Switch:Minecraft world management: Difference between revisions

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==Required Reading==

The Nintendo Switch release of Minecraft Bedrock edition does not permit importing worlds from external sources in-game. However, ~~there is a trick to import your world to Minecraft that involves using a save manager and creating a blank world to replace with your downloaded world.~~

The Nintendo Switch release of Minecraft Bedrock edition does not permit importing worlds from external sources in-game. However, you can add worlds by extracting and editing the save.

~~When Minecraft was ported to the Switch, the developers made it so that internally, the world folders are not named whatever~~ you ~~named the world; hence why we have to look for the world using its <code>levelname.txt</code>. Consequently, this is also why we~~ can~~'t just put the world inside~~ the save ~~and have it work~~.

{{Critical|Importing worlds works on emuMMC as well as sysCFW, but be warned: there is always a ban risk when messing with sysMMC. While people have reported successes with using this guide in sysMMC without getting banned, this can change.}}

== What You Need ==

* A copy of Minecraft

* A copy of Minecraft bedrock for Nintendo Switch

* a modded Nintendo Switch

* [https://github.com/BernardoGiordano/Checkpoint/releases/latest Checkpoint] (the <code>Checkpoint.nro</code> file) or [https://github.com/J-D-K/JKSV/releases/latest JKSV] (the <code>JKSV.nro</code> file) in your <code>/switch</code> folder

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# Boot to Atmosphère on your switch

# Launch the Homebrew Menu using either title takeover (recommended) or the album applet and load either Checkpoint or JKSV

# Launch the Homebrew Menu using either title takeover (recommended) or the album applet and load either Checkpoint or JKSV. JKSV does not support applet mode since release 11/16/2025

# Select your user if needed, select Minecraft, back up the save (any name works), then exit

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==Importing custom Minecraft worlds==

===Section I ~~- Creating a dummy world and~~ backing up your save===

{{info|If you have a .mcworld or .mctemplate file, rename the .mcworld or .mctemplate extension to .zip and extract the folder.}}

===Section I backing up your save===

# Boot to Atmosphère on your Switch

~~# Launch Minecraft~~

#Launch the Homebrew Menu using either title takeover (recommended) or the album applet and load either Checkpoint or JKSV. JKSV does not support applet mode since release 11/16/2025

~~# Once it is loaded, create a new world with a name distinct from your other worlds, if you have any. This is used to identify the world save later in the guide.~~

~~# After it has been created, exit the world, then close Minecraft~~

# Launch the Homebrew Menu using either title takeover (recommended) or the album applet and load either Checkpoint or JKSV

# Select your user if needed, select Minecraft, back up the save (any name works), then exit

===Section II - Copying the world files===

===Section II Copying the world files===

# Reboot to Hekate

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#* JKSV users: Navigate to <code>/JKSV/Minecraft/</code>, extract the zip archive corresponding to your save and enter the created folder

# Navigate to <code>games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds/</code>

# ~~For each subfolder:~~

# place your world folders for the words you wish to import into this directory

~~## Inside the subfolder, open levelname.txt and see if the contents of the file matches~~ your world ~~name~~ you ~~set in section I step 3~~

~~## If it is the correct name, delete the contents of~~ this ~~subfolder (not the subfolder itself) and replace it with the contents of your downloaded world (file and folder structure should match)~~

~~## If it isn't the correct name, move on to the next subfolder~~

# Eject your Switch and disconnect it from your PC