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Upload a world to your Bedrock server

Minecraft Bedrock · Updated 27 October 2026

Bring a world from your computer to your Bedrock server.

1. Find and zip your world

Bedrock worlds are in the minecraftWorlds folder. In game, Settings › Storage shows you where they are. Each folder inside is one world.

Zip the world folder itself: right-click it › Send to › Compressed (zipped) folder.

Have a .mcworld file? It's a zip file already. Rename the end from .mcworld to .zip.

Using addons? Add them to your world in single player first, then upload the world.

2. Upload it

  1. Stop your server.
  2. Open Server Files, then the worlds folder.
  3. Click Upload, and choose your zip.

If your world is bigger than 1 GB, use FileZilla to upload it instead. See Upload and download files with FileZilla.

3. Unzip it

Right-click the zip, and choose Unzip. Your world folder appears. Remember its name.

4. Choose your world

  1. Open Startup.
  2. Under Choose World, type the name of your world folder, exactly as it is.
  3. Start your server, and you're playing on your own world.
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