[Closed] Server crash

[simon816]

It;'s the same as this thread:

Sponge will not load map

Okay, so my spawn map was working wonderfully on sponge for the longest time. And now today when I started my server, I kept getting errors and my friend who helps me build couldn’t connect. So I tested my world on single player, loaded perfectly. So i thought the server just must have gathered junk in the server files. So i got the latest build (514) and installed the server perfectly, and then stoped it like you should. Then I installed the world just like I did before, by deleteing “world”, a…

Going to quote my response

Sponge will not load map

Either the file level_sponge.dat or level_sponge.dat_old is corrupt. This shouldn’t happen under normal circumstances. Did the server crash or stop suddenly at some point prior to this? If you don’t have a backup of the file, delete it and it should hopefully regenerate (Remember to keep a backup before deleting, in case more things break)

@paleym

(BTW is there a forum specifically for getting help with crashes? Hope this isn’t the wrong place for this)

There’s Sponge/Sponge Support, I’ll move your thread there