If you’re having trouble loading a specific world in Minecraft, follow the troubleshooting steps below to fix the issue.
Fix: Minecraft won’t load world
Clear local data and resync your worlds
Clear your local save data to force the console to retrieve the saves from the cloud.
- Navigate to Network Settings and go offline
- Then, go to Settings
- Select All Settings → System → Storage → Manage Storage
- Go to View contents, and select Minecraft
- Hit the button with three lines, and select Manage game
- Go to Saved Data
- Select Delete from console
- Note: Rest assured, the data is on the server, and you can get it back
- Shut down your Xbox and wait for one minute
- Turn your console back on and go online
- Launch Minecraft
- Go through all of your worlds and sync them
- Note: Don’t load any world, just sync them
- After syncing all of your worlds, exit Minecraft
- Wait for 30 seconds and restart the game
When you finish playing Minecraft, your save data is synced with your cloud saves. When you launch the game again, your worlds should automatically sync.
Repair the CURRENT file
The main reason why Minecraft fails to load a specific world is because the \db\CURRENT file is corrupted.
- Backup your Minecraft world
- Go to the location where your worlds are stored
- Note: For most users, this should be C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds
- Locate the world that won’t load
- Open it and open the DB folder as well
- Locate the MANIFEST-xxxxxx file
- Then, copy the name but not the file itself
- Open the CURRENT file with Notepad
- After doing that, delete everything in the file but keep the file
- Paste in MANIFEST-xxxxxx
- Save the changes
- Check if you can load the world
If you’re still getting the same error, contact Mojang Support for further help.
Did you find other ways to get rid of this error? Feel free to list the steps to follow in the comments below.
Great advice,
Just saved my creative 5 year old getting really upset when he got the message couldn’t load.
Thank you!
How do you “sync” the worlds? I can’t seem to find how to do this. I’m on PlayStation 5 and have the same problem. is there anything that can fix it for me??
Launch the game again, and your worlds should automatically sync.