Where Are Masters of Albion Save Files Located?
Where Masters of Albion keeps village saves in LocalAppData, how the .sav files work, and backup advice.
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Masters of Albion keeps its village saves locally under a 22cans folder in LocalAppData, as .sav files in a SaveGames tree. The Unreal-style Saved layout will feel familiar. Everything from progression to gold sits on your machine.
Early Access status makes backups more urgent than usual, since patches can break saves without warning. Copy the whole folder dated per session and pause Steam Cloud during repairs. Save editors target these same files, which is exactly why a clean backup matters before modding.
Where Masters of Albion stores this, by platform
%LOCALAPPDATA%\22cans\MastersOfAlbion\Saved\SaveGames
Unreal-style saves as .sav files; back up the whole folder dated per session. Early Access patches may invalidate old saves, so keep generations. Disable Steam Cloud while repairing corruption to stop it restoring broken files.
Frequently asked questions
how do I back up Masters of Albion saves
Copy the whole SaveGames folder to external storage with the game closed, named by date for versioning. Early Access patches can invalidate saves, so keep several generations. Restore by copying back into the same path with Steam Cloud paused.
save corrupted after editing, how to fix
Delete the broken .sav files and copy your backup contents back into SaveGames. Infinite loads and missing buildings mark corruption, often after save editors. Disable Steam Cloud while troubleshooting so it cannot restore the broken version.
are saves local or cloud
Yes for this Early Access build, which stores progression locally rather than on servers. That also means no cloud safety net beyond Steam sync. Manual dated backups are the only guaranteed recovery, so make them routine.
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