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Empty Map

Items

Empty Map — item.

Obtaining

An empty map is crafted or found through map-related loot and trading. The cartography table also provides the main upgrade and copy workflow.

Crafting

crafting grid

PaperPaperPaperPaperCompassPaperPaperPaperPaper

Result

Empty Map

Ingredients match the published snapshot.

Usage

A map records explored terrain from a bird's-eye view and helps with navigation. Paper can expand the scale, a second map can clone it, and a glass pane can lock the current copy.

Data: Usage
Scale levels0/4 through 4/4
Coverage128 × 128 to 2,048 × 2,048 blocks
VariantsEmpty, map, locator map and locked map
ViewTop-down explored terrain
Image size128 × 128 pixels
Filled stateStores a Map ID and dimension

Sounds

Creating an empty map produces the cartography-table result sound on the server when the empty item is converted into a filled map.

Data: Sounds
Create result`ui.cartography_table.take_result`
Source implementationnet/minecraft/world/item/EmptyMapItem.java

Map data

A filled map stores its center, scale, dimension, and tracking flags in saved map data rather than in the visible item name. The image is always 128 by 128 pixels; increasing the scale covers a larger square while reducing detail. Player, frame, and banner markers are maintained separately from the terrain colors.

Data: Map data
Image size128 × 128 pixels
Scale range0–4
Coverage range128 × 128 to 2,048 × 2,048 blocks
Saved fieldsCenter, scale, dimension, tracking, lock state
MarkersPlayers, item frames, and banners

Data values

The item identifier is `minecraft:map`. A map is non-stackable while it carries map state; the scale and center are stored in the map data rather than in the item name.

Data: Data values
Identifierminecraft:map
VersionMinecraft 26.2
Item modelassets/minecraft/models/item/map.json
Stack size1
Maximum scale4/4
Base coverage128 × 128 blocks

History

  1. 26.2Item facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Empty Map image
Empty Map image · Local Minecraft asset
Paper
Scaling material · Local Minecraft asset
Compass
Crafting component · Local Minecraft asset
Cartography table
Map workstation · Local Minecraft asset

References

Map crafting and cartography operations are defined by `data/minecraft/recipe/map.json`, `map_extending.json`, and `map_cloning.json`; filled-map storage and the 128×128 image are implemented by `net/minecraft/world/item/MapItem.java`.

Data: References
Validated DeepMine snapshotValidated DeepMine snapshot
Snapshot ID918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Digest95dbd9be0803e7af3d5476fb63c664c78f899e45bc42516bd0c16256c2ef95be
Empty map reciperecipe/map.json
Scale reciperecipe/map_extending.json
Clone reciperecipe/map_cloning.json
Filled map implementationnet/minecraft/world/item/MapItem.java
Saved map datanet/minecraft/world/level/saveddata/maps/MapItemSavedData.java

Navigation

Data and provenance

minecraft:map

Snapshot digest verified.

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Facts

Facts are not available for this version yet.

Data source95dbd9be0803e7af3d5476fb63c664c78f899e45bc42516bd0c16256c2ef95be

Provenance and publication

Readiness
Pending
Snapshot
918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Source set
918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Entity identifier
minecraft:map
Digest
95dbd9be0803e7af3d5476fb63c664c78f899e45bc42516bd0c16256c2ef95be
Missing locales
ru, en