Actually, you don't even need anything but Minecraft. Simply go to a central place in your level, so you know your way around, then save and exit, then zip or copy+rename your world folder as a backup. Then, when your level corrupts, just copy and paste the level.dat and level.dat_old from the backup into the folder for the corrupted world, and if all else fails, revert to the backup world. It works beautifully, even if you do lose a few items, but that's what InvEdit is for.
I found a solution how to get fresh level.dat. Simply find your seed number/name and generate new world from it, then copy newly generated level.dat to the folder of missing world. After that your old world i back in the loading screen.
I use that method and the world is back as it is.
Um... how does one find one's seed number/name? Not simple if you don't already know.
Okay, I'm kind of in a similar situation. I made a flat grass map, then built some redstone contraptions next to a village(the village was at the spawn) I decided to make an adventure map, so I started off in where the player enters the Ender Realm. I was trying to make it to when you die, you spawn in a room that says "Game Over", but I noticed that I was nowhere near the village or my redstone creations. Those creations took...about a week, and I don't want to have to do them over. Is there any way I can...reverse what I did?
First post from this account. I tried this and had a fair degree success. My world is back, but it is plagued by constant crashes (I'm playing full release 1.1, although I don't think that's what's causing it.) and in one place a chunk from the world I got the template from has shown up causing it to crash repeatedly whenever I go near it. I need to use NBTedit to change my coordinates in order to get it to stop. I also can't use nether portals to reach my town. I liked that world and have worked on it for five months and these problems make playing difficult to say the least. Any help would be appreciated. Have some butter.
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And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge... Rumor turned into myth... myth turned into legend, and legend gave rumor and myth amiss, and went straight into autumn. ...Wait, what?
there is an easier way of doing this. make a backup of your world just in case. make sure you leave the file in your save folder. then make a new world with the same name as your old world. it will spawn you without your inventory in a different spawn point but in the same world.
i have tried this with rei's mini map 5 times and it works every time. granted you will need to know your X and Y to get back to your base but thats something you should know anyway.
in the official relaease all you need to do is make a new world then move all the folders( not the files (but the files in the folders do go)) from the old one into the new one. i did spawn really far away. but after about 10 min of searching the edge of my desert i eventually found my mob spawner in the distance. still no items but i recently found 3 or 4 stacks of daimonds in my world(Ginormous mine) so things are ok now.
My problem is a bit different than described in the first post, but I don't know if similar principles apply.
My hard drive, which had a single player world (survival) in which I got a lot done in, crashed. Since then, I have gotten a new computer. The old HDD is dead, but the files are still recoverable. If I am able to recover my level.dat file, and it is not corrupted, will it work on my new computer?
Um... how does one find one's seed number/name? Not simple if you don't already know.
thx
i have tried this with rei's mini map 5 times and it works every time. granted you will need to know your X and Y to get back to your base but thats something you should know anyway.
My hard drive, which had a single player world (survival) in which I got a lot done in, crashed. Since then, I have gotten a new computer. The old HDD is dead, but the files are still recoverable. If I am able to recover my level.dat file, and it is not corrupted, will it work on my new computer?