Tutorials/Programs and editors/Mapping

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.

Name	Description	Platforms	Link	Status	Latest Compatible Release	Source available	Programming language	Author
c10t	Command-line. A rewrite of Cartograph. Official support for Linux builds, works for Windows and Mac, but requires compilation.		Forum  Website	?	if compiled from source on github	Yes, BSD	C++	udoprog (John-John Tedro)
File:Cartograph G Wool rainbow and trees.PNG 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.		Forum	?	?	Not yet	C++ (renderer), VB (interface)	Gameslinder
Chunky	Minecraft map 3D Render. Very high quality results but takes a long time to run (best to have it done during the night)		Website	?	?	Yes, GPL	Java	nrub
File:Journeymap2 0 1.jpg JourneyMap	Client mod for real-time mapping in-game or web browser. Surface, cave, Nether, and End mapping. Radar for mobs and multiplayer. Supports Rei's and VoxelMap's waypoints. Requires ModLoader or Forge.		Forum  Website	?	?	No	Java, DHTML	techbrew (Mark Woodman)
mapcrafter	Renders Minecraft worlds to Google Maps with an isometric 3D perspective. Four rendering directions available. Works with current Minecraft version, but at the moment a few blocks are not supported.		Forum  Website	?	(except some blocks)	Yes, GPL	C++	m0r13
MCAMap	MCAMap is a simple, easy to use stand alone mapping program which can render maps over 32,000 x 32,000 blocks/pixels and supports Minecraft 1.6.2! If the website link does not work, there is an alternate link on the forum page.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, Limited	Visual Basic 6.0/.NET	Sean Forrest
mcmap	Command-line + Windows GUI. Mcmap Live available for Mac GUI.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes	C++	Zahl
MCMap Live	Interactive GUI, Xray maps, and biome support.		Forum	?	?	Yes	Objective-C	Donkey Kong/Voikya
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.		Forum	?	?	Yes	Python/C#	NotTarts/Zahl
MCPEedit	Overhead map viewer made for Minecraft Pocket edition, includes rendering of layers and saving renders to png.		Forum	?	?	Yes	Java	jocopa3
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]		Website	?	?	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!	?	Forum  Website	?	?	No	perl	skeight
Pigmap	Fast renderer designed for very large worlds. Supported platforms are Linux and Cygwin. No binaries; must be built from source.		Website	?	(except monster heads)	Yes, GPL	C++	equalpants + github community contributors
Tectonicus	Renders high-detail zoomable versions of minecraft maps, viewable via google maps. Command line only. View example map Wiki instructions		Forum  Website	?	(missing Mob Heads, Item Frames, Tripwire)	Yes, BSD	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 (one per region) that can be combined externally (or by TMCMR for less huge worlds). Supports custom color mappings and arbitrary translucency for any block.		Website	?	?	Yes	Java	TOGoS
File:Unmined-v0.2.108dev-200.png Unmined	Live 2D overhead map for anvil (1.2+) worlds. Nether, End, underground, custom blocks, Google Maps generator.		Forum  Website	?	?	No	Delphi	megasys

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
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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, BSD	C++	Lloigor
Dynmap	A Google Maps like interface on Minecraft, accessible through a web browser. It's actually a mod.		Forum	?	?	Yes, BSD	HTML/CSS/PHP	?
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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, MS-PL	C#	bp2008, Ceii
File:Minecraft Map Overviewer Setup.png Minecraft Map Overviewer Setup	This program generates a map for your minecraft world.		Website	?	?	No	Visual Basic.net	Randoma Programming, inc.
File:Minecraft X-ray.PNG 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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, BSD	Java	plusminus, xolotl
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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, MIT	CoffeeScript	ithkuil
Minutor	GUI, interactive, shows slices of your map up to the desired height. Supports all blocks from the official 1.4.2 release, including viewing The End.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, BSD	C/ObjC/C++	mrkite77
File:Flower.PNG MCPEWorldViewer	Does not have a user interface and is currently under extreme development. Allows you to open minecraft pocket edition worlds and view them in 3D on your computer.		Forum	?	?	Not yet	Java	jocopa3

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
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.		Forum  Website	?	?	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 more obvious.		Website	?	?	Yes	Python	Mike Verdone
Creative Mode Plus	Top-down builder for constructing buildings and dungeons quickly and easily for Minecraft maps.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes	C#	MyPace (Caleb Waggoner)
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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, Public Domain	Python	Currently and formerly codewarrior (David Vierra), was briefly taken over by TKtech during Codewarrior's sabatical.
File:Minecraft.jpg Minecraft Editor	You can fly or walk in a Minecraft level. Display blocks and mobs, import/export blocks, display blocks in X-Ray mode, multi-selection, clipboard functions, up to 50 different languages, double-Click and zoom, select a player and zoom on him, help and tutorials are available in the program.		Website	?	?	No	C#	Axialmedia
File:MLG 1.7.0 win.PNG 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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, Public Domain	Java	Morlok8k, Corrodias

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
Mace	Creates a regular MineCraft world with a randomly generated city at the spawn point.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, GPL	C#	Robson
MCDungeon	Creates randomly generated dungeons in an existing level.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, MIT	Python	Eggplant
MCTerra	Can generate flat maps, bio-sphere maps, desert maps, golden tunnels maps, and planetoid maps		Forum	?	?	No	Delphi	Mozzg
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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes	Java	Khoorn
TOGoS's Minecraft Map Generator	Generates new chunks based on user-defined functions. Functions have complete control over block placement and can use 3D Perlin and Simplex noise to generate any combination of oceans, continents, caves, lava pits, mountains of wool, giant obsidian sponges, etc.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes	Java	TOGoS
File:TopoMC-Example.png TopoMC	The TopoMC project facilitates the construction of superficially realistic Minecraft worlds leveraging data from the USGS, specifically the NED and NLCD datasets.		Forum  Website	?	?	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.		Forum  Website	?	?	Yes, GPL	Java	Captain_Chaos
MCPEGenerator	This program is in development. It generates worlds using simplex noise algorithm and allows for four different types of generation. All aspects of the generator are customizable.		Forum	?	?	No	Java	jocopa3
Seibai's Primordial Desert Map Generator	Generates a desert world with dunes, sharp stone mountains and underground dungeons. The map has a bedrock wall around it. Outside of that bedrock wall you will find normal terrain. Survival is very hard in the desert because food and wood are extremely rare. This still works with 1.5.2, even though it does not generate new ores!		Forum  Website	?	?	No	N/A	Seibai
Seibai's Forest Map Generator	Generates a forest surrounded by bedrock walls. The map is quite flat (around 30 blocks high). Even though the generator was made for Alpha 1.2.1_01 it still works with 1.5.2, but only if you convert the world twice (first with a Beta 1.7.3 jarfile, then with a 1.0 Jarfile and finally with 1.5.2).		Forum  Website	?	?	No	N/A	Seibai
Seibai's Dungeon Adventure Generator	Generates a huge world made of 4 sections. The player goes through dungeons to reach the final world. The dungeons are randomly chosen from a variety of different area-types. The travelling works through nether portals; the player goes into a nether portal, walks along a small hallway and goes into another portal to reach the next area.		Forum  Website	?	?	No	N/A	Seibai
Seibai's Planetoids Map Generator	Generates planetoids made of different materials. The entire map is surrounded by bedrock walls. The stone planetoids keep materials inside such as ores. The leaf-planetoids hold a massive wooden core.		Forum  Website	?	?	No	N/A	Seibai
Seibai's Golden Tunnels Map Generator	Generates a nearly flat world with giant tunnels in the underground, containing trees, glowstone and ores. Even though the generator was made for Alpha 1.2.1_01 it still works with 1.5.2, but only if you convert the world twice (first with a Beta 1.7.3 jarfile, then with a 1.0 Jarfile and finally with 1.5.2).		Forum  Website	?	?	No	N/A	Seibai
Seibai's Mystical Islands Map Generator	Generates a skylands-style map with many settable parameters (just as island size etc.). The generator was created for Beta 1.3 but you can still use it by first converting the world with a 1.0 jarfile and then converting it again with a 1.5.2 jarfile.		Forum  Website	?	?	No	N/A	Seibai