Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Lost Worlds

Anonymous
2017-01-30T01:16:17+00:00

Hello All,

Recently, I have had troubles with my Minecraft Windows 10 Edition freezing up every 20 or so minutes. Since this was a huge nuisance, I contacted Microsoft support and they told me to do some things, including uninstalling Minecraft W10E. I asked the person twice to make sure my worlds would not be erased, and they said that they would not. I come to find out that after uninstalling it and reinstalling it, my worlds, my skin, and my server saves were gone. Is there any way that I could retrieve those lost worlds? I am not concerned about the skin or the server saves, but I am the worlds. Please tell me what I need to do if it is possible to get my worlds back again.

Thank you.

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Anonymous
2017-01-30T23:53:11+00:00

Hi Harry,

To better help you with your concern about the missing world in the game Minecraft, we recommend that you follow the steps below:

How to recover missing Minecraft world:

  1. Click the start button and search %appdata%.
  2. Find and enter the .minecraft folder.
  3. Find the saves folder and right-click it, there should be an option called restore previous versions.

If the issue persists after doing the steps provided above, we recommend that you submit a request regarding this matter on this link.

Keep us posted.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-09T03:16:08+00:00

    Maybe my computer just doesn't like me because that didn't work . When I replaced both level files and booted up minecraft, the world that I tampered with disappeared. This is driving me insane, mate! Any more options? Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-05T18:55:18+00:00

    Hi, best thing I can recommend is first to find the folder of your lost world and back it up (i.e., copy it to another safe location like the Desktop or somewhere where you can keep a "good" copy ("good" being relative since the world doesn't work).  At least you'll have a pristine copy in case your experimentation goes wrong.

    Now that you've done that, you can try a few different things.  First, I believe the corruption most likely lies in the level.dat and level.dat_old files (perhaps not this last one, but including it just in case).  I just ran a little test where I made a copy of my main world.  Then, I quit and created a brand new world and immediately saved and quit.  I then copied the brand new world "level.dat" and "level.dat_old" files into the copy of my main world and started that game.  It ran and other than the name of the world changing, it seemed to work.  So you might try that.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-05T17:30:11+00:00

    I just had the same issue - I was playing a world in Minecraft Windows 10 Edition when my game froze and froze my whole computer.  When I restarted the computer and tried to play it again, the world was missing from the list!  I had spent months on this world so I didn't want to lose all that progress.

    So, after some trial and error, I got my world back.  First off, open File Explorer and go to:

    %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds\

    In this directory, you'll see a lot of folders with strange names like "jLUCAlmQAQA=", "0HQAALXzVwA=", etc.  These are your Minecraft worlds.  You can probably tell which folder is for your missing world by the modified date but if not, each folder has a "levelname.txt" file that contains the world name.  When you locate your missing world, there are files called "level.dat" and "level.dat_old".  I renamed "level.dat" to "level.corrupted.dat" (just to keep it around in case this didn't work) and renamed "level.dat_old" to "level.dat".  Restarted Minecraft and voila!  My world is back and playable.

    My guess is that at the beginning of each session, the last game state, "level.dat" gets copied to "level.dat_old" in case of corruption so restoring the old "level.dat" file restores the game to the last session before corruption.

    Neill, THIS IS SO HELPFUL! Something similar happened to me where my laptop restart mid game. Can you tell me exactly how to to restore the world back into the game? I have the folder with the world in it, but renaming didn't seem to work. After more tampering the rest of my minecraft worlds, the ones that didn't corrupt, disappeared as well but those are insignificant. Any help would be appreciated!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-05T17:15:00+00:00

    This is WRONG.

    OP is asking about windows 10 edition which does NOT use AppData\Roaming.minecraft

    try 

    %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\

    Zaphod77, 

    Your response helped  A LOT. I  located the folder with all of my world saves and the data is intact.. I lost a world a night ago when my laptop shut down but I can see it in the folder, do you have any idea how to move the world back into my game so that is playable? THANKS

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