Experimental Gameplay is a game option in Minecraft Bedrock Edition that allows the testing of new, unfinished, or work-in-progress features that could later end up being part of the core Minecraft experience.
Experimental Gameplay is usually enabled upon world creation, but it can also be enabled on pre-existing worlds.
Before you begin
Keep in mind that experimental features are not ready for release by Mojang, and may expose your server to unexpected crashes or game breaking bugs.
# Enabling Experimental Gameplay on a New World
In order to enable experiments, you simply have to tick it when creating a new world.
- Open Minecraft Bedrock Edition and click Create New World.
- Under Game Settings, scroll down until you see Experiments.
- When selecting a feature, click Activate Experiments on the warning prompt.
- Make sure to name the world something memorable, as it will help you identify it later.
- Stop your server and follow our guide on uploading your world.
- Restart your server.
# Enabling Experimental Gameplay on an Existing World
Do note that enabling Experimental Gameplay on existing worlds could lead to severe world corruption.
- Stop your server and create a server backup.
- Follow our guide on downloading and installing your world.
- Launch your game and click the edit icon on the relevant world.
- Enable one experiment on your world. This will prompt you to create a copy with experiments enabled.
- Click Edit on the generated copy of the world.
- Enable any additional experiments you would like, then click Play.
- Once the world is loaded, simply Save and Quit.
- Upload the world to your server.
- Restart your server.
Your server will now be up and running with your chosen Experiments. With that done, you can check out our guide on Enabling Cheats to better play around with these new features.
