How To Backup & Restore Minecraft Java Edition Worlds

How can you backup your Minecraft Java Edition worlds? Well, in this video, we show you exactly how to successfully back up and restore worlds on Minecraft Java Edition. This will help you if you ever have any issues with your Minecraft worlds as you will know how to find your Minecraft backups and restore worlds that are corrupt.

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Chapters:
0:00 Things You Need To Know About Minecraft World Backups
0:39 What About Backing-Up Minecraft Servers?
1:12 How To Backup Your Minecraft Java Worlds
2:19 How To Restore your Minecraft Java Worlds
4:39 Access Your Backups From The Minecraft Launcher

About this video: This video is a complete guide on not only how to back up Minecraft Java Edition worlds but how to restore Minecraft worlds as well. This means that we show you how to make sure that you don’t lose a Minecraft world but also what to do if you do have issues with your world and need to restore a Minecraft map. So, without anymore delay, here is how to backup and restore Minecraft worlds in Java Edition!

First things first, we will need to create a back up of your Minecraft world. Do this by going to the Single Player menu in Minecraft, and click on the world you want to back-up one time. Then, click on ‘Edit’. Next, click the ‘Make Backup’ button. When you do that, Minecraft Java Edition will automatically make a backup of your Minecraft world.

If you have a world that is already broke, sadly, this won’t do much for you as you won’t be able to use a backup from a corrupt world. However, I would recommend doing this whenever you play Minecraft as an insurance against any issues happening in your world.

After you have a backup, you can click the ‘Open Backups Folder’ button to open Minecraft Java Edition’s backups folder. Here, you will find all of your Minecraft world backups you have made. From here, you can unzip the world file and add it to your ‘Saves’ folder. Doing this will make the world show up in your Single Player world selector. You can now play on the back up. It will be a snapshot of your world at the time the backup was made meaning everything you did after the backup will be gone.

This is, in a way, a good thing as anything that may have made your Minecraft world have issues will not be in the restored Minecraft Java Edition world.

Nevertheless, you now know how to backup Minecraft worlds. If you have any questions about how to restore a Minecraft world in Java Edition, let us know in the comments. We will try our best to help you out. Otherwise, if we did help learn how to back up and restore worlds in
Minecraft, please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven’t already. It really helps us out, and it means a ton to me. Thanks in advance!

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[jaketynes]

For anybody that had the same problem as me. You followed all the way through but when you went back into Minecraft your world wasn't there, you have to click "replace items" instead of the other two options that said something like "ignore items" when you drag and drop the zip. file into the saves folder. Hope that helps anyone struggling like I was!

[ion]

DUDE THIS JUST SAVED MY MODDED SURVIVAL WORLD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MAN

[skylarfoxy]

Thank you so much!! I managed to save my world because of this video!! I had been working on the world for around 2-3 years and my laptop died without warning just as I joined the world. It became corrupted but luckily 4 days ago I was editing the title of the world and saw you could back it up. That was the first time I had ever backed up any of my Java world and I'm so thankful I did that. Thank you so much again!

[savageshadowwolf]

2nd video of yours I came across in 24hrs now I have to let you know your vids are great. Simple, to the point and very clear. Thanks!

[williammorales]

Cant tell you how many times you have saved or helped make my worlds better, Best MC channel on YT!

[kustigamer]

Thank you so much. My worlds have been corrupted like 5 billion times. Simple and quick.

[vinaytejateja]

THANK YOU SOM MUCH. I had spent months on a world creating a city and because of silly mistake I lost it and I remembered that I created a backup before upgrading versions and I did not know how to get the backup and YOU SAVED ME. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[_rainymondays_-feiz]

Ik am so late BUT THIS HELP ME SO MUCH i wanted to get my very old world back and this help so much thank youuu!

[mykaelnyx]

Dude, you said this was simple and easy to do? But man that's crazy amount of things to remember to have to do. I still subscribed anyway because if I have to find this video again it's easier to do

[SoloAndy]

Cheers, really helpful. Transferred my MC world to my new PC.

[Goldnhard]

tks dude, just wanted to say your videos are so helpful. ive been playing mc for 4 years without mods. i now have planes and guns tks again

[AtragonZero]

you just saved a world i've been working ages on. THANK YOU!

[lunrfx]

Thank you so much! This saved my months of remaking my world! Amazing video!

[DrSpace-bzmk]

Thank you so much! This is a great tutorial!!!!

[Official_DogeDaYeeter]

thank you so much bro this really helped me im subscribing right now

[junief]

You are a lifesaver! I don't know how many times I've needed to figure out something and seen your face and known it would all be okay

[Kamarakills]

Thank you so much🙏 I thought my 1.5 years of hard work was all gone but this was the only that worked out of like 5 other videos, much appreciation bro

[tyedits]

this is great, simple and to the point

[foolishy]

didnt know u gotta open up the file first haha, thnx for the help!