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Terrarian
- Steam or GOG
- Steam
- Single Player/Multiplayer
- Both
- Operating System
- Windows 10
- Terraria Version
- 1.4.0
- Controls Used
- Keyboard/Mouse
I have edited this with the most updated information. My original post is just below, and all the comments that I left during my investigation are following.
I was hosting a multiplayer game for about and hour or two; and exited normally (using in-game UI, no Alt+F4 or anything). Returning to the world I could not play in single player at all, getting the "Load failed" message (attached image). I was able to host another multiplayer game with that save, though I noticed the following:
An easy fix would be for cloud saves to just be additional to local saves (i.e. the game still saves a .bak file before sending it off to the cloud); or to prevent the player from exiting mid-save. I found a few results during my search to suggest that this is not a new issue, either, so it's pretty vexing that it's still a problem.
That said, I wonder if I can salvage what's left of the file that I could acquire:
Update: After opening a backup and saving it, then opening the file that created with TEdit, it works; but it shows all my chests as empty. I'm hoping that is because at some point when trying to recover the file something got overwritten... If so, and if there is a backup on the cloud server of the file, that would be the best file to try to salvage.
Original post:
I was hosting a multiplayer game for about and hour or two; and exited normally (using in-game UI, no Alt+F4 or anything). Returning to the world I could not play in single player at all, getting the "Load failed" message (attached image). I was able to host another multiplayer game with that save, though I noticed the following:
- All my town NPCs were gone, along with the 1 pillar that was there when I exited
- I get attacked by the Moon Lord shortly after, and when I die NPCs begin returning
- I can interact with tiles (for example, I can ride a minecart)
- I cannot interact with placed objects (for example, I cannot open chests; dummies don't respond to attacks)
- While I can't interact with them, they do highlight when I hit ctrl
- I can interact with my piggy bank and NPCs that return
- I can harvest placed objects with pickaxes, though; and once I place them again they are useable.
- I cannot harvest chests that were not empty, but I still cannot interact with them to open them
- About 60% from the leftmost side of the map, all tiles are gone
- My minimap does not reflect this until I actually travel to that area
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds
and TEdit. I noticed the following:- The
.wld.bak
file that was there is months old; presumably from the last time I exited before enabling cloud save. - There are no
.wld
files at all. - When I disable cloud save, a .wld file appears in my Worlds folder
- For most of the night, the cloud save would appear no matter what, even if beside the offline save (I'd see the same world twice, one with cloud save enabled and one without)
- At some point, the cloud version stopped appearing. Luckily, I had a backups of the .wld file that got written when I first disabled cloud saving in my Recycle Bin; unfortunately I can't tell which ones have been opened or not
- When I open the world in TEdit, I get the error described here.
- Presumably this explains the missing NPCs and tiles
An easy fix would be for cloud saves to just be additional to local saves (i.e. the game still saves a .bak file before sending it off to the cloud); or to prevent the player from exiting mid-save. I found a few results during my search to suggest that this is not a new issue, either, so it's pretty vexing that it's still a problem.
That said, I wonder if I can salvage what's left of the file that I could acquire:
- Placed objects: It should be somewhat trivial to fix placed objects with no inventory (dummies for example), if even iterating over the map
- Placed non-empty chests: Depending on which part of the file the storage data is, this might be recoverable too.
- Minimap data? Since the minimap appears to be cached from my last save, I was wondering if there was enough data there to place tiles where the map remembers them
Update: After opening a backup and saving it, then opening the file that created with TEdit, it works; but it shows all my chests as empty. I'm hoping that is because at some point when trying to recover the file something got overwritten... If so, and if there is a backup on the cloud server of the file, that would be the best file to try to salvage.
Original post:
What I did:
While typing this, I lost connection; and tried to enter single player again. Same thing: load failed, no backup. I entered multiplayer again, same settings; and again I have NO NPCs.
- I was playing via Steam hosting a multiplayer game for a few hours.
- When we were done, I had 22 NPCs and 1 pillar left.
- I exited normally, using the in-game UI to leave the world and then exit the game.
- I opened the game shortly after and tried to enter my world in single player
- The game could not load the world, and could not find any backups
- My
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds
folder has all my worlds, 4 of which had.wld.bak
extension (the 4 I had before 1.4) and one had a.wld
extension (I think I downloaded this recently)- I tried to enter a multiplayer game with the same settings, and this time the game loads but with severe problems:
- ALL my town NPCs were gone (even my cat)
- The 1 pillar is missing; and I got attacked by the Moon Lord shortly after
Persistent state:
This issue persists no matter how many times I exit and reload.
- Cannot load single player at all
- Can load into multiplayer, but:
- All town NPCs are gone, including cats etc
- The NPCs that were there before seem to come back, but I'm not sure if NPCs like the Tavernkeep will return or if I will have to find him passed out again
- Pillars that were once there are gone
- I get attacked by the Moon Lord shortly after loading (even if I die, then exit, then re-enter)
- I cannot interact (i.e. with right click) with anythingthat was placed before my current load (can't open chests, dummy doesn't respond to attacks)
- I do gain the ability to craft things around their respective crafting stations
- I can use a pickaxe to destroy items that were placed there before (I cannot destroy chests weren't empty, so presumably the chests' contents are preserved)
- Piggy bank works
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