Hello friends, it has been a while since I've posted on here but I need your help. Almost a year ago, I was working on an adventure map on my server, that my friends and I played on, to revamp it. The backup files in my .minecraft folder says that it was last modified on May 24, 2012. A couple days ago I go back on my server to play on the map again and it started to generate new chunks everywhere. I was holding a map in my hands and I could see the new chunks being generated over the existing terrain. I was very upset since I put many hours into this map. Thankfully I still have that backup folder for that map. The map folder is called 'Adventure map'. I never changed the name of the map folder or any of its contents. I go back to my backup folder and copy and paste the map back into my server file folder where my other maps were. I go back into my server and I'm still having the same problem. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-GodzWarrior
Here's a picture:
Ok, more info. I uploaded another picture of the new chunks vs. the old ones. Now I have played this map before on later versions of minecraft after I played the adventure map; I came back time and time again as minecraft kept updating and everything was still in place, now it's almost all gone. Some of the other structures are still there like, half of the lighthouse I built....
When I played on here last time, it did generate new chunks, but only outside of the map you saw on my first post. (You can barely make out a line in the middle of the map). The adventure map is Captain Blackbeard's Adventure, it had notes and diaries. There was a pyramid in the woods, glowstone towers at the spawn, and a house on a beach towards the end of the adventure.
If I need to make anything else clearer, let me know.
Picture: http://imgur.com/5ROsKNJ
If the map is a year old then i would guess it's something to do with the map format change to anvil. I couldn't say for sure without personally playing around with the map though. I'm guessing there's not a lot that can be done with it ingame as the problem will just keep repeating itself.
As gravewalker suggested, you might be able to fix it outside of minecraft with mcedit. Another possibility if all else fails is to make a new map and use mcedit to transfer the assets over to a new one.
Sorry I can't be more help; it's certainly a weird problem.
Thanks for the reply and help. I haven't been able to use MCEdit for a while now since it was down because the owner quit. I'm going to install it again now that it's been updated. But I might need more help of figuring out how to transfer the old map data to a new map. Sounds a little tricky to me!
Hey guys, sorry it's been so long to get back, but things have just now slowed down at college so that I can start working on some things that I had to stop on. So here's an update to this topic:
I downloaded MCEdit like you guys said after I got off that night. And today, I go to load both the level.dat and level (2).dat files in MCEdit. In the level.dat file, it loaded but absolutely nothing was there except for the players and the spawn point. None of the old chunks were there.... And MCEdit wouldn't even load the newer level 2.dat file. I think I may be out of luck
Any opinions are welcome!
I spoke too soon. I downloaded the latest version of MCEdit and it loaded the level.dat file with only the old chunks. The rest were missing.
The chunks that loaded were from the latest version of the map when the original map maker built the map, the (newer) chunks that are now missing were from previous versions to the game sometime during his map-making process. I noticed that when I loaded it the first time that there were distinct chunks that were new vs the old. I'm thinking that when the game updated during his map-making, the map generator switched to anvil, like Rufus stated, and only the anvil (newer) chunks remain today. I'm not sure if it's possible to have the older (non-anvil format) chunks to be reloaded somehow without going back to an earlier version of MC.
I just put a lot of man hours into this thing and only the newer ones remain... the old ones got replaced by ocean which you can see so it makes it almost impossible to rebuild
-GodzWarrior
Here's a picture:
When I played on here last time, it did generate new chunks, but only outside of the map you saw on my first post. (You can barely make out a line in the middle of the map). The adventure map is Captain Blackbeard's Adventure, it had notes and diaries. There was a pyramid in the woods, glowstone towers at the spawn, and a house on a beach towards the end of the adventure.
If I need to make anything else clearer, let me know.
Picture:
http://imgur.com/5ROsKNJ
Thanks for the reply and help. I haven't been able to use MCEdit for a while now since it was down because the owner quit. I'm going to install it again now that it's been updated. But I might need more help of figuring out how to transfer the old map data to a new map. Sounds a little tricky to me!
I downloaded MCEdit like you guys said after I got off that night. And today, I go to load both the level.dat and level (2).dat files in MCEdit. In the level.dat file, it loaded but absolutely nothing was there except for the players and the spawn point. None of the old chunks were there.... And MCEdit wouldn't even load the newer level 2.dat file. I think I may be out of luck
Any opinions are welcome!
The chunks that loaded were from the latest version of the map when the original map maker built the map, the (newer) chunks that are now missing were from previous versions to the game sometime during his map-making process. I noticed that when I loaded it the first time that there were distinct chunks that were new vs the old. I'm thinking that when the game updated during his map-making, the map generator switched to anvil, like Rufus stated, and only the anvil (newer) chunks remain today. I'm not sure if it's possible to have the older (non-anvil format) chunks to be reloaded somehow without going back to an earlier version of MC.
I just put a lot of man hours into this thing and only the newer ones remain... the old ones got replaced by ocean which you can see so it makes it almost impossible to rebuild