It was a pretty long time ago I played Minecraft and I never played a lot, but checking it out now I notice there's a lot of stuff missing in my old world that's in newly generated world, such as biodomes, and I really do not want to start from scratch.
So, what's the best/easiest/quickest way to copy your stuff from an old world to a new?
Posted Jun 17, 2011, 12:41 PM UTC
I like to put all my stuff in chests in the nether. Then while my character is in the nether, I close the game and delete the normal world files. Then the entire normal world is regenerated with whatever new trees/biomes/items etc...
It is absolutely brilliant that this works. I'm going to try this immediately.
That's interesting... does this use a new seed to generate the world?
I tried this method once and it seems to use the original seed - so you'll end up getting the same world, but it will be completely pristine.
This is correct.
That's a really interesting idea. It almost feels like there could be lore to go along with it to explain what happened. Like you entered the Nether but when you exited you came back to an alternate dimension. SO COOL!
MCEdit is what I use for this. Save the bits of your world and creations as .schematic files, then import them into your new world.
There might be easier methods. MCEdit can take some getting used to, but is an awesome program. I now have a library of all the cool bits I've made.