Is my world cooked

[themonk101]

I saw in one of the blog post about rc 6 that if you played one of the rc versions than you should prepare to restart your world when the stable release comes out is so I was wondering if there is anything I can do to save my world.

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! The answer is...it depends. I would say probably, since there have been some pretty severe issues with chunk generation errors and certain story locations not spawning at all. Generally, it's best not to play cherished worlds or start new worlds(that you intend to keep) on a release candidate, as these versions are unstable and often contain several bugs.

If you haven't progressed very far, it's probably best to just start over. If you've done a fair amount of building and really want to keep those builds, you should be able to save them as a schematic with the world edit feature, and place them into a new world once a stable version of 1.21 releases. If you had items you really want to keep as well, make a list and then use creative mode(/gm 2) to retrieve them in the new world. You can use /gm 1 to return to survival mode and play as normal once finished.

The only other thing I can think of that you can potentially do, is just keep playing the old world on the stable release, and try to regenerate problem chunks and structures as you find them. Depending on how much is messed up in the world though, it may not be worth it in the long run.

[Krougal]

Yeah, I am not sure if the wind issue they introduced in 5 is going to be fixed, but it has gone away in 6.

Granted you can delete all the chunks around your base, regen, then move all your shit to new chunks and delete the rest of the old ones, but still probably better off just starting fresh.

Like the lady said, you can make a schematic, I just discovered @ArtGnat has a short and sweet video on how to do just that How to Copy & Paste Builds Between Worlds - Vintage Story it's only 7.5 minutes.

[Thorfinn]

Nice find, @Krougal! Does that do chiseled blocks too? I don't think it used to, and I don't see anything in that build that was chiseled. But maybe it does. Is that how the BetterRuins stuff was created?

[Krougal]

1 hour ago, Thorfinn said:

Nice find, @Krougal! Does that do chiseled blocks too? I don't think it used to, and I don't see anything in that build that was chiseled. But maybe it does. Is that how the BetterRuins stuff was created?

I'll tell you after 1.21 final drops

I haven't tried it yet, but I just stumbled across it and thought, I should probably bookmark this for the imminent future, because I am a little tired of starting from scratch constantly (I'm on like my 5th start since 1.21 started dropping).

She is active in the forums though, I remember just talking to her the other day.

Edited August 18, 2025 by Krougal

[ArtGnat]

9 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

Does that do chiseled blocks too?

I wish I tested chiseled blocks with schematics for the video, it didn't cross my mind at the time. It doesn't hurt to try though and worst case although it's more effort, you can use the QP's Chisel Mod.

In the mod there is this Pantograph tool and portfolio feature that let's you save a chiseled block as a file that you can then use to apply to blocks in another world.

Here is a tutorial for the whole QP chisel mod, but i don't think they go over the portfolio.

Sadly i don't know of a tutorial that explains how to use the Portfolio, sorry.

[Thorfinn]

21 hours ago, Krougal said:

She is active in the forums though, I remember just talking to her the other day.

Oh, that's cool.

Saw a lot of other interesting things on her page. Channel. Whatever. Watched a few, will watch several more when I get the time.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

On 8/17/2025 at 9:56 PM, LadyWYT said:

If you had items you really want to keep as well, make a list and then use creative mode(/gm 2) to retrieve them in the new world. You can use /gm 1 to return to survival mode and play as normal once finished.

/gm c also works to enter creative mode and /gm s works to go back to survival.