Minecraft save

[Misinthe]

Hey everyone, in September I gave my son a computer so he could play Minecraft and other games on steam. He hasn't touched it in over 3 months so I'm re-purposing the computer. My question is, since Minecraft was bought directly from it's website and is not a steam game. If when he grows a little older and gets another PC, will he be able to download the game again and will his world be saved on the cloud? Or do I need to put the save files or something on a USB and save for reuse later on? Thanks everyone in advance.

[Himommies]

You must USB or put it in drive

[tp95112]

You have to back up .minecraft from appdata. The browser has a option to get into appdata or you can run %appdata and find the folder.

[RadiatingLight]

C:\Users\[yourusernamehere]\AppData\Roaming\.

is where his worlds are. in a folder called minecraft, which then contains a folder called saved if i recall correctly

[Misinthe]

2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

You must USB or put it in drive

 

1 minute ago, tp95112 said:

You have to back up .minecraft from appdata. The browser has a option to get into appdata or you can run %appdata and find the folder.

Okay, thank you for the info, what about the game client itself? Does it work like steam, where I can download as many times as I want?

[Himommies]

Just now, Miguel552 said:

 

Okay, thank you for the info, what about the game client itself? Does it work like steam, where I can download as many times as I want?

yeah

[Misinthe]

Just now, RadiatingLight said:

C:\Users\[yourusernamehere]\AppData\Roaming\.

is where his worlds are. in a folder called minecraft, which then contains a folder called saved if i recall correctly

Can I just backup the whole minecraft folder?

[tp95112]

Just now, Miguel552 said:

 

Okay, thank you for the info, what about the game client itself? Does it work like steam, where I can download as many times as I want?

 

Minecraft site has the client https://minecraft.net/en-us/. They've revamped the site completely since iv used it last but the download button is on the top left

[AnnoyedShelf]

Just now, RadiatingLight said:

C:\Users\[yourusernamehere]\AppData\Roaming\.

is where his worlds are. in a folder called minecraft, which then contains a folder called saved if i recall correctly

An alternative is to just type %appdata%\.minecraft in windows search or Run.

[Misinthe]

8 minutes ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

An alternative is to just type %appdata%\.minecraft in windows search or Run.

So I just backup everything in there?

[AnnoyedShelf]

5 minutes ago, Miguel552 said:

So I just backup everything in there?

If you just want to back up the saves, you're just going to backup the folder titled "saves".

[Misinthe]

Just now, AnnoyedShelf said:

If you just want to back up the saves, you're just going to backup the folder titled "saves".

I need to back up some mods that I put in there also. 

[BingoFishy]

20 minutes ago, Miguel552 said:

I need to back up some mods that I put in there also. 

No point in backing up mods really, they're only for a specific version of the game. When your son gets older Minecraft will likely have gone through many more updates.

 

Edit: If you do want to back them up, just go ahead and backup the whole .minecraft folder I guess.

 

Edit 2: You don't have to do that but it's easy and backs up everything. I haven't done much modding so I can't give specifics on which folder(s) to back up.

[Misinthe]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

No point in backing up mods really, they're only for a specific version.

 

Edit: If you do want to back them up, just go ahead and backup the whole .minecraft folder I guess.

This is true, he will probably outgrow the ones he has now also. Some pokemon and some guns mods that he wanted.

[BingoFishy]

Just now, Miguel552 said:

This is true, he will probably outgrow the ones he has now also. Some pokemon and some guns mods that he wanted.

Even if he's into the same stuff, he probably won't be into an old version. Newer/better versions of the mods will probably come out.

[Misinthe]

3 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

Even if he's into the same stuff, he probably won't be into an old version. Newer/better versions of the mods will probably come out.

Also true, okay, thanks everyone for your help! Now I can do a clean Windows install and put this computer to good use instead of being an ornament gathering dust.