MineColonies

MineColonies

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Colony dissapeared after crash

TheNumenorean opened this issue ยท 3 comments

commented

Minecolonies version

version X.X.XXXX or curse 0.9.50

Using allthemods3 pack

Expected behavior

  • Colony does not stop existing

Actual behaviour

  • Colony stops existing

Steps to reproduce the problem

  1. The game crashed for possibly unrelated reason: "dyn" was typed in to jei
  2. log back into single player
  3. all colony boxes are inaccessible and commands report no existing colonies.

Error: https://gist.github.com/TheNumenorean/a2866e78ffc350c3245e00f37a8fa29e

commented
  1. Exit game,
  2. Go to your World folder/minecolonies
  3. restore your colonie.dat file from one of the backups.
  4. Profit

You may need to recall all the citizens at the Town Hall at which point they will restore. Minecolonies was probably writing to your colony file at the point of the crash and its corrupted. There's always like 10 incremental backups of the colony file though so its easy to restore.

This is the folder for my server. Start with the latest zip file, if that's still bad go back one more. Worst case a few things the colonists have done in that time is gone, but any buildings that were built/blocks that were placed will be there. You may need to give them their commands again. IE if you had your builder start a new building.

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commented

Many thanks! Worked perfectly.

It does seem likely the crash wasn't the fault of minecolonies, so perhaps it would be worth adding these recovery steps as a wiki page, either on Github or the standalone.

commented

Closing it since it's solved, we will try to add some recovery instructions to our wiki