# Worldgen Question
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [October 30, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715 "2013-10-30T01:10:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@YanniFirewind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/YanniFirewind)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/1 "2013-10-30T01:10:32Z")
I’ve noticed something after some of my many deaths. More than once, I’ve told the game to not delete a world, only to spawn in a completely different one. And more than once, I’ve told a world to delete only to spawn there again. Is there a reason for this? (Stable .8 build). Also, is there a way to back up a world so I can recover it untouched after I die?
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/2 "2013-10-30T01:12:57Z")
You sure it’s a new world? You get placed at a new Evac Shelter most the time
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### Author:  [@YanniFirewind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/YanniFirewind)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/3 "2013-10-30T01:16:05Z")
I’m sure. I’ve been suiciding until I see world I like, and the RNG hates me, so I’ve spawned on top of my own corpse multiple times.
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/4 "2013-10-30T01:22:40Z")
> [@YanniFirewind](#):
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> I’m sure. I’ve been suiciding until I see world I like, and the RNG hates me, so I’ve spawned on top of my own corpse multiple times.
Use the editor to reveal the whole map and check it out. Though in the more recent builds my bodies have been missing. (though I assumed monsters ate it XD Because I’ve been killed by assorted critters that’d eat it. XD)
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### Author:  [@YanniFirewind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/YanniFirewind)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/5 "2013-10-30T01:28:37Z")
Where are my saved worlds going, though? I’ve told it to keep them and I haven’t seen them since.
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/6 "2013-10-30T01:32:58Z")
> [@YanniFirewind](#):
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> Where are my saved worlds going, though? I’ve told it to keep them and I haven’t seen them since.
I’m trying to determine that, by default they don’t get deleted. My guess is you’re just getting screwed by the RNG and it’s the same world.
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### Author:  [@YanniFirewind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/YanniFirewind)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/7 "2013-10-30T01:41:06Z")
Could be. I was under the impression that you would only respawn at the same shelter (unless yours had been destroyed by, say, fire.)
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/8 "2013-10-30T01:50:03Z")
> [@YanniFirewind](#):
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> Could be. I was under the impression that you would only respawn at the same shelter (unless yours had been destroyed by, say, fire.)
I’m pretty sure you can spawn at any of them in a certain radius of the original even if it’s destroyed…
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### Author:  [@YanniFirewind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/YanniFirewind)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/9 "2013-10-30T04:33:38Z")
That’d probably be it. Thanks! Is there any way to make a copy of my world file after I generate it? (In case I want to start over in the same world)
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/10 "2013-10-30T05:03:20Z")
Depends on your platform, but generally copying out the save folder ought to work.
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### Author:  [@GlyphGryph](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GlyphGryph)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/11 "2013-10-30T15:59:22Z")
Actually, you can spawn at any shelter in any revealed world block. So the more you explore in a given world, the larger the number of shelters it has to choose from to spawn you in.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/12 "2013-10-30T16:39:18Z")
To backup your save, you want to grab the whole save/ directory, and probably put it in a zip, tar.gz, or rar archive. It’s big but it compresses really well since it’s all ASCII data.
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### Author:  [@jimboblordofeskimos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jimboblordofeskimos)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/worldgen-question/3715/13 "2013-10-31T07:20:32Z")
I just copy my whole cataclysm folder and have folders called cata1, cata2, etc. Its not like they take up any space