Exiles Character Transfer - Information and Tutorial for PC

Before proceeding with the transfer of your character from one server to another, please consider all the information listed below.

General information:

  • You can transfer a character to a server on which you already have a character, but the character already on that server must be deleted first.
  • You can only transfer one character at a time. If you have already exported a character it must be imported before another character can be exported. You can also delete a stored character to free up space under the Account tab of the Settings menu in game, but this will result in permanently losing that stored character.
  • After you successfully import a character, there is a cool down period during which you are unable to transfer another character.
    • For Official servers, this is 24 hours for PvE and PvEC and 7 days for PvP.
    • For Unofficial servers and single player/co-op, this is 24 hours.
  • You can’t transfer a character if they are over-encumbered or in a Clan.
    • If you are in a Clan and wish to transfer some thralls with you, we recommend using the Thrall Trading Post to put the thralls up for sale for a minimal price BEFORE leaving the Clan, then purchasing them afterwards.
      Make sure to talk to your Clanmates first!
  • We have made a "best effort" attempt to preserve modded items and thralls during the transfer, but cannot guarantee that they will transfer correctly, wholly, or that they will not cause the transfer to fail in entirety.
    • We strongly recommend ensuring your character only has unmodded items and thralls before initiating a transfer.
    • We cannot provide support for transfers that fail or are incomplete due to the presence of modded items and/or thralls.

Rules regarding server transfer:

  • When you transfer to a different server, you can choose between Exiled Lands and Isle of Siptah servers.
    • Note that you will need to have acquired the ‘Isle of Siptah’ DLC to be able to transfer your character to the Isle of Siptah servers.
  • You can transfer between Official servers (Official to Official) with the following rules:
    • From PvP you can transfer to other PvP servers, PvE-C, or PvE
    • From PvE-C you can transfer to other PvE-C servers or PvE
    • From PvE you can only transfer to other PvE servers
  • You can transfer from Official servers to Unofficial but never from Unofficial servers to Official.
  • You can transfer from Unofficial server to Unofficial server.
    • Note that unofficial servers have settings to control whether or not they allow character transfers, and may not permit the transfer. Be sure to check with the server's admin before initiating a transfer to an Unofficial server.
    • Funcom cannot guarantee the reliability of character transfers to Unofficial servers, especially modded servers. This process will have to be done at your own risk.
  • You can transfer any character to a single-player/co-op game, but single-player/co-op characters cannot be transferred to any dedicated server, Unofficial or Official.

When transferring your character to another server you will keep the following:

  • Character Name
  • Character Appearance (the choices made in character creation that define the visual of the character)
  • Unlocked Knowledge
  • Level (XP) and attribute point allocation including Perks and Corrupted Perks
  • Completed Journey steps
  • All equipped items, all items in the character's backpack (main inventory), and all items in the Hotbar
  • All followers (up to the follower limit), including their inventories, levels, and stats
    • After transferring, you will need to build a safe location (aka a landclaim), and then you will be able to place your followers from the Follower UI (accessed from Inventory)

When transferring your character to another server you will lose the following:

  • All buildings/placeables that belonged to the character. These will be abandoned and decay.
  • Any items not in the inventory of your character or your followers
  • Modded items or thralls that are incompatible with the destination server. Additionally, some mods may store data about their items/thralls in a non-standard way (i.e. outside of the item/thrall itself), in which case this data may also be lost.

Step-by-Step process:

  1. Enter the server where you have the character that you want to transfer.
  2. Press the 'ESC' key on your keyboard or 'Options' button on a controller to bring up the options menu. Under the 'Character' section, select the option 'Server Transfer'.
  3. The 'Export Character' menu will open, beginning with a data summary. Some of the displayed data may not be correct; this is a purely visual error and a known issue that will be fixed in a future patch.
  4. Proceed through the data summary to the confirmation dialogue, where you will be shown which types of servers your character can be transferred to before confirming the transfer.
  5. After this is completed you will receive a confirmation message, then you will be disconnected from the server and redirected to the Main Menu.
  6. Access the Server Browser menu.
  7. Select a server to which you want to transfer your character. An icon will appear in the 'LV' column of the server browser that will indicate which servers are eligible for your character based on the server type it was exported from. The icon will not appear if you already have a character on that server.
  8. After entering the server and accessing the character creation menu, press the 'Import Character' button.
    1. If you have exported character data and you attempt to create a character on a server which does not support or allow importing your exported character, then in the character creation menu you will instead see a 'Cannot Import Character' button. Interacting with this button will present you with a message indicating why the character cannot be imported.
  9. The Character Import window will open, beginning with a character data summary. Click through the confirmation prompts to begin the import process.
  10. If the character import process was successful you will spawn into the map near a starting point.

Dedicated Server Configuration:

  • Unofficial dedicated servers are able to use the character transfer system, but may choose to opt-out. These are the server settings used to control your server's interaction with this system. Like most settings, they are set in ServerSettings.ini
    • The settings will be added to the Server Settings UI in an upcoming patch.
  • Allow character transfers onto this server:
    • ServerTransferEnabled=True
    • Default: True
    • If you do not wish to allow players to import characters from other servers onto your server, you must opt-out by setting this to False.
  • Allow reimporting a stored character that originated on this server, back to this server:
    • CanImportDirectlyFromSameServer=True
    • Default: True
  • A whitelist can be optionally specified to restrict where importing characters have come from:
    • ServerTransferServersWhitelist=("1.1.1.1:7777", "1.1.1.2:7777")
    • Default: Empty
    • Note: This server setting requires an IP address and will not function with domain names. It expects the public IP address of the source server at the time the character was exported, and does not understand subnets, VPNs or special IP addresses (ie 127.0.0.1 will not work).