How to restore someone's account data [tutorial]

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I had a problem. 

I was playing with my friends on minehut server, and one of 'em couldn't log in onto their account and he lost all his stuff (he was forced to play on some other account).
We were trying to help him, and this is exactly what we've done:

 

1. Obtain new account UUID. There's several ways of doing it, two of them are:

• Go to this page and simply get the UUID from name
• Log in to the server for the first time. Then find the user UUID in usercache.json \/

1. Look at the usercache.json file. You should find them all the players ever playing on the server with their UUID's. This is important. You have to copy the UUID of the lost account (and the new account also, if you've chosen the second step above).

2. A OPed person should log onto the server and type /dl world <worldname>. This will give a link to a world save. Just click it and download.

3. After downloading the world, unzip it and go to world/playerdata directory. Now find file that's name is the UUID previously copied.

4. Rename the file the new UUID

5. (OPed person) go to minehut dashboard -> Edit server -> File manager -> world -> playerdata and delete the <new account UUID>.dat then simply upload file that you've changed locally

 

How it works?

UUID is a hash, so every nickname has its own unique UUID. The world/playderdata/... files contain player data (like inventory, effects, position, lvl, etc.) linked to UUID (filename). So changing the filename to new account UUID links previous account data to new account. And hence we can't simply change the name, we have to do all this stuff. But it's worth, and it works!

 

//Sorry if I made a mistake. I'm not native and my language skills ain't perfect.

Edited April 6, 2020 by asdasd123123asd