Download your Minecraft server world and play it in single player

The name world comes from the level-name line in server.properties. If you changed it, use that name. Player inventories, positions and advancements are stored inside the overworld folder, so they come along.

Data from plugins, such as land claims, homes and economy balances, lives in the plugins folder and is not part of the world. You only need it when you move to another server, not for single player.

1. Stop the server, so every chunk is saved and nothing changes during the copy. If it must stay online, type save-all in the Console and wait for the line that says the game was saved.
2. Open the Files tab and go to the top folder.
3. Tick the boxes in front of world, world_nether and world_the_end.
4. Click Zip 3 at the top. The panel says "Archive created." and a new .tar.gz file appears in the folder, with a name starting with archive-.
5. Click Download next to that file.
6. Delete the archive afterwards, so it does not take up storage on the server.

Folders have no Download button of their own; zipping them first is the way to download a folder. A large world can take a few minutes to zip.

A backup holds the whole server folder: the world, plugins, settings and logs. It is the easiest way to get everything at once.

1. Open the Backups tab.
2. Click Create backup for a fresh copy, or pick an existing one with status Complete.
3. Click Download next to it. You get a .tar.gz file.

A backup made with the server stopped is guaranteed consistent. More about backups in back up and restore your server.

• Windows: open the file with 7-Zip or another archive program. With 7-Zip, extract once to get a .tar file and once more to get the folders.
• Mac: double-click the file. The folders appear next to it.
• Linux: tar -xzf with the file name, in a terminal.

From a backup, the world folders are among all the other server files. Take only the folders from the table above.

1. Find the saves folder of Minecraft Java: %appdata%\.minecraft\saves on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves on a Mac and ~/.minecraft/saves on Linux.
2. Copy the world folder into saves. Rename it if you like; the new name shows in your world list.
3. From a Paper server: copy the DIM-1 folder from inside world_nether into your copied world folder, and the DIM1 folder from inside world_the_end as well.
4. Start Minecraft with the same version as the server, or newer, and open Singleplayer.

Without step 3 the overworld works, but the Nether and End start empty in single player. A vanilla, Fabric or Forge server already keeps them inside world.

Open the world in an older Minecraft version than the server and the game warns you. Choose the same version to be safe, or make a copy first.

• A modded world needs the same mods in single player. Install the same modpack and version in your launcher, then put the world in that instance's saves folder. Without the mods, modded blocks and items disappear.
• Data packs live in world/datapacks and come along with the world. See install datapacks.
• A world with a resource pack from the server: download the pack separately and add it in the game's resource pack menu.

Join a modded server explains how to get the same modpack version on your own computer.

Bedrock cannot open a Java world as it is. The two editions save worlds in different formats. A converter such as Chunker can turn a Java world into a Bedrock world; some blocks, items and redstone come out different, so check the result before relying on it.

A world from a Bedrock server is a folder under worlds. Download it the same way and extract it. Then make a .zip of what is inside that folder, with level.dat at the top of the zip, rename the .zip to .mcworld and open it on a device with Bedrock to import it. Java or Bedrock server covers the differences between the editions.

The same archive works to move a world, for example to a second server of your own. Upload it in the Files tab of the new server, extract it, and set level-name. Move your world to our server covers the steps, including large worlds.