Well, well, well, here's a name I haven't seen in a while! Hey there BRASH, good to see you're still around and Minecrafting! How's it going? Really missed you on Empathy.
Anyway, we have Empathy 2.0 up now, still in beta, but we would love to have you back. IP is s7.hosthorde.com:26942. And yes, in 5 years of server ownership I did learn enough to make backups, but like I said my latest one is from three days ago. I can restore that one but I was hoping there was another option. I'm not loading a world from another version, it was created in 1.14.4. But still, there doesn't seem to be anything that fixes it, if I am understanding right, so I might just have to restore the 3 day backup.
Hope to see you on Empathy 2.0 and our discord. We certainly could use someone with your massive build skills to help out - we've started from scratch so the map is a bit boring. If you build for the server you can build in GM1 (but still no WE). Hope you are well, thanks for the reply!