The Guide
The Guide
Backup/Restore Instructions for Terraria Mobile 1.3 (Amazon Fire)
The Amazon Fire OS is based on Android and is very similar. This guide will highlight the small differences from this guide for Android.
This guide will use ES File Explorer and Google Drive - there are alternative file management apps that work fine, and alternative cloud storage services that will also work, but they will not be covered within this guide.
Please note: While Amazon does have its own cloud service for photo storage and purchased Amazon content, we do not find it suitable for backing up Terraria world and player files.
ReLogic, 505 Games and DR Studios do not have any involvement with any of these platforms, and as such will not be able to assist in retrieving any files that are lost or deleted while attempting to backup or restore. Please be careful when moving your game files around!
You will need an account on a cloud service before proceeding with this setup. The setup only needs to be done once.
1. Install the app "ES File Explorer File Manager" from the Amazon AppStore. This app is free, and seems to be the best method for doing this. Fire OS does not seem to provide a native file manager function.
2. Once installed, open the app. To set up a connection to your cloud storage, click on 'Cloud Drive'.
3. Click on the large '+' sign to add a cloud service. The supported services are shown. Choose one for which you already have an account on; most will offer a small amount of cloud storage (2-10GB) at no cost.
1. Open up the app and from the panel on the left, select "Internal Storage".
2. Navigate to "Android" > "data" > "com.amz.games505.Terraria" (click on the folder icons to navigate). You may have to scroll down a bit in the last folder to find "com.and.games505.TerrariaPaid" depending on what other apps you have installed. This is where your Terraria game data is stored.
For a full explanation of what all of these files are and whether you should back them up, please see Mobile - Terraria Mobile 1.3 Local File Structure, Explained
6. Go back to the Home screen and navigate to the Cloud drive link created in the Setup steps. For this example, I'm going to use the 'My Google Drive' that I had set up. In my Google Drive, I had already set up a 'Terraria Amazon Backup' folder. and with in that I had created 'Players' and 'Worlds' folders. Since this example is backing up a world, we will navigate to 'My Google Drive' > 'Terraria Amazon Backup' >'Worlds' folder. In the bottom bar, press the Paste button to start the transfer.
7. A window will appear giving details of the transfer. When that window closes, the data transfer is complete and your files are backed up to your cloud destination.
Restoring a file is the reverse process of backing up a file.
1. Open ES File Explorer and navigate to the location you uploaded your files. If you followed the first half of this guide, you will find them at 'Cloud Drive' > 'My Google Drive' > 'Terraria Amazon Backup' > 'Worlds' / 'Players'. This guide will follow restoring a world, but restoring a player follows exactly the same process.
- This process was tested and found to work properly with ES File Explorer on 2 Amazon devices: Fire HDX (2013/3rd Gen) and Fire HD 10 (2017/7th Gen).
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