How to Migrate Your Palworld Server to gamever

 

    Moving an existing Palworld world to gamever means your group keeps everything — bases, captured Pals, levels and characters — on a server that's up 24/7 with a full control panel behind it. The move comes down to copying three things off your old server and uploading them into your gamever one. This guide walks the whole migration, including the two traps that catch people: the config overwrite and the character-folder mapping.

 

What you're moving

 

    A Palworld server's state is three things, all under the save path:

 

Part	Location	Why you need it
World data	Pal/Saved/SaveGames/<SteamID>/<WorldID>/	bases, map and shared progression
Character saves	the Players/ subfolder in that world folder	each player's character — one file each
Server config	Pal/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/PalWorldSettings.ini	your rules (rates, difficulty, options)

 

    Grab all three and the world transfers intact. Miss the Players/ folder and everyone starts as a fresh character even though the world is there.

 

Step 1 — download from the old host

 

    On your current host, locate the Palworld save path and stop that server first so the files aren't mid-write, then download over FTP:

 

• the whole <WorldID> world folder (which includes Players/), and
• the PalWorldSettings.ini config file.

 

    Keep the folder structure as you found it — you'll need the same <SteamID>/<WorldID>/ layout on the new side.

 

Step 2 — upload into your gamever server

 

    On gamever, get your FTP login from Settings → FTP server settings and the FTP address from the Network tab (port 28349):

 

 

1. Stop your gamever server.
2. Connect with an FTP client (see using an FTP client) and open the File Manager at /home/server/.
3. Place the world folder into Pal/Saved/SaveGames/<SteamID>/<WorldID>/, keeping the Players/ subfolder inside it.
4. Upload your PalWorldSettings.ini — but read the overwrite note below before you restart.

 

Trap 1 — the config overwrite

 

    gamever's Overwrite config file setting (in Settings → Server settings) rewrites PalWorldSettings.ini from the panel fields on restart when it's set to true. If you upload a hand-tuned config and then restart with overwrite on, your settings are wiped back to the panel values.

 

    So, before restarting with an uploaded config:

 

• Set Overwrite config file to false to keep your uploaded PalWorldSettings.ini, or
• Leave it true and instead re-enter your rules in the panel's Server settings / difficulty fields.

 

    Either works — just don't upload a config and leave overwrite on, expecting the file to survive.

 

Trap 2 — the character / Steam-ID folder mapping

 

    Character saves in Players/ are keyed to the world folder they live in. If the <SteamID> or <WorldID> folder names differ between the old and new server, Palworld may not match players to their characters. Keep the same folder path you downloaded from, placing Players/ inside the matching <WorldID> folder, so each player's character loads as theirs.

 

Step 3 — start and verify

 

1. Start the gamever server and wait for Active.
2. Have each player join (by the Steam address, or once it's listed — see server not showing in the community list).
3. Confirm everyone loads their own character and the world looks right.
4. Take a fresh backup from the Backups tab once it's confirmed good (see restore a backup).

 

Additional Tips

 

• Move all three — world, Players/, and PalWorldSettings.ini.
• Stop both servers before copying saves so files are consistent.
• Keep the SteamID/WorldID folder names identical or characters won't map.
• Set Overwrite config file = false before restarting on an uploaded ini.
• Verify every player loads their own character before calling it done.
• Back up immediately after a confirmed-good migration.

 

Conclusion

 

    Migrating a Palworld world to gamever is a straight copy: download the <WorldID> world folder (with its Players/ characters) and PalWorldSettings.ini from your old host, upload them over FTP into the same save path on gamever, and start. Keep the folder structure identical so characters map correctly, and set Overwrite config file to false before restarting if you uploaded a hand-tuned config. Then take a backup — and your whole world is now running 24/7 with a full panel behind it.

 

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