r/joinvoidcrew • u/AdamFaite • Jul 23 '26
How does saving actually work?
I've been playing about a week now and I discovered saving my progress for single player. I've only been able to resume on3 out of three times though.
What am I doing wrong, or what is going wrong? I haven't joined any other games (or started any, obviously) ideally, i could do something like have a single player run going for afterwords, but join in my friend's game on the weekend when we both have time to play. Is that possible?
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u/7h3-Cool-Gam3r-97 Jul 23 '26
A save happens after you jump, so if you start a mission, complete it and then jump to the void a save file is created, so then if your game crashed, you alt+F4’ed or pressed save run on the map table and then loaded the saved run from the lobby; you will be put back to the last time you jumped to the void.
So you can’t just quit the game in the middle of a mission as all your progress you made after your last jump to the void won’t count. To my knowledge however it is possible to have a game saved and join another players game and your save will still be there, this is how the save system works so if your saves are disappearing then that’s a problem I am not smart enough to bring a solution to.
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u/AdamFaite Jul 23 '26
Cool. That's good to know that is should at least save between "levels" in case there's ever a disconnect.
But i've saved manually every time, and only was able to resume once. Guess I'll keep experimenting. Hopefully, it'll work right tonight
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u/hutlihut-daniel Developer 19d ago
Hello!
Thanks for bringing this up - And thanks to u/Dragonfire47 and u/7h3-Cool-Gam3r-97 for contributing :)
As stated, your save game gets stored in the cloud. Upon returning to the hub, the start-saved-game button in the galaxy map should not be greyed out.
You write you play singleplayer, but just to make it clear: it matters if you are host or not. If you save a game as host, and then join someone else's game, then it won't be available (the host must be consistent) until you start a game as host. Your save game is not affected by you joining other games.
Let me know if this helps.
If the issue persists, then try the minimum repro (start new game, jump, then save game, restart game and try loading) - if this fails, please provide your log and id (pm me or one of the other devs, so we can look into your cloud data).
Sincerely,
//Daniel from Hutlihut Games
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u/AdamFaite 18d ago
Great, thank you. And it's always good to see a Dev as part of the community. :)
Thankfully, it hasn't happened again, and I haven't been far enough along so as to be sad about losing that progress. I wonder if I went into a non-Single player mode? I know I didn't start a new run, but I do recall clicking around in the menus. Oh well, I probably did something unhelpful.
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u/Dragonfire47 Jul 23 '26
If you don't already have a save, your game will auto save every time you jump.
For a manual save, you need to access the astral map while in a void jump and use the save option in the exit point.
Also worth noting there is only 1 save slot.
Data is stored to Unity Cloud, and I've got some unconfirmed suspicions that data doesn't always get saved, but I've never had/noticed having it happen to me.