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VEIN progress lost: get your world back

VEIN progress went back? The game autosaves every 5 minutes and the panel saves before stops. Put back a copy from the World page to recover.

Updated , checked on VEIN 0.025 Hotfix 3

If the world went back to an earlier time, the server lost what happened after its last save. The game autosaves every 5 minutes by default. A crash loses up to the last autosave. A copy of the save, put back from the World page, can bring an earlier state back.

How the world is saved

  • The game writes one save file while it runs, Server.vns. The game keeps no older saves beside it, so do not look for older ones.
  • It autosaves every 300 seconds by default, into that same file.
  • The game saves nothing when it is simply stopped. The panel saves the world before every stop, restart and backup, so these are safe.
  • A crash, or a server killed by something outside the panel, loses everything since the last autosave.

See what the server has

  1. Open World.
  2. In The save, you see its Size, when it was Written, and whether it is Saving now.
  3. In Autosave, check the switch is on and read Every (minutes).
  4. Under Copies and uploads, the copies the panel made and kept are listed, named like Server-before-(what)-(time).vns. It makes one before an upload, a put back, or a version change. It never deletes them.
World page with The save, Autosave and the copies the panel made and kept
  1. When it was written
  2. Autosave
  3. Every (minutes)
  4. Put back

Put back a copy

  1. Choose Stop at the top right of the server page. A save can only be put in place while the server is stopped.
  2. On World, under Copies and uploads, find the copy you want.
  3. Choose Put back and confirm. The copy becomes the live save again. The save as it is now is kept as a copy first, so nothing is lost.
  4. Start the server and check your base.
The box asking to put a copy in place, saying the save as it is now is kept as a copy first
  1. Nothing is lost
  2. Put it in place

Stop it happening again

  1. Keep Autosave on. A shorter Every (minutes) loses less after a crash. Changing it needs the server to be stopped, and it applies at the next start.
  2. Before a risky change, such as a version change or a big settings change, choose Save now. It is on World and on Players.
  3. Choose Stop or Restart at the top right of the server page, not other means, so the panel can save first.

A panel backup of a running VEIN server saves the world first, so the backup holds the latest state.

If it does not work

  • Autosave was off. Nothing was written between saves. Turn it on.
  • A save was cut off. The server was stopped while it wrote the save, and characters may be missing. Put a copy back.
  • No copies listed. The panel makes copies only at an upload, a put back or a version change. Older state may be in a backup.
  • The copy will not load. It may come from another game build. Check Game version on World.

More about the game: VEIN servers. Not checked on 0.025 as of 27 October 2026: putting back one of the game’s own autosaves.

Sources: vein.wiki.gg: Vein Dedicated Server Setup

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