7 Days to Die – Lost Save Because Power Loss / Blue Screen / PC Crash [Solved]

How to Recover Lost Saves

So your computer completely crashed while you were in the middle of your game. Or maybe the power went out unexpectedly. Or you had a BSOD. Or you just ragequit with Alt-F4. Now afterwards you aren’t able to see your save game in the list anymore.

This is caused because the improper shutdown caused files that were in use to be corrupted. (Note that this will happen to any program or system file that was in use, so be sure to run a system repair and file validation!)

Step 1:

Navigate to:

C:\Users[Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Saves[Map Name][Save Name]

If you aren’t sure, the error message should give you the exact path as well.

Step 2:

Make a backup by copying the [Save Name] folder to another location on your computer. (This is basically making a backup of the save files just in case.)

Step 3:

Create a new game on that same map and remember the save name, then quit the game. (You can just call it “New Save” for reference.)

Step 4:

Navigate to:

C:\Users[your username]\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Saves[Map Name][New Save Name]

And copy both the main.ttw and main.ttw.bak to the following folder:

C:\Users[your username]\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Saves[Map Name][Save Name]

You will be told that “The destination has 2 files with the same names”, click on “Replace the files in the destination” button.

Step 5:

Run 7DTD and try to continue your previous save game. Don’t worry about the say count resetting.

Side Note:

It may work to just delete the main.ttw file and rename main.ttw.mak to main.ttw, and that could possibly allow you to continue with little lost in terms of day count. This is not as reliable though as the backup file may have become corrupted as well.