Tutorial:Downgrading a world

Downgrading is the act of loading a world in an older version than the version of that world last loaded. This article explains how to downgrade a Minecraft world, and benefits and consequences of downgrading a world.

Before trying the methods below, it is recommended that the user has a backup of their selected world; after downgrading it may cause the world to be prone to corruption, data loss or crash. See § Benefits and consequences for more information.

In the singleplayer menu, if a world was last loaded in a version newer than the one being run, the version name of the world is displayed in red. When moving the mouse over the world, an exclamation mark appears to the left of the play button in the world icon on the left. While hovering over the world icon, the exclamation mark turns red and a tooltip appears with red text stating: "World was saved in a newer version, loading this world could cause problems!". Trying to load the world causes a screen to pop up with text that says: