Starting up a friend's world.

[ReiryuHnz]

In short, me and my friend started up a new server owned by the latter, and when I tried to join it later on my own (by using /join servername) the world was on a brand new seed, completely void of our past progress. He's yet to get back on so I haven't seen if letting him activate it instead fixes it or not. I've started the world twice (w/ the correct spelling, I checked), with the world being reset and changing seeds each time.

Am I just not able to startup someone else's world or is there something I'm missing, and why does me doing so completely reset the world and seed? Just to clarify, this is from activating/starting a server when its offline; each time I started up the server I waited for it to go offline first.

[_Tarna_]

Do /worlds, you may just be in a different world from your stuff. This can happen if you change the default world of your server to a name of a world that is not on the server. Just change the "Level Name" box in the settings tab to the name of the world with your stuff to fix it.

And you should be able to start another server using /join servername. And do the command again like 3 minutes later if it doesn't automatically take you to the server. 

[ztimhirsch1]

Tarna have you made a bug report of this? Lots of people have said it happened to them.