Saves

Save Anytime is on the Steam feature list, and the playtest has a serious save warning. The 12 November 2026 post says you must not quit while the game is saving, because that can remove the textures of your character in that save. Wait until the save finishes, then leave.

What to do every session

Build the habit on the first night, while you are still in a solo and offline world. Finish a climb, place a small shelter, and let the save complete before you alt-F4 or shut the lid of a laptop. A textureless gnome is a bad way to discover the bug, and the post does not describe a repair. Treat the damaged save as lost progress and start again if it happens.

In co-op, the host should be the person who watches the save. The same post flags host performance when many clients are connected, and it flags desync. A host who quits mid-save is the worst version of both problems. Say "saved" out loud, or in voice, and have everyone leave after that. A client who drops during the save should tell the host before the host quits.

What Steam does not list

Steam Cloud is not among the store categories. Do not plan on a second PC picking up the same playtest world. Keep playing on the machine that wrote the save. Family Sharing, which the store does list, is a library question for later and is covered on Family Sharing. It is not a cloud-save promise.

The store page does not say how many save slots exist, whether the world is one file, or whether a playtest save will load in Early Access. Those answers are unpublished. Play the test as a test. The shelter you love is not a guaranteed Early Access house. Wishlist from the release date page if the longer game is what you want to keep.

Bugs beside the save warning

The known-issue list puts saving and loading first, then dialogue, audio, host performance, desync, bad spawns and failed connections. A load that puts you inside a trunk, or a friend who spawns away from the shelter, belongs on that list. Report it with the notes on known issues. A screenshot of the spot and of the map is what they asked for when a Väsen spawns in a strange place. The same pair of shots helps a bad player spawn.

Do not keep reloading in the hope that a textureless character will dress itself. The post ties that symptom to quitting mid-save. Reloading the damaged file is how you keep seeing it.

Warning: Never quit on the save spinner. In a group, the host waits, announces the save, and only then closes the session.

A clean shutdown

1. Stop climbing and stand in the shelter.
2. Let the save finish.
3. If you are the host, tell the group.
4. Then quit.

That order is the whole trick. Beginner guide players should practice it once before they invite anyone. A pretty treehouse is not worth a blank character model.

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