Moving From Vanilla Server to Bukkit

Question

I have a server running the standard, unmodified Vanilla server on a Linux box. After talking to the people on the server we have decided that moving to a Bukkit Server would be better because of the awesome plugins.

However, it seems that Minecraft generates "nether" and "overworld" files differently than Bukkit. Bukkit generates a world and a world_nether folders. I have read the forum post that copying the Vanilla's world folder to world and world_nether seems to work but I feel like this a a bit hackish and might cause problems in the future.

Has anyone successively done this?

Answer 1

Here is what I did. Bukkit generates a world and a world_nether folder.

I moved the vanilla/world/regions to bukkit/world/regions and then moved vanilla/world/DIM-1 to bukkit/world_nether/DIM-1

Answer 2

Yes, I did the same thing as you a few weeks ago, the only problem I encountered was that Bukkit would crash because of the nether for some reason, and that was fixed by disabling the nether. I'm not sure what you could do if you wanted the nether to work.

Answer 3

I have successfully done this, with no issues at all. It can be a bit hackish, and from memory there is a bukkit plugin that will do it for you. But i cannot for the life of me remember what it is called :/