Creeper World 3 Arc Eternal – How to Sync Save Between PC

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I play Creeper World 3 on both my laptop and desktop, one with ubuntu and the other on windows 10.
As far as I know, it seem like CW3 do not use the steam cloud to keep the save file.

How can I keep the same save between my machines ?

Best Answer

The Dropbox way

As CW3 make the save cross compatible with windows / ubuntu and mac, you can share a same save file.

How-to :

First, you'll need a cloud account, I choose Dropbox, but it'll probably work with every others.

Careful, this is only to share a same save, not merge two save in one : you'll have to choose which one you want to keep and be sync

Shut-down the game before any change

Shared folder

In your cloud local folder, make and locate a game save folder (for me, it'll be /home/_USER_/Dropbox/game_save/ and c:\Users\_USER_\Dropbox\game_save)

Game setting

Find the GameSettings.xml file (created after first launch of CW3)

  • on ubuntu ~/.config/creeperworld3/GameSettings.xml
  • windows c:\Users\_USER_\AppData\Roaming\CreeperWorld3\GameSettings.xml
  • osx ~/.config/CreeperWorld3/GameSettings.xml

Open it with a text editor (sublimetext / notepad++ / gedit), and locate the following lines :

<UseCustomDataPath>False</UseCustomDataPath> <CustomDataPath> </CustomDataPath>

Set the first to True and put the path of the sync save folder you've make before between line 2 & 3.

For my Ubuntu I'll have :

<UseCustomDataPath>True</UseCustomDataPath> <CustomDataPath>/home/_USER_/Dropbox/game_save/</CustomDataPath>

For W10:

<UseCustomDataPath>True</UseCustomDataPath> <CustomDataPath>c:\Users\_USER_\Dropbox\game_save\</CustomDataPath>

Game save

Now, we need to get back our save, go find the creeperworld3 folder :

  • ubuntu ~/Documents/creeperworld3/
  • windows c:\Users\_USER_\Documents\creeperworld3\
  • osx ~/Documents/CreeperWorld3

Copy and past the full folder creeperworld3 (not only the content) in your sync game folder, for me on ubuntu ~/Dropbox/game_save/.

You should now be able to see your sync save when you launch your game.

Trouble

if not, you probably selected creeperworld3 as the save folder, and end up with

~/Dropbox/game_save/creeperworld3/creeperworld3/data/

instead of

~/Dropbox/game_save/creeperworld3/data/

Just remove /creeperwold3 from your CustomDataPath in the GameSettings.xml

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