Map

Map is an item that draws the land around the player holding it, seen from above.

Obtaining

Crafting

Each map crafted is a new, blank map with the next number, starting from 0. It is centred on the block where the crafter stands, in the crafter's dimension.

Taking a map from the crafting table with shift-click gives map 0, the first map made in the world, instead of a new one.

Usage

Drawing

A map is 128 × 128 pixels, and each pixel covers 8 × 8 blocks.

A map fills in only while it is held, and only in the dimension it was made in. It redraws everything within 128 blocks of the holder every 16 ticks. Areas never drawn stay blank.

What a map shows

Each pixel shows the most common top block in its 8 × 8 area, in the colour of what that block is made of:

Colour	Blocks
Light green	Grass
Dark green	Leaves, Cactus, pumpkins, jack 'o' lanterns and every other plant
Pale yellow	Sand, Gravel, Soul Sand
Brown	Dirt, Farmland
Dark brown	Wood, Wooden Planks and every other wooden block but the slab
Grey	Stone, Cobblestone, Moss Stone, Bedrock, Obsidian, Bricks, Sandstone, Netherrack, Glowstone, the ores, Lapis Lazuli Block, every slab, Stone Stairs, furnaces, dispensers, monster spawners, the stone pressure plate and pistons
Light grey	Wool, beds, Sponge, Cobweb, iron doors and the blocks of iron, gold and diamond
Blue-grey	Clay
White	Snow
Pale blue	Ice
Blue	Water
Red	Lava, TNT

Glass, torches, redstone, repeaters, rails, ladders, levers, buttons, fire, portals and cake are not drawn. The map shows the block beneath them.

A pixel is drawn lighter where its ground is higher than in the pixel above it on the map, and darker where it is lower. Water is shaded by depth instead, and deep water is darker.

Markers

A white marker shows where the player carrying the map stands and which way they face. It disappears while that player is outside the map's area or in another dimension.

The map's name, such as map_0, is written in its top left corner.

In the Nether

A map made in the Nether draws a fixed pattern of brown and grey that does not follow the terrain, and only within 64 blocks of the holder. Its marker points in random directions.

Data values

• Item ID: 358
• Translation key: item.map

A map's number is its damage value. Its picture is saved in the world folder as data/map_<number>.dat.