StackOverFlow: Exception ticking world after updating world from 18w22c

Yes, same thing happened to me when i tried to load a 18w22c world on the "pre 1" version.

Same thing keeps happening to my server (map was mostly played in 18w21b, updated it to pre-1). It'll work fine for a bit and then crash with this same error.

X-posting my comment from my duplicate ticket: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-130974

We got to a point with this where one of my players would log in and the world would immediately crash, so I reverted back to 18w22c and that appears to have temporarily resolved it. Temporarily because my players were whining about all their books being bugged from the issue in that snapshot 😃 

I confirm the issue in 1.13-pre1 for our survival server as well.

[15:14:15] [Server thread/ERROR]: Encountered an unexpected exception
h: Exception ticking world
        at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(SourceFile:697) ~[server.jar:?]
        at rx.w(SourceFile:365) ~[server.jar:?]
        at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.v(SourceFile:626) ~[server.jar:?]
        at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:531) [server.jar:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_171]
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at bql.a(SourceFile:417) ~[server.jar:?]
        at bbi.a(SourceFile:270) ~[server.jar:?]
        at bfx.a(SourceFile:225) ~[server.jar:?]

This has just started on a world that I've been building on for a few weeks with snapshots - I wandered off in a new direction and it booted me and crashed. Its possible I'd already been that way with one of the older snapshots and so they were already generated chunks. :-|

I can't login now, it crashes instantly. Might try rolling back a version.

 EDIT: yep, 18w22c worked ok, ran away from the problem chunks and I can start 1.13.pre1 again now. I guess... I find a different swamp?

MC-131304 claims that the game crashes when returning back to the world from nether. This is slightly different to the other tickets here, but "return from Nether to Overworld" is nearly the same than "loading the world"

Please check if that's still an issue for you in 1.13.1.