Save backups

StoneForge keeps backups of your saves, whatever mods you play with (since 0.9.4). Before the game writes a save over an older one, or deletes one (its oldest, to make room, or one you delete in the save menu), StoneForge copies it first. A mod's bug, an error box or a crash in the middle of saving can't take your last good save with it.

The newest 20 of each character's backups are kept. They're outside the game's save folder, so neither its save menu nor Steam Cloud sees them. A backup that fails is only logged: it never stops the game saving.

After a mod's error

The first time any mod's handler throws in a game, StoneForge:

1. keeps the save you're playing (the last one made before the error) as a before-error_... backup, which is never deleted with the others;
2. asks whether to leave to the main menu without saving. The game may be in a bad state now, and saving would keep it.

It asks once a game.

Restoring a backup

1. Close the game.
2. Copy the backup's folder into its character's folder in characters_v1.
3. Rename it to the save's own name (drop the time from the front: autosave_1, say), replacing the save that went wrong.

For mods: SaveBackups.Keep(label) keeps a copy of the save being played that's never deleted. See Rooms and saves.