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I had a world in 1.14, and I loaded it in 1.16 to use the /locatebiome command. I was far from my home, and I loaded it back in 1.14 to see all of my creations were gone, my 16 weeks of work all gone. I tried to make a backup before, but it crashed my game, so the backups never completed. I'm on java edition, please tell me if there's anything I can do.

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No, there is no way for you to get your world back entirely the way it was without a manual backup, as Minecraft worlds don’t automatically back themselves up. The reason for your world’s corruption is because after loading a world of a newer version in a world of an older version, the game can’t properly load in the new game assets, as JSON elements don’t exist for the new items and the system can’t handle the new enchantments, as it isn’t set up to handle the new NBT tags properly. In conclusion, if you want to avoid this issue, simply don’t open later worlds in an older client.

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  • Yup. Perhaps a copy would've done good before attempting.
    – mindstormsboi
    Mar 21, 2021 at 6:09
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Well in order to restore a world you have to have a backup. That is why it makes a backup of the world every time you open it in a different version.

Double check and make sure you actually dont have a backup. If you dont have a backup, I'm almost certain you'll have to start anew.

You should be able to find your backups folder in your minecraft game file, but I'm not at a PC right now so I can't check.

Hope this helps.

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  • Thank you. I looked for backups, and they weren't loaded completely. It was very corrupted files. I'm rebuilding my house (in creative because it's a huge house), and at least I still have my items. Thank you for the answer though.
    – Aidan Is A Plus
    Feb 25, 2020 at 22:05
  • @AidanIsAPlus If you are on Windows, you can right-click on the world folder (NOT the "saves" folder in .minecraft, just your world folder), go into properties and try to restore a previous version of that folder from before it was corrupted.
    – MegaCrafter10
    Mar 25, 2020 at 23:13

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