Minecraft World Map had its own game server from 2012 until March 2016. Players survived in the Play worlds, built on their own plots in Creative, and played minigames such as Mob Arena and Hardcore. These are the server's own worlds that survive: 15 downloads, 7.1 GB in all, free to download.
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For the story of the server and its staff, see the History and Staff pages.
The server's Creative world of 2015, where every player could claim building plots. It closed on 6 July 2015 and was thought lost until a copy kept by former staff member Blobbers turned up in October 2026. It holds 3,288 plots and opens in Minecraft 1.8.9.
| Years | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | 1.8 |
| Download size | 261.2 MB (zip file) |
| Seed | -5554431914358196506 |
| Original page | archived copy on the Wayback Machine |
Creative Archive 1.8 has 3,288 plots owned by 2,579 players. Each plot had a sign with its owner's name. Type a player name to see their plots, where each plot is, and the command that takes you there in the world.
To visit a plot: open the world with cheats turned on (see how to open an old world), then type the command in the chat. It takes you to the plot's sign. You can also see every plot in one list.
Every file is a copy of the server's own world, as it was saved at the time. The Download button starts the download straight away; big files can take a while. Creative Archive 1.8 is at the top of this page.
The survival worlds ("Play") of the Minecraft 1.7 years, saved by the server staff. Former staff shared them on r/mcworldmap in 2023, but those links stopped working.
| Years | 2014-2015 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | 1.7 |
| Download size | 2.2 GB (7z file) |
The survival worlds ("Play") of the Minecraft 1.8 year, saved by the server staff and shared the same way as the 1.7 archive.
| Years | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | 1.8 |
| Download size | 3.0 GB (7z file) |
skeight uploaded these worlds to the website in 2012, and the Minecraft Archive Project saved them in May 2014. They were last played on 20 September 2012.
Where players arrived when they joined the 2012 server. More than 1,500 players' files are inside.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 19.2 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
A second, newer version of the 2012 spawn.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 2.5 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The main survival world of the 2012 server, and the biggest of the 2012 worlds.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 934.1 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The Nether of the 2012 survival world.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 96.2 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The End of the 2012 survival world.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 861.3 KB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The 2012 Creative world, with the Titanic (built by afguy20041 over several months), Maple City and Block City.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 204.0 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The 2012 hardcore survival world.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 210.7 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The 2012 mob arena, where players fought waves of monsters.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 12.0 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
A jungle world made from lsouc's public map "The Jungle" (2011).
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 115.4 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
A 2012 server world that carries the name of staff member Amber_1, known as Captain Amber.
| Years | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Download size | 61.8 MB (zip file) |
| Original page | world page in this archive |
The server lobby, built by massivetuna, IkePrime and QuantumNova. This copy was saved in Minecraft 1.10.2 on 30 October 2016 and shared by Nathangorr on Planet Minecraft in 2017.
| Years | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | 1.10.2 |
| Download size | 881.0 KB (zip file) |
Saved builds from the server staff's shared folder, among them the lobby and 26 minigame maps. These are schematic files, not worlds: load them into a world with a tool such as WorldEdit or MCEdit.
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
|---|---|
| Download size | 912.3 KB (zip file) |
level.dat file is
one world. Copy it into the saves folder of your Minecraft installation, start the game and choose
Singleplayer. Some downloads hold several worlds; the Nether and the End may be in their own folders./tp work.These server worlds were never saved anywhere we could find. If a copy turns up, the seed (the number that shapes each Minecraft world) shows whether it is the right world.
The plot Creative world of the Minecraft 1.7 years, open from 2 January 2014 to 11 January 2015; about 8,500 players built there. Its last known copy was a zip file of about 177 MB.
| Years | 2014-2015 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | 1.7 |
| Seed | 7290889853243018194 |
| Original page | archived copy on the Wayback Machine |
No copy found.
A snapshot of a Creative world from May 2015. Its last known copy was a zip file of about 163 MB.
| Years | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Minecraft version | not recorded |
| Seed | 2525512635892781014 |
| Original page | archived copy on the Wayback Machine |
No copy found.
Please keep it safe and do not change it. Check the seed in the world's level.dat file against
the seeds above.
A way to contact this archive will be added here soon.