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41 ArticlesHow to Reset your Minecraft World
There may be a plethora of reasons to reset your Minecraft world, such as world corruption, a new Minecraft update, or simply looking for a fresh start. This guide teaches you how to reset your Minecraft world as a whole, so it includes both The Nether & The End. If you would like to learn how to reset each of these individually, we have guides on how to reset them both. 1. How to Reset The Nether on your Minecraft Server 2. How to Reset The End on your Minecraft Server Before starting with this guide, it is highly recommended that you create a backup of your world to make sure you have a copy on the off chance you change your mind. --- How to Reset your Server World You can reset your Minecraft world by deleting the world folders found in your server files. 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Access your server files and locate the world folders. 3. Select your world folder(s), and click Delete. The name of the active world folders will match what you have named the world in the level name option of your server.properties. 4. Confirm file deletion. ::ProseNote{title="Warning - Deleting Files" description="These steps involve deleting files. Deleted files cannot be recovered. If there is a chance you may want to recover the files, make sure you backup before deleting anything." appearance="error"} :: 5. Start your server to generate a new world. That's it! Once your server boots up, a new world will be generated.
How to Reset The Nether on your Minecraft Server
Players may wish for a fresh Nether to explore and to find new fortresses to loot and raid. Thankfully, resetting The Nether on Minecraft is very easy, and this guide will teach you how to do it. The method of how you reset The Nether will depend on the server type you are running, such as Vanilla Minecraft, or running Spigot, Bukkit or Paper. ::ProseNote{title="Warning - Deleting Files" description="These steps involve deleting files. Deleted files cannot be recovered. If there is a chance you may want to recover the files, make sure you backup before deleting anything." appearance="error"} :: Resetting The Nether with a Vanilla, Forge, or Fabric Server You can reset The Nether by deleting the DIM-1 folder found within the server files. 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Access your server files and open the World folder. 3. Select the and delete it. Do not be mistaken with the folder named with no dash (-), this is The End. If deleted, your End will be broken. 4. Confirm deletion of the folder. 5. Start your server. --- Resetting The Nether with a Paper/Bukkit/Spigot Server You can reset The Nether by deleting the world\nether folder found in your server's files. 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Access your server files and locate the folder. 3. Select the folder, and delete it. 4. Confirm deletion of the folder. 5. Start your Server.
How to Reset The End on your Minecraft Server
Whether you’ve explored all of the End Cities or are struggling to find another End Ship, resetting chunks of the End will allow you to re-explore brand new areas! Not only that, you can completely reset the Ender Dragon and fight it multiple times per world. --- Why You Cannot Fully Reset the End In the past, you could reset the End by deleting the DIM1 folder in your World folder. This no longer works as of version 1.9, and doing so will result in a broken End. The reason this occurs is that the End Portal and Crystals only generate on the first portal entry. Thankfully, there is a method to respawn the Ender Dragon in-game and regenerate the islands surrounding the main island. --- Respawning the Ender Dragon You can respawn the Ender Dragon by crafting and placing end crystals around the exit portal. 1. Craft four End Crystals. 2. Place an End Crystal on each side of The End exit portal. 3. The crystals around the portal will explode once the process is complete. That's it! You can now fight the respawned Ender Dragon. --- Trimming Chunks in the End Trimming chunks is the process of deleting chunks that you wish to be removed from your Minecraft world. This allows chunks to then be generated as brand new chunks when a player explores the area again. ::ProseNote{title="Important Reminder" description="This is a dangerous function that can damage worlds if used incorrectly. Make sure to create a backup of all your server worlds before proceeding." appearance="danger"} :: We recommend using MCASelector for Vanilla Chunk Trimming, we have a tutorial on how to use MCASelector here. When trimming the End, you will want to avoid trimming any of the Main Island chunks. Removing these chunks will also break the End. It is currently impossible to reset the Main Island. Once you have removed the chunks and uploaded/saved your changes appropriately, you may then load into the End and ensure everything looks good. New chunks should generate outside of the Main Island, and the Main Island should be exactly how you left it. Now you can explore your newly regenerated End!
How to Reset a Player's Data
In some cases, a player's inventory may be corrupted, or they may be stuck in a corrupted chunk. This could cause the player to be unable to log into the server and, in some cases, cause their game or the entire server to crash. Although resetting the world will fix this issue, this would mean the loss of any or all world changes, which may not be ideal for your server. An alternative way to fix this is to manually delete that player's playerdata (.dat) file, which will reset their inventory, location in the world, and other Vanilla Minecraft-based player data. As most plugin data is stored in the respective plugin folders, these will not be affected. --- How to Find and Reset a User's PlayerData You will be required to identify a player's UUID, then remove the DAT file from the server files. 1. Identify the player's UUID. You can do this by searching for a player's username on a website such as NameMC.com. ::ProseNote{title="What is a UUID?" description="A UUID is a unique string of numbers and letters, separated by various dashes. Each Minecraft player will have a unique UUID assigned to their account as a form of universal identification." appearance="discovery"} :: 2. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 3. Navigate to server files, and navigate to . 4. Select the DAT file that contains the player's UUID that you previously identified in step 1, and delete it. 5. Start your server.
How to Pre-Generate your Minecraft World using the WorldBorder Plugin
Using the WorldBorder plugin for Spigot or Paper, you can pre-generate worlds on your Minecraft server so that they are ready for players using . ::ProseNote{title="Specific Versions" description="This article is specifically for Minecraft Java Edition 1.13.x - 1.16.x servers, and depends on Spigot or Paper plugins to work." appearance="danger"} :: If you don’t already have WorldBorder installed on your server, you’ll need to install the plugin specific to your server version to follow the steps in this tutorial. You can download the WorldBorder plugin from the links below, then follow our tutorial on installing plugins. Server Version 1.13.x - 1.14.x: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/worldborder.60905 Server Version 1.15.x - 1.16.x: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/worldborder-1-15.80466/ ::ProseNote{title="Important" description="The plugin used for server version 1.13.x - 1.14.x is no longer maintained by the developers, so there will be no future releases." appearance="danger"} :: You will need a world already imported, ready to be pre-generated. You can follow our guide on How to Upload a World if you would like to use this on a custom world. The command to trim a world is: . You can replace with the name of the world you want to trim. If you don’t specify a world name, the current world you are in will be used. Replace with the number of chunks per second WorldBorder will try to check for and generate a chunk. For optimal performance, set this number to 5 or lower. A lower number will take longer but will reduce lag on your server. You should always leave at 208 as it will be suitable for most servers. Replace with “true” if you want to force WorldBorder to load all chunks instead of skipping chunks that are already generated. You can also use the command to generate missing chunks of your world that are within the border.
How to Link a Custom Domain to Dynmap
Having your own custom domain linked to Dynmap allows you to hide your IP address, whilst having a direct link to your Dynmap can be much easier for players to access. --- Linking Dynmap with Namecheap You can link Dynmap to Namecheap by setting up a URL redirect record. You must have an active domain to do this. 1. Access Namecheap and navigate to Account Domain List. 2. Locate the domain you wish to use, and click Manage. 3. Select Advanced DNS. 4. Under Host Records, click Add New Record. 5. Enter the following details based on the heading: - Type = URL Redirect Record - Host = - Value = Enter your Dynmap URL, e.g. http://123.45.67.89:1234 - Set to Unmasked. 6. Click Save All Changes. 7. You can now access your Dynmap using your new domain, by entering your domain, such as -- To learn how to set up Dynmap on your server, you can check out our knowledgebase article found here.
How to Enable Hardcore Mode for your Minecraft Server
Hardcore mode is a Java Edition exclusive variant of survival. In this mode, the world is locked to the Hard difficulty, and players cannot respawn after being killed. The only available options on the death screen will be to enter the Spectator mode or return to the main Minecraft menu. --- How to Enable Hardcore Mode 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Navigate to the Files Tab. 3. Open up . 4. Set the hardcore option to . 5. Click Save and Start your server. --- Changing your World to Hardcore If your world has already been generated, you will need to edit a few extra settings to activate hardcore mode. You can do this by using NBTExplorer. 1. Follow up to step 5 of our guide on NBTExplorer. You can find a link to our guide here. You will only want to follow steps 1-5, then come back here: How to use NBTExplorer to edit Minecraft World Data. 2. Start NBTExplorer and open the level.dat downloaded from your server. 3. Double-click on hardcore and set the value to 1. 4. Click Save All Modified Tags in the top-left corner. 5. Upload and overwrite the modified level.dat file back to your server. 6. Restart your server.