How to Back Up Your Dragonwilds Server World or Start a Fresh One

Your entire RuneScape: Dragonwilds world lives in a single .sav file, which makes backups quick and restores even quicker. This guide covers grabbing a copy by hand, letting the panel do it on a schedule, starting a brand-new world, and putting a backup back.

Where the World Is Stored

Every save sits in one folder on your server. Open the Files tab on your MintServers panel and browse to:

    📁 RSDragonwilds
            📁 Saved
                    📁 SaveGames
                                📄 MyWorld.sav (your world)

The filename is the world's name in-game. If you see more than one .sav, the server loads whichever is newest on each start.

Backing Up by Hand

On the Console tab, click Stop. A save copied while the server is running can be mid-write and unusable.
Open the Files tab and browse to RSDragonwilds/Saved/SaveGames.
Click the .sav file and choose Download.
On your PC, rename the downloaded copy with a date, for example MyWorld-2026-09-14.sav, so you can tell backups apart later.
Click Start to bring the server back.

💡 Pro Tip: Do this before anything risky: a game update, uploading a different world, or trying out a new Max Players value.

Using the Panel's Backup Tool

The Backups tab on your panel snapshots the whole server, including the save, into cloud storage that doesn't count against your server's disk. To take one, open Backups in the left-hand sidebar and click Create Backup. Restoring is a click on the same page.

For a hands-off routine, open Schedules, create a schedule (for example 0 4 * * * for 4 AM UTC every day), and add a Create Backup task to it. The full walkthrough, including retention limits, is in How to Set Up Automated Backups.

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Starting a Fresh World

Because the server always loads the newest .sav, a fresh world means an empty SaveGames folder. The Default World Name field only kicks in when the folder is empty, so this is also the only way to give a world a new name.

⚠️ Important Warning: Deleting a .sav is permanent unless you downloaded it first. Do the manual backup above before you continue.

Stop the server from the Console tab.
In the Files tab, download any .sav files you want to keep.
Delete every file in RSDragonwilds/Saved/SaveGames.
Go to Game Settings and set Default World Name to the name you want the new world to have. Save.
Click Start. The server generates a new Standard world under that name. Tell your friends the new name, since the old one won't show up in search anymore.

📝 Note: A fresh world from the server is always a Standard world with default rules. If you want Creative or custom settings, create the world on your PC instead and follow How to Upload an Existing World or Use Custom World Settings.

Restoring a Backup

Stop the server.
In the Files tab, remove whatever is currently in SaveGames (download it first if it might be useful).
Upload your backup .sav. If you added a date to the filename, rename it back to the original world name first, since the filename becomes the in-game name.
Start the server. It loads the restored file on boot.

🛠️ Troubleshooting Backup and Reset Problems

Server loaded the old world after I uploaded a backup: There was a newer .sav still in the folder. Stop, clear the folder so only the backup remains, start.
Fresh world has the old name: SaveGames wasn't empty when the server started, or the name was changed while the server was running. Stop, empty the folder, set the name, save, start.
Downloaded save won't load: It was probably copied while the server was running. Restore from a panel backup instead, and stop the server before manual downloads in future.

Related Guides

Bring in a world from singleplayer or with custom rules: How to Upload an Existing World or Use Custom World Settings
Why the world name field only applies to new worlds: Why Your Dragonwilds Server Settings Aren't Saving

One file, one folder: keep a dated copy somewhere safe and you can always get your world back. If you run into any trouble, no worries! Just open a support ticket and our team will gladly help you get it sorted out.