How to Download a Minecraft Map on Mac 1.12.2 Updated

Benson Heas1953 – April 20, 2022

How to Download a Minecraft Map on Mac 1.12.2

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Minecraft Interactive Experience

Minecraft Worlds generated by other players can be downloaded by the thespian and opened in their copy of the game. This guide will testify how to play the worlds in either Coffee or Bedrock.

1 Download a world
ii Instructions
3 Alternate Instructions
four Tips

Download a world [ ]

Disclaimer

Be wary on what you download! Await for reputable sites such every bit the ones listed below and as ever, Practice Not DOWNLOAD from sketchy sites! Also, yous should always scan a map download using your antivirus.

This commodity is a work in progress.

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Note: TODO: Add together more sites

Before anything else, download your chosen world with a web browser.
Some reputable sites to download Minecraft worlds are:

Official Minecraft Website (on some occasions)
Minecraft Maps
Planet Minecraft
CurseForge Minecraft Worlds
Minecraft Forums

Instructions [ ]

Instructions on how to open the file into minecraft.

Prerequisites [ ]

A file archiving program, like 7zip.
- This is optional if you just change the extension to .mcworld in Bedrock
A copy of the version you desire to put the world in

Bedrock Specific Instructions (Android/Fire OS/iOS/Windows 10) (Recommended) [ ]

After yous download a bedrock map, you should already have a file proper name with .mcworld in it, similar FILE_NAME_HERE.mcworld . It should also accept a Minecraft icon in information technology. Just double click it and it will automatically open up in Minecraft. You can easily rename bedrock .cipher files to a .mcworld simply by changing the extension. MCWORLD is just a special file extension optimized for Minecraft Bedrock.

Then, instructions are:

Change the extension to .mcworld if it isn't already.
Double click the file.

If it didn't automatically open, select Minecraft if asked. If it however doesn't piece of work, follow the guide beneath.

Java & Boulder Instructions [ ]

These instructions are compatible with both Java and Bedrock and will guide you to a step past step process of installing a world to Minecraft.

NOTE that you cannot open Boulder worlds in Coffee and vice versa; you will need a converter to do that.

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This is necessary if you have a compressed file.

Extract the compressed file.
If you lot meet a file named level.dat, then yous're good to go! Extract the aught/rar to a folder (Globe)
1. If you can only see a folder, open it. It might accept the files. Extract that folder and rename it to a expert proper name, like (WORLD

Importing into Minecraft [ ]

Once you extracted it to a folder, follow these steps:

Open the default directory for Minecraft folder.
1. On Coffee Edition, the name of the folder is .minecraft. Below is a tabular array showing the default directory for .minecraft.

Os	Location
Windows	`%APPDATA%\.minecraft`
macOS	`~/Library/Application Support/minecraft`
Linux	`~/.minecraft`

1. On Bedrock Edition, the name of the binder is games/com.mojang. Below is a tabular array list these:

Platform	Location
Windows (including mobile)	`%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang`
Android and Fire OS	For SD Card users:`/SD_CARD_NAME_HERE/games/com.mojang` For Internal Storage:`/storage/emulated/0/games/com.mojang`
iOS	`Minecraft/games/com.mojang`

Open the saves‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} or minecraftWorlds‌^{[ Bedrock Edition only ]} folder. Y'all will discover all your worlds are here.
Paste that binder into the mentioned binder.
Open the new binder and check to make sure it has everything in it, all right nether Globe.
Once they're all there, launch the game, and continue beneath.

Find the folder in Minecraft [ ]

Here's the hardest part: finding your new save in all your other saves.

One time Minecraft opens, click "Singleplayer" or "Play"
The name of the folder yous copied will be the grayed out proper name under the world name (On Java).
The new save is unremarkably all the way at the bottom, but that's not always the case. You might need to do some hunting.
Once y'all establish it, load it up and have fun! You may accept to back up the world if it was saved in a dissimilar version of Minecraft.

Alternate Instructions [ ]

If you found the above instructions confusing, here is a simpler explanation:

Download the world file (usually in .nix or .rar) format
1. If information technology is bedrock map, rename to .mcworld, then open up in Minecraft
  1. If this doesn't work, go on below
Extract to a new folder (WORLD)
Detect the .minecraft or com.mojang folder
Expect for the saves or minecraftWorlds folder
Copy-paste the (WORLD) to that folder
Open upwards Minecraft and find it in your selection of saved worlds

Tips [ ]

On Windows, you tin can press Win+R to open the run dialog, then paste the Minecraft folder location in in that location.
Y'all can besides drag and drop folders to the saves folder, which might save y'all time from copy-pasting.
On Bedrock, you lot might run across jumbled letters in the folder names similar fgEHfhgyEbdh. This is normal, and you lot can always rename them for easy identification.
To access map datapacks or resource packs, y'all tin admission them by copying the contents inside the map to the main folders.