Deleting a world
New in 1.0.2. Until now BakaLoader could delete a backup layer or a whole realm, but not one world out of a folder. That was a file manager job. Now it is not.
Delete world sits beside Backups in the World Saves dialog on the Dashboard,
and in the Barrow's own panel for that world.
It takes the world for good: the whole world folder for a 1.0 world, or the .fwl and .db pair for a legacy one, plus any world of the same name sitting in the other worlds folder, plus the biome cache the game keeps for it. The folder it will work in is printed in the dialog.
Also delete its backups is off by default, and the line under it changes with the switch. Off: "Its backup layers stay in the Barrow, so the world can still be raised from one of them." On: "Its backup layers go with it, so there is nothing left to bring back."
Then you have to type the world's name. Exactly, capitals included, the same check the app's own side makes, so the button never offers a delete you would then be turned away for. It stays disabled until the name matches.
There is no undo.
The tooltip carries the reason, and the same three checks are made again when you press it, so a control that could only come back refused is greyed rather than offered.
"'Final Sunset' is running this world right now. Stop the server first."
"'Final Sunset' has this world chosen. Point that realm at another world first, or delete the realm."
"this world's folder is not known, so it cannot be deleted from here"
That second one is the one you will meet. A world a realm still selects cannot be deleted underneath it, even with the server stopped. Point that realm at another world on the Settings screen first.
Other worlds in the same folder. Your server install. The realm itself: a profile that pointed at this world is still there, and you will need to point it at another world before it can start.
You made Trialgrounds to test a mod set and you are done with it.
Open Settings and check no realm has it chosen. If the realm you are on selects it, pick another world there and save, or the delete will be refused.
Open the Dashboard, click the World saves card, press Delete world. The dialog names the folder it
will work in. Leave Also delete its backups off if you might want it back, or turn it on to take the
space too. Type Trialgrounds into the box, exactly, and the button comes alive. Press it.
If you left the backups behind, the world's layers are now in the Barrow under Backups without a world, and restoring one brings it back.
The button is greyed out. Read its tooltip. Either a server is running that world, or a realm still selects it, and the second is the common one. Point that realm at another world first.
I typed the name and the button stayed dead. It has to match exactly, capitals included. The check is the same one the app's own side makes, so a button that came alive on a near miss would only be refused a moment later.
Can I undo it? Not the world itself. If you left Also delete its backups off, its layers are still
in the Barrow and one of them can be restored.
Does it delete the world for other servers too? It deletes the files, so any realm pointed at that folder loses that world. That is why a realm that still selects it blocks the delete in the first place.