diff --git a/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/CorruptedRegionException.php b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/CorruptedRegionException.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7749a3f5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/CorruptedRegionException.php
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ *
+ *  ____            _        _   __  __ _                  __  __ ____
+ * |  _ \ ___   ___| | _____| |_|  \/  (_)_ __   ___      |  \/  |  _ \
+ * | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ __| |\/| | | '_ \ / _ \_____| |\/| | |_) |
+ * |  __/ (_) | (__|   <  __/ |_| |  | | | | | |  __/_____| |  | |  __/
+ * |_|   \___/ \___|_|\_\___|\__|_|  |_|_|_| |_|\___|     |_|  |_|_|
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * @author PocketMine Team
+ * @link http://www.pocketmine.net/
+ *
+ *
+*/
+
+
+namespace pocketmine\level\format\io\region;
+
+
+class CorruptedRegionException extends RegionException{
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/McRegion.php b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/McRegion.php
index bf342a705..b8fe71378 100644
--- a/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/McRegion.php
+++ b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/McRegion.php
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ use pocketmine\level\format\io\ChunkUtils;
 use pocketmine\level\format\SubChunk;
 use pocketmine\level\generator\Generator;
 use pocketmine\level\Level;
+use pocketmine\level\LevelException;
 use pocketmine\nbt\NBT;
 use pocketmine\nbt\tag\{
 	ByteArrayTag, ByteTag, CompoundTag, IntArrayTag, IntTag, ListTag, LongTag, StringTag
@@ -219,12 +220,9 @@ class McRegion extends BaseLevelProvider{
 		$isValid = (file_exists($path . "/level.dat") and is_dir($path . "/region/"));
 
 		if($isValid){
-			$files = glob($path . "/region/*.mc*");
-			if(empty($files)){ //possible glob() issue on some systems
-				$files = array_filter(scandir($path . "/region/"), function($file){
-					return substr($file, strrpos($file, ".") + 1, 2) === "mc"; //region file
-				});
-			}
+			$files = array_filter(scandir($path . "/region/"), function($file){
+				return substr($file, strrpos($file, ".") + 1, 2) === "mc"; //region file
+			});
 
 			foreach($files as $f){
 				if(substr($f, strrpos($f, ".") + 1) !== static::REGION_FILE_EXTENSION){
@@ -442,6 +440,22 @@ class McRegion extends BaseLevelProvider{
 	protected function loadRegion(int $x, int $z){
 		if(!isset($this->regions[$index = Level::chunkHash($x, $z)])){
 			$this->regions[$index] = new RegionLoader($this, $x, $z, static::REGION_FILE_EXTENSION);
+			try{
+				$this->regions[$index]->open();
+			}catch(CorruptedRegionException $e){
+				$logger = $this->level->getServer()->getLogger();
+				$logger->error("Corrupted region file detected: " . $e->getMessage());
+
+				$this->regions[$index]->close(false); //Do not write anything to the file
+
+				$path = $this->regions[$index]->getFilePath();
+				$backupPath = $path . ".bak." . time();
+				rename($path, $backupPath);
+				$logger->error("Corrupted region file has been backed up to " . $backupPath);
+
+				$this->regions[$index] = new RegionLoader($this, $x, $z, static::REGION_FILE_EXTENSION);
+				$this->regions[$index]->open(); //this will create a new empty region to replace the corrupted one
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionException.php b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionException.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0238daac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionException.php
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ *
+ *  ____            _        _   __  __ _                  __  __ ____
+ * |  _ \ ___   ___| | _____| |_|  \/  (_)_ __   ___      |  \/  |  _ \
+ * | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ __| |\/| | | '_ \ / _ \_____| |\/| | |_) |
+ * |  __/ (_) | (__|   <  __/ |_| |  | | | | | |  __/_____| |  | |  __/
+ * |_|   \___/ \___|_|\_\___|\__|_|  |_|_|_| |_|\___|     |_|  |_|_|
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * @author PocketMine Team
+ * @link http://www.pocketmine.net/
+ *
+ *
+*/
+
+
+namespace pocketmine\level\format\io\region;
+
+
+class RegionException extends \RuntimeException{
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionLoader.php b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionLoader.php
index 177d28eca..c76278364 100644
--- a/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionLoader.php
+++ b/src/pocketmine/level/format/io/region/RegionLoader.php
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ namespace pocketmine\level\format\io\region;
 
 use pocketmine\level\format\Chunk;
 use pocketmine\level\format\io\ChunkException;
+use pocketmine\level\LevelException;
 use pocketmine\utils\Binary;
 use pocketmine\utils\MainLogger;
 
@@ -32,7 +33,11 @@ class RegionLoader{
 	const VERSION = 1;
 	const COMPRESSION_GZIP = 1;
 	const COMPRESSION_ZLIB = 2;
+
 	const MAX_SECTOR_LENGTH = 256 << 12; //256 sectors, (1 MiB)
+	const REGION_HEADER_LENGTH = 8192; //4096 location table + 4096 timestamps
+	const MAX_REGION_FILE_SIZE = 32 * 32 * self::MAX_SECTOR_LENGTH + self::REGION_HEADER_LENGTH; //32 * 32 1MiB chunks + header size
+
 	public static $COMPRESSION_LEVEL = 7;
 
 	protected $x;
@@ -51,10 +56,21 @@ class RegionLoader{
 		$this->z = $regionZ;
 		$this->levelProvider = $level;
 		$this->filePath = $this->levelProvider->getPath() . "region/r.$regionX.$regionZ.$fileExtension";
+	}
+
+	public function open(){
 		$exists = file_exists($this->filePath);
 		if(!$exists){
 			touch($this->filePath);
+		}else{
+			$fileSize = filesize($this->filePath);
+			if($fileSize > self::MAX_REGION_FILE_SIZE){
+				throw new CorruptedRegionException("Corrupted oversized region file found, should be a maximum of " . self::MAX_REGION_FILE_SIZE . " bytes, got " . $fileSize . " bytes");
+			}elseif($fileSize % 4096 !== 0){
+				throw new CorruptedRegionException("Region file should be padded to a multiple of 4KiB");
+			}
 		}
+
 		$this->filePointer = fopen($this->filePath, "r+b");
 		stream_set_read_buffer($this->filePointer, 1024 * 16); //16KB
 		stream_set_write_buffer($this->filePointer, 1024 * 16); //16KB
@@ -170,9 +186,20 @@ class RegionLoader{
 		return $x + ($z << 5);
 	}
 
-	public function close(){
-		$this->writeLocationTable();
-		fclose($this->filePointer);
+	/**
+	 * Writes the region header and closes the file
+	 *
+	 * @param bool $writeHeader
+	 */
+	public function close(bool $writeHeader = true){
+		if(is_resource($this->filePointer)){
+			if($writeHeader){
+				$this->writeLocationTable();
+			}
+
+			fclose($this->filePointer);
+		}
+
 		$this->levelProvider = null;
 	}
 
@@ -255,14 +282,34 @@ class RegionLoader{
 		fseek($this->filePointer, 0);
 		$this->lastSector = 1;
 
-		$data = unpack("N*", fread($this->filePointer, 4 * 1024 * 2)); //1024 records * 4 bytes * 2 times
+		$headerRaw = fread($this->filePointer, self::REGION_HEADER_LENGTH);
+		if(($len = strlen($headerRaw)) !== self::REGION_HEADER_LENGTH){
+			throw new CorruptedRegionException("Invalid region file header, expected " . self::REGION_HEADER_LENGTH . " bytes, got " . $len . " bytes");
+		}
+
+		$data = unpack("N*", $headerRaw);
+		$usedOffsets = [];
 		for($i = 0; $i < 1024; ++$i){
 			$index = $data[$i + 1];
+			$offset = $index >> 8;
+			if($offset !== 0){
+				fseek($this->filePointer, ($offset << 12));
+				if(fgetc($this->filePointer) === false){ //Try and read from the location
+					throw new CorruptedRegionException("Region file location offset points to invalid location");
+				}elseif(isset($usedOffsets[$offset])){
+					throw new CorruptedRegionException("Found two chunk offsets pointing to the same location");
+				}else{
+					$usedOffsets[$offset] = true;
+				}
+			}
+
 			$this->locationTable[$i] = [$index >> 8, $index & 0xff, $data[1024 + $i + 1]];
 			if(($this->locationTable[$i][0] + $this->locationTable[$i][1] - 1) > $this->lastSector){
 				$this->lastSector = $this->locationTable[$i][0] + $this->locationTable[$i][1] - 1;
 			}
 		}
+
+		fseek($this->filePointer, 0);
 	}
 
 	private function writeLocationTable(){
@@ -300,4 +347,7 @@ class RegionLoader{
 		return $this->z;
 	}
 
+	public function getFilePath() : string{
+		return $this->filePath;
+	}
 }