World corrupted (the bad kind)

[Noobiescrubpleb]

Does that mean spotify and Terraria is bad?

I don't believe that to be true. I think he just said it to cover their with people getting mad. I have never had or seen anything happen to a save or the game while running another program, so long as the other program isn't huge.

 

[BOI]

Is it bad if there is no Bak file?

 

[vandeboos]

I had this problem, but with both my character and world, and when i used the backup file, the game crashed.(I could only use the backup file for the world, as the file for the character was completely gone)
[doublepost=1493168842,1493168307][/doublepost]I checked with Steam to make sure nothing was installed wrong, but all the files were verified.

 

[Mimori Azume]

I have a method you could try:
Go to:
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Players
And find the corrupted character file, for example: Terrarian.plr
Back up the character file, just in case, then delete it
Then find the .plr.bak file of your corrupted character, for example: Terrarian.plr.bak
And rename it so the extension is just .plr, for example: Terrarian.plr.bak ---> Terrarian.plr

That should fix the character.

For the world, it's the same process
Go to:
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds
And find the corrupted world file, for example: World.wld
Back up the world file, just in case, then delete it
Then find the .wld.bak file of your corrupted world, for example: World.wld.bak
And rename it so the extension is just .wld, for example: Terrarian.wld.bak ---> Terrarian.wld

And that should fix the world.

That's all I can think of for fixing corrupted Terraria files, I'm not too sure if it will work, but give it a try and backup any files you delete.

I'm having a similar issue to the original poster and I found this comment, so I decided to try it out. Since my world is having an issue with loading at all and won't show up in game, I looked for the .wld file and I found it, which is good, but then I looked for the .wld.bak file and it was nowhere to be found. Every other world I saw had both files, but the one world I wasn't able to load was missing a file. I'm not quite sure what would've caused this.

 

[crazylizard283]

just what happened to me: every time I'm in a middle of a playthrough than my world gets corrupted
just reload the file or copy and paste and try loading backup ingame but it does not work that much...

 

[TheGreenLing]

It actually can be fixed quite easily. Follow the steps in this video.

 

[KxngAnti]

hello, i am having a similar issue. i started a world january first, and it seems that my world is corrupt yet i have no mods, i haven’t tampered with my worlds or anything, and it will not open. i have tried so many tips about the files and file names and deleting the corrupted .bad files, but nothing is working. 8-9 days may not seem like much progress, but me and my girlfriend had been grinding every day and last night we were about to beat our first hardmode boss. we saved, exited and went to bed, and in the morning, the world file wont open no matter what. i have so much loot and so many cool houses and wiring mechanisms that i cant afford to lose, please help!! i feel so unmotivated to start a new world and i just dont know what to do, i really dont want to start fresh with what i have in my piggy bank, safe and my character alone. i’ve tried using a back up but none of them are working. please help!!! also i should mention the only file i have of the game is the .wld file and that is the corrupted file. i dont know what to do :/

 

[Glasia 森の魔王🌳]

Can you post the WLD file here?