I've spent weeks building a house, and was just about done. I was going around adding some final touches, when minecraft froze. I got an error screen, and had to x out of it completely. When I reopened it, the area in which I'd been standing was destroyed! For about 10-15 blocks in every direction, my house was gone (2 floors), and replaced by a giant pile of sand. It's not like everything in the area turned into sand, because the pile didn't get higher/lower where my walls and floors were. It's more like a huge mountain of sand fell from the sky and obliterated everything it touched.
Has this ever happened to anyone? How can I prevent it from happening again? I'm afraid to go back in and rebuild, in case it happens again and more is destroyed.
Edited to add: I went back in and started removing the sand, and suddenly solved half the puzzle. When I first started building, I had to remove a large hill of sand to get a flat building surface. It's almost like the game reset the area around where I'd been standing to the original map characteristics, erasing everything that's been changed since.
Are you playing multiplayer?
Edit:If you are playing multiplayer i can't help you mate,but if you are on SMP you might want to try restore to previous version (your save folder) in case if your map gets corrupted
I'm not playing multiplayer, and there are no backup versions to restore. I'm pretty much resigned to having to fix everything manually, I just want to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm spent weeks on this one.
Two views of the damage. My only consolation is that the room underneath was mostly empty. If it had happened in any other area, it would take 3x as long to fix. The upper room, though, was a fully furnished living/rec room.
When Minecraft crashes, it can corrupt the save files, including certain chunks. I'd bet the area is 16x16 blocks, right? (Or some multiple of 16.) I've heard of ways that "sometimes" work to repair this kind of damage, but they are buggy, and have to be used immediately after the problem happens.
The best recommendation I can give is the same one I give to ALL new Minecraft players:
BACK UP YOUR SAVES!
Personally, I create a new zip file of my entire save folder after every play session, and store it on a separate hard drive. That way, if something horrible happens, I only lose that day's worth of work, at most.
Has this ever happened to anyone? How can I prevent it from happening again? I'm afraid to go back in and rebuild, in case it happens again and more is destroyed.
Edited to add: I went back in and started removing the sand, and suddenly solved half the puzzle. When I first started building, I had to remove a large hill of sand to get a flat building surface. It's almost like the game reset the area around where I'd been standing to the original map characteristics, erasing everything that's been changed since.
Edit:If you are playing multiplayer i can't help you mate,but if you are on SMP you might want to try restore to previous version (your save folder) in case if your map gets corrupted
OT: If it was in SMP, someone may have griefed/world edited your house.
If it was in SSP, you just got a epic chunk error.
To be honest, I'd love to show the screenshots I took, but this is my first time posting anything and don't see an attachment button.
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The best recommendation I can give is the same one I give to ALL new Minecraft players:
BACK UP YOUR SAVES!
Personally, I create a new zip file of my entire save folder after every play session, and store it on a separate hard drive. That way, if something horrible happens, I only lose that day's worth of work, at most.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..