How to import a schematic in WorldEdit

WorldEdit imports a Sponge v2 .schem. The generator writes that file next to the .litematic. The short version of the buttons is on WorldEdit schematic. This page is the folder, the commands, and the mistakes that make //schem load fail.

1. Generate the build and download the .schem, not the .litematic.
2. Copy the file into that world’s WorldEdit schematics folder.
3. In game, run //schem load with the file name and no extension.
4. Stand on the block where the minimum corner should land.
5. Run //paste. If the spot is wrong, //undo, move, and paste again.

Download the file WorldEdit can read

Use Download .schem. The name is a slug such as oak-house.schem or stone-brick-castle.schem. The container is gzip NBT with root name Schematic,Version 2, DataVersion 4189 (Java 1.21.4), width, height, length, a palette of block-state strings, and varint block data. Offset is 0,0,0. That is the format current WorldEdit and FastAsyncWorldEdit paste. It is not the MCEdit .schematic with numeric ids.

If the browser saved .schem.txt, rename it so the extension is only .schem. Do not point WorldEdit at the .litematic. Getting both files without a converter is schem to litematic.

Folder by install

• Paper, Spigot, or Purpur with the WorldEdit plugin: plugins/WorldEdit/schematics on the server. Restart is unnecessary if the file is in place before you run the load command; the plugin reads the folder on load.
• Fabric or Forge client mod: usually config/worldedit/schematics inside the instance directory, not the global vanilla folder when you use a third-party launcher.
• FastAsyncWorldEdit: the same .schem, often plugins/FastAsyncWorldEdit/schematics. Commands on the FAWE page match WorldEdit’s load and paste.

If your pack uses a different directory, the empty //schem list output is the test. Move the file until the slug appears in that list. Subfolders are addressed as folder/name in the load command. Spaces in the file name are a bad idea; the slugs from this site do not contain spaces.

Commands that paste this file

Load by the name without the extension:

//schem load oak-house

That puts the schematic on your clipboard. Stand where the minimum corner should be. These files do not store a saved player offset, so your feet are the corner, not the center.

//paste

//paste -a skips air. Use that when you want to lay a bridge deck or a wall over existing ground without punching the air blocks in the file through the terrain. Use a normal paste for a house if you want the interior emptied to match the hologram. If the corner is wrong:

//undo

Move, then paste again. Rotate the clipboard before the paste with //rotate 90. That spins the clipboard; it does not edit the file on disk. A survival player who is not pasting should rotate the hologram instead, in Litematica’s placement menu.

Permissions and version

On a server you need permission to load schematics and to paste. Single-player with the mod does not ask an admin. A public server that blocks //paste will also block this file; the download cannot grant you op. Data version 4189 means a 1.21.4-era server. Pasting cherry, bamboo, or deepslate states onto a 1.20 world drops or rejects those blocks. Match the server to the file, or generate a palette that older versions already know, such as oak or simple stone brick, and accept that some states may still be newer than 1.12.

This path is Java Edition. Bedrock has no WorldEdit .schem paste. See Java vs Bedrock. Size still follows the plan you generated with: 20 on a side for free, 48 for Pro, explained in size limits.

Reviewed 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.