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raiker123

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How do I update my version of Dwarf Fortress while keeping my game saves?
« on: April 05, 2012, 06:23:58 pm »
The search bar for this forum really doesn't work all that well and I really tried google and the wiki but i couldn't find anything, so I have to ask this question which has probably been asked hundreds of times before. Sorry.
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Re: How do I update my version of Dwarf Fortress while keeping my game saves?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2012, 06:26:51 pm »
This is the forum for gameplay questions.

Copy the region1 folder out of the DF/data/save directory, put it on your desktop, delete DF, drop the new version in, and put the region1 folder back in the /data/save directory. (You'll have to create a folder called save to put it into.)
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Re: How do I update my version of Dwarf Fortress while keeping my game saves?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2012, 06:29:24 pm »
thank you very much
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Re: How do I update my version of Dwarf Fortress while keeping my game saves?
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 08:51:12 am »
Either copy the save folder across or install over the top, accepting all overwrites.
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Re: How do I update my version of Dwarf Fortress while keeping my game saves?
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 09:00:49 am »
Extract the new version of DF in a new directory.  Make a data/save/ subdirectory under the new one.  Copy (recursively) the data/save/regionN/ directory from the old version into the new version.  Then optionally, delete the old DF version's directory.  (I'd probably leave it alone until I'm convinced the new version is stable enough to play.  That hasn't been an issue lately, but it's happened before.)
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