A way to fix your missing world (not for official servers).
How to Fix Missing World Save Problem
Reasons for the Issue
From my understanding an issue accrues when the game isn’t properly shutdown and causes some bugs with viewing the world in the list, it may happen due to: game crashes, power shortages, sudden restarts etc.
How to Fix It
- Create A new World From the world’s list menu.
- Quit to menu.
- Select the new world and Open the new world folder location from the world menu.
- Open Another window from the same path.
- Go back to the previous folder in the path.
You should have your new world, old world, 2 other folders, and another file.
- Open the Folder that is not named the same as the new world you created but has the same files inside (Caution – Please make sure you keep track of which window is the new world, and which is the old world save that you want to recover).
- Go to backup on the old world.
- Go to to the “Local” folder –> go to the last modified/created folder.
- Replace the “LocalData.sav” file in the new world folder with the same file from the old world folder.
- Now go back once and go to “World” folder –> go to the last modified/created folder (same as step 9).
- Replace “Players” “Level.sav” “LevelMeta.sav” files in the new world folder with the same files from the old world folder.
Restart the game.
Notes
Replacing directly from the old world folder may be easier, but I have no idea if it will corrupt the the new world, and is a safer practice to use the backup folder.
Replacing “WorldOption” file is optional.
Hopefully it helps, took some time to figure out where the actual files I need are.
thanks man you are a saviour i did the same thing but i took the latest save which was the one that was corrupted instead of taking an older one so at first it didnt work then i retried with your guide and then i thought to take an older one and it worked
Power went out and my save wouldn’t appear, this worked you have to follow the instructions exactly. Thanks!
Hi f u guys dont have the maps old world and new world u should have 2 different maps at the map folder Saved Games the first map is your old game and the second is your new game this happens if u dont start the game at steam itself it wont save so what u then have to do is copy the map u first get when u open the old map mine is called ”0” copy the first map u see when opening this map and put it in your new game map if u do this delete the new map folder and put in your old map folder thats how i fixed mine