Introduction

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This step-by-step guide will show you how you can upload your Minecraft world from your local computer to your game server on the game panel.

This guide covers both vanilla worlds and modded worlds, in this guides example we will cover uploading a world creating on the Modrinth client. 

 

Note: Other modded clients may behave differently with file paths and world saving.

Google search the following: "How to find my Minecraft world for "CLIENT NAME" - Replace client name with the client you are using.

Requirements

• 5-15 minutes of time

• Access to your game panel

• The world you wish to upload

Uploading vanilla clients world 

 

Step 1 - Open the Minecraft launcher and click "Installations"

Step 2 - Left click the folder for the instance that your Minecraft world was played on

 

Step 3 - Open the saves folder in the new window that opened as seen below

 

 

Step 4 - Rename the world you wish to use to "world" and add it to a zip as seen below

 

 

 

 

Take note of the file path of the world as you will need it later

 

Step 5 - Navigate to your game panels file manager and upload the world, follow the steps below

 

 

 

Step 6 - Navigate file path where your world is saved and select zip you created called world.zip (the one we mentioned to take note of before)

 

 

Click "open" and watch the File Manager fetch the file as needed.

 

 

This will upload the zip to your server on the game panel.

Step 7 - Rename the existing world folder in your game panel's file manager and unzip the world.zip

Tick the box next to the "world" folder and then click the three dots on the right side and click Rename/Move

In the image below, we click the check box next to the world.zip we uploaded, then click the three dots on the right and click decompress.

If you haven't changed your server.properties file to read a differently named world; the server will now use your uploaded world. 

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Uploading modded clients world 

Step 1 - Open the launcher you wish to upload the world from (we will be using Modrinth for this example)

 

Step 2 - Find the mod pack of the world you wish to upload, click the three dots in the top right, and click Open folder

 

 Step 3 - Open the "saves" folder in the file explorer window that just opened

 

 Step 4 - Rename the world you wish to use to "world" and add it to a zip as seen below

 

 

 

 

Take note of the file path of the world as you will need it later

 

Step 5 - Navigate to your game panels file manager and upload the world, follow the steps below

 

 

 

Step 6 - Navigate file path where your world is saved and select zip you created called "world.zip" (the one we mentioned to take note of before)

 

 

Click "open"

 

 This will upload the zip to your server on the game panel.

Step 7 - Rename the existing world folder in your game panel's file manager and unzip the world.zip

Tick the box next to the "world" folder and then click the three dots on the right side and click "Rename/Move"

In the image below, we click the check box next to the "world.zip" we uploaded, then click the three dots on the right and click decompress.

Step 8 - Start your server!

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