Move your world to KrillCloud

You can bring a world from single-player or another host. It takes about ten minutes plus upload time. For the short version, see upload a world. This guide adds the single-player and Nether and End details.

Back up first. Keep a safe copy of the original world somewhere else. If your KrillCloud server already has a world you care about, make a backup first. Uploading over a world replaces it.

Know your version

A world can be opened by a newer Minecraft version, never an older one. Once opened in a newer version there is no going back. Find out which version the world was last played on.

Step 1: get your world folder

From single-player: press Windows key + R, type %appdata%\.minecraft\saves and press Enter. Open the folder with your world's name. It should contain level.dat.

From another host: stop the server there. Open its file manager or connect over SFTP, and download the world folder. Also download world_nether and world_the_end if they exist.

Step 2: zip it

Zip the world folder itself, so the zip holds one folder with level.dat inside it.

Step 3: stop your server

On the Console page press Stop and wait until it is offline.

Step 4: upload

• Smaller worlds: open the Files page, press Upload, then use the menu beside the zip and choose Unarchive.
• Big worlds (several hundred MB or more): use SFTP with FileZilla or WinSCP. The address, port and username are on the Settings page, and the password is your panel password.

Step 5: Nether and End

A single-player world keeps the Nether and End inside the world folder, as DIM-1 and DIM1. Paper keeps them as separate folders:

• world for the Overworld
• world_nether for the Nether
• world_the_end for the End

For a single-player world, create world_nether and world_the_end on the server. Move DIM-1 into world_nether and DIM1 into world_the_end.

A world from another Paper or Spigot host already has the three folders. Upload all three.

Step 6: name it correctly

The server loads the world named by level-name in server.properties. The default is world. Either:

• Rename your folder to world (delete or rename the old world first), or
• Open server.properties on the Files page and set level-name to match your folder exactly. Capitals and spaces matter. Rename the Nether and End folders to match, for example MyWorld_nether and MyWorld_the_end.

Step 7: match the version

Open the Jar Picker page and choose a Minecraft version the same as or newer than the one your world was last played on. Back up first, and see change the Minecraft version.

Step 8: start and check

1. Press Start and watch the console for errors.
2. Join and check your builds, items and spawn point.
3. Visit the Nether and End.

If you land in a brand new world, level-name does not match your folder. Stop the server and fix it. If the console says the world is from a newer version, pick a newer version in the Jar Picker.

Still stuck? Open a ticket from the panel and tell us the version and what the console says. See support tickets.