My computer over-heated and crashed as it sometimes does, because it's a Dell (-.-) I was grief stricken with the loss of my minecraft world because I have dedicated days to making my world and town and farms, and all that other good stuff.
I then went online to find out how to recover it and people were suggesting things like accessing your folders for level_dat files and a bunch of other nonsense which (as a very technologically impaired person) was outrageous and far-fetched as I don't really know computer lingo and all the prowess required for such a thing.
Out of all the forums and suggestions, what I knew for sure was that if and when your world gets deleted, it is archived somewhere in your minecraft folders and therefore still exists. With that being said, all you need is your original World name. You don't even need your seed generator (as a matter of fact, I would leave it blank).
Simply make a new world with your deleted world name and start a new world. You may be placed very far away from the location that you were initially put in in your other world (I was 7 maps away, but a crafting table that I had once made when I was lost was still present) , but all items and locations in this world will be EXACTLY the same as before. What I did was begin to mine.
I accumulated several maps, a compass, and a boat. From there, it is up to you to either find your world from key landmarks, or, if you had a map in your previous world, find your house on the map, or at least the continent you lived on (my house has a moat of lava around it so it made the journey relatively easy). After 3 hours, countless crashed boats, and 7 fully chartered maps, I found my house, including my still standing farm, greenhouses, Nether portal, and items. All the chests you had should still contain your old items, and your enchanting tables, brewing stands, furnaces, craft tables, chests, and beds will still be there.
This is a more tedious process, but it is a sure-fire way to get your world back. Just make sure your spelling for your world name is exactly as it was before (Caps and all; just to be safe).
NOTE!: When my map generated my old house and farm on the in-game map, the entire game screen turned black. I'm not sure if this was coincidence, or if the game realized this was an older file and spazzed out, regardless, I exited the game and re-entered my world and everything was fine. So if that happens, don't panic. Good luck and I hope this helped a few of you put in my position.
That's not really a deleted world. More like an inaccessible one that you somehow re-established connection to.
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OP lost his level.dat and level.dat_old. Without those, the game doesn't recognize that directory as being a world. If you create a new world with the exact same name, it will re-implement that directory and thus the world as you had it. Thus, you "recover" the save.
If you lose the entire directory, there is no getting it back.
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That's not really a deleted world. More like an inaccessible one that you somehow re-established connection to.
While this is true, this is what most people were sobbing over on YahooAnswers and the forums so I thought I might give them another way to try it out, and I hadn't really seen another suggestion like it. Simple solutions for simple people I guess you could say. :tongue.gif:
umm... i deleted my most succesful world as a test... dang :sad.gif:
Haha, well I dunno, it could possibly work. Like I said, I'm no tech guru, but it wouldn't hurt to exhaust your options, especially if you have a photographic memory of your world.
I even went to the trouble of editing it to your liking :tongue.gif: Just so some other critical person doesn't get annoyed from reading that hot mess :}
i had a server and the free trial ended so i paid for it within a few minutes then one of the staff of my host website said since i was a few minutes overdue all the files of my wold werer erased and it took weeks to make the map! is there anyway at all i can get it back? alos there are no remains of my map so i guess i cant D;
I don't think that trick is very reliable, I think you got lucky. Also, it's sad that opening a folder and moving a file is too technical for you.
uh..what is a "file"? hey, this **** is complicated. why don't you add some knowledge to your post's rather than just lambaste others for knowledge they don't posses, but obviously , you must ! you are a tool! it is sad that people like you that know this **** refuse to share it!
umm... i deleted my most succesful world as a test... dang
This is only for if your computer crashed and now won't let you access the world. If you use the client to delete the world, it will be gone forever (a long time).
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Hey no surprise i have a Dell and it always over heats and shuts down. But i have found out a way to stop it over heating. If you have an air compresser blow it into the fan area once a month. If you dont have an air compresser then use something else.
I have a Dell, model XPS L702X. It never overheats. Maybe your computer is just old.
If you actually deleted the folder, you can still get it back using a deleted file recovery program. (No file is truly deleted until another is written where is was before).
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Over 90 % of the human population is stupid (in my honest opinion). Don't expect too much from them when you post something that actually involves thought.
I then went online to find out how to recover it and people were suggesting things like accessing your folders for level_dat files and a bunch of other nonsense which (as a very technologically impaired person) was outrageous and far-fetched as I don't really know computer lingo and all the prowess required for such a thing.
Out of all the forums and suggestions, what I knew for sure was that if and when your world gets deleted, it is archived somewhere in your minecraft folders and therefore still exists. With that being said, all you need is your original World name. You don't even need your seed generator (as a matter of fact, I would leave it blank).
Simply make a new world with your deleted world name and start a new world. You may be placed very far away from the location that you were initially put in in your other world (I was 7 maps away, but a crafting table that I had once made when I was lost was still present) , but all items and locations in this world will be EXACTLY the same as before. What I did was begin to mine.
I accumulated several maps, a compass, and a boat. From there, it is up to you to either find your world from key landmarks, or, if you had a map in your previous world, find your house on the map, or at least the continent you lived on (my house has a moat of lava around it so it made the journey relatively easy). After 3 hours, countless crashed boats, and 7 fully chartered maps, I found my house, including my still standing farm, greenhouses, Nether portal, and items. All the chests you had should still contain your old items, and your enchanting tables, brewing stands, furnaces, craft tables, chests, and beds will still be there.
This is a more tedious process, but it is a sure-fire way to get your world back. Just make sure your spelling for your world name is exactly as it was before (Caps and all; just to be safe).
NOTE!: When my map generated my old house and farm on the in-game map, the entire game screen turned black. I'm not sure if this was coincidence, or if the game realized this was an older file and spazzed out, regardless, I exited the game and re-entered my world and everything was fine. So if that happens, don't panic. Good luck and I hope this helped a few of you put in my position.
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OP lost his level.dat and level.dat_old. Without those, the game doesn't recognize that directory as being a world. If you create a new world with the exact same name, it will re-implement that directory and thus the world as you had it. Thus, you "recover" the save.
If you lose the entire directory, there is no getting it back.
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I see dead people..oops! I mean paragraphs. his post looks fine to me.
uh..what is a "file"? hey, this **** is complicated. why don't you add some knowledge to your post's rather than just lambaste others for knowledge they don't posses, but obviously , you must ! you are a tool! it is sad that people like you that know this **** refuse to share it!
This is only for if your computer crashed and now won't let you access the world. If you use the client to delete the world, it will be gone forever (a long time).
If you actually deleted the folder, you can still get it back using a deleted file recovery program. (No file is truly deleted until another is written where is was before).