Talk:Map item format

Colortable
After coming to the conclusion from Talk:Map (Item) about how the colors data should be used, it seems it is some sort of color-table, like in gifs. Although, we only know a few of these colors what they represent, and it seems it is over 50 that we are not sure what they are. I would suggest that someone adds this color-table as a table to this article. Probably the ids in the table is final as it would else destroy backwards compatibility for maps in the future. --McTwist 18:19, 27 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks to Gameslinder creating a PNG/DAT converter he checked what values it were and therefor got some color values. Currently these looks valid but needs to be validated by checking the colors on normal maps. It also seems that the fourth color for each group is the same as the second in the same group. --McTwist 19:39, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That looks very nice! I'll be able to validate those colors in a short time, I'm currently writing a program that renders these maps to an image file --Flippeh 22:12, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Someone should verify, but I'd guess 36-39 is clay - seems to be about the right color. As for the other grays, the first two sets might be Smooth and Cobblestone, but it's hard to say (I'm sure *one* of them is at least smooth stone).  The bottom one (44-47) may be Bedrock.  Obviously though, I'm guessing here based on the colors. --Warlock 22:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't actually think the colors represent types of blocks, since 1 pixel on the map is about 8 square blocks ingame, so the colors are best interpreted as they are, not what they could be. --Flippeh 22:34, 27 May 2011 (UTC)