Tutorials/Programs and editors/Cartograph

Cartograph is a third party tool for mapping Infdev and Alpha levels. It only works for Windows and Linux. Basically, what you do is select your saved minecraft world and it maps it. Some game crashes have been reported after using cartographer. 89% of people like it. 11% has crashed for them.

As of the 17th of October 2010, Firemark's Linux port of Cartograph is confirmed working for the current Alpha version of Minecraft; this may be of value to Linux users, if they have limited options. It was later discovered to have deleted the map that was viewed, so anyone wanting to use it is advised to make a backup of their saved map first.

A YouTube video detailing this process is here.

On use, Cartograph also generates a text file called map .txt, which contains a useful summary of map information; the size of the map in square meters, and the number of different objects of various kinds.

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