How to Reset Your Minecraft Server

How to Reset Your Minecraft Server

Want a completely fresh world, for a new season or after things went wrong? Resetting means removing the current world so Minecraft generates a new one the next time the server starts.

What a reset removes

Minecraft stores player data inside the world folder: inventories, ender chests, advancements and statistics. When the world goes, so does all of that, and every player starts from scratch.

A reset does not touch your plugins, mods, server.properties, whitelist or operator list. Plugin data, such as land claims or economy balances, lives in the plugins folder and stays too, unless you reset it in the plugin.

Take a backup first. In the Backups tab, click Create backup. Deletion is permanent, and a backup is the only way back.

Option 1: the Worlds tab (easiest)

1. Open your server in the game panel and go to the Worlds tab
2. Click New world
3. Enter the same world name as your current world (usually world). Add a seed under Seed (optional) if you want a specific world, or leave it empty for a random one
4. Click Create world. Because the name already exists, the panel asks what to do with the old world:
   • Delete the old one removes it for good
   • Keep the old one (rename to a backup) keeps it on the server under a new name, so you can switch back later
5. Restart the server (the panel shows a Restart now button). The new world is generated during startup

The panel handles the Nether and End folders of that world for you.

Option 2: delete the files yourself

1. Stop the server
2. In the Files tab (or over SFTP), delete the world folders:
   • world
   • on Paper and Spigot also world_nether and world_the_end
   • if your level-name in server.properties is something other than world, delete the folders with that name instead
3. Start the server. Minecraft sees that the world is missing and generates a new one during startup

Tip: Want a specific world? Set level-seed= in server.properties before you start the server.

Good to know

• Worlds made by plugins such as Multiverse have their own folders. Remove or regenerate those with the plugin's own commands
• Datapacks are stored inside the world folder (world/datapacks), so add them again after the reset
• Generating a new world takes a little longer than a normal start, so give the first startup a minute

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