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The world options are options to manage a world's files.
A player can click on a world to select it, and thereby access the options of it. Then, some options appear at the bottom of the screen.
There are a total of 9 operations that can be performed from the world options, some of which are contained within the "Edit World" screen.
| Location | Button | Description |
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| Main Screen | Play Selected World | Loads the selected world. A world can also be loaded by clicking on |
| Delete | Permanently deletes the world after confirmation. | |
| Re-Create | Make a restarted copy of the world. It has the same seed and settings, but without saving any changes made to the terrain. | |
| Edit | Open a screen with more options: | |
| Edit World Screen | Editing world name | The world name is visible on the top of the screen. A new display name for the world can be inputted.
Note that the name of the world folder does not change. |
| Reset Icon | Deletes the world's icon.png file, which allows a new icon to be taken. A new screenshot is taken to become the world's icon the next time Save and Quit to Title is clicked.[verify]
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| Open World Folder | Opens .minecraft/saves/<SELECTED WORLD>/. This allows quickly accessing folders like datapacks along with all the data for the world.
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| Make Backup | Makes a new .zip archive in .minecraft/backups/ with the data of the selected world stored. The file name of a backup follows this format: YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss_<World Folder Name>.zip.
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| Open Backups Folder | Opens .minecraft/backups/.
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| Optimize World | Opens a screen to upgrade the level data of the world to the latest format. Once a world is optimized, it is no longer compatible with previous level formats. There are four options:
After clicking either of the buttons, the optimization process begins. Chunks generated in 1.19 or later are skipped, as they use the current format. The rest of the chunks are reformatted. |
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| 1.9 | 15w32b | Added Edit Button. | |||||
| July 16, 2018 | ๐ Image Dinnerbone mentions possible addition of optimize world screen and shows early version of it. | ||||||
| 1.13 | pre10 | ๐ Image Added optimize world screen. | |||||
| release | ๐ Image Added information about upgraded, skipped and total number of chunks. | ||||||
| 1.20 | Pre-release 1 | ๐ Image Changed background texture. | |||||
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| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU0 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added the World Options menu. |
| TU5 | Added bonus chest option to the World Options menu. | ||||||
Issues relating to "World Options" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
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