Where Is the Terraria Save Location on Windows\macOS\Linux?

Where Is the Terraria Save Location?

Terraria is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game available for Windows & macOS & Linux PCs, iOS & Android phones, and many consoles.

Where is the Terraria save location? Some people may wonder about this question because they want to change Terraria save location or transfer Terraria save files. The Terraria save location is as follows.

• On Windows: %UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Terraria.
• On macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Terraria.
• On Linux: ~/.local/share/Terraria.

If you have enabled Steam Cloud, the Terraria save location should be Steam Library Folder > userdata > SteamID > 105600 > remote.

Under the Terraria or remote folder, you will see two folders: Players and Worlds. The former folder stores all your character files and the latter stores your world files. Your character file should be a .plr file and your world file should be a .wld file.

Besides, if you use tModLoader, a free program that allows playing Terraria with mods, the tModLoader save location should be %UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Terraria\modloader. Then, you can find your Players and World folders there.

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How to Change Terraria Save Location

As you can see the Terraria save files are stored in the Documents folder, which is located in the C drive. Then, you may want to change Terraria save location to free up the C drive space. Then, you can try the following 2 ways.

Way 1. Move the Entire Documents Folder to Another Drive

The Documents folder can be changed to another place. Here is the guide:

1. Open Windows File Explorer and go to the location where you want to move the Documents folder to (D drive for example).
2. Create a new folder named Documents at this location.
3. On the left sidebar, under This PC, right-click the Documents directory and choose Properties.
4. Go to the Location tab and then click the Move button.
5. Navigate to and select the new Documents folder that you created just now (D:\Documents). Then, click Select Folder.
6. Click OK and then click Yes to move all the files from the old location to the new location.
7. Go to the C:\Users\UserName folder to delete the old Documents folder.

Then, the Terraria save files will continue to be stored in the new Documents folder.

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Way 2. Move the Terraria Folder

If you just want to move the Terraria folder, you can use the mklink command. Here is the guide:

1. Copy the Terraria folder to another drive (D drive for example, and the new folder’s path should be D:\Terraria).
2. Delete the old Terraria folder in Documents\My Games.
3. Make a soft link (junction) with the mklink command and the command should be: mklink /j “C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\Terraria” “D:\Terraria”. You should replace UserName and D:\Terraria according to your situation.

How to Transfer Terraria Save Files to Another PC

To transfer Terraria save files to another PC, you can use the following 2 ways：

1. Enable Steam Cloud for Terraria. Open the game’s Properties > General tab and enable the Cloud Synchronization setting. It will sync your saves to the Steam Server. Then, log in with your Steam account on a different PC and it will automatically have your data.
2. If you don’t want to use the Steam Cloud feature, you can go to the Terraria save location and then transfer the Players and Worlds folders to another PC.

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What to Do If Terraria Save Files Are Missing?

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Bottom Line

Where is the Terraria save location? How to change Terraria save location? How to transfer the Terraria save files? This post offers you guides.