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Nov 11, 2016 · I tried loading my world today and the game quit on me and now when I start up the game my world says 'unknown world' instead of expert and crashes the game when I try to load it. What happened to my world?
- Unknown World ( Please help)
Find the [world name].wld for the broken world and delete...
- My world became "Unknown world"
The same thing just happened to me yesterday, and I just...
- Unknown World ( Please help)
Dec 1, 2021 · Recover your files from the .bak files: Located in Terraria's default save location which is \Documents\My Games\Terraria you should see a worlds and player folder. Click on whichever folder that applies to you and see if there are any .bak files of your old or missing characters.
It's highly likely that your game file has been corrupted, I would recommend using this video to try to at least salvage a previous save file from your world, if it doesn't work, then RIP. 42 votes, 21 comments. 1.4M subscribers in the Terraria community. Dig, fight, explore, build!
Find the [world name].wld for the broken world and delete it. Then, rename its [world name].wld.bak to remove the "bak" off the end. Launch Terraria, and try loading the world.
Feb 3, 2019 · If a world or player file is corrupted it will show up as "blank" or "unkown" in game. Attempting to load the file anyways, will most likely crash the game. Corrupted world and player files are still visible and present in the file explorer of your OS.
I believe unfortunately, your world file has corrupted. This same thing happened to me, and If i recall correctly, your file corrupted. Go into file explorer, my games, steam, terraria, and my worlds. If there is no terraria world file, then its been corrupted.
Sep 1, 2015 · The same thing just happened to me yesterday, and I just tried to fix it. When it finally showed up again, the backup it was on was when I had played the world for just and hour. Looks like I just lost ALL my stuff except for what's on my character...