# How to upload your own world to your Minecraft server

> Put an existing world on the server through the file manager or SFTP, and what the folder must be called.

Source: https://fadehost.com/docs/upload-a-world/

An existing world, yours or a downloaded map, replaces the server's `world` folder. The server does not care where it came from as long as the folder name matches.

## Through the file manager

1. Zip the world folder on your PC. The zip should contain `level.dat` at its top level or inside one folder.
2. Stop the server.
3. **Files**: delete or rename the current `world` folder, then **Upload files** with the zip.
4. **Unzip** it. If the world came out under another name (a map called `Skyblock-v3`, say), **Rename** the folder to `world`.
5. Paper, Purpur and Spigot keep the nether and end in `world_nether` and `world_the_end`; delete the old ones so they regenerate for the new world.
6. Start.

## Big worlds: SFTP

Worlds over a few hundred megabytes go faster over SFTP. The host, port and login are under **Settings**, **General**, **SFTP Access**; any SFTP client works. Upload into the server folder, then rename as above.

## Downloaded maps

**Resources**, **Worlds** lists maps from the platforms and installs one in a click, into the right folder name.

## From another host

If the world is on a server elsewhere, do not download and upload it: **More for this server**, **Import from another host** pulls the world, plugins and mods straight over SFTP or FTP. See [Move from another host](/docs/move-from-another-host/).

## Good to know

- Match the Minecraft version. A world last played on 1.21 opens on 1.21 or newer, not on 1.20.
- A world from a modded server needs the same mods installed or its modded blocks turn to air.
- Bedrock worlds go into the `worlds` folder and are not compatible with Java servers.