My mother loves to play Minecraft so my brother hosts a LAN world from his gaming computer so that the three of us can play. He was on the world by himself today when his computer crashed. When he got it started back up, he went to open the world and it wasn't there. I went through the whole showing hidden files Appdata .Minecraft kerfuffle and found that I didn't even need to restore the save: it was still there just as it should have been. I wondered if maybe rebooting the application would help so I reopened MC and still no dice. I copied the folder that had the world in it and pasted it back into the saves folder and rebooted the application again and still nothing. His other world which is still accessible through the mc PC application is in this same folder. What am I missing? What can I do? I start college tomorrow and it's really important to my mother that we play together again before I can't for a while so I need help as soon as possible, please.
ok, try downloading a utility known as NBTExplorer and opening level.dat with it. it can tell you if the file is corrupt. if it is, check level.dat_old as well. if they're both corrupt, hopefully you still have the seed - if you don't, you can still recover but there will be "chunk errors" at the edges of all currently explored chunks. Create a new world (using the seed if you still have it), the save & exit the world. copy the level.dat from it into the corrupt save, then IMPORTANT use NBTExplorer to delete the player data from it (Data/player) (don't forget to save after deleting it!), otherwise all the items from the client player will be lost (as well as their spawnpoint and location).
My mother loves to play Minecraft so my brother hosts a LAN world from his gaming computer so that the three of us can play. He was on the world by himself today when his computer crashed. When he got it started back up, he went to open the world and it wasn't there. I went through the whole showing hidden files Appdata .Minecraft kerfuffle and found that I didn't even need to restore the save: it was still there just as it should have been. I wondered if maybe rebooting the application would help so I reopened MC and still no dice. I copied the folder that had the world in it and pasted it back into the saves folder and rebooted the application again and still nothing. His other world which is still accessible through the mc PC application is in this same folder. What am I missing? What can I do? I start college tomorrow and it's really important to my mother that we play together again before I can't for a while so I need help as soon as possible, please.
you're missing the level.dat file. inside the world folder should be a backup: level.dat_old. copy that and rename it to level.dat.
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There still was a level.dat. I replaced it with level.dot_old copoed and renamed but it still isn't showing up in the application.
could you show a screenshot of the world folder?
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Sure, here.
ok, try downloading a utility known as NBTExplorer and opening level.dat with it. it can tell you if the file is corrupt. if it is, check level.dat_old as well. if they're both corrupt, hopefully you still have the seed - if you don't, you can still recover but there will be "chunk errors" at the edges of all currently explored chunks. Create a new world (using the seed if you still have it), the save & exit the world. copy the level.dat from it into the corrupt save, then IMPORTANT use NBTExplorer to delete the player data from it (Data/player) (don't forget to save after deleting it!), otherwise all the items from the client player will be lost (as well as their spawnpoint and location).
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Oh wow. That is rather complex.