Sky Factory starts the player in the void with nothing but a tree and a *single* piece of dirt between you and certain death! Version 3 adds a variety of new mods to the pack and gives the player much more choice than ever before.
Why Would I Want to Do This? Minecraft Realms is the official server platform from Mojang, the company behind Minecraft. It’s a great user-friendly way to host a remote server for you and your friends (or your child and their friends) to play Minecraft together. RELATED: In, we highlighted how to create a new world or populate your Minecraft server with the Mojang-supplied maps, but now we’re back to show you how you can upload your own worlds.
Not only does this allow you to upload a world that you’ve been working on (either with friends or solo), but you can also download maps from the Internet that other industrious builders have filled with their cool creations for you to explore. Let’s take a look at what you need to do before uploading your maps and where you can find additional maps online to upload to your Minecraft Realms server. First, Update Your Maps (If Necessary) Minecraft Realms uses the most up-to-date public release of Minecraft. As of this tutorial that’s version 1.8.9, but Realms will roll over to 1.9 as soon it is released. RELATED: Ideally, you’ll use a map that’s from a current version of Minecraft. If you have a map from an old version you want to use (e.g. You’ve been playing on an old 1.6.4 map for years but now you want to upload it to Realms) you can certainly do so, but be aware that you might run into some issues.
The most obvious issue revolves around really ugly chunk updating where the edges of the currently explored map (generated with the old world engine) bump into the new areas (which will be generated with the new world engine). If you’re in such a situation where you’d uploading a very old map, we’d highly recommend checking out our guide. For many players, though, old maps aren’t a huge concern, and simply uploading their existing world map will be just fine. Still, it’s good to know about the nuances of the process so you’re not surprised later when your map looks stranger than you recall. With that minor caution out of the way, let’s look at where you’ll find your local maps and where to find cool maps online before showing you how to upload them right to your Realms server. Locate Your Local Save Directory The first step in uploading any map, be it your local player map or a custom downloaded map, is simply locating the world save directory on your PC. We’ve detailed locating and backing up your Minecraft file in but we’ll recap here for ease of reading (and to get you up and running faster).
Although your world saves might be in a different location if you’re using, here are the default save locations on major operating systems: Windows%appdata%.minecraft saves Mac OS X /Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves/ Linux /home/username/.minecraft/saves/ Within the saves folder, you will find a unique folder for each world save named after the world itself (e.g. Saves My First World ). Think of the folder like a container that holds all the important data about your world, including the world map and the accompanying metadata. Now would be a great time to make a backup copy, in a safe location, of your world data.
Uploading the world won’t make any changes to it, and once it is on the Realms server no changes will be made to your local data. But nonetheless it’s always good to get in the habit of making backups of any digital projects, like big Minecraft maps, you’ve invested a lot of time in. Even if you don’t plan on uploading a map you’ve personally created and you want to jump right into downloading custom content, make note of this directory, as it is important to the whole uploading process. How to Find and Download Cool Maps Online While uploading your own creations liberates the builds you’ve worked on so hard on, equally fun is finding cool custom maps online and uploading them to explore with your friends. If you’re just uploading your own world, you can skip this section, since the uploading process is the same for both. But if you want to find new content to play with, we’ll talk about that here.
If you want a good overview of different map types, like adventure and parkour maps, check out Lesson 13 from our detailed Minecraft Geek School series:. Our two favorite locations, both on account of their wide selection and their longevity, are. Between the two websites, you’ll find thousands of maps you can take for a spin. At Planet Minecraft you’ll find world saves to download in the Projects category; make sure to use the drop down menu and to weed out the myriad of other projects (like videos and world seeds). You can further narrow your search by filtering via project type to narrow it down to just adventure/challenge maps, certain structure types, and so on.
MinecraftMaps is a little bit easier to navigate if for no other reason than, as the name implies, there’s nothing there but Minecraft maps to download. With both sites, the only thing to really look out for is the version number of the map.
If you sort by downloads/popularity, for example, you’ll often find very old Minecraft maps from 3-4 years ago that have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times but may or may not have been updated for newer versions of the game. Today, we’re downloading an adventure map so we can do a little adventuring with friends. So we’ve selected the and will be using it for the next step in the tutorial, uploading the map to Minecraft Realms. Regardless if which world save or map you’ve downloaded, you need to extract the.ZIP file you downloaded into the Minecraft /saves/ directory on your PC (which we located in the previous section of the tutorial). Take a moment to do so now.
How to Upload Your Map to Minecraft Realms Whether you’ve grabbed your own personal map, or combed through lists of maps online to find the perfect one, it’s time to upload it to your Realms server. Note: If you haven’t fully set up your Minecraft Realms server and/or need some help with the basic navigation, do check out before proceeding. Launch Minecraft and select the “Minecraft Realms” button to access your Realms. Select the configuration icon, the large wrench, of the Minecraft Realms server you wish to upload your map to (for most folks it’ll be the only option available).
Once inside the configuration menu of your Realms server you need to either select an available empty slot, as seen above, or unload/delete one of your worlds to make room for your new map. After selecting your empty map slot you’ll be prompted to select what you wish to do with it; select “Upload world”. In the selection screen you’ll see worlds listed just like you do in your single player menu. You’ll notice that entry we’ve highlighted above has two names: “world” and “Le Gran Maze 1.8”.
Minecraft world saves have two names: the name embedded in the save file and the name of the folder they are in. When you download maps from the Internet, they often have generic names like “world” but you can always customize the name of the folder, as we did, for easy identification.
Select the world you wish to upload and then click “Upload”. After the upload reaches 100 percent and your world file is verified, select “Done”. You’ll return to the main Realms configuration screen, seen above, and you’ll be prompted to select which world you wish to load. The previously empty World 3 slot now has our new world uploaded into it. Don’t be alarmed if you’ve downloaded a spaceship map or some such thing and you see a generic looking landscape (as seen in the screenshot above). The thumbnail for uploaded worlds is created using the world seed and disregards whatever structures have been built in the world or changes the map creator has made. Double click on the map to load it and you’re in business.
Enjoy your new map and be sure to tell your friends there’s something new to check out on your Realms server. Have a pressing question about Minecraft or your Realms server? Shoot us an email at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to answer it.
If you want to know how to download & install Sky Factory 2, this is the article for you! We are going to walk you through getting Sky Factory 2 up and running perfectly, so you can start playing and having fun. Sky Factory 2 is a really cool modpack for Minecraft. It forces you to start out on a block in the sky with just one tree on it. You then have to chop down the tree and use the resources it provides to build out your entire world. It’s a great concept and incredibly fun.
Nevertheless, let’s go ahead and get it downloaded and installed! How To Download & Install Sky Factory 2 Step 1) Download The ATLauncher The first step in installing Sky Factory 2 is downloading the ATLauncher. You can do this by simply clicking the link below. It will then take you to the ‘Downloads’ page for the ATLauncher. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page.
You will see a blue download button like the one in the image above that says ‘Windows (.exe)’. Click this download button. The ATLauncher will then begin downloading!
Note: This tutorial is for Windows computers. If you are on Mac or Linux computer, you will use the ‘.jar’ download, but I currently do not have any computers with those operating systems. Thus, I cannot provide you with any support on those platforms. Step 2) Create A Folder For The ATLauncher Once you’ve downloaded the ATLauncher, you need to create a folder for it. This is pretty easy. Just right click on your desktop, select ‘New’, and then, click ‘Folder’.
You can name this folder whatever you like. I would recommend something like ‘ATLauncher’ or ‘Sky Factory 2’, so it is easier for you to remember it later. Now that you’ve got the folder created, just drag and drop the ‘ATLauncher.exe’ file you downloaded in step one into it. Step 3) Launch & Setup The ATLauncher This is where you actually install the ATLauncher. Luckily, doing this is actually pretty easy. Just double-click on the ‘ATLauncher.exe’ file, and boom!
A lot of stuff will start happening. After about a minute, a little window will pop-up that says ‘ATLauncher Setup’ in the menu bar. Just click the ‘Save’ button in the bottom center of the pop-up window, and then, after a few seconds, the ATLauncher will open right on up.
The ATLauncher is now installed. Step 4) Login To The ATLauncher Logging into the ATLauncher is a bit different than other launchers on the market. In order to login, click the ‘Accounts’ tab in the right-hand sidebar of the launcher.
This will then open up a login screen. Here, you will enter your Minecraft email and password. This is the exact same login information that you use to login to the default Minecraft launcher. Once you have entered your email and password, click ‘Add’. This will then log you into the ATLauncher. This article is brought to you. They are an incredible Minecraft/PC game hosting company.
You can host a Sky Factory 2 server for just less than $10/month! Step 5) Install Sky Factory 2! Finally, it is time to install Sky Factory 2. Doing this is actually very simple.
Just click on the ‘Packs’ tab in the right-hand sidebar, find ‘Sky Factory 2’ on this list, and then click the ‘New Instance’ button under the description. This will open a pop-up window. In the pop-up window, there is no reason to change anything just leave it all exactly how it is, and click ‘Install’.
Another pop-up window will then open up. Here, you can select if you want to add any extract mods into Sky Factory 2. The choice here is up to you, but remember the more mods you have installed, the better the computer you need to have. Once you have selected what mods you want to add, click the ‘Install’ button located in the bottom right of the window. Sky Factory will now begin downloading. This may take a while as it is over 100 MB. After it is done, a window will pop-up saying ‘Sky Factory Has Been Installed’.
Just click ‘OK’ in the bottom left of the window and move on to step 6! Step 6) Launch The Sky Factory 2 Instance Now, all you need to do is launch the Sky Factory 2 instance you just created. To do this, click the ‘Instances’ tab in the right-hand sidebar. After you’re on the ‘Instances’ tab, click the ‘Play’ button right under the description of Sky Factory 2. Minecraft will now open with Sky Factory 2 installed!
Step 7) Start A World, Join A Server, Do Whatever, Just Have FUN! You now know how to download & install Sky Factory 2! Go have some fun, and try not to die too much! Sky Factory is extremely challenging, so I recommend checking out our Sky Factory 2 let’s play. This will show you how to get started in the game, so you can die less and have more fun! Thanks for reading; if you have any problems getting Sky Factory 2 up and running, post them in the comments below. We are more than happy to help you out!
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