Smart Save and Restore

Features

• []Keeps all character saves as opposed to the single .bak kept by the vanilla game.

  []"Save Now" key allows player to save game on demand

  []"Restore" key allows player to restore a prior game save upon game restart.

  []All key binds are configurable from F1 configuration menu.

  How it works

  Smart Save.  The vanilla game maintains the current character data and one backup in "%appdata%\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\characters" with the file extensions ".fch" and ".bak" respectively.  This causes problems because the backup is often identical to the current data which makes it useless for recovering a lost character. Smart Save keeps a copy of ALL saves permitting the player to restore a prior game as far back as they want. This smart save feature works in the background and happens at the same time (every 30 minutes) as the normal game save process. An in-game message indicates that the game has been saved.  Note that Smart Save only saves the character profile data, which includes character skills, backpack inventory, deaths, location, etc. The game maintains other information in a world save, including chest inventory, player built structures, portal locations. If you play on a dedicated server, that information is maintained on the server and must be backed up by the server owner.

  Save Now! A user can cause force the game to save with a keypress. The default key bind is "left control + s" but this can be changed in the F1 configuration menu.

  Restore.  A user can restore to a prior saved character with a keypress. The Restore key opens a standard windows file dialog box that allows the user to select the prior saved character. Smart save files are named in the following format: "Character Name_World Name_Game Day_Game Hour.sav". For example, "Raknor_10th Realm_Day 753_05.sav" corresponds to the following:

  Character Name: Raknor

  World Name: 10th Realm

  Game Day of Save: 753

  Game Hour of Save: 05 (i.e. 5 a.m. in-game time)

  This format is intended to allow the user to find the correct save by game day. Alternatively, the character saves may also be sorted in the file open dialog by file modification date by clicking on the date column in the usual manner for windows file open dialogs. Note that smart save keeps a back up of both the current save file and the current backup file in case something goes wrong...which it won't because nothing ever goes wrong with amateur mods ; )

  If "auto logout" is checked in the F1 configuration menu, the game will logout automatically. The prior save will be restored upon logon. Otherwise, the user must manually log out and log back in for the