I accidentally loaded my survival world in a snapshot, 14w19 (didn't see the 21b or whatever). Realizing i wanted to wait until an official release, 1.8, I quickly switched back to using 1.7.9. I loaded the game and everything fine, no errors or anything, but when I loaded the same survival world, practically everything is gone. The first thing I noticed was my inventory was cleared and my all my chickens in my chicken farm had broken out. Looking for food (being on normal difficulty) in my chests, all my items are gone. Like, 99% of everything in my world is gone. Diamonds, food, wood, you name it, it was gone.
The weirdest part is that all my structures were fine. My Iron Foundry (which i still have to finish, smh) structure, chicken farm, house, skelly grinder, everything. All redstone is fine and working. The only things that were affected were paintings & item frames and everything in my chests. But for whatever reason, only a couple chests were not affected at all. Random chests had some things in them. I can offer a world download if anyone needs to investigate more.
When you switch to a snapshot, the items were rewritten using the, "new item naming system", for a lack of a simpler word. As it is not converted back to the old format, the old version is unable to read it, hence your items are missing. Old versions treat this data as "corrupt" or "non-existent".
Always keep a backup of a save.
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I accidentally loaded my survival world in a snapshot, 14w19 (didn't see the 21b or whatever). Realizing i wanted to wait until an official release, 1.8, I quickly switched back to using 1.7.9. I loaded the game and everything fine, no errors or anything, but when I loaded the same survival world, practically everything is gone. The first thing I noticed was my inventory was cleared and my all my chickens in my chicken farm had broken out. Looking for food (being on normal difficulty) in my chests, all my items are gone. Like, 99% of everything in my world is gone. Diamonds, food, wood, you name it, it was gone.
The weirdest part is that all my structures were fine. My Iron Foundry (which i still have to finish, smh) structure, chicken farm, house, skelly grinder, everything. All redstone is fine and working. The only things that were affected were paintings & item frames and everything in my chests. But for whatever reason, only a couple chests were not affected at all. Random chests had some things in them. I can offer a world download if anyone needs to investigate more.
Is there anything I can do to get anything back?
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Retired StaffWhen you switch to a snapshot, the items were rewritten using the, "new item naming system", for a lack of a simpler word. As it is not converted back to the old format, the old version is unable to read it, hence your items are missing. Old versions treat this data as "corrupt" or "non-existent".
Always keep a backup of a save.