Hello there,

I've updated Starbound from 1.0 to the recent version.
When I've played Starbound then, my character is gone.
In the storage folder only some player data is there, nothin in the universe folder.

is there any workaround for this?

I had the same problem recently with a character who disappeared in a 1.1 save. Since then, I found out that Chuckle Fish has upgraded StarBound to 1.1.1. I hope the problem is fixed there.

EDIT: I found this. Does it help? I won't be able to try it for a few days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/40doy1/starbound_deleted_save_game_out_of_nowhere_save/

EDIT #2: I had some unexpected time available, and gave it a shot. It worked like a charm. Here's hoping that it works for you, too.