# Starting a new game
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [April 25, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007 "2013-04-25T19:55:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@lwCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/lwCoyote)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007/1 "2013-04-25T19:55:02Z")
Is there any thing I can do to assure that a new game starts in a fresh world, without deleting existing save games?
---
### Author:  [@Squirrel](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Squirrel)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007/2 "2013-04-25T19:59:55Z")
Just remove the saves folder from the cataclysm folder to somewhere else, (eg. desktop), start a new game. If you want to go back to your original char., then swap the save folders. (So both are still saved).
Assuming I understood your question right.
---
### Author:  [@kastor246](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kastor246)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007/3 "2013-04-25T20:15:36Z")
Do you mean making a new world but transfering your character?
---
### Author:  [@lwCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/lwCoyote)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007/4 "2013-04-25T20:16:43Z")
> [@kastor246](#):
>
> Do you mean making a new world but transfering your character?
Nope. Squirrel more or lless got what I meant. Sorry I wasn’t more clear though!
---
### Author:  [@lwCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/lwCoyote)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007/5 "2013-04-25T20:19:07Z")
Prior to moving my save-game folder, I have 2 characters made; one of them for my youtube LP, and one of them for off-camera play.
Are both characters in the same world?
When I created a third character, he started in the same shelter as the first character… are there a bunch of shelters around that new characters are randomly assigned to?
---
### Author:  [@kastor246](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kastor246)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/starting-a-new-game/1007/6 "2013-04-25T21:33:41Z")
[quote=“lwCoyote, post:5, topic:1007”]Prior to moving my save-game folder, I have 2 characters made; one of them for my youtube LP, and one of them for off-camera play.
Are both characters in the same world?
When I created a third character, he started in the same shelter as the first character… are there a bunch of shelters around that new characters are randomly assigned to?[/quote] Yes they are all in the same world. I don’t know how many EVAC shelters their are but there is enough so you start at a random place.