My wife invites a friend over that she hasn't seen since highschool. She brings her 12 year old and her two month old. Turns out, like every other kid on the planet. The 12 year old plays minecraft. I say cool and offer to show him my castle. I hadn't played in about 2 months (I play hot and cold with most games I play) and it tells me there is an update. Well I didn't feel like waiting for an update with guests present so I just declined, signed out of xbl and loaded my castle world. I spawn with empty inventory over an ocean. I fly around the world for a bit before I realize it there is a colossal ocean in the center of my world where there shouldn't be. I grab the map out of my inventory and it only loads in the small circle I am standing in. I think "Did I load the wrong world?" Back out without saving, load in double checking the world name and it spawns me under the ocean in the middle of the map. I fly around the entire map and find nothing that should be there. My first thought is "well, I guess I do need that update". I exit without saving again and download the update. Load back in, once again spawned at the bottom of the ocean, fly around and nothing. My wife (who was out of the room until I started downloading the update) asks "did you load the right world?" So I exit without saving, checked with her and loaded again. Nothing,, again, exit without saving again and switch storage devices to the internal 4GB on the 360S to make sure it wasn't moved there and it finds no worlds. Switch to cloud storage where I know I made a backup save of the earliest stage of construction (the finished outer walls with nothing inside and it finds no worlds on the cloud. I then load in one of my other worlds and find everything intact and in it's proper place. In the little thumbnail for the castle world (as screen shot of the last time saved) you can see one of the internal rooms of the castle.
This castle was a collaboration between myself and half a dozen other players totalling well over a thousand man hours (probably close to, if not more than, two thousand man hours). The hard drive hadn't been removed and the power was never turned off while saving, I don't mod or hack, nobody has access to my xbox(s) or my live profile. Have I simply lost all the time put into this world?
Below is a picture of what should have been saved on the cloud
Yep, imagine those walls filled with 10 floors of fully furnished rooms all tricked with redstone down to the doorbell and secret escape route from the throne room
The real question is, where did you bury that 12-year-old?
Kidding, kidding.
I too lost my oldest world. It autosaved while I was coming down a ladder in my base, where I had hundreds of chests. I went to open a chest, it froze, and it would not, and will not reload. Then TU16 came out, and I wanted temples so I started over. But I still miss that old world.
I now back up my world on usb, and I sleep better at night. I've never trusted that cloud, so I've never used it. And after your story, I know I was right.
Did'ya ever notice that there is a file on your HDD called "Cloud Cache" that is 512mb? The same amount of space MS gives you for Cloud storage.
So I ask, "What happens if you delete that file?" Are you still able to access your cloud-saves? What's the point of that file if it takes up the same amount of space you're supposed to "save" by using the cloud. It garbage.
I removed everything I had on the cloud, deleted that file, and never went back.
Hey, it sucks about your world, Vyppa. That had to be about the 7th or 8th story I heard like that. Peoples' worlds just turning into ocean... the Forum is sick with that joke. I'm not sure if it's related to the cloud, though. Maybe the others can chime in and see if there are some correlations and perhaps formulate a way to avoid it happening in the future.
I'd help, but I've not had that happen to me. (knock on wood)
The cloud's purpose was never to save hardrive space, it was to allow you to jump between consoles without physically moving any media. It works as it was intended too
And of course, I only ever saved a couple screen shots. But, I shall do what any true minecrafter would do in this situation..............build, it, BIGGER!!!!
And of course, I only ever saved a couple screen shots. But, I shall do what any true minecrafter would do in this situation..............build, it, BIGGER!!!!
I spent months and months building an enormous mansion in survival with 5 floors, a basketball court, an indoor pool, a working plumbing system, a library with 300+ bookshelves, a lush garden, a fountain, and a statue in my minecraft likeness, only to load a stupid update, load the world, and lose everything. I just did exactly that, I rebuilt it even better.
Surprisingly, its a lot of fun to start from scratch all over again.
My wife invites a friend over that she hasn't seen since highschool. She brings her 12 year old and her two month old. Turns out, like every other kid on the planet. The 12 year old plays minecraft. I say cool and offer to show him my castle. I hadn't played in about 2 months (I play hot and cold with most games I play) and it tells me there is an update. Well I didn't feel like waiting for an update with guests present so I just declined, signed out of xbl and loaded my castle world. I spawn with empty inventory over an ocean. I fly around the world for a bit before I realize it there is a colossal ocean in the center of my world where there shouldn't be. I grab the map out of my inventory and it only loads in the small circle I am standing in. I think "Did I load the wrong world?" Back out without saving, load in double checking the world name and it spawns me under the ocean in the middle of the map. I fly around the entire map and find nothing that should be there. My first thought is "well, I guess I do need that update". I exit without saving again and download the update. Load back in, once again spawned at the bottom of the ocean, fly around and nothing. My wife (who was out of the room until I started downloading the update) asks "did you load the right world?" So I exit without saving, checked with her and loaded again. Nothing,, again, exit without saving again and switch storage devices to the internal 4GB on the 360S to make sure it wasn't moved there and it finds no worlds. Switch to cloud storage where I know I made a backup save of the earliest stage of construction (the finished outer walls with nothing inside and it finds no worlds on the cloud. I then load in one of my other worlds and find everything intact and in it's proper place. In the little thumbnail for the castle world (as screen shot of the last time saved) you can see one of the internal rooms of the castle.
This castle was a collaboration between myself and half a dozen other players totalling well over a thousand man hours (probably close to, if not more than, two thousand man hours). The hard drive hadn't been removed and the power was never turned off while saving, I don't mod or hack, nobody has access to my xbox(s) or my live profile. Have I simply lost all the time put into this world?
Below is a picture of what should have been saved on the cloud
That is the worst thing I've ever heard. I would go insane.
Yep, imagine those walls filled with 10 floors of fully furnished rooms all tricked with redstone down to the doorbell and secret escape route from the throne room
The real question is, where did you bury that 12-year-old?
Kidding, kidding.
I too lost my oldest world. It autosaved while I was coming down a ladder in my base, where I had hundreds of chests. I went to open a chest, it froze, and it would not, and will not reload. Then TU16 came out, and I wanted temples so I started over. But I still miss that old world.
I now back up my world on usb, and I sleep better at night. I've never trusted that cloud, so I've never used it. And after your story, I know I was right.
I feel your pain. Your castle kicked major tail.
Eff the Cloud.
Did'ya ever notice that there is a file on your HDD called "Cloud Cache" that is 512mb? The same amount of space MS gives you for Cloud storage.
So I ask, "What happens if you delete that file?" Are you still able to access your cloud-saves? What's the point of that file if it takes up the same amount of space you're supposed to "save" by using the cloud. It garbage.
I removed everything I had on the cloud, deleted that file, and never went back.
Hey, it sucks about your world, Vyppa. That had to be about the 7th or 8th story I heard like that. Peoples' worlds just turning into ocean... the Forum is sick with that joke. I'm not sure if it's related to the cloud, though. Maybe the others can chime in and see if there are some correlations and perhaps formulate a way to avoid it happening in the future.
I'd help, but I've not had that happen to me. (knock on wood)
The cloud's purpose was never to save hardrive space, it was to allow you to jump between consoles without physically moving any media. It works as it was intended too
And of course, I only ever saved a couple screen shots. But, I shall do what any true minecrafter would do in this situation..............build, it, BIGGER!!!!
If only it were possible to build it bigger on the INSIDE.
Yerp..............
Read a little closer, I checked the cloud after downloading TU24 and the save was gone, not even present but reseeded like the hardrive save.
Whovian mindmeld 11th doctor style!!!!!! *THUD* Does your head hurt as much as mine?
I spent months and months building an enormous mansion in survival with 5 floors, a basketball court, an indoor pool, a working plumbing system, a library with 300+ bookshelves, a lush garden, a fountain, and a statue in my minecraft likeness, only to load a stupid update, load the world, and lose everything. I just did exactly that, I rebuilt it even better.
Surprisingly, its a lot of fun to start from scratch all over again.