You need a program that can open archives. The best free easy to use one is 7zip. Download and install it and right click on the rar file and go to 7zip in the menu and then click open as archive. Then drag and drop the files needed into you minecraft saves folder.
to play a map, open minecraft, then click singleplayer, choose the world, then click play selected world.
You have to create a server and load the map to the server.
First actually choose the map, and then save it under appdata/roaming/.minecraft/saves
I cannot speak about all the maps, because I have not downloaded them all but you can't tell if it does if your only criteria is "a minecraft map." however, actual, normal minecraft maps do not contain any viruses. If you want, you can scan it for viruses with some software
This is a custom map created by another user. To get the map for the Temple of Notch, look it up on Google or Youtube and find the link to the Minecraft Forums site, where the map is located. After downloading the map, go to your start menu and type in %appdata% into the search/run bar. After clicking enter, go into .minecraft and then into the folder titled Saves. Next, go to your Downloads folder in a different window and drag the map file into your Saves folder. After doing this, it should show up on Singleplayer maps! It is also possible that you may need to open the .rar file and take out a folder to use. To do this, you would need a program such as WinRAR or 7zip. After opening the map file, drag the folder into your Saves folder under .minecraft. It works pretty much the same way.
to play a map, open minecraft, then click singleplayer, choose the world, then click play selected world.
You have to create a server and load the map to the server.
First actually choose the map, and then save it under appdata/roaming/.minecraft/saves
You build a map, save it as a file, put it up for download on any website, and wait for the downloads to start rolling in.
firstly download the newest version of the map, you should now have a zip file, extract it and place it in an easily accesible place. the steps are differnet for single and multiplayer. for single player go to your .minecraft folder and find saves and simply place the extracted file there and when you load up MC it will now be a singleplayer worlds list. for multiplayer you have to find the world folder, delete that and place the extracted map in there and rename it to "world" when you load up the sevrer the world will be changed to the cops and robbers map.
-if on a windows pc- 1. Click on start 2. Type %appdata% 3. Click .minecraft 4. Click saves 5. Extract the downloaded adventure map to here 6. If done correctly, it should now be in your saves folder in game.
once you download the map (this goes for any downloaded map by-the-way) take the folder with the map files, and place it in the "saves" folder of your minecraft files. to get to the minecraft files on Mac: go to finder library application support Minecraft OR - shortcut is SHIFT+COMMAND+G then type: ~/library/application support/minecraft
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Not a dat file, that isn't a map. Search the web for "Tyken's Test Map" for a nice selection of flat maps.
to play the mythic map pack, after its downloaded, go to halo3. then click on custom games and it will load them to the game.
Download them and if it is an adventure or parkour map place it in your saves file to play the map.Your saves file should be under %app% in the .minecraft folder.
1. Build your map on Creative. 2. On a computer, download an iPhone file viewing program like iExplorer. 3. Sync your iPhone onto the computer. 4. Open the program you downloaded and use it to find the level.dat of your map. 5. Drag the file onto your computer. 6. Go to seedscope.net and find the Survival to Creative option. Upload your level.dat file and download the new one. Replace the old .dat file with the new one. 7. Enjoy the survival map!
You will need to place the adventure map in the saves file. The easiest way to get to the saves file is to open up minecraft and go to the texture packs. Then click view texture pack folder. When you are in the texture packs file, just go back a couple of files in your .minecraft and there will be a folder called saves. BOOM you're done! :)