Is it possible to restore a corrupted savegame?

[Satras]

As I was exploring a new area in my 100-game-hour world, my computer crashed. While that alone is a common occurance (shoutout to my 10-year-old laptop), this time my game world got corrupted and won't restart. Any way to fix this?

[Tyron]

There is a chance to fix it, if you got some additional IT skills or willingness to learn them

- Download sqlite-tools-win32-x86-3310100.zip from https://sqlite.org/download.html
- Open up a command line and run

sqlite3 broken.vcdbs ".recover" | sqlite3 fixed.vcdbs

broken.vcdbs should be the name of your savegame. fixed.vcdbs will be the recovered savegame. You can then try to load the fixed.vcdbs and with some luck, it'll run.

If the blocks are all garbled up and you happen to have a backup you could try to copy over the savegame table using the "DB Browser for SQLite" which you can find in google.

 

[Satras]

Where will I find the fixed file? As far as I can see that command did nothing...