How to import a .Schematic into Minecraft Java Edition with MC-Edit
Welcome.
This is a full tutorial on how to import a .schematic into MC-Edit.
Please Note that MC-Edit can only go up to v1.12.2 in Minecraft Java Edition and will not work with Bedrock worlds.
If you want to import .schematics / .construction / .mcstructure to your Minecraft Java World & even Minecraft Bedrock world with newer versions. You will need Amulet Editor.
I did a full tutorial on how to do that here: How to import with Amulet Editor. Amulet editor will not at this time import to old worlds under v1.12.2 in Java Edition. But this one will to a point.
What is MC-Edit?
MCEdit is an open-source world editor to preserve anything built with old versions of Minecraft and takes them forward into newer versions of the game.
Since Minecraft saved games contain every single element of the world the player is playing in, it has much more in common with the 3D world, map, and terrain editors than traditional saved game editors. MCEdit has been developed since 2010 with the original goal of allowing Classic levels to be played in the full version of Minecraft.
Features
- Navigate the world using familiar WASD controls and mouse aiming.
- Show the locations of dropped items, game entities including monsters and villagers, hidden ores, plus blocks with TileEntities and other Minecraft internals.
- Load saved games from current Minecraft versions, plus the older Classic and Indev versions.
- Limited support for Minecraft Pocket Edition saved games
- Export blocks and game entities as a .schematic file to be imported by MCEdit or compatible programs.
- Automatically fix wool colours when importing and exporting between Minecraft PC, Classic, and Pocket editions!
- Double-click on a chest to change its contents, or double-click on a mob spawner to choose what spawns.
- Brush tool “paints” blocks in a round, diamond, or square shape with configurable size. Different brush modes will add new blocks, replace blocks, alter the top layer of the terrain or wear it down to smooth out rough objects.
- “Paste” brush allows you to import an object with a single click.
- “Flood Fill” brush will change all blocks that form a connected mass.
- The clone tool makes a copy of blocks and entities, optionally making multiple clones in a line or scaling the copy up or down.
- Clone and Import tools can rotate an object around an axis, or flip it horizontally or vertically.
- “Filter” plugins let users add functionality to MCEdit by writing Python code.
- Move the world’s spawn point, automatically removing blocks to make sure the spawn point is acceptable to Minecraft.
- Move and rotate any player in a single- or multiplayer world.
- Expand or contract the world’s size by adding or deleting chunks. Chunks are the basis of Minecraft’s “infinite” saved game format.
- Create new worlds or add chunks to existing worlds. The Minecraft Server can be harnessed to create natural terrain that meshes with the world’s existing seed. Flatlands can also be created at any height. *“Analyze” feature counts the block and entity types in a selected area, optionally saving them to a .csv file.
- Maintenance commands can delete all blocks, entities, or chunks in a selected region. This is useful for getting a “corrupted” world back into a playable state.
MC-Edit Controls (Default)
- Movement:
Forward: W | Back: S | Left: A | Right: D | Up: Space | Down: Shift | Brake: C | Sprint: None - Camera:
Pan Up: I | Pan Down: K | Pan Left: J | Pan Right: L | Toggle View: Tab | Goto Position: Ctrl-G | View Distance: Ctrl-F | Toggle Renderer: Ctrl-M | Fly Mode: None - Selection:
Increase Reach: Scroll Up | Decrease Reach: Scroll Down | Reset Reach: Button 3 | Show Block Info (Hold): Alt | Pick Block (Hold + Click): Alt | Snap Clone to Axis (Hold): Ctrl | Long-Distance Mode: Alt-Z | Blocks-Only Modifier (Hold): Alt - Brush Tool:
Rotate: E | Roll: G | Increase Size: R | Decrease Size: F | Line Tool (Hold): Z - Cone Tool:
Rotate: E | Roll: R | Flip: F | Mirror: G - Fill and Replace Tool:
Replace: R | Swap: X - Chunk Control Tool:
Select Chunks (Hold): Z | Deselect Chunks (Hold): Alt - Function:
Delete: Del | Select All: Ctrl-A | Deselect: Ctrl-D | Undo: Ctrl-Z | Redo: Ctrl-Y | Cut: Ctrl-X | Copy: Ctrl-C | Paste: Ctrl-V | Export: Ctrl-E - Menu:
New World: Ctrl-N | Quick Load: Ctrl-L | Open: Ctrl-O | Save: Ctrl-S | Save As: Ctrl-Alt-S | Reload World: Ctrl-R | Close World: Ctrl-W | World Info: Ctrl-I | Quit: Ctrl-Q - Miscellaneous:
Take Screenshot: F6 | Debug Overlay: 0 | Fast Nudge: None | Fast Increment Modifier (Hold): Ctrl - Toolbar:
Select: 1 | Brush: 2 | Clone: 3 | Fill and Replace: 4 | Filter: 5 | Import: 6 | Players 7 | World Spawnpoint: 8 | Chunk Control: 9 | NBT Explorer: None
How to Import “.Schematics” into Minecraft Java Edition Worlds.
If you haven’t seen the above info on MC-Edit here’s a quick introduction to it.
MCEdit is a versatile map editor, designed for moving blocks, creating land, adding others’ creations, or just about anything possible within Minecraft. With it, you can…
- open a level of nearly any type and fly around in glorious 3D!
- select millions of blocks and clone them anywhere else in the level
- fill a boxy selection with the block of your choice, or replace one kind of block with another
- export blocks to a “schematic” file for later use
- import a schematic or an entire level into any world using the crane
- move the player or his spawn point
- create and remove chunks from the world
- fill blackened areas with light
- find bugs!
More about it here: https://github.com/mcedit/mcedit/wiki/What-is-MCEdit%3F
How to import
This tutorial is designed around how my schematic files are compressed from this website.
You can import builds into Bedrock, but not really supported well enough. Mostly designed for PC Java Edition.
- Things you need first.
- MC-Edit
- The latest MC-Edit versions are found here: https://github.com/Podshot/MCEdit-Unified-Preview/releases
Other location here: MCEdit – World Editor for Minecraft - .zip extractor
Most systems can unzip a .zip file. But if not, you can use these alternatives here:
– Winrar: https://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
– 7Zip: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
This tutorial is on Windows 7 but it’s the same for Windows 10.
1. Download the schematic you want. Example mine is: Abadorian Barn Schematic.zip
2. In this tutorial, I’ll be using Windows Explorer. Right-click on the .zip file and Open with / Windows Explorer
2. Copy the .schematic
3. Paste the .schematic to the same location the .zip is located on your desktop. You can also drag and drop it right to the desktop if you like.
4. So it should look something like this.
You are going to need to find your Minecraft save folder. Let’s unhide the hidden folders for Windows 7 & Windows 10.
6. Search for “Control Panel” in the start menu or the taskbar
7. Click View by: “Large icons”.
8. Click: “Folder Options”.
9. Locate “Hidden files and folders” Now check “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”.
10. Press “Win+R keys” and should bring up”Run”. Or search for “Run”.
11. You should see the .minecraft folder. Keep a note on the location it’s at.
12. Example mine is “J:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft” This is were your save will be.
Go ahead and copy the address at the top of what you get.
14. Go ahead and open MC-Edit after installing it and click “Open”.
(NOTE: You do need PC Java Edition) to use it.
15. Now paste in the address that you copied above into this address bar and press “Enter”.
16. You should now see the “.minecraft” folder. Go ahead and open it.
17. Look for your world saves folder labelled “saves”.
18. I’m going to open my save called: “Show Room”. Yours will be whatever you called it.
Quick Note: If you haven’t already noticed, I have the .minecraft folder on the left navigation favourites menu so I can just click that anytime. If you want to do that, just drag the .minecraft folder to that location and you’re done!
19. Click on “level.dat” and press “Open”.
20. Now that your world is open, you now choose a location for your .schematic.
Basic Controls
- Fly Up is Space Bar key
- Forward, Back, Left, Right is W,A,S,D keys
- Hold down right-click and move your mouse around to view where you’re going.
- You can select items and structures by dragging on them and selecting them. Great for copy and pasting. Which is what you’re going to do soon.
I recommend practicing your movements with MC-Edit. Once you figure it out. This is one awesome tool to use.
21. I selected this location just to show you where I’ll be putting this build.
22. Press the “Import” button on the tool bar below. Looks like an orange crane with a white structure being lifted.
23. Now open your .schematic. Mine is: AbadorianBar.scematic
24. Here’s a good example. My building is not facing the correct way I want it.
25. So what I did was press the “E” for rotating till it was facing the correct way.
You can move your mouse around to position it where you want it.
26. Since it was one block to high, I held the “Nudge” button down and pressed shift once to nudge it down by one block.
As you can see, I also unchecked “Copy Air” as when I go to import it, it would have removed the grass around the selected border and other things too.
27. Now it’s imported!
28. Now you’re done! Press Menu / Save / Quit. or CTRL+S to save and CTRL+Q to quit.
29. Open Minecraft PC Java Edition and load up your map and now you should see the structure!
Save Map to Mac
MAC
<Startvolume>/Users/<User>/Library/Application Support/minecraftThe Library folder is hidden by default.
- Use Finder’s ‘Go’ menu. Since Lion you have to press option (Alt, ⌥) for the entry to appear.
- Use Finder’s ‘Go to folder…’ command (⇧+⌘+G) and copy/paste
~/Library/Application Support/minecraft - Snapshot 12w24a enables the ‘Open texture pack folder’ in ‘Texture Packs’ screen. Navigate from there to
/bin,/savesetc. - To unhide it, he can also type in Terminal:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Save Map to Linux
Linux
/home/<username>/.minecraft
You can also get there by using the ~ shortcut which represents your user folder directory.
~/.minecraft
Now you’re done but…
Keep in mind that you should always close MC-Edit after when you’re done with it. NEVER EVER Edit a world that is still open on Minecraft and you have it open on MC-Edit. This can cause a corrupted world. It’s always a great idea to always make backups just in case anyways.
I hope this helped you and now you have something new to look forward to!
If you enjoyed this tutorial please feel free to comment below!