In games, losing something you’ve been working on for hours, days, weeks, months, or even years is undeniably frustrating.
Minecraft is one of those games. Mojang’s sandbox title allows players to develop worlds for quite some time. Not only do these contain someone’s overall progress in the game, but this is where all of their blood, sweat, tears and effort is stored. And it would really hurt if a Minecraft player lost their created world.
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How to recover a deleted Minecraft world
To make sure you can recover your Minecraft worlds easily, make sure you back up your worlds. In Bedrock Edition, select the pencil edit button next to the world in the main menu. Go to Game and scroll down to Copy World. This will ensure that you can always go back to that copied version if your original file becomes damaged or deleted. For Java Edition, simply copy the folder for the world to your PC or drive.
If you haven’t created a backup version of your Minecraft world, things are much more complicated. Worlds are stored locally on your device, so if you delete them from your console or PC, they can be difficult to recover. If you are on PC, you can try the following process:
What to do when your Minecraft world is deleted
One of the problems with this particular question is that over the past nine years , Minecraft has gone through countless releases and spin-offs, and the original building-focused version of the game ported to every hardware platform that couldn’t get away with it fast enough.
Trying to get an answer from the internet to even a seemingly simple Minecraft question can mean wading through years of outdated, irrelevant, or counterintuitive information.
The next step, then, is to open the AppData folder as it contains data related to your version of Minecraft.
How to backup Minecraft on Xbox
If you play Minecraft on an Xbox and have an Xbox Live account, your save files should automatically be backed up to cloud storage of Xbox.
If you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you have access to up to 100GB of cloud storage. To enable automatic backups, select Settings > Application Data Management > Auto Upload > Enable Auto Uploads. Your saved data should automatically be backed up to PS Plus Cloud.