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Posted February 20, 2015
Hey there fellow Terraria-formers, I went to load up my game the other night and got an error message from Win 8 saying " A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." Does anybody EVER get notified by Windows with solutions? Anyway, I can load up my character into other different worlds but not this one particular save. I'm having a hard time accepting that I dug all those tunnels for nothing, is there anything that can be done?
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Posted February 20, 2015
I don't know what is causing this, but it might be a very corrupt world (not in-game corruption, of course), as I have experienced a similar bug. You can try the following steps:
Navigate to where the worlds are saved: C:\Users\userprofile\My Games\Terraria\Worlds (or something very similar)
Now you should see two files for each world: one ending in .wld and one in .bak.
Move the problematic world with the .wld extension to another folder.
Delete .bak from the problematic world ending in this.
Then, try to open it in Terraria.
Posted February 21, 2015
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Lillesort131: I don't know what is causing this, but it might be a very corrupt world (not in-game corruption, of course), as I have experienced a similar bug. You can try the following steps:
Navigate to where the worlds are saved: C:\Users\userprofile\My Games\Terraria\Worlds (or something very similar)
Now you should see two files for each world: one ending in .wld and one in .bak.
Move the problematic world with the .wld extension to another folder.
Delete .bak from the problematic world ending in this.
Then, try to open it in Terraria.
Terraria tells me " load failed. no backup found." when I do this.
Post edited February 21, 2015 by 4gamin
Posted February 21, 2015
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Lillesort131: I don't know what is causing this, but it might be a very corrupt world (not in-game corruption, of course), as I have experienced a similar bug. You can try the following steps:
Navigate to where the worlds are saved: C:\Users\userprofile\My Games\Terraria\Worlds (or something very similar)
Now you should see two files for each world: one ending in .wld and one in .bak.
Move the problematic world with the .wld extension to another folder.
Delete .bak from the problematic world ending in this.
Then, try to open it in Terraria.
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4gamin: Terraria tells me " load failed. no backup found." when I do this.
Okay, you now have two options:
1. Try to load it on another computer (sometimes works).
2. Use an editor (such as TEdit) to check your world for inconsistencies, which may take various forms such as a half-destroyed life heart. You should also make sure that all chests and altars are supported by something beneath them. Some people has also had a lot of problems with campfires, so try to remove any. It should, however, only be necessary to check anything you have built (or destroyed) yourself.
Posted February 21, 2015
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4gamin: Terraria tells me " load failed. no backup found." when I do this.
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Lillesort131: Okay, you now have two options:
1. Try to load it on another computer (sometimes works).
2. Use an editor (such as TEdit) to check your world for inconsistencies, which may take various forms such as a half-destroyed life heart. You should also make sure that all chests and altars are supported by something beneath them. Some people has also had a lot of problems with campfires, so try to remove any. It should, however, only be necessary to check anything you have built (or destroyed) yourself.
I had no idea Terraria was so buggy. You listed so many things that could be the problem in-game that I'm amazed they haven't made a patch for these issues. Thank you for your help and input!
Posted February 21, 2015
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Lillesort131: Okay, you now have two options:
1. Try to load it on another computer (sometimes works).
2. Use an editor (such as TEdit) to check your world for inconsistencies, which may take various forms such as a half-destroyed life heart. You should also make sure that all chests and altars are supported by something beneath them. Some people has also had a lot of problems with campfires, so try to remove any. It should, however, only be necessary to check anything you have built (or destroyed) yourself.
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4gamin: I had no idea Terraria was so buggy. You listed so many things that could be the problem in-game that I'm amazed they haven't made a patch for these issues. Thank you for your help and input!
I've played through 20+ worlds in the course of 877 hours (according to Steam) and I've only seen one of those worlds have it's save file corrupted. And as far as I recall it that was due to me trying to edit said world with a half finished tool. Terraria save files do not get corrupted over time on their own nor do they break by being played either infrequently or constantly. That said, with as popular as Terraria has been, it's not surprising that at least some people have experienced corrupted saves without using editors.

Terraria is not bug free, but something as infrequent as save files getting corrupted seems to be, I don't think it's unreasonable to say it's much harder to track down than you seem to imply. The developers may be incapable of reproducing the scenario that led to your world file getting wrecked. Your case may even be due to a couple of drivers having a once-in-a-lifetime resource conflict at the exact moment the game tries to save.
Posted February 21, 2015
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4gamin: I had no idea Terraria was so buggy. You listed so many things that could be the problem in-game that I'm amazed they haven't made a patch for these issues. Thank you for your help and input!
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WingedKagouti: I've played through 20+ worlds in the course of 877 hours (according to Steam) and I've only seen one of those worlds have it's save file corrupted. And as far as I recall it that was due to me trying to edit said world with a half finished tool. Terraria save files do not get corrupted over time on their own nor do they break by being played either infrequently or constantly. That said, with as popular as Terraria has been, it's not surprising that at least some people have experienced corrupted saves without using editors.

Terraria is not bug free, but something as infrequent as save files getting corrupted seems to be, I don't think it's unreasonable to say it's much harder to track down than you seem to imply. The developers may be incapable of reproducing the scenario that led to your world file getting wrecked. Your case may even be due to a couple of drivers having a once-in-a-lifetime resource conflict at the exact moment the game tries to save.
I was not sure if I was going to keep investing time in Terraria at all, for fear losing another world. Your comment would seem to suggest this is likely a rare issue and it's probably OK to keep playing.
Posted February 21, 2015
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WingedKagouti: I've played through 20+ worlds in the course of 877 hours (according to Steam) and I've only seen one of those worlds have it's save file corrupted. And as far as I recall it that was due to me trying to edit said world with a half finished tool. Terraria save files do not get corrupted over time on their own nor do they break by being played either infrequently or constantly. That said, with as popular as Terraria has been, it's not surprising that at least some people have experienced corrupted saves without using editors.

Terraria is not bug free, but something as infrequent as save files getting corrupted seems to be, I don't think it's unreasonable to say it's much harder to track down than you seem to imply. The developers may be incapable of reproducing the scenario that led to your world file getting wrecked. Your case may even be due to a couple of drivers having a once-in-a-lifetime resource conflict at the exact moment the game tries to save.
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4gamin: I was not sure if I was going to keep investing time in Terraria at all, for fear losing another world. Your comment would seem to suggest this is likely a rare issue and it's probably OK to keep playing.
It's one of those things that would have prevented Terraria from being the massive success it has been if it was even remotely frequent.

Losing a world sucks, but characters and worlds are seperate save files, so you can just start a new world and continue with your previous character.
Posted February 21, 2015
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WingedKagouti: I've played through 20+ worlds in the course of 877 hours (according to Steam) and I've only seen one of those worlds have it's save file corrupted. And as far as I recall it that was due to me trying to edit said world with a half finished tool. Terraria save files do not get corrupted over time on their own nor do they break by being played either infrequently or constantly. That said, with as popular as Terraria has been, it's not surprising that at least some people have experienced corrupted saves without using editors.
Actually, one of my worlds got corrupted within 5 hours of playing. This was because I destroyed an altar with a life heart directly below, which destroyed half the heart and made the other half indestructible. I needed to use an external editor to fix it.
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WingedKagouti: Terraria is not bug free, but something as infrequent as save files getting corrupted seems to be, I don't think it's unreasonable to say it's much harder to track down than you seem to imply. The developers may be incapable of reproducing the scenario that led to your world file getting wrecked. Your case may even be due to a couple of drivers having a once-in-a-lifetime resource conflict at the exact moment the game tries to save.
There can actually be many reasons why the save file got corrupted, even a single flipped bit could corrupt a world. Other than that, as I described earlier, the worlds can get corrupted by normal playing, but I doubt it happens frequently.
Post edited February 21, 2015 by Lillesort131
Posted June 17, 2016
My very first world is created but when its 2/3 of the way done loading the world it crashes (I use Linux)
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