gav johnson

Im sorry but this is not resolved. Ive checked and there are no mods installed on this world. (those folders were just from an old backup)
Please advise on what could have caused the corruption, or at least tell me what to do next. Its not ok to just flag this case as invalid without any other suggestions or basic communication to me.

This is clearly related to the 1.9 update to either the game, which is your domain, or the upgraded server post 1.9, which the framework of SMP sits in which again, is your domain.

Ive got more empirical observations of this issue from myself as the admin and several users of my server than you could shake a stick at if you care to ask or look into my problem deeper. Im not going to stop the investigation any time soon, too much work building over two years in Minecraft to not try and save it.

Thanks,
Gav

Yes a long time ago we turned on a couple of admin related Bukkit mods (they come bundled into Multi Craft server setups on ggservers) - but - I removed them almost immediately and have not used any mods since since.
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the world folder is around 2gb....is there anything I can do to trim it down (or am I targeting the wrong folder, its the name of my world (and has equivalent _nether and _the_end folders alongside it))

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yes how many files do I need to include from the root of the server is it just the world folder (and the nether / end etc?)

No... until recently when Ive been experimenting with backups to solve the problem. None have ever been restored whilst downgraded and then kept or saved etc.
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No... always waited for official releases of Minecraft. One other point there is a radius to the missing entities and sign text corruption, seems to be around the original spawn point (But a lot greater than the spawn protection area has ever been set)
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What do I need to provide? let me know and I'll send whatever you need.
Ive got backups that stretch back over a year - but I've rolled back the server .jar to the most recent pre 1.9 backups and restored the world to a time when I can guarantee that there was no corruption to signs etc BUT.... this problem seems to be rolling back into older backups!? If I go far enough back (over a year) then I start to see entities correctly placed, signs with correct text and chests full again.

I know it sounds like Ive probably not backed up correctly but myself and two others on the SMP server have all witnessed the problem being none existent until the week of the update (And incidentally Multicraft server was upgraded by my server company in the same week - although this is most likely ruled out by my backups being stored separately to ggservers multicraft ftp.)

As a programmer Im clinging to the hope you'll see some pattern in the above that could match a known behaviour of the way the architecture of Minecraft itself or entities are loaded that could lead to me being able to restore a lot of lost construction and data. 🙂

Thanks again for any help, sorry for delay in getting back to you.

Gav