This article will go over the process of converting your world. Did you know that Spigot servers cannot run worlds that were created in vanilla Minecraft? The same goes for Spigot worlds in Vanilla! Lets take a look at the process in a quick and easy step by step list.
Vanilla to Spigot
Spigot does a lot of the work when it comes to converting vanilla worlds into Spigot-playable worlds, but you will need to give it a helping hand.
- Get the seed of the world. This can be done by running /seed
- Ensure you have at least one copy of the world saved somewhere else!
- Rename the world folder to
world.
- Stop your server
- Delete the existing
world folder.
- Click on the server.properties file, and edit the value of
level_seed to your world’s seed
- If you want to name your world something other than
world, edit the level_name variable to the folder’s name
- Upload the compressed (.zip) file using the file manager or SFTP.
- Decompress the ZIP, ensuring that the
world folder contains your world (not another world folder!)
- Start your server!
Spigot to Vanilla
Unlike Spigot, Vanilla Minecraft does not know how to convert Spigot files, so you will have to do this manually! Lets get started.
- Stop your server
- Compress the world (and the nether/end) folder (Select the folder, click the 3 buttons and select Compress)
- Download them to your local machine
- Unzip the folder
- Move the DIM1 folder of both the Nether and End folders into the
world/DIM1 folder.
- Your world is now Vanilla compatible, and should be ready to use!
