Erasing your Minecraft Server
How to erase your server and start fresh.
There's two ways to erase a server, wiping everything, or wiping everything except your world and player data. Pick whichever matches what you're trying to do.
Erase everything
This cannot be undone!
This will erase all player data, worlds, bans, and any other persistent data on your Minecraft server. Only continue if this is what you want.
Open the file manager
Navigate to the game panel, select your service, and open the file manager.
Delete everything
Select all files, click "Delete", and confirm the deletion.
Reinstall your server
Navigate to the settings page and click the Reinstall button. Your server will run through the install process again as if it were brand new.
Erase everything except world & player data
Use this if you want a clean slate for plugins/mods and configuration, but want to keep your map and player records (bans, ops, whitelist) intact.
This cannot be undone!
Anything not listed below as "keep" will be permanently deleted. Take a backup first if you're not sure.
Open the file manager
Navigate to the game panel, select your service, and open the file manager.
Keep your world and player data
Leave the following alone, everything else can be deleted:
- Your world folder(s), matching the
level-nameinserver.properties(commonlyworld,world_nether, andworld_the_end) whitelist.jsonops.jsonbanned-players.jsonbanned-ips.jsonusercache.json
Delete everything else
Select everything except the files/folders above (including plugins, mods, server.properties, server.jar, libraries, cache, and log files), then click "Delete" and confirm.
Reinstall your server
Navigate to the settings page and click the Reinstall button. This redownloads your server software and regenerates configs like server.properties, without touching the world/player data you kept.