Steps for copying Minecraft saves to a PC
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First, open, play and then quit Minecraft at least once; to make a .minecraft
appdata folder)
Win+R
, then type explorer
)%appdata%
directory. There should be a folder called .minecraft
listed.minecraft
folder. There should be a saves
folder in it.Ctrl+N
might work, or type Win+R
and explorer
again)saves
folder on the first window. e.g. if your World is called Frobnitz
then copy that folder.Now you can start Minecraft. If you go to Single Player then the "Frobnitz" world should be available to play
saves
in the .minecraft
folder?!Someone's hand-crafted the Minecraft profile to put them elsewhere. Perhaps a drive other than C:
to avoid filling it with everyone's Minecraft worlds!
You'll need to open up the launcher_profiles.json
file (with WordPad) and look for the gameDir
:
"gameDir": "F:\\minecraft\\saves",
Whatever value that is (F:\minecraft\saves
in this example -- the double \\
is because the \
has special meaning in Minecraft's programming language, so it has to be "escaped") is where you need to copy your World folder to.
Any changes you make in the game will not go back onto the USB. You'll have to copy back after, if you want to keep them:
%appdata%\.minecraft\saves
directory (or wherever the gameDir is on the PC) in one explorer
window (open a new one if you didn't keep the one above open)explorer
window (ditto about the one from before...)