All of my worlds reset! 😤

[finnrose]

ALL of them. I had four and all of them took me to the character select screen. I had two worlds at 100+ days. I am really annoyed and frustrated. Did this happen because of the update? This is on Switch. I haven't checked my PC world yet. I'm scared to. 

I opened my world that was at 164 days. It said the appropriate amount of days on the select screen but after that it took me to character select, so I reselected my character and loaded into an empty world with an undiscovered map. Everything is different. My giant veggie shrine is gone. Nothing is left. 

 

Edited August 22, 2025 by finnrose

[nimzowitsch10]

giant veggie shrine 😄.

But yeah that sucks

[Ridley]

Do you know if these were survival world or endless worlds?

Have you played all these worlds recently or did some of them sit untouched for awhile?

I am assuming some wires got crossed and your worlds could be safe somewhere if they've been saving to the cloud. Hopefully it works out for you.

 

[finnrose]

They were Relaxed and Endless. Unfortunately for some reason nothing was saved to the cloud. I had played them all within the last month. One as recently as a week or so ago. 
 

it just sucks to lose all that progress and I lost a world my daughter and I had worked on together. 

[CrimsonStrider]

1 hour ago, finnrose said:

ALL of them. I had four and all of them took me to the character select screen. I had two worlds at 100+ days. I am really annoyed and frustrated. Did this happen because of the update? This is on Switch. I haven't checked my PC world yet. I'm scared to. 

I opened my world that was at 164 days. It said the appropriate amount of days on the select screen but after that it took me to character select, so I reselected my character and loaded into an empty world with an undiscovered map. Everything is different. My giant veggie shrine is gone. Nothing is left. 

 

I have a bug sometimes where I load into a world and it brings me (or my friend) into the character select screen with no progress. 

In our case specifically, my friend just had to rejoin and it was fine. I think I rolled back a day and it was fine. Did you try that at all?

[Ridley]

23 minutes ago, finnrose said:

They were Relaxed and Endless. Unfortunately for some reason nothing was saved to the cloud. I had played them all within the last month. One as recently as a week or so ago. 
 

it just sucks to lose all that progress and I lost a world my daughter and I had worked on together. 

Well, at least you wouldn't have the problem I had where my survival world had a connection problem and killed my character while my game was crashing. It triggered the world reset even though I wasn't there.

Unless I am missing something, I don't see bug reports of a recent DST update erasing Switch worlds. Was the update for the Switch itself?

 

[finnrose]

9 minutes ago, CrimsonStrider said:

I have a bug sometimes where I load into a world and it brings me (or my friend) into the character select screen with no progress. 

In our case specifically, my friend just had to rejoin and it was fine. I think I rolled back a day and it was fine. Did you try that at all?

I did try to roll back on one of them and it was sadly the same.  these were solo (besides one) worlds so needing someone else probably wasn't the bug.

10 minutes ago, Ridley said:

Well, at least you wouldn't have the problem I had where my survival world had a connection problem and killed my character while my game was crashing. It triggered the world reset even though I wasn't there.

Unless I am missing something, I don't see bug reports of a recent DST update erasing Switch worlds. Was the update for the Switch itself?

 

I believe it was all consoles. It was the same as the most recent Steam update, it just gets delayed for consoles. It added geometric placement and a few other things. 

[CrimsonStrider]

Sorry to hear that. Did rolling back on the others do anything? Try multiple days?

Hopefully it doesn't happen again

[NSAiswatchingus]

For Xbox and Playstation,  I highly recommend saving your world to an external hardrive or flashdrive every few hundred days. I don't think you can on Switch, but uploading to the cloud save is the next best thing. 

After losing a 1000+ day world I stopped trusting the save process to work flawlessly 100% of the time. 99.99% of the time is pretty dang good, but that teeny tiny chance of an error resulting in a lost world is enough to make me want a back up.

Edited August 24, 2025 by NSAiswatchingus

[AndroidSpice536]

21 hours ago, NSAiswatchingus said:

For Xbox and Playstation,  I highly recommend saving your world to an external hardrive or flashdrive every few hundred days. I don't think you can on Switch, but uploading to the cloud save is the next best thing. 

After losing a 1000+ day world I stopped trusting the save process to work flawlessly 100% of the time. 99.99% of the time is pretty dang good, but that teeny tiny chance of an error resulting in a lost world is enough to make me want a back up.

I didn’t know you could do this on console. Would you be able to teach me how? I am worried my worlds will be deleted if I could make a copy onto a flashdrive that would be awesome. I am on Xbox Series 

[NSAiswatchingus]

4 hours ago, AndroidSpice536 said:

I didn’t know you could do this on console. Would you be able to teach me how? I am worried my worlds will be deleted if I could make a copy onto a flashdrive that would be awesome. I am on Xbox Series 

Welp, I just went to go through the process again and write up a short guide, but it looks like the process for using USB storage has changed a bit from PS4 to PS5, and I'm now assuming there might be similar challenges on newer Xbox consoles. 

Apparently saving specific game save data to a USB storage device still works on PS4. On PS5 however, you can only backup game save data to the Cloud which requires a PSplus subscription. You CAN still download game save data to a USB device on PS5 but you have to download ALL your game save data not letting you just select DST. 

I went a head a looked it up for Xbox Series S, and what do you know! Same dang thang, but with even less options. It looks like an industry push to lessen user control of save/game data to combat potential cheating or save sharing. Own nothing, be happy?

I guess the only real back up methods these days are to pay for cloud storage, turn off automatic back up for DST, and manual back up your save when you feel the time is right. On Playstation, since DST is a PS4 game, you COULD back up your PS5 DST save file to the PSplus cloud, restore that to your PS4, plug in your USB to that console, save to USB like in the good ol days, and finally have your precious world's save file safely deposited to a safety deposit box at the bank like a reaaal gamer.