How did part of my house in minecraft disappear?
I was playing Minecraft 1.6.2 survival mode (normal difficulty), and I built a house. Then I went far away to explore a cave. When I got back, part of my house had simply disappeared.
As you can see, a part of my house just vanished. There used to be walls and a roof, but not anymore.
The stranger thing is, the wooden floor just turned into a perfect square of dirt.
There also used to be a pond nearby, but part of the pond also turned into dirt. (as indicated by the redstone circuit.)
Fences are gone. My iron golem and a cat are nowhere to be found. The whole area encircled by the redstone simply turn into dirt.
I thought of a creeper explosion. Yes, I might have left the gate open, and yes a creeper might be able to sneak into the house, (if it managed to get pass my two cats). It seems unlikely that an explosion would occur. There is no hole on the ground, and the roof is gone too. I don't think the blast radius is that large. The house was fine when I left. Doesn't a creeper has to be near me to trigger an explosion?
I am really puzzled. Can somebody explain what happened? I would be very grateful.
Best Answer
In your world go to the point of the map that has reset (easier in create) and press F3. This will tell you your x, y and z point. If your not in create mode and have cheats enabled write /gamemode 1. If your not in create mode and have cheats disabled pause the game click open to lan, turn on allow cheats, click start lan world and then write /gamemode 1.
It doesn't matter what it says after the decimal point.
Once you get your x, y and z coordinates go to this website https://dinnerbone.com/minecraft/tools/coordinates/
and type your coordinates in the Block Information Section. Y does not matter because you are measuring in chunks.
In the Region Information Section it tells you the filename.
When you found out the file name press the windows key and R
This brings up run
Type %appdata% as seen in the picture and press ok. this brings up the appdata folder. Go to appdata/roaming/.minecraft/saves/NAME OF YOUR WORLD/region and find the file that https://dinnerbone.com/minecraft/tools/coordinates/ told you the name of.
Rename the file as shown. mine was r.-1.-1.mca but some of my stuff was not gone and I had to copy this stuff to another chunk temporarily using the /clone command. I made two more backups. Those parts of the map were recreated. The backups were because I copied over 40,000 blocks and I was not going through the effort of deleting it all. So i just renamed two files and those parts of the map were recreated.
I had to copy my stuff, fix the corrupted chunk, copy my stuff back to its original place and then create the other two backups.
This set me back about an hour and a half but even though I had to start some of my house again I was happy I fixed the map and did not have to start all over again.
Doing this you cannot get all of your stuff e.g. If you had a castle and half of it got deleted you can fix the corrupted chunk but you cannot get the other half of the castle back.
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Your house must of been reset somehow. A creeper would have blown up the ground and more of your house in different places, not just the walls. Also, Creepers cannot replace blocks (e.g. Water with Grass blocks).
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