What Happens To Deleted Minecraft Worlds?

Delete forever... It's a scary phrase. But when you do delete your Minecraft world, where does it go, what happens to deleted minecraft worlds? They certainly don't go into the trash, they just vanish. Where do deleted minecraft worlds go, and what happens to your world when it corrupts...

➤➤ Music Used:
Moon Men - Jake Chudnow
Mount Volbono - Super Mario Odyssey
Run! Jump! Throw! 2 - Super Mario Odyssey
Tostarena Ruins - Super Mario Odyssey
Maicol Nait - Outsider
SMW Game Over Remix Alt Version
Undertale OST 001, Once Upon A Time (❤)

➤➤Credit:
Obviously this title and concept are inspired by Vsauce

This is a series called Minecraft VVSauce where I explore random features of Minecraft. Not Minecraft, but the water rises or Minecraft Manhunt but a more research based series dedicated to over-answering questions you never asked.

Fun fact, I believe the world in the thumbnail has the name "Corrupted" in the infinity snapshot

[babygnana]

"One day you'll place your last block ever and maybe not even know it"

That actually made me kinda sad :(

[thesabersvr]

“Dying in a hardcore world”
**philza intensifies**

[Draconamous]

I remember a glitch in beta. One of my world's just stopped existing. Was upset and started a new world.

After a couple days I ran across some very familiar structures from the old world. As if I just took a "vacation"

[richardkanshen]

I love the way that he turned a Minecraft documentary into a hope-booster is incredible.

[nonrecurrent]

*This could be useful for the kid who’s dad deleted his Minecraft world after he didn’t wake up for school...*

[DiamondDuk]

Title: “What happens to deleted Minecraft worlds?”

Thumbnail: *H E L L*

[Wopach]

I had a world with my father. I made it around 6 years ago, and we had many laughs mining for diamonds, and fighting through mobs. One day my friend was messing around on my computer, and found the world. He got to the screen where you delete the world. He saw it, and without hesitation deleted the world. I stayed awake that night just thinking about all of the good times. My dad knew how much that world meant to me, and him. We played Minecraft for hours on that world, and to see it go was the worst day of my life. Thank you, Minecraft.

[commanderbrickbreaker]

I remember in an older Minecraft (I believe 1.2.5, that's the one I played the most years ago before I went to 1.7.10) if you named a world the same name as a deleted world you could find the same location and if you had a house, it would be there but really chopped up. At least that happened to me once, it was awesome rediscovering that old build out of the blue.

[Rush-qrve]

VSauce - “Where do deleted files go?”

Wifies - “Where do deleted Minecraft worlds go?”

[rayziiluv]

“The game is coded not to care about the item anymore”

Me: that’s just cruel

[galaxytsd]

Me: trying to sleep
My brain: *I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DELETE A WORLD*

[dreko_e]

This was in bedrock edition but its still a glitch that my friend found. Me and him were playing on this world which was an oak biome next to a desert village. But when some terrain updates came there was suddenly 1 or 2 chunks in the desert that had been changed to a jungle and there was a random swamp near our house

Also in another village one of the houses had been completely demolished by a mountain that had loaded in because of the update and even my friend said that one of the end cities had dissapeared. Like he built a trail and a tower next to the end city but when he went there after the update the city dissapeared

[sleepingeye]

“The memories you made will never be deleted”
You made me cry, Wifies

[karmatical]

Fun Fact:
In computing, theoretically deleted files actually gain the category "useless" in the system that is when the system needs space it will eventually replace the "useless file" with the new one, in minecraft deleting a world is the same as leaving it to gradually corrupt and "disappear"...

[ultra]

I honestly wanna see what the Frankenstein of worlds looks like, it sounds so interesting thinking of two worlds made into 1

[eldritchchaos]

To this day, my favorite minecraft world out of all of them is the very first one I made, with my brother's account using our mom's computer. Eventually, things got to the point where there were so many files and junk taking up space on that computer that it would freeze every few seconds, and because the file size of my world was so big, my brother deleted it, hoping that the computer would run faster (it didn't). I miss that world, the whole vibe and the layout of the map was so soothing and I would come up with stories involving the villagers and other mobs just living their everyday lives and sometimes getting into massive battles. That world will always hold a special place in my heart, and even almost ten years later I can still remember the location of every single thing I've made in that world. Sometimes I play through that map in my mind to relive the childhood memories.

[FolkoMagipaw]

"Will be gone, forever... Or will it?"

Hello, VSauce.

[datankz]

“And those memories won’t be deleted.” *Unus Annus flashbacks*

[Ralphmcdoodles]

7:06 that was the most helpful thing I’ve seen in my life.

[Ali]

11:30 What a coincidence that before Islamic Day of Judgement also starts with the sun rising from the west which is basically the end of the universe.