User blog comment:Codofwisdom/What happens when Terraria crashes?/@comment-5512032-20131011151638

I had that twice. Once in complete randomness, and once when I encountered a very wierd glitch. I have a potentional solution for the last one; but I dont know if it will work, as the glitch is rare, unpredictible and unreproducable. Also, it will only work if you are fast enough(and in some cases have admin rights on your computer).

What the glitch is: I have only encountered it when joining a server. But what happens is when you join a server, it displays a snippet of the last map you were in, and you dont see any mobs, not even yourself or any interface. Only the blocks and walls. You can hear the chat sounds, and you can say things, but you wont see any chat lines. You can not get out without force killing Terraria(you cant hit the big red X as normal with Terraria, but hitting escape wont do anything either).

This fix will only work if you know which file is which character(they will all be player1, player2 and so on, so you cant see it as usual) or have an inventory editor to locate the corrupted character file.

How to fix it: Remember; the first part will only work if you are fast enough. Otherwise, you are doomed. Quickly press either Alt+F4 or hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc(or Ctrl+Alt+Delete), press Processess, locate Terraria.exe, click it and hit Delete. then press Enter. From here you can go your own pace. Go to your documents and go into the My Games folder. Then go in the folders Terraria, Players, and an easy way to locate the corrupted character is by pairing every player file with its backup - player1.plr has player1.bak, player2.plr has player2.bak, and so on. If you did it right one should be missing - you must click the unpaired .bak file and hit ctrl+c. Next hit ctrl+v, and rename the file that just appeared to EXACTLY(you dont need to have it exactly, but that will keep it ordened in the future) the name of the backup file, but change the extension to .plr instead of .bak. Sometimes however, it will display the a corrupted player file, and you have to delete that one, and doing the same with the backup file as I mentioned above.

If you did this all correct you should be able to use your character as usual.

Thats my wall of text, I hope this will help you in the future x3