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Cartography Table

A utility block used to clone, zoom out, and lock maps. Also combines maps with glass panes to lock them.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.14

Item ID

cartography_table

Cartography Table at a glance

Crafting and Village (Cartographer house) give you Cartography Table, a block filed under Utility Blocks. A single slot takes 64 Cartography Table, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest. Feed Cartography Table to a furnace and 1.5 smelts follow, 96 from a stack of 64.

Breaking Cartography Table works against a hardness of 2.5. It carries the same 2.5 into an explosion. Any axe will do on Cartography Table, from wood upward. It sits between Candle and Cauldron in Utility Blocks, number 75 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
Oak PlanksOak Planks
Oak PlanksOak Planks
Oak PlanksOak Planks
Oak PlanksOak Planks
Cartography TableCartography Table
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Cartography Table has the grid for Cartography Table

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Village (Cartographer house)

Fuel value

Cartography Table burns for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Cartography Table

Notes

Serves as the Cartographer villager job site block. Locked maps cannot be updated.

Frequently asked questions about Cartography Table

  1. How do you get Cartography Table in Minecraft?

    Cartography Table is crafted from Paper and Oak Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from Village (Cartographer house), not just the recipe above.

  2. Cartography Table as a block, next to the axe its 2.5 hardness asks for

    How long does Cartography Table take to break?

    Mining Cartography Table works against 2.5; explosions on it work against 2.5. Both numbers on Cartography Table being equal is the usual case, and it is not built to hold off explosives. Any axe will do on Cartography Table, from wood upward. Java 26.2 is the release Cartography Table was read from, figure by figure on it.

  3. How many Cartography Table can you stack?

    64 Cartography Table fills a slot, and that slot costs 128 Paper and 256 Oak Planks, which is 64 crafts at the crafting table.

  4. Can Cartography Table be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Cartography Table burns 15 seconds apiece, or 1.5 items out of a single one. Set against its recipe, Cartography Table carries the heat that Paper and Oak Planks would have given. One Oak Planks on its own gives 15 seconds, next to the 15 of Cartography Table.

  5. What is Cartography Table used for?

    A utility block used to clone, zoom out, and lock maps. Also combines maps with glass panes to lock them.

Building with it

Two paper and four planks give the table that handles maps: zooming, copying, locking and adding markers. Zooming by hand costs eight paper a step and the table costs one, so anyone who maps a world seriously builds this before the second expansion.