Corrupted Worlds

[RasPiManiac]

Hello,

I have a problem where sometimes after I have exited to the OS and relaunched Luanti and then loaded the world I was playing, it only gets to "Creating Server" and then crashes. I get this error from debug.txt:

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2025-11-13 12:23:19: ERROR[Main]: A serialization error occurred:
2025-11-13 12:23:19: ERROR[Main]: ServerEnvironment::loadMeta(): EnvArgsEnd not found!
2025-11-13 12:23:19: ERROR[Main]: The server is probably running a different version of Luanti.
2025-11-13 12:23:19: ACTION[ServerStop]: Server: Shutting down
2025-11-13 12:23:19: ERROR[ServerStop]: In thread 7e409a3d96c0:
2025-11-13 12:23:19: ERROR[ServerStop]: /media/rpimaniac/PortableSSD/Applications/luanti-5.14.0/src/server/blockmodifier.cpp:404: std::string LBMManager::createIntroductionTimesString(): A fatal error occurred: attempted to query on non fully set up LBMManager
Aborted (core dumped) 

And I cannot load the world again. However, I found a solution where I paste the world.mt, and map.sqlite into a new world folder, and it works okay. I think there are some mapgen glitches though :D

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If anyone can help!

[AtomicCheese]

the mapgen glitches are from the seed of the original world being different from the new world you pasted the map.sqlite + world.mt files into
you should paste the map_meta.txt as it has the seed
(or alternatively find the original seed by going to the corrupted world's map_meta.txt and finding a line that is just `seed = <seed>` then pasting that seed into the "seed" field in the world creator)

[RasPiManiac]

Thanks for the tip. I'm more interested in fixing the whole thing in the first place though.

[AtomicCheese]

from the error message (and a little bit of experimenting), `env_meta.txt` is corrupted
i dont know what the corrupted version looks like (probably complete binary non-sense); but replacing it should work at the cost of things like the days counter being reset

[orwell]

This bug is very old, from 0.4.13 times iirc.
It is sufficient to simple delete env_meta.txt. No need to create a new world etc…

Afaik you only lose the ingame time of day (and total play time in the world) by this, so nothing particularly important.

[RasPiManiac]

This bug is very old, from 0.4.13 times iirc.
It is sufficient to simple delete env_meta.txt. No need to create a new world etc…

Afaik you only lose the ingame time of day (and total play time in the world) by this, so nothing particularly important.

Ah thank you, I did not realize this was such an old bug since I have never had problems with it until 5.14.0

[orwell]

I thought it was fixed at some point. But maybe it has resurfaced now…

[AtomicCheese]

wow that old?! thats crazy that it hasnt been fixed

[Blockhead]

wow that old?! thats crazy that it hasnt been fixed

Nothing gets fixed whose cause isn't known, and I figure this is rare enough for that to be the case here.

[RasPiManiac]

wow that old?! thats crazy that it hasnt been fixed

Nothing gets fixed whose cause isn't known, and I figure this is rare enough for that to be the case here.

Hm, maybe I should roll up my sleeves and get dirty in the engine code... :D (probably not)