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Normal wolves are fine. Bears are fine.

Dire wolves are terrifying; Which isn't surprising.

Actual direwolves have been extinct for thousands of years. The direwolves in 7DTD are living wolves mutated by exposure to the zombie virus from fighting with and biting zombies (Same way vultures mutated into zombie vultures, only far less exposure to the zombie virus since the wolves aren't Eating the flesh, only attacking zombies or defending themselves.); They Dire Wolves are basically the Super Feral edition of genetically mutated normal wolves (Check the glowing eyes).

And I don't think they should be nerfed; They can be handled. But it is very dangerous.

When experimental releases, the current stable will be an option in the Betas tab. Then you can lock into the current version by simply selecting it.

Originally posted by 【イサク】:

Originally posted by SylenThunder: Just don't trust any saves made while the client was running. Files being actively written to when it backs up will be corrupted. It's possible that it will corrupt the live files as well.

Have tested that software before.

is the steam backup options in properties a viable way of backing up files?

No. The backups for 7 Days are considerably larger than what Steam Cloud allows.

Originally posted by Shifty: Get a program called EasUS Todo Backup. You can set it up to back up your save folder as often as you want and set it to only keep a set number of backups so it caps the amount of space the backups take.

This also works great if hosting a game server and restoring corrupt saves is as easy as a few clicks of your mouse and it's free.

Just don't trust any saves made while the client was running. Files being actively written to when it backs up will be corrupted. It's possible that it will corrupt the live files as well.

Have tested that software before.

Just keep in mind that your saves plus relevant map data can be gigabytes in size. Doing hard saves with this type of data just isn't feasible on low-end systems.

Originally posted by Midas:

Originally posted by SylenThunder: I think you misunderstand. It's not saving "since the last update". It's actively writing data to multiple save files as changes happen. Data is being loaded and unloaded constantly. There are separate files for your character, your explored world, the map section you are in, vehicles, electricity, world time data, world statistics, and information on all other game-related times like forges, traders, respawns, ect.

This isn't like m...

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Originally posted by Midas:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Ever played Valheim? You know that way your game freezes for several seconds every 20 minutes when it autosaves?

Now imagine that but worse.

There's a reason 7DTD saves constantly instead of periodically.

Now, I agree, some kindof backup would be nice; Maybe a button in the menu to make a SINGLE manual save (because again, save size is not small, and most users wouldn't think about it and would save like any other ga...

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Originally posted by Midas: Maybe the game should have a backup save copy that updates less regularly, like every 15-min or half an hour or something.

Ever played Valheim? You know that way your game freezes for several seconds every 20 minutes when it autosaves?

Now imagine that but worse.

There's a reason 7DTD saves constantly instead of periodically.

Now, I agree, some kindof backup would be nice; Maybe a button in the menu to make a SINGLE manual save (because again, save size is not small, and most users wouldn't think about it and would save like any other game with manual saves, most of which have saves ranging in the area of 10-20mb instead of 1gb+; Plus the whole 'save scumming' thing.) or s... Read more

Originally posted by 【イサク】: Just bought this game a few days ago and put 21 hours into a world. Everything was going great, learning and figuring things out. made great progress got to tier 3 trader and it was like day 17 or something. Suddenly a thunder storm came in irl and i thought it was cool until my power went out for an hour or so.

I was under the assumption this game has autosaves or something like most modern and reasonable games do. To my surprise it doesn't and only saves when you manually do it essentially. To my even more tragic surprise this game has horrible player and world lose issues for some dumb dev decisions I assume. 20 hours instantly down the drain.

It being a thing in the community to always make backups is kind of a sad thing considering you will never know about this until you find out if happened to someone or yourself. R.I.P my fun. Not allowed to have nice things I guess.

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