PS5 Character name turned red and now i cant play

[atoula]

i tried to join my friend's world but my name has turned red and it now shows 100Hp 20 MP and a default skin and i cant seem to use it anymore. does anyone know how to fix this??
i play on ps4/5

 

[BotwPeanut]

If you backed up your player before this happened you should be able to go to files and bring it back, but I'm not sure that works on ps4 or 5

 

[CannedPotato]

From experience, that means the file is corrupted. There should be some guide out there that helps recover corrupted files on PS5.. I hope.

 

[BotwPeanut]

There's got to be some way, no way it hasn't happened before. I recommend just looking up how to get back corrupted files on a ps4 or 5.

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

I think I found a similar bug post, though it lacks the red name, and is on PC instead of PS5.

I think my character got corrupted and I was wondering if there was a way to fix it.

My power went out while I was playing Terraria on my PC and when I was finally able to get back in to the game, it wouldn't let me choose my character. I made a new character to see if the world was also corrupted but it wasn't. The character that I was using got reverted back to a basic...

forums.terraria.org

Edit: after reading the post a bit more, someone else commented on corrupt characters having red names in the past...

 

[Araf2113N]

i tried to join my friend's world but my name has turned red and it now shows 100Hp 20 MP and a default skin and i cant seem to use it anymore. does anyone know how to fix this??
i play on ps4/5

It happened to me too and unfortunately without backup, it's gone.....long lost.