How to get back custom races?

[Viridia]

Hi all,

If I can force my Stellaris installation back to an older version, will it give me back the custom civilisations I had created previously? I'm not 100% certain that the update has caused it as I've had to replace my hard drive as well, but I was under the impression that any custom races I'd designed would carry over. In light of all the issues I've heard with version 4 and the fact I can't open a game without it crashing, any help on how to roll back the game version would be super appreciated.

 

[Drachasor]

Hmmm. My custom races didn't disappear with 4.0, they were just noted as being invalid.

 

[Edorath]

That’s weird cause version changes shouldn’t nuke your playable empire list, did your fiddle with the game’s directory or something? At most it should flag em as unusable until you edit whichever errors there might be out of them.

 

[HFY]

I'm not 100% certain that the update has caused it as I've had to replace my hard drive as well, but I was under the impression that any custom races I'd designed would carry over.

Yeah I think it was the replaced hard drive -- if you had to re-install the game, then any changes you made on the disk (like settings and custom empires) would not carry over.

Mods would, because Steam saves those for you. But mod-sets are considered "settings" and would not carry over.

 

[Viridia]

Ah nuts, thanks folks. I'd hoped they would be retrievable but I am leaning towards the replacement of the hard drive being the main issue.

 

[Drachasor]

Ah nuts, thanks folks. I'd hoped they would be retrievable but I am leaning towards the replacement of the hard drive being the main issue.

You don't have the old drive?

 

[rubert]

Custom Empires are stored under My Documents along with Stellaris saves though I don't they are synced to Steam cloud. Did you not make backups - at least before replacing the hard disk? You should be able to retrieve files from them.

C:\Users\<account>\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\

File name is user_empire_designs_v3.4.txt or similar.

 

[RingworldUtopia]

hey if you have some saves from those old custom empires, you should still be able to load a save and get what that empire was and what the founder species was. not ideal, but if you had some that you were really attached to, you can at least recreate them that way. if there's a lot of them, it's a lot of work of course, but at least you can bring back your favourites.