Minecraft Bedrock has a native world editor that has seemingly gone rather under the radar. Here’s how it works and what you can do with it.
Did You Know Minecraft Bedrock Has a Built-in World Editor?
Creative mode in Minecraft is a powerful tool for many players, but it’s also often insufficient when it comes to large builds or terraforming. Sure, you can fly around and have infinite blocks, but placing them one by one takes a lot of time. It would be nice to have a tool that helps you copy and paste repetitive designs, or puts down large chunks of blocks, for example, in terraforming.
The Minecraft modding community has long since created various world editors that do exactly that. However, they also come with the disadvantage of having to mod your game, which isn’t too hard, but it’s an extra step in the least. Fortunately, Mojang has finally realized that players want and need a good world editing tool and they created a world editor, that seems to have gone under the radar.
The editor can be accessed through the “Creator Tools” tab in the Minecraft launcher.
What Can You Do with the Minecraft World Editor?
Before you start using the world editor, you should know that it’s still in beta, so expect there may be some bugs from time to time. Despite that, the tool seems rather powerful for what it is. When you create a project you are put into an FPV in a Minecraft world, just like in creative mode. However, the movement around is a bit different. You right-click to move your camera around and left-click to select different parts of the world. To fly, you must hold down the right mouse button. Then, you can use WASD, Shift, and Space to move similarly to creative mode.
Just like various world edit mods, the built-in editor allows you to copy and paste large chunks of the world, to fill selected chunks with blocks, rotate selections, and much more. Unfortunately, the tool doesn’t allow you to replace/delete very large chunks at once. So if you want to, for example, remove an entire mountain, you may have to do it by selecting smaller parts of it. It seems that the max size selection is 100x100x100 blocks. Popular YouTuber Phoenix SC made a short video exploring the editor and commenting on its features:
Another interesting thing about the editor is that the world and blocks update live. This means that when changing large chunks of land at one time, you may experience some lagging. It also seems that this live block updating contributes to the game being unable to delete or replace large parts simultaneously.
Overall, it seems that the Minecraft Bedrock world editor is relatively intuitive to learn and is useful for making some smaller builds. That being said, it’s still in beta so expect some bugs when using it.
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