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Mappers
Overhead mappers create a visual map of your world's terrain. Many mappers have options for different overhead and angled modes, and some will limit the map to selected block types or slice the map into smaller pieces.
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| Name | Description | Platforms | Link | Status | Latest Compatible Release | Source available | Programming language | Author |
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c10t |
Command-line. A rewrite of Cartograph. Official support for Linux builds, works for Windows and Mac, but requires compilation. |   
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? | if compiled from source on github | Yes, BSD | C++ | udoprog (John-John Tedro) | |
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Cartograph G |
Branch from Cartograph. Supports the latest updates and some fixes of Cartograph bugs. New features are added, including an enhanced GUI and support for mods. |
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? | ? | Not yet | C++ (renderer), VB (interface) | Gameslinder | |
JourneyMap |
Real-time mapping in-game or a web browser as you explore. Daylight, moonlight, caves, Nether, and End mapping. Nearby monster and player locations. Single- and multi-player worlds, no server plugin required. |
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? | ? | No | Java, DHTML | techbrew (Mark Woodman) | |
mcmap |
Command-line + Windows GUI. Mcmap Live available for Mac GUI. |
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? | ? | Yes | C++ | Zahl | |
MCMap Live |
Interactive GUI, Xray maps, and biome support. |
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? | ? | Yes | Objective-C++ | Donkey Kong | |
mcmapDZ |
Quick tool for creating isometric web maps of very large worlds using the mcmap mapper by Zahl and hdmake (example render here). GUI and CLI versions available. |
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? | ? | Yes | Python/C# | NotTarts/Zahl | |
Minecraft Overviewer |
A Google Maps powered overview that draws your map in 30 degree oblique mode with a high level of detail. An ExMaple render is available at [1] |
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? | ? | Yes, GPL | Python/C | Overviewer Team | |
| File:Mcwm-screenshot-map2.jpg
Minecraft World Map |
MinecraftWorldMap.com is a web-based solution for sharing Minecraft Worlds with your friends and the community. Just upload your world and the map is automatically rendered for you! | ? | ? | ? | No | perl | skeight | |
Minetographer |
Intuitive GUI for creating detailed, zoomable map renders of you Minecraft worlds. Powered by Tectonicus, Minetographer is fast and easy to use. |
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? | ? | Not yet | Java | jakester2 | |
Pigmap |
Fast renderer designed for very large worlds. Supported platforms are Linux and Cygwin. No binaries; must be built from source. |
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? | ? | Yes, GPL | C++ | equalpants | |
Tectonicus |
Renders high-detail zoomable versions of minecraft maps, viewable via google maps. Command line only. For a gui see Minetographer.
View example map Wiki instructions |
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? | ? | Yes | Java | OrangyTang | |
TOGoS's Minecraft Map Renderer |
Simple and fast region-based overhead map imaging tool designed to efficiently update extremely large maps as a set of tiles. |
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? | ? | Yes | Java | TOGoS | |
u10i |
GUI for c10t, includes single and batch processing. |
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? | ? | No | C# | conker87 (Simon Fletcher) | |
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Unmined |
Live 2D overhead map for anvil (1.2+) worlds. Supports Nether, Ender and underground. |
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? | ? | No | Delphi | megasys | |
MCPEedit |
Overhead map viewer made for Minecraft Pocket edition, includes rendering of layers and saving renders to png. |
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? | ? | Yes | Java | jocopa3 | |
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Chunky |
Minecraft map 3D Render |
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? | ? | No | Java | nrub
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Map Viewers
Map viewers are read-only and have an interactive interface.
| Name | Description | Platforms | Link | Status | Latest Compatible Release | Source available | Programming language | Author |
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Eihort |
Optimized 3D map viewer with an extremely long view distance. Perfect for taking screenshots of your massive builds, or just exploring the world. Includes smooth lighting, biome colouring and customizable block types. |
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? | ? | Yes, BSD | C++ | Lloigor | |
Minecraft AutoMap |
Displays a highly customizable live-updated map of your surroundings, including nearby creatures and players. Works in Singleplayer and Multiplayer. The map runs in a separate window from Minecraft so it can be sized and positioned, fullscreened, or placed on top of Minecraft like a minimap. Requires Risugami's ModLoader, .NET 4.0, and XNA 4.0. |
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? | ? | Yes, MS-PL | C# | bp2008, Ceii | |
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Minecraft X-Ray |
3D map viewer that highlights minerals. Loads Minecraft levels as far back as Alpha, all the way through the current Anvil format. Supports user-supplied custom blocks for mod support. |
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? | ? | Yes, BSD | Java | plusminus, xolotl | |
Minutor |
GUI, interactive, shows slices of your map up to the desired height. Supports all blocks from the official 1.3.1 release, including viewing The End. |
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? | ? | Yes, BSD | C/ObjC/C++ | mrkite77
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minecraft-dungeons.com |
Web-based, written in CoffeeScript, uses Three.js. By default shows locations of dungeons and diamonds. Can load .mca files directly from a CORS-enabled web server. Alpha. |
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? | ? | Yes, MIT | CoffeeScript | ithkuil |
Map Editors
Map editors alter an existing level's terrain or other properties, such as player position and time of day. Some of them also let you edit your inventory and generate terrain.
| Name | Description | Platforms | Link | Status | Latest Compatible Release | Source available | Programming language | Author |
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Minecraft Land Generator |
Expands a Standard (or modded level with server-mods) to any size specified. Useful for Pre-generating terrain for mappers, or reducing server load. |
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? | ? | Yes, Public Domain | Java | Morlok8k, Corrodias | |
MCEdit |
The first 3D editor. Created to import older levels into the new Alpha levels. Fly around in 3D and select blocks, then copy or export them. Import blocks from schematics or from entire Classic levels. Resize a level by creating or deleting chunks. |
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? | ? | Yes, Public Domain | Python | codewarrior (David Vierra), taken over by Tktech | |
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Avanti! |
Avanti! is a world editor for Minecraft. It is designed to be like a simple paint program, but with blocks instead of pixels. Avanti! provides simple tools to draw and erase blocks, plus a few more advanced features. |
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? | ? | No | C# | Avantian | |
buildawall |
Buildawall puts a wall around your existing world, creating a psychological and in-game division between old and new. This makes transitions between chunks generated by two different versions of minecraft much less obvious. |
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? | ? | Yes | Python | Mike Verdone | |
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Minecraft Editor |
You can fly or walk in a Minecraft level. Display blocks and mobs, read new Anvil regions, display blocks in X-Ray mode, multi-selection, terrain generator, up to 50 different languages, double-Click and zoom, select a player and zoom on him, display level as a planet (levels with 8 by 4 regions). |
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? | ? | No | CSharp .Net | Axialmedia | |
Creative Mode Plus |
Top-down builder for constructing buildings and dungeons quickly and easily for Minecraft maps. |
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? | ? | Yes | CSharp .Net | MyPace (Caleb Waggoner) |
Map Generators
These programs will either create a new level with custom terrain, or "implant" new blocks into an existing level.
| Name | Description | Platforms | Link | Status | Latest Compatible Release | Source available | Programming language | Author |
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Terrain Control |
Some of Terrain Controls Features:
- Adjust the ratio of land to ocean and the size of continents - Control global and per-biome terrain parameters - Tweak settings for Minecraft's built-in biomes and your own custom biomes - Fine-tune resource distribution to your taste - Add custom objects and trees to your world - Enable or disable Minecraft's villages, strongholds, pyramids and abandoned mines - Has an User Interface (by Genae) to easily modify the config files - Revert to Minecraft 1.7's terrain generator to continue expanding your legacy worlds - Generate a Map from an Image - Runs with craftbukkit and on SSP. |
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? | ? | Yes | Java | Khoorn | |
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Mace |
Creates a regular MineCraft world with a randomly generated city at the spawn point. |
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? | ? | Yes, GPL | C# | Robson | |
MCDungeon |
Creates randomly generated dungeons in an existing level. |
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? | ? | Yes, MIT | Python | Eggplant | |
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MCTerra |
Can generate flat maps, bio-sphere maps, desert maps, golden tunnels maps, and planetoid maps |
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? | ? | No | Delphi | Mozzg | |
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Minecraft Map Generator |
Generates terrain based on user-defined terrain functions. Includes a GUI with map preview. |
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? | ? | Yes | Java | TOGoS | |
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TopoMC |
The TopoMC project facilitates the construction of superficially realistic Minecraft worlds leveraging data from the USGS, specifically the NED and NLCD datasets. |
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? | ? | Yes, MIT License | Python | Mathuin | |
WorldPainter |
WorldPainter is an interactive, graphical map generator which allows you to mould a landscape with paint-like tools that can change the shape and type of the terrain, set the biomes, add forests, snow, ice, resources and caverns and much more. It has limited support for editing existing maps, but is primarily a map generator. |
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? | ? | Yes, GPL | Java | Captain_Chaos |
