Transferring over Map Data from mobile to PC

[meltingspace]

Hey all,
I just bought terraria for my PC (previously playing on mobile) and was transferring over my data from mobile to PC to continue playing on PC. I successfully transferred over my world and character, but I can't transfer over my minimap data (I don't want to have to re-explore my world to uncover the minimap). I've tried everyone's advice of pasting my MAP file into my players charecter folder, but this doesn't work, and everytime I reopen the game, my player's map is back to its unexplored version. Does anyone know how to fix this?
This is the file I pasted into my charecter's folder:

As you can see, it doesn't work, and my map is unexplored:

I would really really appreciate any help. I've always been a semi-casual mobile player, but I really want to get into the game now that I got the pc version. Thank you for any help in advance.

Sincerely,
meltingspace

 

[Kazzymodus]

Hey @meltingspace,

Unfortunately, Mobile Terraria's minimap files are currently not compatible with PC Terraria. We're looking into the possibility of supporting this in the future, but as of this moment I can not make any promises. I can however manually convert your minimap to a PC compatible version. If you are comfortable sharing it with me, I'll get right to it.

For the time being, you should remove the minimap file from your character folder: because the game can not overwrite it, it will discard all your new map data every time you exit your world.

 

[Hamra]

Hello @Kazzymodus !

I just stumbled into this thread while in the same exact situation. Would you be so kind to convert this map file from Android version to PC one?

 

[Lyxilion]

Hey @meltingspace,

Unfortunately, Mobile Terraria's minimap files are currently not compatible with PC Terraria. We're looking into the possibility of supporting this in the future, but as of this moment I can not make any promises. I can however manually convert your minimap to a PC compatible version. If you are comfortable sharing it with me, I'll get right to it.

For the time being, you should remove the minimap file from your character folder: because the game can not overwrite it, it will discard all your new map data every time you exit your world.

I'd be very interested about this too !

How do you do it ? Is there anyway we can have a small standalone too for it ? Or do we have to bother someone from QA every time we want to do it ?

 

[Kazzymodus]

Hello @Kazzymodus !

I just stumbled into this thread while in the same exact situation. Would you be so kind to convert this map file from Android version to PC one?

Of course! Here you go!

I'd be very interested about this too !

How do you do it ? Is there anyway we can have a small standalone too for it ? Or do we have to bother someone from QA every time we want to do it ?

I'm using a custom written application that leverages the existing save system. Unfortunately, there's no good way to condense it into a standalone application, which is why I'm banking on adding full compatibility to the game itself.