Create New World

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World name / Project name

Regular: My World
Editor: My Project

The name of the world, shown in all world lists, in the in-game player list, and for multiplayer connections. Allows a string from 1–30 characters.

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Game mode

Survival

Changes the default game mode, which is the game mode all players get when joining the world. Adventure mode is only available for world templates with predefined settings. Selecting Creative mode disables achievements.

• Survival

Explore a mysterious world where you build, collect, craft, and fight monsters.

• Creative

Create, build, and explore without limits. You can fly, have endless materials, and can't be hurt by monsters.

• Adventure

The template creator has defined how you can interact with the game

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Difficulty

Normal

Changes the game's difficulty setting, which has a significant effect on Survival gameplay.

• Peaceful

No hostile mobs and only some neutral mobs spawn. Hunger bar doesn't deplete and health replenishes over time.

• Easy

Hostile mobs spawn but deal less damage. Hunger bar depletes and drains health down to 5 hearts.

• Normal

Hostile mobs spawn and deal standard damage. Hunger bar depletes and drains health down to half a heart.

• Hard

Hostile mobs spawn and deal more damage. Hunger bar depletes and can drain all health.

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Hardcore

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You can't respawn if you die. Good luck! You'll need it.

Enables Hardcore, permanently locking the default game mode to Survival and the difficulty to Hard, while also disabling cheats and some other options. Not available in the Editor, but can be enabled upon exporting.

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World type

Infinite world

Changes the world type to generate. Only available in the Editor, regular worlds have the "Flat world" toggle below.

• Infinite world

Standard Minecraft world creation based on a world seed

• Flat world

A completely flat world stretching into the distance

• Void world

A world of absolute emptiness, ready to be filled.

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World seed

Guides the algorithm that magically creates your world

This is the world seed, a random number by default. This can be changed to any string of characters; leaving empty selects a random seed. On the right, there is a button which opens the seed templates menu.

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Instead of entering a random seed, the player can choose to pick a predefined seed from 26 available templates. Each template has a name and a thumbnail and the corresponding seed has some interesting terrain or structures near the world spawn.

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Flat world

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A flat world to build up or mine down into

Replaces the Overworld with a flat world. Enabling this disables achievements. Not available in the Editor as "World type" replaces this option.

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Flat world preset

Classic Flat

The layers of blocks that make up your flat world

Only available when "Flat world" is enabled, allows to select a flat world preset from 8 different options. Below the selected flat world preset, a list of blocks that make up the flat world is shown with the amount of layers for each block.

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Starting map

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Spawn with a blank map to explore your world

When a player spawns in the world for the first time, an empty locator map appears in their hotbar. Not available in Hardcore, and cannot be changed after world creation.

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Bonus chest

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Spawn close to a chest with items to get you started

A bonus chest full of beginner generates near the world spawn when the world is first created. Not available in Hardcore, and cannot be changed after world creation.

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Show coordinates

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Display your current position

Shows the player's current coordinates on the HUD without decimals, applied for all players in the world.

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Show days played

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Display the number of in-game days played

Shows the number of in-game days played on the HUD, applied for all players in the world.

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Recipe unlocking

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Collect materials to unlock recipes in your recipe book

When enabled, crafting recipes need to be unlocked through gameplay before they appear in the recipe book. Locked recipes still function when items are put in the crafting grid without using the recipe book.

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Fire spreads

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Fire can spread between entities

Controls whether fire can spread from block to block, between entities, and distinguish naturally.

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TNT explodes

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Red box goes boom

Controls whether TNT and minecarts with TNT can explode.

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Mob loot

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Mobs drop items when killed

Controls whether mobs can drop items when killed.

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Natural regeneration

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Gain or lose health based on your hunger

Controls whether hunger can affect the player's health; a high hunger bar regenerating health or an empty hunger bar lowering the health.

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Tile drops

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Blocks drop when they're broken

Controls whether blocks can drop items when they are broken.

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Skip night by sleeping

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Sleeping in a bed will skip to morning

Controls whether sleeping in a bed at night or during thunderstorms skips to morning and clear weather.

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Required Sleeping Players

All (100%)

How many players must be in bed to skip the night?

Changes how many players are required to sleep before the night will be skipped, if "Skip night by sleeping" is enabled. Can be set between 0%, where the night will always be skipped if anyone sleeps in a bed, and 100% where all players need to be in bed before the night is skipped.

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Immediate respawn

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Skip "You died!" menu and immediately respawn

Controls whether to skip the death screen and immediately respawn after the player has died. In Hardcore mode, the "Game over!" screen will be skipped and the player will instantly enter Spectator mode upon death.

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Respawn blocks explode

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Respawn anchors and beds can explode

Controls whether beds and respawn anchors explode when used in the wrong dimension.

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Respawn radius

10

Respawn within this block radius when you die and no custom spawnpoint is set (max 128)

An integer input controlling the spread distance around the world spawn where players randomly spawn if they don't have a custom respawn point. Can be set between 0 and 128.

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Simulation distance

4 chunks

The game loads and applies changes within a range of 64x64 blocks from the player

Allows the simulation distance to be changed, which determines the range of mob spawning/despawning, game ticks, and chunk updates. Can be set to 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 chunks. Some devices may limit the simulation distance option to 8 or 10 chunks.

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Multiplayer game

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Other players can join your world

Controls whether multiplayer is enabled in this world, which allows players to join depending on the following settings. If enabled, the game is still considered singleplayer until other players join.

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The following settings are grayed out unless multiplayer is enabled.

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Player access / PlayStation™ Network friends

Friends

Determines who can join this world trough Minecraft's social network. Players can always join when they received an invite from the pause menu, and if enabled, the world shows as multiplayer world in the world list of friends, or the game can be joined from the profile.

• Invite players

Anyone you send a direct invite can join

• Friends

Anyone you've added as a Minecraft friend can join

• Friends of friends

Friends of your Minecraft friends can join

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Default player permissions

Member

The assigned player permissions to new players joining the game. These can always be customized per player from the pause menu.

• Visitor

Visitors can only observe your world, not interact with it

• Member

Members can build and mine, attack players and mobs, and interact with items and entities

• Operator

Operators can teleport and use commands, in addition to anything Members can do

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Visible to LAN players

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Players on your local network can join your world

Controls whether the world is visible to any player on the same LAN network as a multiplayer game, regardless of the player access setting.

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Friendly fire

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Players can damage each other

Controls whether players can directly damage each other, using melee attacks or projectiles.

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Player waypoints

Everyone

Select which players are shown as waypoints on the locator bar

Controls whether the locator bar is visible if multiple players are in the world.

• Off

No player waypoints are added to the locator bar

• Everyone

Adds all other players as waypoints to the locator bar

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Cheats

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Customize the game with cheat settings

Controls whether most commands are available for operators, unlocks the following cheat settings. Enabling this disables achievements, not available on Hardcore.

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The following settings are grayed out unless cheats are enabled.

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Daylight cycle

Normal

Controls functionality of the daylight cycle.

• Normal

In-game time passes normally, from day to night

• Always day

In-game time is locked to noon

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Keep inventory

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Keep all items in the inventory when you die

Controls whether players keep their inventory contents after dying.

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Mob spawning

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Mobs spawn naturally

Controls whether mobs can spawn naturally.

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Mob griefing

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Mobs can move and destroy blocks in your world

Controls whether certain mobs can move and destroy blocks, such as endermen and creepers.

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Entities drop loot

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Non-mob entities, like paintings, drop items when destroyed

Controls whether non-mob entities can drop items when destroyed.

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Weather cycle

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The possibility to get rain, snow and thunderstorms

Controls whether the weather can change between rain, snow, and thunderstorms over time, or is locked to the current weather.

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Command blocks

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Use commands to program these blocks

Controls whether command blocks can execute commands and can be customized by operators.

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Minecraft Education features

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Enables educational items like the chemistry kit

Controls whether to enable certain features from Minecraft Education.

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Random tick speed

1

Affects the behavior of certain blocks, like the speed of vegetation growth and decay (max 4096)

An integer input that controls the rate at which random events occur in the world caused by random ticks. Can be set between 0 and 4096, contains a quick reset button next to the box.

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Shared packs

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Players are asked to download all local packs in order to join the game.

Controls whether resource packs on the world are optional or forced. When turned off, players can refuse to download and enable local resource packs, and select their own packs in the Global Resources settings. When turned on, players will download all enabled resource packs and global resource packs are disabled.

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Local

Lists all active local resource packs. When multiple resource packs are enabled that can conflict with each other, the highest resource pack in the list will overwrite donflicting features from other packs. Each pack can be dragged to any location in the list. A pack can be removed with the "Remove" button next to each pack, and the description can be shown by selecting the pack. For Marketplace packs, there is a button to open the purchase page in the Marketplace. For all packs, there is a button to open a menu with the technical details of the pack, such as the UUID, storage location, and error logs. Certain packs have a settings menu which allows to customize features from the pack and view custom information.

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Global

Lists all active global resource packs. The same details and links can be opened for global packs as for local packs, but they can only be enabled or disabled in the "Global Resources" tab in the main settings menu.

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Owned

A dropdown widget that lists available resource packs obtained from the Marketplace, imported custom packs, or stored manually in 👁 File directory.png: Sprite image for directory in Minecraft
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 resource_packs. Each pack can be activated by pressing the button on the right of the pack, and more information can be shown by selecting the pack. Marketplace packs also show a button to open the purchase screen in the Marketplace. Some packs may require downloading before they can be activated. Enabling a resource pack that is part of an add-on also enables the connected behavior pack if available.

Marketplace packs are not available in the Editor.

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Marketplace Pass

A dropdown widget that lists available resource packs from Marketplace Pass. They can be opened the same way as packs in the "Owned" list. If the player is not subscribed to the Marketplace Pass, a button that opens the Marketplace Pass purchase screen shows instead.

Not available in the Editor.

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Get more packs

Hundreds of packs available in the Marketplace

Redirects to a Marketplace page featuring new resource packs, not available in the Editor.

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A submenu that lists active behavior packs, sets of customized features that affect gameplay. Behavior packs can be opened similarly to resource packs, but are always connected to the world data. Removing behavior packs might cause unexpected behavior.

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A submenu that lists available behavior packs, which can be imported custom packs, or stored manually in 👁 File directory.png: Sprite image for directory in Minecraft
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 behavior_packs, but not Marketplace add-ons as these are activated in the "Resource packs" tab above. Enabling a behavior pack that is part of an add-on also enables the connected resource pack if available.

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Experiments are potential new features. Be careful as things might break.

This tab allows the player to enable several experimental features. After saving the world with experiments enabled, the experiments can't be toggled off again. See Experiments § Bedrock Edition for details about each experiment.

Change the way your world works

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Villager Trade Rebalancing

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Contains updated trades for villagers for the purpose of rebalancing

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Drop 3 of 2026​^{[upcoming: BE 26.40]}

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Explore a new surface biome and find the wandering trader's hidden stashes spread throughout the world

For creators of game packs and other add-ons

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Upcoming Creator Features

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Includes actor properties and adjustable fog parameters

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Beta APIs

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Use "-beta" versions of API modules in add-on packs

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Experimental Creator Camera Features

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Enables the use of the latest custom camera features

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Render Dragon Features for Creators^{[note 1]}

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Enable the deferred rendering pipeline. Requires a PBR-enabled resource pack and compatible hardware.

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Experimental Voxel Shape Features

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Enables the use of voxel shapes for some vanilla and custom blocks.

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