I seem to recall this being a vanilla bug, I'm sorry to say that you might need to manually fix your level.dat to fix this. I can't exactly remember how, I think the procedure was listed somewhere else on the forum.
Spammy posts merged.
Please don't do that again, I'm not here 24/7
Also, use one of the sites linked in my signature below, I don't trust the site you picked.
Debug.log is a file in the logs folder that contains a lot more info than a crash report or latest.log.
Further details on where it is can be found in the Logs section of my signature below (just expand the spoiler).
What? If you're getting "random numbers and letters" I'm guessing you're looking at the compressed older logs.
What I'm asking for is a file called debug.log.
Do note that Windows Explorer hides file extensions by default, you can show them by going to View and checking the "Show file name extensions" box.