Copying existing world file onto MineOS?

[JayMontana36]

The world folder, typically named “world” sometimes along with “world_nether” and “world_end” are (obviously) the world stuff, and is all you need for importing a world. If you already have a working server and would like to use that world instead, you have 3 options:

1. Delete the existing world folder(s), and replace it with that one

2. Rename the existing world folder(s) to something else, and drag the new/old world folder in

3. Drag the existing world folder in, followed by changing the level-name in the server.properties file to match the world’s folder’s name.

Note: The world that you’d like to use has to have it’s folder named “world” unless changed in the server.properties file; if changed there then the world must match whatever’s there.

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@ru5ty

I have an existing world file that a friend sent to me from a server he had run previously.

You sure it’s just the world? Or is it an entire server?

@ru5ty

So the world.zip has the data and playerdata and stats folders directly inside it?

@iMelsom

It’s the world data you want, the player data is generated by players when then join your server. I’m not quite sure how player data from a singleplayer world translates to a multiplayer server though.

Singleplayer worlds (as well as LAN and “standard” servers) both save and store player data inside the world folder. However though, when you have certain plugins such as Essentials for example, the only plugin I know that changes the way that Minecraft saves player data, player data is then instead stored outside the world folder inside Essentials’ plugin folder under userdata which can then be exported to standard Minecraft as in exported to the world folder for use without the Essentials plugin.

@ru5ty

maybe it’s possible to conserve all the data?

If it is an entire server and not just the world folder, then yeah you pretty much have everything conserved.