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How to Upload a World on a Minecraft Java Server

Attention

The world files must not be an archive such as .zip. Unzip the world first.

  1. Stop your Minecraft Java Edition server.

  2. Connect to your server via SFTP.

  3. Upload your new world in the main folder, which also contains the world folder.

  4. Open the file server.properties and look for the following entry:

    level-name=world
    level-name=world
  5. Change the value to the name of your uploaded world (e.g. level-name=NewWorld).

  6. Save the changes and restart the server.

Tip

You can also run several worlds in parallel on your server, e.g. with plugins such as Multiverse-Core.