PlayStation: World corrupted after 1.18 update

This happened to a creative backup copy of a survival world I have been playing in for three years and I hope the same won’t happen with my real world, hopefully this can be fixed and prevent this from happening with my real world 

i put a warning vid about it on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/r688z6/warning_your_worlds_can_corrupt_after_updating_to/

For those affected: had you been playing these worlds in the 1.17.41 update recently without issue? Did you notice any significant change in world size as a result after updating to 1.18.0?

Loading issue on PS5: https://youtu.be/8hgv7SiPI9E?t=60

Yes, world was working perfectly yesterday on the previous PS4/PS5 version (must have been  1.17.41). 

I did not see any change in size. After crashing it is exactly the same size (457.7MB)

I had been playing in my world all the way up till the 1.18 update day and when I updated my worlds stayed the same (953 mb) I never had any world problems in in the past couple days or weeks except for the odd small lag or bug but otherwise the game was playable unlike now

I've been able to play on my world all the way from 1.16 up to 1.17.41 with no issue until this update. My world size stayed the same at 572.1mb, so I don't believe there was a significant change in world size after updating to 1.18.0.

Yeah everything was fine until 1.18

After many attempts I finally got in the world and things were weird to say the list. Entire parts of my mob farm were missing, stuff from chests disappeared and torches were not letting out the usual yellow "smoke" but were emmiting the same purple as in the pics. Trying to fly with my elytta I got to about 100 blocks and was kicked out because "I am out of data storage".

Same. Worlds are having difficulty loading or just corrupting due to the Cave update part 2. I have a world that is untextured and refuses to load, and a world that runs fine, but 90% of the time it fails to load any textures and everything is invisible. Please fix! I do not wanna lose a world that ive had for so many years!

This is my archive of more than 6 years, I don't know why, almost 600m, I hope to update as soon as possible to solve

I've had issues with my world since 1.17.41:

In 1.17.41 (Experimental caves and cliffs on), my world would occasionally give an error on the PS5 saying "Out of storage" with the pink and black null texture as the screen background when there's clearly storage left still. My resolution to this issue was to avoid exploring into new terrain generation. As long as I stayed within already generated chunks it seemed alright for the most part.

In the new 1.18, my world has a variety of different results. If I try loading a the world directly from an old nonupdated backup and update it, it loads without textures and eventually crashes simply stating "There was an issue loading this world". After I restart the game itself and try loading the previously crashed world, it loads this time with some textures (chests, entities, some other 3D blocks) but then shortly crashes with the message "I'm out of storage" (Similarly to in 1.17.41). Upon testing with the world a couple different ways to load it (never able to actually play for more than 10 seconds), I also encountered a scenario when the game crashes in it's entirety. (Not sure how to replicate that I'm afraid). My personal fix for 1.17.41 doesn't work at all.

Note, my world is 900~mb and grew a small amount (30~mb) upon updating it.

I wasn't able to load my world at the beginning because, as stated by many in here, the first time i got an "Out of storage" message, which is not true at all, and the rest of time a "There was an issue loading this world" message. 

When I finally managed to enter my world, I played for an hour without any problem and entered the nether, but couldn't get out. When trying to go through the nether portal to the overworld, the game crashed every single time. As a desperate measure, I killed myself to leave the nether, but the game crashed and I haven't been able to load it again. Just like when I tried to play this version for the first time, it showed a message that said "Out of storage" (this time with a pink and black background), and now it says "There was an issue loading this world" again.

My world is 950 mb. Luckily I have a recent backup copy, but I don't want to open it cause it will probably get corrupted as well.

Please fix this.

Edit: I was able to load my world again. But after playing for a while, the same thing happened. I kept trying and loaded it again, but it had deleted a lot of my map, creating random spaces full of water and making me lose a lot things I had built. I closed it, opened it again, and now its all pink and black and with a lot of things deleted.

I just loaded up my world and everything appears to be fine now. I even ventured in to newly generated chunks and have had no issues.

Edit: After saving and quitting, the world once again won't load.

Yeah this really sucks, I have an old world that is experiencing this issue and is now saying it's corrupted, it was because of the update and I have had the world since 2014. Or 15. Never had an issue until now, please please have a fix soon. Been waiting for Part 2 for a long time but I can't even play on my world now since it released.

Are there any updates on this issue yet? Can't believe I'm not the only one. Looks like a lot of people are having this issue.   

Same as TL T. Entered the world and everything was kinda dine (blocks were still missing as well as the texture of the lantern, which was replaced with the black-purple texture). After exiting and trying to join again the problem reoccurred

Just adding to this that I’m having the exact same issue.

We played the world for about an hour before it crashed. When I reloaded it, it looked like your screenshots, before crashing again saying “you are out of data storage and Minecraft is unable to save your game”. After that, the world was completely corrupted and I was unable to load it again.

Every time I reload an old cloud backup, same thing. This is on PS5.

On PS4, same file with the same time stamp, I can get it to work more properly, but, it will regenerate my home camp area and more or less deletes everything we’ve made. It gets swallowed up in a mountain or a cave. Strangely, the PS5 never regenerated our explored chunks, but the PS4 did.

Either way, it’s pretty unplayable right now.

Well this is weird, my son just managed to play our world for quite a long time and everything looked ok. He did not notice if any updates were made. The world was totally unplayable yesterday.

But there was of course a firmware update of the PS5 yesterday, so maybe the reboot of PS5 helped. I don't know.

I updated my PlayStation 5 earlier. The problem persisted for me. 

I also just updated my PS5, and it didn’t seem to help me either. 

i updated my ps5 yesterday as well the problem  isn’t still fixed, i was able to join the world trough a copy but everything is that purple block 

I am also seeing the same issue, my world opened fine in the last 1.17 version PS4 client running on a PS5 (~950 MB world size), the first time I tried to update the world it opened, flashed the non-textured blocks before falling through the floor and crashing, retrying this world and the copies of this world now just show me the data storage space dirt message after. I have cloud backups so hopefully my old world can eventually be updated but for now this save is now definitely unplayable.

Same issue here, have had my world for just under a year. Updated to 1.18 and now it will not open, giving multiple different error screens as OP indicated.

I put my world on realms just to see if it was playable on PS5 through the Microsoft servers, and it works perfectly.

I don’t think this is really much of a solution, as I don’t want to pay for Realms to play this world, but I thought it was relevant enough info to post here.

Filed a similar ticket and got routed here. Tried deleting, restoring..same result.

This problem has yet to improve and it seems like more and more people are coming across this issue, I hope that mojang can figure out such a big problem such as this and get a hotfix out or something to solve this problem cause this has made for an unfortunate start to 1.18 for many people 

Surprised this hasn't been fixed yet... I recieved a new update today and still hasn't been fix. It's such a major issue for people who have had there worlds for so long, I've had mine for 8-9 years! I can't believe a single update ruined it... still have a copy for a hopeful fix, but if it doesn't come I actually might just give up Minecraft, kinda useless to start over after so many years. 

Sorry to others experiencing this issue as well. 

今日Minecraftでアップデートがありましたが、この問題は修正されていません。
今日何度かロードを繰り返しました。
読めない、破損した世界
2回目のリロード時に、PS5がフリーズし、電源がオフになりません。
プラグを抜いて強制的に電源を切りました

I have also been having this issue with my 5 month old live stream series world. I have a backup on a cloud save but its really disapointing not being able to update it. And explore the new stuff. I was playing it the night before around 2am on the 30th and then when i got off work to stream it loaded and had no textures or pets. Then it promptly crashed the game and i cannot load it at all now. Same issue as the attached images. My world is 956mb if that helps.

At first we could not open our world, yesterday suddenly it worked a few times and my son played for quite a long time without any issues.

This morning it's broken again, no way to open it. After the Minecraft update 1.18.1 of tonight.

Would anyone with a particularly large world size (~900MB) be willing to upload a copy of it for investigation?

As it will be larger than the 10MB attachment limit, you are welcome to upload the world to OneDrive or a similar file sharing site, and then share the link.

(If you would prefer, you can share this through a private ticket here and then share the ticket reference here so we can track it.)

I can share our world, but it is smaller (457MB). 

And part-time problematic. 

So maybe another world is easier for testing, but if needed i can share it. 

I would love to upload my save, however I don’t know who’s I would do so since this is from PlayStation and it doesn’t support saving the world to a usb. Are there any ways I can do this easily without realms? 

(Note - my world is bigger than 900mb)

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqTMHUT49T1Hg4QRToAHRaQWzc4rvg?e=EO5ZwE

I've got a folder for the world files after importing into the new update, and I've got a folder with the last working world. Is this what you're looking for? This world was roughly 950mb.

How can I export the world from the ps4 to upload it here?

I had just been able to load into my world with textures when I updated to the 1.18.1 update, after an hour of exploring it seemed that when I was loading new chunks it crashed and I was greeted with the same “not enough data storage” message

Edit: once the world crashed and I had that message I try loading the copy of the copy of my original world that I had made upon loading and it loaded for about 2 minutes and then it just froze and sat there 

I can upload mine to if necessary, it is capped at (950mb) on Playstation, it doesn't even go above that when explored other areas. But the world is completely corrupted after 1.18 and 1.18.1, it's on Playstation 5 and I thought Playstation Worlds are locked, maybe I'm wrong? But I have a copy, I can upload it here if needed.

New update for PS4 hasn’t resolved anything. Waiting for another fix before I can actually play this game. Think my world is 1019 MBs. Still frustrating they haven’t fixed it 

540MBのデータで既存の世界1.18を試してみてください
ロードしようとしましたが、同じ症状がありました
これはひどいです、できるだけ早く修正し
て更新をリクエストしたい

I've experienced a similar issue.

Went to update world, game crashes then the world corrupted.

Or will update ok then crash or corrupt on the reload.

I did get the storage space issue as well (my world capped at 951mb) but the thing was it was showing this and I have 119GB free on my console.

So I ended up getting a portable HD (5tb) and making room on my ps4 which is a 1tb but keep minecraft and the world files on the console. Updated a back up of my world and it seems to be working OK for the moment.

UPDATE: Instead of being told I’m out of space my game just crashes on PS4 when loading into a world. My worlds no longer say corrupted but instead now just crash the game. Gaaaaaaaaah this is frustrating 

I managed to make a copy of a world and it worked. I had to try a few times, but eventually it worked. I think if I make a copy each time before loading the world again, it MIGHT work. I managed to play a few hours last night and this morning. Good luck chaps. Hopefully they get us sorted soon though. 

I tried it on PS5 now
Even copying does not work well
Minecraft will be killed
Then the world data was corrupte

Has this been fix its on ps5 and its so annoying? Mine won't open at all because "of space" even though i only have 3 games including minecraft 

Had this issue on my PS4. It was fine for me on the day of release. (Nov. 30) Just stayed around my base. When I tried playing today, I bought a woodland mansion map, (which may have been part of the problem?) from a cartographer and started heading toward the new woodland mansion, while having the map opened. About 500 blocks out, the game kicked me out and said not enough storage.

When I try getting in again it says can't load this world. (Was able to make a new world fine) I tried deleting the Minecraft app and reinstalling and then it got corrupted. It has partly fixed itself now where I was able to get in, (with messed up textures) but its still corrupted. Hopefully there will be a fix soon.

Update- I replaced the corrupted world with a backup, (just before 1.18 came out) and was able to go out 4000 blocks with no issues at all. I was using a elytra before, so maybe it had something to do with that?

Similar to MCPE-40552 except its on Xbox and the world is 100% gone.

save on ps4 was tested with no problem and the problem only appeared on PS5

I have been trying several things in the last two days, making copies of my world and updating them, and sometimes I works without problem for a few minutes but the game always ends up crashing and all the "corrupted world", "out of storage", "issue loading world"... messages appear and either the textures are messed up or the blocks of my buildings are placed randomly when I manage to open the world again. So it seems that if you are lucky, you can play for a while, but it will always end up corrupted at some point.

Anyway, my problem being unable to leave the nether through the portals persists. 

This morning I was able to load into a copy of my world with textures present and I was even able to explore a large area of new generation… I found that if I was flying with creative and not using an elytra and rocket I was able to load the chunks without crashes. I was able to play the whole time until I got off (about 1 hour) but I wanted to test that if I left would I still be able to rejoin, when I tried rejoining I was spawned in at a different position that was about 50 blocks away from my last position and I was stuck underground in what used to be bedrock (it was as though I was in javas spectator mode) I was unable to move or get out.

Edit: after a couple of hours I returned to the world and was put back where I originally left the game, however I had lost textures and was back with pink and black cubes

Tried my world again.. no luck, is there going to be an update for this fix? Want to start building on my world with the new update. I haven't even gotten to yet after 1.18 corrupted my world. Still getting the messages "unable to load this world" and "out of storage space" which makes no sense cause I have Plenty on the account and my PS5. And the "corrupted world" message. Sometimes it will load in, but after some playtime I exit, go back in and iy gives me the messages. Other times it will load in and give me those pink and purple blocks.... really sad I hope there's a fix this week. 

My World crash and everything is green on ps5 😠

I have the same issue, just that I didn’t even make it to the black/purple blocks, I constantly got the root message that I would have ran out of space or it couldn’t open the world because it was corrupted or other reasons.

as I thought I ran out of space I also deleted some worlds… didn’t help but now the worlds are gone, so thanks for nothing, it’s really annoying as it affects mostly people who have larger worlds which means they put quite a lot of effort and time into them usually, like I played in my world since 2 years constantly and got a couple hundred hours in that now I must assume is all gone. 

I am Japanese.

I am experiencing the same problem. There are frequent problems with not being able to load as insufficient storage space is available, textures become pink and black checkered, and land generation is destroyed.
It's very sad when a base is replaced by a snow mountain and destroyed, because the villagers and cats inside suffocate to death.

My world size is a large 1.3GB with 4 files.
PS4 system version 9.03 and Minecraft 1.18.1 (PlayStation 4 Edition 2.35).

This is a very important world that I have been playing for a year.
Now I'm playing it intermittently while reverting back to normal backups.
I'm waiting for a quick fix.

日本人です。

同じ問題が発生しています。ストレージの空きが不十分だとしてロードできない問題と、テクスチャーがピンクと黒のチェッカー模様になる問題と、土地の生成が壊れる問題が頻発しています。
拠点が雪山に置き換えられて破壊されると、中にいる村人と猫が窒息死するのでとても悲しいです。

私のワールドサイズは４つのファイルで1.3GBという大きなものです。
PS4 system version 9.03 と Minecraft 1.18.1 (PlayStation 4 Edition 2.35).

1年かけてプレイしてきた大切なワールドです。
今は正常時のバックアップを戻しながら途切れ途切れにプレイしています。
早急な改善を待っています。

https://twitter.com/mifunch/status/1466423605064093697?s=21

Thanks for your patience while we continue to investigate this.

 For those that wish to export their worlds for investigation, here are the steps to do so:

1. Make sure your BLANK USB stick has been formatted to FAT32

2. On your PlayStation, go to Settings > Application Saved Data Management > Saved Data in System Storage > Copy to USB Storage Device > Select Minecraft > Select Saved World to copy > Copy

This should then copy the world save to the USB, which you can share to a file sharing site.

For those affected - do these issues also affect any other (smaller) worlds on your device?

World sometimes loads wrong. I can usually fix by saving and reloading but usually still play it safe and delete save then load duplicate save. Sometimes game won't load and I get message saying not enough space. Other times it loads and stone blocks are checkered pink and black. Once I had tropical fish change into 2 colored blocks, 2 0f 4 colors while salmon remained normal, also parrots changed as well became black and pink with big mohawks, the time when stone type blocks all became checkered black and pink all my mob had become invisible. Game often crashes loading when porting from the nether. One load changed the landscape of my mushroom island mixing in a pine biome with it but when I save/quit and loaded duplicate copy the world went back to normal. I am on playstation 4 pro bedrock.

I just tried playing on a smaller world I have (30 mb) and everything works well. No crashes, no world corruption, no issues loading the world or with terrain generation, no lag, and no problems leaving the nether through portals, which is my main issue in my old world (950 mb).

So the problem seems to be with big size worlds.

Correction on mine. I had before been able to fix problem by deleting save and loading duplicate or sometimes just reloading save without deleting until now. I just lost all progress since update because when I came up from mining I found that jungle biome had mixed in with my extreme hills biome. I tried reloading and I tried duplicate save and tried reloading that as well and the jungle biome invasion won't go away. Now I have to delete both save and load save from the internet or load save that doesn't have update.

I have a temporary solution until update fix to avoid having to delete world. The update was for the surface world not the Nether. When it is time to save/quit your game go to the Nether and save it there. This way the next time you load your game it will load the Nether and not the surface world. Create a backup of your save in the Nether. Now next time you load game the nether will load instead of the surface world. This should avoid initial crash plus if when you port to the surface world it is bugged you can delete save and load copy while still in Nether. Instead of surface world loading from initial load it won't load until you port from the Nether. Don't do a blind save. I was in my tunnels and did my saves and I made copies of those saves deleting previous copies. What had happened is that while I saved and copied underground above ground jungle had invaded my extreme hills in both main save and copy so I had to throw both away and load earlier save from 3 days ago. If I had checked the area before saving and making new copy I never would have saved it as a copy. I recommend always checking surface world for mixed biomes in area world loaded before save/quitting and alway save/quit in the Nether until this is fixed. I may just play backup copy I made when update came out that doesn't have update and not play the update until this is fixed. This way I could finish emerald ore ceiling at base before the updates scatters the emeralds away from my set up mining operation.

As I've said my world isn't the smallest but is definitely smaller than 900mb. The world I'm having issues with is 572.1mb.

It won't even load my world without the no storage space message even though i have 3 games in my ps5, again the issue is mostly on PS5 it runs well on my ps4 NOT PS5

I tried the Nether trick.. did not work for me at all. I have a world about 900mb. It only affects larger worlds, ones I believe between 4 ish 500mb to 900 and above. Not smaller worlds. A fix is hopefully in the works soon, I can try and upload my world for investigation. 

This is my World with 1.3GB.

This is what I got when I updated to 1.18.1 and opened successfully.
It sometimes goes wrong even with this save data.

For the most part, I was able to play normally with 1.17, but it felt a little heavy, and I was having to revert to backups more often due to failures to load.
The data size did not change when I updated from 1.17 to 1.18.

I also have the last 1.17 data, which I will share in the future if needed.

Please investigate.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jb8JDVFRgpdGx8lBfjNC-2hDhHeOfcjY?usp=sharing

これが1.3GBの私のワールドです。
1.18.1にアップデートしてうまく開けた時のものです。
このセーブデータでも時々おかしくなります。

1.17でも大体は普通に遊べていましたが、多少重いと感じたり、ロードに失敗してバックアップを戻すことが増えていました。
1.17から1.18にアップデートしてもデータ容量は変わりませんでした。

1.17最後のデータもあるので、必要があれば今後共有します。

どうぞお調べください。

I've had some similar problems with the messages about storage full and corrupted worlds, but I've also been able to get on my world and play normally 4-5 times. In that time I looked around the new terrain and tried to find the new disc which added about 500ish megabytes (I believe it was at 463 MB before the update to 1.18). I personally have had no problems on my 60 MB creative world, but I don't have any other worlds besides those 2. I've tried attaching the file for you to look at and try to help solve the issue.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1p0QQL98ZB5ZKqY03VrEtbhb3SJt33Ex2

My minecraft just updated to version Bedrock 2.36 on my PS5 and I have been able to get into my world and move around fine, restart my PS5, go back into minecraft and go into my world with no problems, perhaps the bug is fixed? Just thought people should know and try it out for themselves. I also changed my simulation distance to 10 if that would have any effect.

Guys i am the guy who posted this issue after the 1.18.2 my world seems to be working normally again and i am Able to join my world again if anything happens i will let you all know

So far this recent update appears to have fixed my problem as well!

Seems to be working! Great work Mojang, thanks.

My game crashed twice after update before I could get back in. When I did get to the surface through the nether portal on my mushroom island there was no pine trees mixed in with the mushrooms this time but there was a strip of ice next to the island that wasn't there before but hopefully that will be just a matter of melting it. I checked out 3 other areas I have builds in and they all seem normal. Usually the invading biomes openly happens within the area I am loading into the game at. I will have to go back and forth from the nether to see if the issue of invading biomes changing the area is truly fixed. As I said the game still crash twice on me and there was some biome mixing just an easy fix though plus I had my boat disappear on me when I got out of the boat.

Unfortunately it got even worse when I tried the new 1.18.2 update, but I reinstalled Minecraft and it seems to be working fine for now.

Immediately after the 1.18.2 update, I was able to open the save data that I had made some progress with in 1.18.1, but when I reverted to the backup data that I had shared here and started it up, after a long "loading resource pack" screen, I got a pink and black checkered screen and Minecraft The same thing happened again and again.
After that, the same thing happened again and again, or I got the message "Not enough storage space" or "There is a problem loading the world" and I could not play.
It shows 1.5GB or 1.9GB instead of 1.3GB.

I tried reverting back to my 1.17 save data, but it crashed as well and was either unplayable, or if it was playable, the biomes were mixed up and the base was destroyed. Furthermore, when I try to quit the game, I keep getting the "saving world" screen and it never ends.

However, I never had a world that was just pink and black checkered.

I deleted and reinstalled Minecraft just to be sure, and now the land destruction from the 1.17 update is gone, and the saved data from 1.18.1 can be loaded properly. The save data size has also been fixed to show 1.3GB.
So far it looks like the above problems have been solved, but I am still worried.
I am currently experiencing a problem with customized characters not loading, but this is a minor issue.

Thank you Mojang.

新しい1.18.2アップデートを試したら残念なことにさらに悪化し、ピンクと黒のチェッカー模様の画面が出て何度も落ちたり、プレイできても土地の生成が再びおかしかったりして困りました。
しかし一度Minecraftを消して再インストールしたら、今のところは正常に動作しているようです。1.17のセーブデータも問題なくコンバートされていました。
まだ不安ではあります。