How to Refresh the Nether on a Minecraft Bedrock Server

Overview

The Nether is one of Minecraft's best places to explore, mostly because it is dangerous, useful, and extremely rude about both. Over time, nearby fortresses, bastions, quartz, ancient debris, and other resources can become picked clean. Resetting the Nether lets the dimension generate fresh terrain while keeping the main world intact.

This guide is for Windows 10 Bedrock Edition worlds running on Bedrock Dedicated Server. Before editing anything, make a full world backup. Direct world edits are powerful, and a backup is the undo button you actually want available.

Also remove all players from the Nether before starting. If someone logs back into deleted chunks, things can get awkward fast.

Download the Current World

1. Open your server panel and stop the Bedrock server.
2. Find the World field and write down the exact world name.

1. Connect to the server files with an FTP client.
2. Open the `worlds` folder.
3. Find the folder with the same name as the world field, then download that folder to your computer.

Import the World Into Minecraft

1. In Windows File Explorer, open the View tab and enable File name extensions.

1. Open the downloaded world folder.
2. Select the individual files and folders inside it, then compress them into a `.zip` file. Do not zip the parent folder itself.
3. Rename the new `.zip` file so the extension becomes `.mcworld`.
4. Confirm the warning from Windows if it appears.
5. Open Minecraft Bedrock, select Play, use the import option, and choose the `.mcworld` file.

1. After the import finishes, join the world once so Minecraft fully registers it.

Delete the Nether Chunks

1. Download and open Amulet Editor.
2. Select Open World, expand the Bedrock option, and choose the imported world.

1. Once the world loads, select 3D Editor.
2. Change the dimension dropdown to nether, then switch to Chunk mode.

1. Select Prune Chunks to remove the existing Nether chunks.
2. Use File > Save to save the edited world.

Export the Edited World

1. Open Minecraft Bedrock and select Play.
2. Find the edited singleplayer world and click the edit icon beside it.
3. Scroll down and choose Export World.

1. Save the exported `.mcworld` file somewhere easy to find.
2. Rename the file extension from `.mcworld` to `.zip`.
3. Open the `.zip` file and extract its contents into a new folder.

Upload and Use the Refreshed World

1. Make sure the server is still stopped.
2. Connect to the server files through FTP.

1. Open the server's `/worlds` folder.
2. Upload the extracted world folder.
3. Wait for the transfer to finish and confirm that no files failed in the FTP client.
4. In the server panel, find the World field and choose the option to change worlds.
5. Enter the uploaded folder name exactly as it appears, including capitalization and spaces.
6. Start the server. The same overworld should load with a newly generated Nether.

Troubleshooting

The Nether did not reset

The wrong world may have been downloaded or edited. Compare the folder name with the world name shown in the server panel. If needed, upload the edited world under a unique folder name so it cannot merge with an older copy.

The overworld is missing

If the server generates a new overworld, it usually means the panel is pointing at a world folder that does not exist or is named differently. Check that the folder is inside `/worlds` and that the panel uses the exact same name.

The world will not import into singleplayer

This usually happens when the whole world folder was zipped instead of the files inside it. Open the folder, select the contents, create a new `.zip`, then rename that archive to `.mcworld` and import it again.

Useful Follow-Up Guides

• How to download a Minecraft world
• How to upload a Bedrock world
• How to connect to your Minecraft server with FTP