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Quick bit of a backstory, last weekend I was going through my storage building, trying to get an old CPU cooler I had since my second rigs h110 pump is going out, and I was also seeing what all I had to get a NAS going, and getting the old and dusty 300R computer case, I saw a hard drive was left in there. So this hard drive had been in storage for almost 2 years. On this hard drive was a world save file I thought I had lost. This world save I put my heart and soul into. This is a world save I started doing one of the largest survival projects I'd ever seen. I was digging a hole for multiple reasons, but what's so great about this hole is the sheer size. I recorded about every minutes of me digging and all those recorded files were on the drive as well. It was about 1.9 million blocks of stone, and about 300k blocks of dirt so far. and all the videos equal about 170 hours of real time digging. So I put a ton of time digging this out naturally. Some time along the way I got overwhelmed and quit the world since I wasn't smart enough back them to just take a game break, and upon finding this, I wanted to work on it again. This is probably my greatest video game accomplishment. But these last few updates literally brick the world, and I am honest to god about to cry I'm, so devastated. I went from being very mad at myself for losing it, to finally having coped with losing it, to such rejoice of finding it, and elation at the fact I was gonna continue it, and get it to a point of being wrapped up. To these last few updates literally bricking the world and I don't know what to do, sorry for the long winded post.

And I wanna truly thank whoever gives me any time, in trying to help answer, or anyone who even reads this and might show me support.

I don't know if you didn't read or didn't comprehend. I have backups, but as of the last few snapshots, the world will literally crash everytime it's loaded. I can put as many fresh backups, and non corrupted worlds in there, but after a certain snapshot the world just becomes a corrupted waste of time and all before it's still a perfectly normal working world.

Reason why I even want this world: https://imgur.com/a/4l8Ws

Problem with that is, eventually I'll have to go past this snapshot, and with the new world generation, might as well figure out ASAP whether the world is bricked or not yet.

After many hours of testing, as soon as I load in the newest snapshot, it crashes a few seconds later, I'd do that several times over, and then switch back to a working snapshot to see if I could possibly think of anything, and every time the world is loaded in the new snapshots, the new snapshot slowly converts all the chunks to the new format, erasing literally everything on the world.