How do I create an empty minecraft world?

Question

My friends and I want to create an adventure map, so I want to have a empty Minecraft Craftbukkit server map to start with, so there will be nothing other than the things I want to put into the map. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

With bukkit there are plugins that change the world generation to make the world flat, for example:

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/wgen-flatlands-v0-1-makes-a-flat-world-860.20888/

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/wgen-hugetractsofland-0-1-generate-a-flat-world-using-any-block-1060.28662/

You can also search http://plugins.bukkit.org/#ti=&ta=WGEN&au=&subm=false&pno=1 for different types of world generators.

Note: I have not tried either of them.

Answer 2

I would have to say that you just go into the server.properties file and edit it to be super-flat instead of default. The drawback to that is that you will not be able to go underground since it is only 3 blocks away from the 1 layer of bedrock.

Answer 3

What do you mean empty? They're all empty. If you mean flat or featureless, all you can do, in the unlikely event of finding a seed that would create a world like that, is create one as normal, play it, fly around for a good while in all directions to get chunks generated, then use MCEdit to flatten it. But new chunks will always be generated as normal.

Answer 4

You can use MCEdit to create a world and create chunks in it that are empty except for a layer of bedrock.

Answer 5

Make a superflat world out of air blocks. Make sure you have villages on, and you have an (almost) emtpy world.

Answer 6

Judging from the DemonicMushy's comment on his question, I think he means a map with no blocks at all. Try looking for maps such as this one and importing them into multiplayer. 3000x3000 blocks of void. Of course, if you meant a map that isn't void, use the superflat world option when creating a singleplayer world and import it to multiplayer to build together.

Answer 7

Set generator-settings=1;0;1 and level-type=FLAT and gamemode=1 in the server.properties. Note this would will have no blocks at all. As you are in creative mode fly to y:0 (press F3 to see coords). Note: You will start dropping quickly so be ready. Install the WorldEdit plugin from bukkit plugins and type //pos1 then move a little and type //pos2 and //set stone or whatever block you want.

Answer 8

You know, I was wondering the exact same thing. I figured out if you make superflat just one layer of tnt then ignite it, it will blow up everything. BUT be sure you put a piece of bedrock down first. Also the server may crash or get really laggy. But you can also use World Edit to clear out the world.