How to export & import parts of your Minecraft world (regions)

Did you build a pretty castle that you want to move to another world of yours? Or perhaps a mountain range that you like? With this tutorial you will learn in just a few minutes how to import and export parts of your Minecraft world which includes regions and chunks. You don't need mods or 3rd party tools to move parts of your world into another world, you can also create "islands" in a void world made out of regions of your old world.

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[lostinminecraft_]

Thousand thanks! This video was still super helpful. I've been trying to compress a map to be more - uh, 'downloadable'. So this way I could get rid of chunks that I haven't built yet and only kept the regions with buildings. 👍

[zkwizizuka]

i was making a map on a void world and i forgot i had a command block that if placed would teleport into the same spot over and over again in a very fast manner. Finaly when i broke the block ( with setting the RandomTickSpeed to maximum ) my world got super laggy because of the methods i used. with your video i was able to copy my hard work and continue maping my map in peace. Never making the same mistake again. Thank you for this great video.

[Drvitch]

Thank you so much! Had a region get completely reset for some reason and split one of my structures in half. Restored a backup, found the appropriate region file and boom! Everything is restored and in order <3

[ding]

Me and my buddy are working on a drained monument mega base and this is exactly what i need to test ideas. I've been looking for this exact explanation for a while now cheers !

[shocker]

You sr have no idea how much you helped me with this. Recently me and my friends were striked by hackers on our server. We had a back up file, but it was 3 weeks old, many things were outdated. Now we can be happy again. Thank you so much!

[Elliandr]

This is much easier than trying to make old tools work with new world formats! Thanks!

[BartTheBardOfficial]

This is an amazing tutorial, thank you!
EDIT: I just discovered that it says the actual mca code in brackets behind the Chunk: value now

[_thora_]

thank you for this! this helped eliminating corrupted region files from our SMP server!

[Code.J]

mannn.. your voice brings back memories! glad to see you creating again!

[offroaders]

Wow, this is super cool, thanks for explaining it!

[cymondbaltazar]

your one command generator helped me so much im so happy at the resuts

[Elfking]

Only video iv found with this fellow knowledge, thanks, now how do we get chest data, armor stands, and generated structure spawning data??

[Bluey]

good to know that where it ends up is dependent on the filename

[negai_]

it can be used for backing up specific places in a Minecraft world so if they get destroyed just replacing the region with the old region file? Or for this specific task you need to do a different thing?

[Pigiii]

Do you know how to do it with older versions?
For Example: Export a Region from my Beta 1.6 World to my Release 1.19.2 World.

The problem I found is that the region file from the Beta 1.6 end in .mcr and in the newest versions the file ends in .mca

I tried changing the .mcr to .mca but that doesn't fix it. I just get an empty region.

I hope somebody knows how to export region from older worlds to newer worlds :)

[ML-oksj]

For some reason, i copied all the region files in a new world, and well, there was the entire map i built in a previous version, but for some reason, every invisible item frame has disappeared (i wanted to update the world from 1.19.3 to 1.19.4, but by creating a new world and copying all of my creations here because the original 1.19.3 world is corrupted with "datapack errors"), do you know why (invisible item frames and also armor stands disappeared, but the rest was fine).

[wndwsuserunknow]

Hi, is possible to do this process with the dimensions of some mods, like the aether or the twilight forest?

[BlackHeartScyther]

Regions with no blocks are still 1, 800 kb? Interesting

[Holyorder]

hmmm, server crashed upon entering same location - 1.7.10

[lukeanderson]

Will this work with like custom builds too? For example, if I built a skyscraper on randomly generated terrain, would it also copy the skyscraper over??