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When hosting a Minecraft Realms world, backups are stored in the cloud, which you can download into your single-player saves. The downloaded Realm world will appear in your local worlds list, allowing you to play on this world offline and continue to make progress.
Understanding Minecraft Realms Storage
To provide more insight into Minecraft Realms and how worlds are stored and managed, we have compiled a list of frequently asked questions and answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Where do realm world downloads go?: Your downloaded Realm world will now appear in your local worlds list.
- How do I recover my realm world?: Restoring and Replacing your Realm can be done by selecting the Realms Backups button, where you’ll find a timestamp on each of your backups, and an option to restore them.
- Do realm worlds get deleted?: Realm worlds can be exported from any version of Realms at any time within an 18-month period after your subscription has expired.
- Can you transfer a realm world to a server?: You can navigate to the Minecraft Worlds tab through the Server Manager page and upload a previously downloaded world from your device.
- How To Upload & Download A Minecraft Realm World: To upload a Minecraft Realm world, load Minecraft, click Minecraft Realms, click your Realms world, click Configure, click Reset World, click Upload world, and select the world you want to upload.
- Can you copy a realm world you don’t own?: To be able to download a Realms world, you must be the owner of the world and your Realms subscription must be active.
- How do I import realm world?: Once you have a world in Minecraft Realms, you can overwrite it with your single-player world by loading Minecraft, clicking Minecraft Realms, clicking your Realms world, clicking Configure, clicking Reset World, clicking Upload world, and selecting the world you want to upload.
- Can I download my realm world?: You can only download a world from a Realm that you own, by going to your Realms configuration, selecting the button with a tool symbol, going to your World backups, selecting the Download Latest button, and following the instructions on your screen.
- Do realms expire in Minecraft?: If you have a subscription with your Microsoft account, you can manage your subscription from Services & subscriptions while signed in to your account.
- Will I lose my progress if I cancel my realm?: After cancelling your subscription, you’ve got 18 months to download your Realm worlds before they are permanently deleted.
- What is the difference between a Minecraft world and a realm?: Realms are personal multiplayer servers, run by Minecraft, just for you and your friends, while a Minecraft world is a single-player or multi-player environment that can be played online or offline.
- Can you transfer a Minecraft realm to another account?: The owner can download the map and provide it to someone else so they can host it as a realm.
- How long does it take for a Minecraft realm to Despawn?: If the chunk in which the item is dropped is not loaded, then the item will stay there forever, but once the chunk and the items inside of it loads, you have a timer of 5 minutes to retrieve the items or lose them forever.
- How long can you be idle in Minecraft realms?: Most servers prevent players from being idle for too long by kicking them off the server after 15 minutes or more.
- What happens when you close a Minecraft realm?: Closing a realm just turns off the server, so nobody can connect, but you can reopen the realm to get back to playing on the same realm.