If I Rebuy Ffxiv Again on Pc Can I Use a Character Started on Steam

At present, full disclosure: This guide isn't perfect. And maybe is not the nigh efficient mode to go about the whole matter. This is just the style I've figured out how to do it. Merely! It works! And that's the important part!

A Tl;DR: Go to the Final Fantasy XIV – A Realm Reborn binder and locate the FFXIV_CHR folder for both the grapheme that y'all want to copy UI elements from, and the character you want to re-create them to. Re-create the desired '.dat' files from the original graphic symbol and supercede the files in the new graphic symbol's binder with the ones from the original. Boom, done!

More in-depth below the cut.

For the sake of this guide, let'south say I've fabricated an alt, Guguzan Nanazan, and I want to copy the settings from my main grapheme, Guinevere Ashe, onto this new character.

We need to find Guinevere's character data and cache and so we can copy the relevant information.

First step: log in on this new character then they actually be. You need to create/establish them in game, not only in the grapheme creator, to ensure they get a folder and information in the FFXIV - ARR binder.

Just for practiced measure, talk to a few NPCs and hang out for a lilliputian earlier logging out.

Next: Exit the game. I don't know what volition happen if you futz with this stuff while the game is running, or while you're playing the character in question, and I don't want to notice out. Play it safe!

Now, make your style to the base FFXIV – A Realm Reborn binder. It should look something like this:

Each of those CHARA_##.dat files is saved Appearance Data from the Character Creator.
Each FFXIV_CHR### binder is a grapheme that you lot've created and started a game with/logged in on at least one time so they really exist in-game. It contains everything from their appearance data to the UI layout, gearsets and keybinds that character has.

And now we take to figure out which folder is whose.

As you can see, those folders don't have the grapheme'due south name on them anywhere. Well… Technically they kinda do, but in hexadecimal.

Additionally, their 'appointment modified' is the date the character was created, not the date the grapheme was last played. For our newly made graphic symbol, this is helpful. For older characters, non so much.

If you're hexadecimal savvy, you tin open the FFXIV.cfg file (in Notepad) and compare the latest login data to the hexadecimal conversion of the character binder names. The last character you logged in on should sync up with ane of the folders!
The last logged grapheme's folder name is basically
FFXIV_CHR + [hexadecimal LastLogin1] + [hexadecimal heaLastLogin0]

If the information in FFXIV.cfg reads
LastLogin0 4B407901
LastLogin1 00400017
The grapheme's folder proper noun will be: FFXIV_CHR 00400017 4B407901

But if you can't exercise that, there's some other mode: using the graphic symbol's chat logs and dialogue. Once we find a chat log that corresponds with the original character, we'll be in the right binder with the correct .dat files.

Select a character binder and open it. (I like to start from the top and piece of work my mode down) The contents should look something like this:

The 'Log' folder is the one we want here, information technology contains records of the Full general, Battle and Result logs from the character this folder is for.

Once you notice the 1 you think you want, open it up.

While they look pretty nondescript, all of these files have up-to-date Modified dates, and whichever file was recently modified is the log from your most recent play session on that character.

**These logs can take time, sometimes hours, to show up on new characters.**

For my case, that top .log was modified on 11/9, and I know Gwen was the only graphic symbol I played that day.

Only to be safe, open up up the Log in Notepad and doublecheck.

It'll beginning with a bunch of weird hieroglyphics and squiggles, but eventually it will startlisting words and snips of dialogue.

I haven't figured out the rhyme or reason behind the lodge that stuff appears in these things. It seems to mash the General Log, Battle Log and Event Log together in real time, just also… kind of in reverse guild? Or it starts logging at a random time mid-quest/mid-dialogue? Information technology makes things a little tricky to read.

Regardless, if you look at the text long enough you'll find context clues for the dialogue this character last had when they were played.

This one has Dancing Wolf, Cerise Carbuncle, Ascian of the Twelfth Beaker, and damage notes from the Boxing Log all over the place. I know all 3 of these NPCs were involved in the Level sixty Summoner story quest I did on Guinevere yesterday.

If you're even so uncertain, or if sifting through the gobbledygook (that's a existent word, I googled it) sounds too tedious, CTRL+F and blazon your character's name, or annihilation else yous're confident should be in their log (another histrion you talked to, a spell or assault they used…)

At present that nosotros establish the base/original graphic symbol, open up another copy of FFXIV-ARR folder and apply the same process to detect your new graphic symbol— in my case Guguzan Nanazan.

Seeing how I merely made him he doesn't accept a Log yet, even though I did some quests on him. Buuuuut…..

…I'yard at least 3% sure that'southward him.

Good! Now we take both.

Earlier we get copying: I recommend trying to make some annotation of which folder is whose once you have them figured out, so you lot don't have to go through all this trying to place them again in the futurity.

Nosotros can't rename the character folders, that will mess with the game and that would be *MAXIMUM B A D*.Instead, create a new, empty folder in the base FFXIV – ARR binder. (Don't worry, it won't mess with annihilation!) Championship this folder something that volition point you towards the character folder you're looking for.

I use the Server, the Name of the character and the last 6-ten characters from their hexadecimal ID
Base folder looks similar this:

My placeholder/reminder binder looks like this:

I don't store annihilation in these placeholder folders, I just use them to keep track of which grapheme is which, but you could always use them to support copies of your .dat files if yous wanted.

Now: Copying things over…

Get dorsum to your original binder, in this case Guinevere'due south. Yous'll see this list of .dat files.

Hither'southward what they are…to the best of my knowledge.

ACQ – A list of people you take received tells from or sent tells to, for the ALT+R cycling. So generally names of RMT characters

ADDON – Everything UI related, including HUD layout and window locations and sizes.

COMMON – The Character Config settings, AKA the settings located in Character Settings carte du jour.

CONTROL0 – Keyboard/Mouse Settings

CONTROL1 – Gamepad/Controller Settings

GEARSET – Listing of gear sets saved to your character.

HOTBAR – The contents of your Hotbars, such as spells and attacks, but not their positions.

ITEMFDR – Detail location data. When you right click on an particular and choose to search, this is the local file that's referenced to tell y'all where similar items are (your inventory, your retainer, etc…)

ITEMODR – Item locations in your and your retainer's inventories.

KEYBIND – Self-explanatory.

LOGFLTR – Chat log filter and color settings.

MACRO – Title, Icon and Line listing of custom macros on your character.

UISAVE – Contains content cashed in the UI, such as the retainer venture timer, and possibly other stuff

There is a fill-in/restore function for these .dat files the launcher if anything gets messed up or goes missing. Even so! Be warned: that role is all or nothing. It will back upwards and/or restoreeverything, not simply individual components.

Now, copy the .dat files you want from the base character to the new i, and choose to 'replace' the files in the new folder.

Protip: Don't become your folders/characters mixed up.

Yous'll go from scrub UI…

 To THIS!…. Or your variation thereof!

Hotbars? More like hot MESS
It's a clustfuck I know, don't @ me lol

Copying over the hotbars also copies the icons on them, fifty-fifty if the new graphic symbol doesn't have the same items, mounts and moves. Nothing to worry about. On the bright side, it'southward easy way to make sure yous accept the exact same button layout between characters!

Tada!! :D Promise information technology helps!!

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