VIDEO: Minecraft: Create a map

Craft yourself a map in Minecraft

A simple overview map of already uncovered parts of the Minecraft- You can create a world from a compass and paper.

1. Collect the green stems, which are called sugar canes in English and are often mistakenly referred to as bamboo or reed.
2. If not already available, build a workbench (4 pieces of wood) in the 4 x 4 block and place 3 cane next to each other in the bottom row of the workbench. Now you have paper.
3. Mine iron ore and stones. Assemble a furnace from 8 stones (center remains empty) and melt iron on the ore, or craft the iron from an iron block.
4. Mine redstone and craft a compass from 4 pieces of paper and one redstone dust. (Redstone position an iron ingot in the middle, above, below and to the right and left).


Minecraft - using the map

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5. Put the compass in the middle of the workbench and cover it with 8 pieces of paper. It's that easy to make a map in Minecraft.

Create a map with an additional tool

There are many programs that you can use to create maps in Minecraft, most of which also provide an overview of areas that have not yet been explored. Of the Cartographer is such a program.

1. Download the Cartographer and Microsoft Vision C ++ Redistributable Package (x86) and install the two programs.
2. Open Cartographer and select a world that you want to create a map of. You can choose between different types of maps, under "normal" a flat map of the world is created as soon as you click on "render".
3. Wait until the map you want to create is ready. If you want to change something during the process, the program can crash.
4. If you want to create a map of the Minecraft world in which you can see heights, you have to select "Hightmap" and select "render".
5. Since you can also create maps of a nocturnal Minecraft world with this map program, you can easily find places where you have placed torches.