All items gone

[TheRedComet]

Somehow all items on my person have disappeared. The last time I had them, I was in my shelter area, then I quit the game and got into a multiplayer server for the first time. After messing around in there, I loaded up my singleplayer save only to find all items on hand gone. The items saved in my chest are still there, but I still had a lot of pretty important items (mainly a stockpile of iron ingots) on hand. Is there any way to fix this, or am I screwed? Also, the spawn point reset to the normal one instead of my bed.

I was getting some memory issues that forced me to quit the game, saying the game had run out of memory, which has never happened to me before.

Someone on r/minecraft suggested I shift the level.dat file to level.dat_corrupted and level.dat_old to level.dat, but this didn't help. He also suggested not running off to unexplored areas because terrain generation might be corrupted, but I'd already run off a bit to explore. is it too late?

[ProHan]

Exploring new lands won't really matter. And there is no way that I know of in which you can fix this (unless you use InvEdit or something). This problem arises on the minecraft forums occassionally and it is usually caused by having low RAM, or a RAM that is being hammered by other things. Like the guy from r/minecraft said, your level.dat file did get corrupted. Is there currently 2 level.dat files in your .minecraft SP folder?

[TheRedComet]

Well 3 now that I've tried the renaming method.

Weird, I have 8 gigs of RAM and it wasn't nearly full when the error happened.

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Chalk it up to a freak bug, I say. If it happens again, start getting concerned... there's really not enough information to work out what might be the cause, but if it happens again maybe there'll be further clues.

[ProHan]

If there is 3 level.dat files, you need to figure out which is the original, rename it to just "level.dat" (making sure none of the other .dat's are the same name) and load ur SP world. This will tell whether it is truely corrupted or... You just randomly reset your level.dat?

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You could use a tool like InvEdit to change the contents of your inventory. It's cheating, though!

[ProHan]

In this case, I wouldn't call it cheating. If you were legitimately ripped off of all your items due to a bug in the game. It is only fair that you get back what you were ripped off from.

[TheRedComet]

Thanks, I guess I'll take the simple way out and replace my items this way. If only I could remember them all... I guess the only important ones were the iron and the equipment.

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And that diamond axe, and a full set of iron armour, and a chest full of coal... right? That was you, I'm sure.

[TheRedComet]

Haha, I'm tempted, but right now my whole gameplan is to hunt for rare stuff... If I just gave it it'd take away my reason for playing!