Backing Up Your Satisfactory Server World for Offline Play

Why Keep a Local Copy of Your Save

Things go sideways. A misjudged jump off a cliff, a botched production line refactor, a teammate "improving" your factory layout while you sleep. A copy of your Satisfactory world living on your PC is the cheapest insurance you can buy against that kind of accident. Coffee Stain Studios kept the save format approachable, so pulling a server world down to local storage and loading it in Singleplayer takes only a few minutes.

Servers usually create automatic backups on their own, but a separate copy under your own control is always worth having. This guide walks through finding the right save, downloading it from your hosting panel, and dropping it into the Singleplayer save folder.

Find the Save Name First

You cannot grab the right file if you do not know which one to grab. Satisfactory exposes the save list in-game.

• Launch the game and open Server Manager from the main menu.

• Select your server, then click Manage Saves.

• A list will load showing every save the server has produced, each with a date and time stamp.

• Find the most recent autosave and write the name down somewhere. In the example above, the latest save is `Northern Forest_autosave_0`.

With that name copied, you are ready to head into the control panel.

Pull the File from the Server

Downloading a save is the same general routine as moving any other file off the server.

• Log into your server control panel.
• Open the file manager from the panel sidebar and sign in using your control panel password.

• Browse through the following folder chain: `.config > Epic > FactoryGame > Saved > SaveGames > server`.

• Inside the `server` folder you will see every save the server has produced.

• Click the file matching the name you noted earlier. Your browser should begin downloading it right away.

If the panel refuses to download a particularly large save, jump to the troubleshooting section below for the FTP client workaround.

Load It in Singleplayer

The game treats Singleplayer and dedicated server saves the same on disk, so loading the server world locally is mostly a copy-paste job.

• Open your AppData folder. The fastest route is pressing `Windows + R` and typing `%appdata%` into the Run dialog.

• From there, follow the chain `Local > FactoryGame > Saved > SaveGames`.

• Inside `SaveGames` you will see a folder named with a long string of numbers (that is your Epic account ID). Open it and drop the server save file inside.

The next time you launch Satisfactory, the world will appear in the Singleplayer save list ready to load. Pick it like any other save and keep building.

Troubleshooting

The panel will not download the save. This usually means the file has outgrown the in-browser download limit. Connect to your server with an FTP client such as FileZilla and grab the file from the same `server` folder. The directory layout is identical.

The file manager rejects the password. It uses the same credentials as the main control panel. Check the welcome email you received at purchase, or reset the password from the panel if you lost track of it.

Related Reading

• How to upload a save back to the server.
• How to set a server password.
• How to create and load a save.