¶ Project Zomboid: How to Upload an Existing Save
If you previously hosted your multiplayer server in game and you're looking to move everything to a dedicated sever, this guide is for you. This guide will also help if you are moving from another dedicated server. This guide will walk you through transferring all save and player data to the server.
Before doing this, you may also want to follow our guide on uploading your mods and configs.
¶ Step 1: Prepare Character Profiles
1. On your PC, navigate to C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer
2. Open the folder of your save and find players.db
3. Use a program such as https://sqlitebrowser.org/ and open the file in it by dragging or the File menu.
4. Navigate to the Browse Data tab
5. Click the dropdown to switch to Network Players
6. Change the value in the world column to pzserver for all players
7. Click File then Save All
¶ Step 2: Uploading the Save
1. Navigate to C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer
2. Find the save that you would like to upload. Make a copy of this and rename it to pzserver
2.5. Zip your save using a program like WinRar or 7Zip
3. Open the File Manager
4. Navigate to /server-data/saves/multiplayer/
5. Remove the existing pzserver folder
6. Upload and extract your pzserver.zip. You can delete the zip file when complete.
7. Restart your server and your save will be loaded onto the server.
*Note: You may notice that the default admin account won't work after uploading a save. You can follow these steps to fix this.