I have quite a few worlds from beta 1.7.3 that I would like to convert to play in the most recent version. The problem is that chests disappear as soon as I convert the world up to release 1.8. I've done some research and learned that chests from beta 1.7 seem to have a bug that makes them have the item id 54:0 rather than 54:2-5. They work fine up until release 1.7, but it seems that 1.8 changes the way Minecraft views chests and makes them break.
I've seen advice that says I should use beta 1.8 to load the chunks with the buggy chests to fix them, but these worlds are all pretty big and without a good way to convert to Creative mode in beta 1.8 it's nearly impossible to load every chunk. I've also seen people suggesting to use release 1.7 to replace every chest with new ones so they have correct item ids, but again, these worlds are too big for that.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to replace these buggy chests with good ones while preserving the items inside. Maybe MCEdit or WorldEdit? I don't really care if this means the chests will face the wrong way, i just want to be able to see them in 1.10.2.
I have quite a few worlds from beta 1.7.3 that I would like to convert to play in the most recent version. The problem is that chests disappear as soon as I convert the world up to release 1.8. I've done some research and learned that chests from beta 1.7 seem to have a bug that makes them have the item id 54:0 rather than 54:2-5. They work fine up until release 1.7, but it seems that 1.8 changes the way Minecraft views chests and makes them break.
I've seen advice that says I should use beta 1.8 to load the chunks with the buggy chests to fix them, but these worlds are all pretty big and without a good way to convert to Creative mode in beta 1.8 it's nearly impossible to load every chunk. I've also seen people suggesting to use release 1.7 to replace every chest with new ones so they have correct item ids, but again, these worlds are too big for that.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to replace these buggy chests with good ones while preserving the items inside. Maybe MCEdit or WorldEdit? I don't really care if this means the chests will face the wrong way, i just want to be able to see them in 1.10.2.
Are you still wanting to see the contents? If not, I imagine you can use MCEdit to replace the chests with chests.
Yeah, the contents are pretty important :/