Anyway to recover a seed from a save file?

[Beastro]

Updated my game, found my saves are out of date so deleted my old seeds and redid what I thought was the seed form my last game only to realize it's not the one I thought it was, all I have left of it is the saved games from that map.

Is there anything in the save file that preserves the seed ID?

If not, I really think it should be added in to help retain seeds.

Thx.

[ZestyLemons]

Yup! There's a way to get your seed:

Navigate to "C:\Users\ProbablyYourNameHere\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld\Worlds"
*Note: AppData might be hidden for you. Just google how to 'show hidden folders' if it is hidden.

Find your world, and open it in your favourite text editor (e.g. Notepad or Notepad++)
On the 6th line you'll see something like this: <seedString>jyjo</seedString>

The string between those <seedString> tags is your world's seed.

[Tynan]

It's likely the old seed won't create the same world. Any tiny change in the generation algorithm will offset the random number sequence and lead to an entirely different outcome.

[Beastro]

Yup! There's a way to get your seed:

Navigate to "C:\Users\ProbablyYourNameHere\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld\Worlds"
*Note: AppData might be hidden for you. Just google how to 'show hidden folders' if it is hidden.

Find your world, and open it in your favourite text editor (e.g. Notepad or Notepad++)
On the 6th line you'll see something like this: <seedString>jyjo</seedString>

The string between those <seedString> tags is your world's seed.

The problem was I deleted all my old ones, they're gone form that file. I thought there was another way around it.

It's likely the old seed won't create the same world. Any tiny change in the generation algorithm will offset the random number sequence and lead to an entirely different outcome.

I guess that settles it and at least is something of a reassurance being that it's now gone and I can't get it back.

Thx!