palworld-save-tools

Tools for converting Palworld .sav files to JSON and back.

Important

This tool has changed how the JSON files are formatted starting with v0.9. You cannot load JSON files created by older versions of the tool, and other tools that depend on the JSON output of palworld-save-tools will break. In exchange, you will no longer need uesave-rs, the tool runs faster, and doesn't use as much RAM.

Caution

Any versions older than v0.4 will create corrupt Level.sav files when converting from JSON to SAV. Please make sure to update to avoid data corruption.

This tool currently supports additional parsing of the following data not handled by uesave or other non-Palworld aware Unreal save editors:

1. Level.sav:GroupSaveDataMap
   • Groups such as in-game organizations and guilds
2. Level.sav:CharacterSaveParameterMap
   • Characters such as players and pals

Converting co-op saves to dedicated server saves

Please follow the instructions provided over at https://github.com/xNul/palworld-host-save-fix

Instructions

Important

Converting Level.sav files to JSON will result in very large files, and may require significant amounts of RAM to process. Use a modern text editor such as Visual Studio Code or a Jetbrains IDE to open these files.

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.9 or newer.
   • Windows users: You can install Python 3.12 from the Microsoft Store or from python.org

Windows GUI steps

1. Download the latest release from [https://github.com/cheahjs/palworld-save-tools/releases/latest].
2. Unzip the file into a folder.
3. Drag and drop your .sav file (for Steam on Windows, these are located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\<SteamID>\<SaveID>) onto convert.cmd to convert the file into JSON.
4. To convert the .sav.json file back into a .sav file, drag and drop your .sav.json file onto convert.cmd.

Note

In the event that the convert.cmd fails to function correctly, try to disable Python's app execution aliases ("Manage app execution aliases"), or failing that, please use the Terminal instructions below

Terminal

1. Download the latest release from [https://github.com/cheahjs/palworld-save-tools/releases/latest].
2. Unzip the file into a folder.
3. Open a terminal in the folder you just unzipped.
4. Depending on how Python is installed, the next steps should use either python, python3, or py.
5. Run python convert.py <path to .sav file> to convert the .sav file to a .sav.json file.
6. Run python convert.py <path to .json file> to convert the .sav.json file to a .sav file.

Note

On Windows, you can drag and drop the convert.py file and the .sav/.sav.json file to avoid typing out the path.

Additional command line arguments:

1. --to-json: Force SAV to JSON conversion regardless of file extension
2. --from-json: Force JSON to SAV converrsion regardless of file extension
3. --output: Override the default output path
4. --minify-json: Minify output JSON to help speed up processing by other tools consuming JSON