How to Upload a World to a Minecraft Bedrock Server
Move a singleplayer world or a downloaded .mcworld onto your Bedrock server.
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1. Get the world files
- A
.mcworldfile: rename it to.zip. That's all; a.mcworldis a zip. - Your own world on Windows: in Minecraft, Edit the world → Export World to save a
.mcworld, then rename it to.zip.
Inside the zip you should see level.dat, a db folder and levelname.txt.
2. Upload it
- In Console, click Stop.
- Go to Backups and create a backup of the current world.
- In Files, open the
worldsfolder. - Create a new folder for your world, for example
My World, and open it. - Upload the zip there and use Extract here.
level.datanddbmust be directly insideMy World. - Open
server.propertiesand setlevel-nameto the folder's name, exactly (My World). - Click Start.
Tip
Uploading many files is faster over SFTP: see How to Configure an SFTP Client.
Behaviour and resource packs
If the world uses add-ons, they come with it in behavior_packs and resource_packs inside the world folder. To make players download them, turn on texturepack-required in server.properties.
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