How to Start a Fresh World on Your Palworld Server

Sometimes a world has run its course: the map is stripped, everyone is max level, or you want to start again with different settings. Your server can generate a brand new world in about two minutes, and you can keep the old one so nothing is really lost.

1Back Up the World You Have

• Log in to your game panel and click your Palworld server.
• Open Backups and take a manual backup. See how to create a manual backup.
• This is what lets you change your mind. Do not skip it, even if you are certain.

2Stop the Server

• Go to Console and press Stop.
• Wait until it is fully offline. A running server writes the world back out as it shuts down, which would undo the next step.

3Set Your New World Up First

• Now is the moment to change anything you want the new world generated with. Open Game Settings and set your difficulty, rates and limits before the world exists.
• See every Palworld server setting explained for what you can change.

4Move the Old World Aside

• Open Files and navigate to Pal/Saved/SaveGames/0.
• Inside is one folder with a long name of letters and numbers. That is your current world.
• Open it. It contains Level.sav, LevelMeta.sav and a backup folder.
• Delete Level.sav and LevelMeta.sav. Leave the folder itself in place.
• With no world file to load, the server generates a new one on the next start.

5Start the Server

• Press Start and watch the console until it reaches Running Palworld dedicated server on :18003, with your own port.
• Join, and you should arrive in a freshly generated world with a new character.

Good to Know

• Your address does not change. Same IP, same port, same password. Nobody needs new connection details.
• Everyone starts over. Characters, levels and Pals are tied to the world you just replaced. Tell your players before you do it.
• Going back is possible. Restoring the backup from step 1 puts the old world back exactly as it was, which is the whole reason for taking it.
• Settings survive. Everything in Game Settings belongs to the server, not the world, so your configuration carries over to the new world.

Finished

Your server is running a brand new world with the settings you chose. If the old world is one you might want again some day, download the backup and keep a copy somewhere off the server.