Move your world off Minecraft Realms

Minecraft Realms is Mojang's own paid hosting — easy, but locked down: no plugins, no mods, no console, no config files. If you've outgrown it, your world comes with you. Realms lets you download your world, and once it's on your computer it's just an ordinary world folder — so from there this is the same upload you'd do for any single-player map.

What you gain by moving

Worth knowing why you're doing this, because it shapes the setup:

• Plugins and mods — Realms allows neither. On Falix you pick Purpur, Paper, Fabric, and more and install add-ons from the panel.
• Full control — a real console, config files, backups, whitelist and ops from the panel.
• Your choice of plan — run it free (with a session timer) or premium for always-on.

Step 1 — Download your world from Realms

Do this from the Minecraft Java launcher, on an account with access to the realm:

1. Launch Minecraft and open Minecraft Realms from the main menu.
2. Select your realm and open its configuration (the pencil / settings icon).
3. Find the active world slot and choose Download world ("Download latest world").

The launcher downloads the world and adds it to your single-player worlds (your saves folder). When it's done, it appears in your normal Singleplayer list — that's your cue it worked.

🎯 Good to know: This is a copy. Downloading doesn't close your realm or delete anything on Mojang's side — your Realms world keeps running until you cancel the subscription yourself, so there's no rush and no risk to the original.

Step 2 — Upload it to your server

From here it's identical to bringing any single-player world online — that guide has the full detail; the short version:

1. Find the downloaded world folder in your saves (it contains level.dat and a region folder).
2. On your server's Worlds page, use the folder upload and select that world folder (the folder, not a .zip).
3. On the Properties page, set level-name to the uploaded folder's exact name, then restart.

Match the version — the one thing to watch

⚠️ Heads up: Realms always runs the latest release of Minecraft. So your downloaded world is on the newest version — set your Falix server to that same version (or newer) in the Version Changer. A server on an older version generally won't open the world. And opening it on a newer version upgrades it one-way, so keep the download safe as your backup.

Set the server to a matching version first, and the world loads cleanly. Because the world format is shared, you can put it straight onto a plugin server like Purpur — you don't have to run vanilla.

Verify it works

Point level-name at the world, restart, and watch the Console load it — then join and confirm your builds and terrain are there. The Worlds page 3D map is a fast visual check that the right world loaded. Set your whitelist and ops on the Players page, share your subdomain, and your old Realms crew can pile back in.

Troubleshooting

• Download option missing in Realms — you need to be the realm owner (or have the right role) to download. Check with whoever owns the subscription.
• Server won't load the world — most often a version mismatch (server older than the world) or level-name not matching the folder name exactly. Match the version and the name. See single-player migration for the same fixes in depth.
• Where's my player position / gear? — like any migration, you spawn at the world spawn and your game mode comes from server.properties, not the Realms setting. That's expected.
• Bedrock Realms? — Bedrock is a different path (its Realms download is a .mcworld for a Bedrock server, not a Java world folder). This guide covers Java Realms.

Next steps

• Move a single-player world — the upload flow in full detail
• Minecraft software and versions — pick a version that matches, then add plugins
• Install plugins — the thing Realms never let you do
• Backups — keep the Realms download and take server snapshots
• Realms and its download feature are documented on the community reference at minecraft.wiki.