Downloadable minecraft maps

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It indicates a way to see more nav menu items inside the site menu by triggering the side menu to open and close. Emma Witman. You can download "Minecraft" maps that others have made and play on them yourself.

Once you've downloaded a "Minecraft" map, you can play on it by placing it in your game's "saves" folder. Visit Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories. Emma Witman is an Asheville, NC-based freelance journalist with a keen interest in writing about hardware, PC gaming, politics, and personal finance. She is a former crime reporter for a daily newspaper, and has also written extensively about bartending for Insider.

She may or may not judge your drink order when behind the bar. Follow her on Twitter at emwity. Step 2. Click on a Minecraft map that you want to download.

Step 3. Click on Download button. After that, you need to wait for some time to finish the downloading. Step 4. Extract the Minecraft map downloads folder. If you are a Windows user, you need to unzip the folder. Step 5. After downloading the map folder, you can continue to the following part to install it on your computer. In this section, we will show you how to install Minecraft maps on your Windows PC.

Open the map folder that you saved it on the desktop and find the Minecraft Launcher inside it. Click on the three-line icon at the upper right corner of the Minecraft launcher window. Click on the Launch Options button at the upper right corner of the launcher menu.

Click on the Add new button near the top of the page, and then click the Game directory switch to make the switch turn green.

Step 6. Click on the green right-facing arrow in the middle of the Game directory page to open the Minecraft game folder. Step 7. Inside the game folder, double click the Saves folder to open the Minecraft saves folder. Step 8. Right click any empty space inside the Saves folder and select Paste.