Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <minecraft-java-edition>
Title: 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?

Answers:
sents: text: 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/
text: You can also search http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/?category=world-generators for different types of world generators.
text: Note: I have not tried either of them.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/244/Elva
score: 12
sents: text: I would have to say that you just go into the server.properties file and edit it to be super-flat instead of default .
text: 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_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/20161/Zach
score: 7
sents: text: What do you mean empty?
text: They're all empty.
text: 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.
text: But new chunks will always be generated as normal.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/2198/Alan B
score: 3
sents: text: You can use MCEdit to create a world and create chunks in it that are empty except for a layer of bedrock.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/5962/Kevin Reid
score: 3
sents: text: Make a superflat world out of air blocks.
text: Make sure you have villages on, and you have an (almost) emtpy world.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/41164/user41164
score: 3
sents: text: You know, I was wondering the exact same thing.
text: I figured out if you make superflat just one layer of tnt then ignite it, it will blow up everything.
text: BUT be sure you put a piece ofbedrock down first.
text: Also the server may crash or get really laggy.
text: But you can also use World Edit to clear out the world.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/46439/Whale_Maniac
score: 3
sents: text: make a superflat world with only one layer of sand.
text: The moment you put a block down, the sand will fall into the void leaving just the block you placed.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/56734/BuzzMeister
score: 3
sents: text: Set generator-settings=1;0;1 and level-type=FLAT and gamemode=1 in the server.properties .
text: Note this would will have no blocks at all.
text: As you are in creative mode fly to y: 0
text: (press F3 to see coords).
text: Note: You will start dropping quickly so be ready.
text: 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.
text: In later versions, you could use /setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft:stone and not have to install WorldEdit.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/42710/Bardi Harborow
score: 2
sents: text: Judging from the DemonicMushy's comment on his question, I think he means a map with no blocks at all.
text: Try looking for maps such as this one and importing them into multiplayer.
text: 3000x3000 blocks of void.
text: 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_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12599/Erik Humphrey
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
Install the WorldEdit plugin to change the world generation to make it flat. You can also used MCEdit to create a world and create chunks of it that are empty.
Multiple in-game techniques and modding options could serve as a solution.