In "Minecraft" there are many beautiful worlds that you can travel through using portals, however, this is not enough for the fans of the game, so they create new maps on which it is even more interesting to play. If you have created or downloaded a new game world, then you are probably interested in learning how to install the map on Minecraft version 1.5.2 and higher.
How to install a map in Minecraft on a computer
If you have already chosen and downloaded an interesting map for the game, then it will not be difficult to install it in Minecraft 1.5.2. Pre-unpack the downloaded set of files with any archiver into an empty folder.
Open it and find the repository with the level.dat file. It is in it that all information about the created game world is stored. Here is the spawn point, the difficulty level, the weather, the name of the world and other important parameters. The same folder contains the region section, which contains the.mca files with information about all blocks of the map. In the players section,.dat files store all the information about the players (experience and hunger levels, inventory, bed placement, and more). DIM1 and DIM-1 have built-in data about the lower, upper and other worlds in Minecraft. The data stores the in-game cards that the players made.
A very important function in this folder is performed by the session.lock file. It protects the map of the game world from unauthorized changes, so that new errors do not arise in the game.
Thus, in order to install a map on "Minecraft", you need to copy and transfer these files to the saves folder. It can be found in Windows by going to "Start" and clicking the "Run" button by entering% appdata% \. Minecraft in the search bar.
If you have a Linux operating system, then the root directory of the game can be found at /home/%username%/.minecraft, Mac OS X - users /% username% / Library / Application Support /.minecraft.
If you are running the Minecraft client, you can open the desired folder through the game menu. To do this, click on the "Texture packs" section in the menu, click on the "Open folder" line and go to the section above.
When the map files are transferred to the saves folder, you can start a new game on the updated Minecraft playing field. To do this, select a new card in the menu.
How to install a map on "Minecraft" 1.5.2 and higher on the server
It is quite easy to create a new map on the server. To do this, the folder with the necessary world files, which was mentioned above, must be renamed to world. It needs to be moved to server files, replacing the old folder with the same name.
You can go the other way. Copy the unnamed folder with the map to the folder with the server, open the server.properties settings file there and make adjustments to the "level name" line, after the equal sign, type in the name of the folder with the map.
Now you know how to install maps for "Minecraft" on the server and home computer, and therefore you can further diversify the game life of your character and achieve even greater success.
