What happened to my minecraft map? - 1

It all started with this one day:

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It just appeared and wouldn't go away. I couldn't add blocks, and when I went into it I would just fall down really slowly, and no light would shine into it either. It was totally dark inside. Every time I would load the map it would take a little longer each time and now I'm lucky if 1 chunk of the map loads. It says building terrain for what seems to be forever and eventually opens to nothing and stays at nothing for a few minutes, then 1 chunk MAYBE loads later and maybe a 2nd or 3rd chunk attached but that's as far as it gets. Nothing will load anymore and I don't know why.

Added (1). ok so more than 3 chunks loaded but it's still pretty bad

It looks as though your world has corrupted chunks, which generally will not load and show a stream of errors and warnings in the client depending on the version; if your server client doesn't display the log, just go to your server folder and open the latest log file to see what's happening.

A lot of the time, there's nothing you can do about corrupted chunks aside from starting over or restoring a back-up of your world, with the third (and more advanced) option being to use world editing tools to solve the issue manually.