Wiping saves.

[uowaep]

Is wiping saves for a17 experimental necessary, and if so, how would one do it properly?

[Tin]

During experimental its a good idea.

easy way:

• Open steam
  
• Find the game in your list.
  
• right click and it'll bring up another mini list.
  
• click on "show game launcher"
  
• Then click the tool tab.
  

 

[open6l]

There's a few reasons you'd always want to wipe between updates. Sometimes there are features added to the update (as in the last b199) which require a wipe to see the new features. Whether it be updates to prefabs, or blocks added to roads, or biome changes, etc. If you have a map that isn't completely explored then you will also get malformations (most of the time) between chunks from the previous save and the new update. The other reason is that you can't reliably submit bug reports as any bug you encounter could be a result of carryover from the previous update. So yeah it's a good idea to wipe (most of the time).

[uowaep]

I guess the main reason I was asking was because I always start a new world, but I never wipe the old ones. I just assume they don't work. I was thinking maybe I needed to delete the characters as well.