How to Upload an Existing World to Your Vintage Story Server

Updated 10 June 2026 · By Host Havoc Technical Support Team

You can replace your Vintage Story server's world with a locally saved world by uploading the save file via FTP. This is useful when migrating an existing single-player or hosted world to a new server.

Before you start: You will need an FTP client such as FileZilla to transfer files. See how to connect via FTP if you have not set that up yet.

Upload your world

  1. Connect to your server using FTP.
  2. Navigate to the Saves folder on the server.
  3. Upload your world's .vcdbs file to the Saves folder.
  4. Rename the uploaded file to default.vcdbs.
  5. If a file named default.vcdbs already exists in the Saves folder, delete it before renaming your file.
  6. Start or restart the server. It will load your uploaded world.

Troubleshooting

  • If the server loads the wrong world, confirm the file is named exactly default.vcdbs with no extra characters.
  • If you also want to transfer mods used by the world, upload them to the Mods folder on the server.