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Hi! Lately I have been wanting to download the map of my server for use in a single player world. I downloaded it from the control panel, and here is what the inside of the folder looks like.

I have tried putting it in the saves folder but nothing pops up! Could anyone please help?

Create a singleplayer world, run it once, and then close it, after that you can copy server files over singleplayer save.

Unfortunaly that did not work, thanks for trying though! It just spawned a new world, and I was in the jungle biome.

erm ... did i mentioned that world names have to be the same ... for example default name for server world is "world" , so when you make SSP world, name it the same ...

hmm, nope, still spawns me in the same jungle

Singleplayer and multiplayer worlds should be directly compatible since singleplayer is actually just multiplayer with one player (unless you open to LAN, which itself simply lets other players see your game if they are on the same network) - yes, you are actually running an internal server in singleplayer, which explains the messages from the server in the game output in singleplayer and client messages like "downloading terrain" (not actually downloading anything in singleplayer, just directly getting the data from the internal server).

The only difference is that in singleplayer the game saves player data directly inside the level.dat file, not inside the players folder (actually, it does but level.dat overrides it) - which likely explains why you are spawning in the middle of nowhere, you have no spawn point or inventory as far as the game is concerned (although if there is a player.dat file matching your username/UUID it should use that, which is how it can handle multiple players when open to LAN).

Also, are you sure that the game version is the same as that on the server, e.g. 1.8.x? Is the world you get the same or an entirely different world? Usually, if a world doesn't show up that is because level.dat is corrupted (level.dat is all that is needed actually, you can delete everything else and the game will just regenerate the world, a trick I've used while modding so I can easily compare changes without having to fly/tp back to a certain area), the format is identical so that shouldn't be an issue.

On other thought - when you put it into the saves folder did you just place all of what is shown into the saves (so it is like \saves\(level.dat, region, etc), or did you create a new subfolder then place the world files into it? What I mean is that the game saves worlds like \saves\world\(level.dat, region, etc). The name of the subfolder ("world" here) doesn't have to match what is inside of level.dat (server worlds are usually just named "world")