How to Upload a World to Your Minecraft Server

You can transfer a singleplayer world, a world download, or a world from another server to your 3LifeHosting.com server.

Find Your Local World Files

Windows

Your singleplayer worlds are stored at:

%appdata%\.minecraft\saves\

Paste this into the File Explorer address bar to go directly there. Each subfolder is a world.

macOS

~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves/

Open Finder, press Cmd+Shift+G, and paste the path.

Linux

~/.minecraft/saves/

Prepare the World for Upload

1. Open the saves/ folder and find your world
2. Right-click the world folder and compress it to a .zip file
3. Make sure the zip contains the world folder's contents directly (not a folder inside a folder)

The zip should contain files like level.dat, region/, playerdata/, etc. at the top level.

Method 1: File Manager Upload

1. Stop your server from the control panel
2. Go to the File Manager tab
3. If an existing world/ folder exists, delete it or rename it to world_old
4. Click Upload and select your .zip file
5. Once uploaded, right-click the zip and click Unarchive
6. Make sure the extracted folder is named world — rename it if needed
7. Start the server

The folder name must match the level-name value in server.properties (default: world).

Method 2: SFTP Upload

For large worlds, SFTP is faster and more reliable than the browser uploader.

1. In the control panel, go to Settings to find your SFTP connection details (host, port, username)
2. Download an SFTP client: FileZilla or WinSCP (Windows)
3. Connect using the credentials from step 1 — your panel password is the SFTP password
4. Navigate to the server's root directory
5. Delete or rename the existing world/ folder
6. Upload your world folder (named world)
7. Start the server from the panel

After Uploading

• Spawn location may be different. Use /setworldspawn <x> <y> <z> to set a new spawn point
• Chunk format — if moving from a much older Minecraft version, the server will convert chunks on load. This can take time for large worlds; watch the console for progress
• Player data — singleplayer player data won't carry over to the server. Players start fresh in terms of inventory and position