restore blueprint

[marcus87]

I restarted the universe because it was to cramped. when I then loaded my ship it seems to have struck a shop. Then the blueprint vanished and I cant find it anymore.

I made a save of the universe before restarting. Is there a chance to reset the blueprint?

 

[AndyP]

blueprints are stored in:
/blueprints
Resetting universe should not touch blueprints.
You should try to go to the catalog, and go to the third tab (admin)

It should be in there, try
/load <Name of blueprint> <Name to spaw with>

In case the Name of the blueprint contains "spaces" you have to enclose it in '

/load 'My Ship' Marcus_001

for example.

- Andy

 

[marcus87]

And if the blueprint is not in the folder blueprints anymore?

 

[AndyP]

you may try to reimport your universe to your new game and hope to find the ship..
/search <shipname>*
In case you know the first 4-5 letters use them with * at end.

In the Universe the,
ENTITY_SHIP_<something>.ent
files contain all the blockdata, but I suppose it is not possible to recreate a full blueprint (header, metadata) from it.

To be honest, I suppose deleting the blueprints, while having the universe corrupted/resetted, may have caused you to literally loose that ship.
Does your universe load or is it corrupted somehow?

- Andy

 

[marcus87]

the universe is fine. In the old universe I saved the ship. Then I started a new universe loaded teh ship spawned it and then it must have hit a shop. There was some error message but it vanished to fast. Then the blueprint was missing from the catalog and even from the windows folder.

 

[AndyP]

Restore the old univserse,
create a new blueprint, and go back to your 'newer' univserse, and before starting the game:

Open Server.cfg in /starmade Directory with any Texteditor:

now search for
REMOVE_MODIFIED_BLUEPRINTS = true //Auto-removes a modified blueprint

and change it to:
REMOVE_MODIFIED_BLUEPRINTS = false //Auto-removes a modified blueprint

this should prevent it from being removed again.

- Andy

 

[marcus87]

sorry to bother you with this. But how do I restore an old universe? I just always pressed the backup and reset

edit.

ok I unpacked the backup and strangely there is no trace of the blueprint -.-

Ahhh I found it

ENTITY_SHIP_vaygr_battleship_WIP_4_1397420379670.0.0.1

and strangely in the server database of the new universe :D

mhm but I cant import the blueprint or load it inside the game. What could I do to restore the blueprint?

 

[AndyP]

You can try to /search for it, but in the new universe it shouldn't be in. :/

you may be lucky and it is in /blueprints/exported
but thats only a small chance to be...

For me, I cannot help you anymore, maybe someone else has an idea about it.
You may have a Chance by unpacking the 'backup' universe in /server-database and then start your Client again, this should restore the old universe, and maybe you find that ship again.

But thats much effort, hope it isnt a really large ship.

- Andy

 

[marcus87]

Thanks for your help.

But I now found the blueprint, it is named like this

ENTITY_SHIP_vaygr_battleship_WIP_4_1397420379670.0.0.1.smd2

but I cant load it or import it in the game again. Has anyone an idea?