# Previous character's map... aaaaand it's gone

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [June 8, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654 "2013-06-08T14:35:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Alistaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistaire](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alistaire)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/1 "2013-06-08T14:35:58Z")

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I’ve started a new character in my world, and it had a big area of the map explored already. The area my previous character explored, possibly.  
That’s not really bad at all, but now I saved and loaded the character IT’S JUST GONE!? As in ALL of the visible map is gone. I can only see the normal viewing range of 11\*11 or so overworldmap tiles.

 ![](http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a409/wingbull/lolwut3_zps78c5b0a1.png)

And, I have no idea where the savefile should be, so if anyone tells me I could upload it if that helps.

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**Author:** ![Loupkiller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/loupkiller/32/3298_2.png) [@Loupkiller](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Loupkiller)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/2 "2013-06-08T14:43:43Z")

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Hello,

The save files are in a folder named save from where you launch the game.

Loup

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**Author:** ![Alistaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistaire](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alistaire)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/3 "2013-06-08T15:04:06Z")

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![](http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a409/wingbull/lolwut4_zps6db76ea6.png)

Yes?

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**Author:** ![Loupkiller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/loupkiller/32/3298_2.png) [@Loupkiller](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Loupkiller)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/4 "2013-06-08T15:14:55Z")

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In the options whats is your setting for delete world?

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**Author:** ![Alistaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistaire](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alistaire)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/5 "2013-06-08T15:39:41Z")

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delete\_world 0

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I’ve saved the game again, and there’s no save map anywhere.

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**Author:** ![Loupkiller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/loupkiller/32/3298_2.png) [@Loupkiller](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Loupkiller)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/6 "2013-06-08T16:14:03Z")

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I only have been playing with the game for a week or so, maybe its something someone else would know better than me.

Are you using the executable you have shown in the screenshot or a shortcut somewhere else on your PC?  
What version are you using?

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/7 "2013-06-08T19:06:44Z")

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> [@Loupkiller](#):
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> What version are you using?

This is particularly important. This bug should be already fixed in the dev version (and I believe the nightly version as well) so if you aren’t using one of those then you can at least know that we have already fixed the problem. 😛

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**Author:** ![Alistaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistaire](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alistaire)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/8 "2013-06-08T19:45:16Z")

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0.5 - there’s not a single savefile created for anything…

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**Author:** ![Loupkiller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/loupkiller/32/3298_2.png) [@Loupkiller](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Loupkiller)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/9 "2013-06-08T20:11:26Z")

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I would suggest that you use the latest stable as iamroy mentioned this might already be fixed.

Link from the main page: [http://assets.cataclysmdda.com/downloads/windows\_binaries/cdda-current.zip](http://assets.cataclysmdda.com/downloads/windows_binaries/cdda-current.zip)

Loup

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**Author:** ![Alistaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistaire](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alistaire)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/previous-characters-map-aaaaand-its-gone/1654/10 "2013-06-08T20:23:05Z")

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I removed everything and placed the new files in the folder, but it somehow loads my previous map… It seems like the savefile is somewhere else.