Reset the World or a Dimension

If the world you have generated on a server isn't to your liking or you want to start a new world all over again, you can reset the world. There are a couple ways to do this, depending on how the world will be reset.

The Easy Way: Resetting the World through server.properties

This method allows you to generate a new world without the use of SFTP or losing the previous world's data. Follow this guide on adding a new world if you'd rather not delete or rename your old world folder.

The Harder Way: Resetting the World through SFTP

Using SFTP, a world can be completely reset by removing the world data from the server. This can be done by deleting, renaming, or moving the world folder.

1. Login to the Server Dashboard.
2. From the server list, click the server that you would like to modify.
3. Stop your server.
4. Login to your server using SFTP.
5. Double-click on the server's game folder to open it. This will typically be the first folder you see when logging in via SFTP for the first time. The folder name can be verified by checking SFTP Folder in the server's Game Settings page.
6. Double-click the server.properties file.
7. Find level-name=currentworldname and note your currentworldname. Yours will most likely be world unless you changed it manually.
8. Delete or rename the folder that is the same name of the world (You can have multiple world folders and can switch between them by updating the level-name in server.properties).
9. Go back to the Server Dashboard and click Start. The server will generate a new map.

Resetting a Dimension

Unlike resetting a world, resetting a Dimension only requires deleting the respective folder. This can be used to restore a dimension back to what it first looked like. Unlike resetting the world, resetting a dimension will typically keep the same terrain. Resetting a dimension requires SFTP to manage file on the server.

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Common Dimensions

A couple of common dimensions are the Nether (DIM-1) and The End (DIM1).

1.16 and above

1. Login to the Server Dashboard.
2. From the server list, click the server that you would like to modify.
3. Stop your server.
4. Login to your server using SFTP.
5. Double-click on the server's game folder to open it. This will typically be the first folder you see when logging in via SFTP for the first time. The folder name can be verified by checking SFTP Folder in the server's Game Settings page.
6. Double-click the world folder to open the world. You can find the name of your world folder by checking the level-name in server.properties.
7. For resetting a vanilla dimension:
   1. Delete or rename DIM-1 to reset the Nether or DIM1 to reset The End
8. For resetting a custom or modded dimension:
   1. To reset all custom or modded dimensions, delete or rename the dimension folder.
   2. To reset all dimensions in a single domain or mod, double-click the dimension folder, then delete or rename the folder with the domain or mod's name you would like to reset.
   3. To reset a specific dimension, double-click the folder with the domain or mod's name, then delete or rename the folder with the dimension's name.
9. Go back to the Server Dashboard and click Start. The server will generate a new map.

1.15 and below

Prior to 1.15, custom dimensions were stored as a DIM folder. Resetting a dimension can be done by deleting one of these folders.

1. Login to the Server Dashboard.
2. From the server list, click the server that you would like to modify.
3. Stop your server.
4. Login to your server using SFTP.
5. Double-click on the server's game folder to open it. This will typically be the first folder you see when logging in via SFTP for the first time. The folder name can be verified by checking SFTP Folder in the server's Game Settings page.
6. Double-click the world folder to open the world. You can find the name of your world folder by checking the level-name in server.properties.
7. Delete the DIM folder of the dimension you are looking for. To delete the Nether, remove DIM-1, and for The End, remove DIM1. For custom dimensions, look up the mod's dimension ID in the mod's config, take note of the number, then delete that folder.