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MC-214806

Loading of old worlds is temporarily disabled

Launcher works just fine but when I try to load a world all of my worlds are totally unavailable. 

There is red text under each which states "loading of old worlds is temporarily unavailable" but I can't see any scheduled downtime on Mojang site or twitter account. 

A help article I read told me to uninstall the program, clear my cache, reinstall the program and launch.  I did all of that but it didn't change anything. 

Another help article suggested if I have Windows 10N I might need to install a Media Features Pack.  I have Windows 10 Pro so that pack is built in it seems. 

Attached is a screenshot of what I'm seeing.  Appreciate if you can let me know how to resolve. 

 

Thanks a million,

Jen 

Linked issues

MC-214886 Issue opening worlds Resolved MC-214937 Launcher updated and now says wont load old worlds Resolved MC-214960 not letting me play Resolved MC-215017 can't open up my world Resolved MC-215018 i am not able to load my old worlds in the latest snapshot 21w06a Resolved

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This is intended, the world height has no method of being updated to the new one yet, see the changelog

This is likely intended due to the world height change

See https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-21w06a

If you don't know what snapshots are, you should change your version to 1.16.5 (however you won't be able to load your worlds there either).

Is there an estimated eta on when the issue will be resolved? Whether it be for the snapshot 21w06a or 1.16.15

It will be fixed before 1.17 is released.

Is this something permanent?  I spent all of 2020 with my kids building up our old world.  But we haven't played for over a month because the worlds are now temporarily disabled. 

 

I'd load our world in a previous snapshot.  Is that possible? 

Luckily, it isn't permanent. It says that it is temporary.

True.  It does say that.  But is it true, really?  

I don't mind if, at some point in my world's map, there's some sort of a dropoff.  I can work around it.  Actually, it sounds like an interesting geographical feature I could work with.  Mojang, take note!  We might not mind the drop!

 

How this is currently implemented in Bedrock Edition is that 64 layers of Bedrock blocks (y = -1 to y = -64) are generated under old chunks. There is no surface level drop off. Java will probably do something similar.

Jen Fleming

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21w06a

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