How Can I Stop My Terraria World Files From Corrupting?

[alliekatt314]

My Terraria worlds all keep having the same "load failed" and "no backup found" error over and over again.

I have spent hours googling and troubleshooting this issue, even going so far as buying a new laptop entirely, but for some reason my Terraria world' files keep corrupting as as the game either not recognizing the back up files or those getting corrupted as well. I have tried turning off cloud sync, turning off Steam cloud, buying a brand new computer with a new hard drive and twice as much storage, keeping back up files on my desktop, keeping back up files on thumb drive, and playing the game on an external hard drive but no matter what I do after each new world I create eventually gets the "no file found" and then "no backup found" or "load failed" error and the world is completely gone. After Terraria eats one of my worlds I always try restoring the backup only for that file to corrupt as well, I try restoring game backup on steam only for those files to corrupt as well, and I try dragging my own separate copies of my world files back into the game folder and then those corrupt too. I have restarted half a dozen times by now but I am starting to lose my mind. I bought this game through Steam completely legally so it is not pirated and I even bought a new gaming laptop to play it on because I thought my ancient computer might have been the problem but no, even now my world files continue to corrupt at completely random times.

Is there anything else I can do?

 

[Glasia 森の魔王🌳]

1. Check all devices on your Wifi network for viruses, it can be that in the network has a virus in it.
2. I suggest contacting Steam support as it can be that Steam is faulty with the games. Does that behavior happen on other Steam games as well?
3. Check all the external HDDs you used for backups using chkdsk for errors (if on windows)
I assume it is not due to the PC because you bought a new one.

 

[punchready]

Please upload a known good world file as well as the same world file after it has been corrupted once. Might be useful for comparison.
Also, if you notice strange behavior anywhere else, or even blue screens on occasion, you likely have a faulty ram stick that should immediately be replaced.

 

[Glasia 森の魔王🌳]

a faulty ram stick

Unless RAM sticks or any other parts were transferred to a new PC, it is very unlikely it happens on 2 PCs at the same time.

 

[Timey-Whimy]

Purification powder

 

[punchready]

Unless RAM sticks or any other parts were transferred to a new PC, it is very unlikely it happens on 2 PCs at the same time.

An right, I didn't read the rest because wall of text is exhausting to read.

 

[Kazzymodus]

Hey @alliekatt314, sorry to hear you're having problems with your saves.

Could you upload one of your corrupted world files? I'd like to take a look at whether the file has been wiped entirely or if its data has been scrambled.

Also, are you having similar problems with your player files?