How to upload your Savegame to your Palworld Server

Step-by-step: Move a local world to your hosted server

1. Locate your local save (PC/Steam)

• Open: Pal\Saved\SaveGames\ → then 0\ or in my case it was: 76561199411719471\

  

• Inside this file, you’ll see a long folder name like E2C78DFE4B5D7ED88BEBDF9A372F820E - that entire folder is your world (contains Level.sav, WorldOption.sav, etc.).

2. Stop the server

• Use your hosting control panel to fully stop the Palworld server.
  (Uploading while running = corruption speedrun.)

3. Back up the server’s current world (recommended)

• On the server: Palworld/Pal/Saved/SaveGames/0/

• Download or rename the existing world folder so you can roll back if needed.

4. Upload your local world to the server

• Connect via SFTP

(If you are not familiar with SFTP, we have a guide on how to use it: https://xrealm.com/en/blog/farming-simulator-25-how-to-use-sftp-to-transfer-data)

• Path on server: Palworld/Pal/Saved/SaveGames/0/

• Upload your local world folder (the long hash name) into this 0 directory as a folder, not just loose files.

5. Point the server at your uploaded world

• Go to: Palworld/Pal/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/

• Edit GameUserSettings.ini.

• Find: DedicatedServerName=CURRENT_NAME
  Replace CURRENT_NAME with the exact folder name you uploaded (e.g., E2C78DFE4B5D7ED88BEBDF9A372F820E).

• Save the file.

6. Start the server

• Start it from your panel.

• Join the server — you should load into your existing base/progress.