How to Download the Savegame of Your Minecraft Endstone Edition Server

You can download the world of your server to your PC at any time – for example as an additional backup, for archiving or to transfer it to another server.

Caution

Stop your server before downloading the files. While running, the server constantly writes to the world database – without stopping it you would download an incomplete or corrupted save.

1. Find the active world
   In the main folder of your server, open the server.properties file. The level-name entry names the folder of the currently loaded world:

   level-name=my_world

2. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

3. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP or use the file browser in the dashboard.

4. Open the directory
   In the main folder of your server, navigate to the following folder:

   worlds

5. Download the world folder
   Every world is stored here as its own folder. Download the folder of your world completely – including the db subfolder as well as the files level.dat and levelname.txt.

6. Start the server
   Start your server again.

Important

The db subfolder contains the actual database with all chunks of the world. Without it the downloaded save is worthless.

Back up the configuration as well

If you also want to save your server settings and player lists, download the following files and folders from the main folder of your server:

server.properties
endstone.toml
permissions.json
allowlist.json
banned-players.json
banned-ips.json
plugins

Caution

The plugins folder contains a .local subfolder that Endstone manages itself. You can leave it out when backing up – Endstone recreates it on the next start.

Restoring the savegame

If you want to transfer the world back to a server later, follow the guide Add savegame.

Regular backups

For automatic or regular backups you can also use the backup function: Create backup.