# Character/vehicle export utility?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123 "2018-03-15T18:58:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![hobophobe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hobophobe/32/1785_2.png) [@hobophobe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hobophobe)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/1 "2018-03-15T18:58:50Z")

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I thought once upon a time there was a way to export your character and vehicle between worlds. Does such a thing exist?

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**Author:** ![CK\_Kirbi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ck_kirbi/32/584_2.png) [@CK\_Kirbi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/CK_Kirbi)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/2 "2018-03-16T11:23:36Z")

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[http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=12119.0](http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=12119.0)

I used it just a few days ago to transfer a character from a mostly unmodded world to a heavily modded world. No muss. Character transport still works just fine. I haven’t messed with vehicle exporting but I imagine it will work just fine too.

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/3 "2018-03-16T11:54:20Z")

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Since the old website may go down at the end of the month, here’s the discourse link for the link above: [Releasing my Cataclysm Character + Vehicle Transfer Utility](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/releasing-my-cataclysm-character-vehicle-transfer-utility/11390)

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**Author:** ![psyxypher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/psyxypher/32/11778_2.png) [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/4 "2018-03-16T21:37:46Z")

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I’ve had issues transporting vehicles between worlds. Transfer tool just crashes whenever I try.

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/5 "2018-03-22T02:34:43Z")

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@psyxypher I’ve contacted jrw-git here: [https://github.com/jrw-git/cataclysm\_utility/issues/1](https://github.com/jrw-git/cataclysm_utility/issues/1) Could you give more details about the crash?

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**Author:** ![psyxypher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/psyxypher/32/11778_2.png) [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/6 "2018-03-22T02:41:14Z")

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I’m not sure what more details I can give other than this, and I’m not sure this will be helpful; but here goes:

Essentially, when trying to export a vehicle, upon selecting a world to export the vehicle from, it’ll usually not register any unique vehicles in that world. Other times, when it does, it’ll crash upon selecting a specific vehicle, usually running a lot of code before crashing.

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/7 "2018-03-22T02:49:08Z")

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Ok. I’ve relayed that to jrw-git.

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**Author:** ![john-cdda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@john-cdda](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/john-cdda)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/8 "2018-03-23T00:10:32Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m the author of the cataclysm utility. I haven’t touched it in quite some time, but I fired it up with CDDA version 6950 and it worked ‘okay’. It crashed trying to save a vehicle once, but I didn’t catch any errors. Subsequently it worked for transferring characters and I did transfer a complex RV successfully, with only a minor positioning error when loaded.

I’ll take a further look at it in the next few days, using the most recent version of CDDA.

Glad to see there’s still some interest!

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**Author:** ![Zanos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zanos/32/422_2.png) [@Zanos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zanos)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/9 "2018-03-23T01:30:22Z")

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I generally just copy the .sav file and the map tile my character is on with my vehicle to the new world’s save directory.

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**Author:** ![hobophobe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hobophobe/32/1785_2.png) [@hobophobe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hobophobe)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/10 "2018-03-25T02:41:34Z")

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Copying the .sav file seems straightforward enough, but how does step 2 work?

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**Author:** ![psyxypher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/psyxypher/32/11778_2.png) [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/character-vehicle-export-utility/15123/11 "2018-04-24T23:01:29Z")

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Has there been an updated release for the Transfer Utility?