Importing a world allows you to play on an existing save. Using SFTP, you can upload your singleplayer world. Once uploaded, your world runs on a hosted Vintage Story server, online around the clock with automatic backups.

Archive your current world

Stop your server.
Backup your world by compressing it or downloading it.
- You’ll want to backup the default.vcdbs file in the data/Saves folder before making any changes to avoid data loss.
Upload the vcdbs from your computer.
- You can find your world on your computer by clicking “Open Saves Folder” from the single player menu. Upload the save file to the data/Saves folder.
- If you upload the file under a name that isn’t default.vcdbs, you will need to navigate to the data/serverconfig.json file and replace:
```
"SaveFileLocation": "./data/Saves/default.vcdbs",
```
  with:
```
"SaveFileLocation": "./data/Saves/[your file].vcdbs",
```
  Replace [your file] with the name of the uploaded file.
- To avoid needing to edit the server config, we recommend uploading it under default.vcdbs.
Start your server.