Help: Restore a failed universe [Solved]

[Wastelander]

About an hour ago my PC crashed when I was playing Starbound and when I came back on it, I spawned in my ship and it was travelling like it does at the start of the game. As soon as it stopped I check my teleporter and all my bookmarks are gone and I checked where I was in the universe and my ship was somewhere completely different to where I left it.

I check my storage folder and it found 2 files that were created around the time of the crash and they both end with .fail instead of .dat.

I tried changing the file type but that did nothing so please if anyone knows if knows if it is possible to restore my old universe because I really don't want to lose a few weeks worth of building.

[Aro]

You can try restoring your ship world from ..Starbound\storage\player\
Make a backup first.
Then try using the bak1/2/3 to replace the normal .player and .shipworld to see if any will restore your stuff.

[Wastelander]

My characters and ships are fine, it's just my worlds and universe that are missing.

[Aro]

They may still be there if you noted the coords outside the game. The universe file doesn't get auto backed up (unless your OS did it).

[Wastelander]

I fixed it!
I went to my old cords to find all my worlds had also been wiped but then I had the idea of finding which world file I built my city on and renaming it to the new world that was generated when I beamed down to check. I beam back down to the world to find that everything I built was still there. I also tested this and this method can work if used on any new planet you beam down to so finding the old cords is not necessary unless you want it in the same star system you had before.

I hope this helps anyone that also gets a failed universe.

[Mr.Crotchcake]

This glitch has happened to me before, and this will really help me if it ever happens again! thanks! I know how it feels to lose so much progress, so im happy you were able to fix it!