This is a super annoying bug that I got, and lots of others have gotten. I found a fix to it that worked first try. If your on xbox, you need to delete your terraria data by going to “Manage game and add-ons”, and then go to “saved data” I then deleted the data from my console and loaded the game up. When it said syncing data I pressed cancel and then pressed stop syncing. My game proceeded to load normally and I could then play without my worlds or characters, but I could at least play. I believe you can recover your data from the cloud if it is uploaded, but I haven’t done this so take caution. I hope this helped and be carful if you want your data back. If you have questions hmu
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