V Rising – How to Delete Characters on a Private Server

Deleting Characters on a Privately-Hosted Server

• Find the target user’s 17-digit SteamID, e.g. 76561198515939315. It can be found in the server’s VRisingServer.log, or even from ingame.
• Shut down the server, preferably gracefully.
• Copy the server’s latest save file to local, and ungzip it.
• Open this AutoSave_XX.save file in your favorite hex editor. In the screenshots below, HxD 2.5.0.0 is the editor being used.
• Search for the user’s SteamID as an integer number in little endian mode. See Figure 2. It should find 8 bytes, with the user’s character’s name showing up 18 bytes after the SteamID.
• Modify the found SteamID to something unique (e.g. change the last byte to FF), and save.
• Upload the edited save to the server’s save folder as-is, or gzip it first, doesn’t matter. Remember to overwrite or increment the save number, and to update the file’s read/write permissions if the server is running under a different user account.
• Restart the server, and the user should encounter the character creation menu upon login.

Note: Obviously, this method doesn’t actually delete the character, just un-assigns the character from the player.