Map Book
An atlas that holds many maps in one item, draws itself as you travel, and can be shared with other players.
Crafting
Shapeless: 1 empty map + 1 book. It stacks to 16.
Adding maps
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Right-click with an empty map in the off hand | New scale 0 map centred on you |
| Right-click with a filled map in the off hand | That map is added to the book |
| Right-click with nothing relevant in the off hand | Spends the first empty map in your inventory: scale 2 from the hotbar, scale 4 from elsewhere |
| Right-click a banner | Toggles that banner's marker on the nearest map |
| Right-click with shears in the off hand | Tears out the map covering your position and returns it |
Duplicate maps are rejected. Tearing a map out needs at least two maps in the book and costs one durability on the shears.
Reading it
Right-click with the book in hand to open the atlas. It does not pause the game.
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Drag with either mouse button | Pan |
| Scroll | Zoom, 1.15x per notch |
| Shift + left click | Plant a shared red X marker |
| Shift + left click on the marker | Clear it |
| Middle click | Teleport to that coordinate, creative only |
Zoom runs from 0.005x to 10x and interpolates toward your cursor. World X and Z under the cursor are shown near the bottom.
Everything is drawn at its true world position, largest scale first, so overlapping maps compose into one continuous picture rather than a stack of tiles.
Sharing an atlas
Put a Map Book and a book into a cartography table. You get two books sharing the same id.
Everyone holding a copy sees:
- The same set of maps
- The same shared marker
- Each other, as rotating labelled icons in their team colour
The server pushes the map list, holder list and marker to every holder each tick, so it stays live.
The locator bar
Holding a map or Map Book changes what the locator bar shows. Instead of player dots you get:
- One dot per map decoration in range, drawn within 60 degrees of your view
- The shared red X, when you are in its dimension
- Other book holders in their team colour, with up and down arrows when they are far above or below you
- Styled waypoints, such as the lost-horse marker
Dots fade with distance and disappear beyond 10000 blocks.
Keeping it
The Map Book accepts Curse of Vanishing, goes in chiseled bookshelves, and is kept on death by default on servers running Fairlands.