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Map
MiscellaneousCraftable

Map

A filled map that records explored terrain. Hold it and travel to reveal surrounding areas of the world.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

map

Map at a glance

Miscellaneous holds Map: an item out of crafting, chest loot, and trading with villagers. A single slot takes 64 Map, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Every shipwreck map chest contains one, and 4 other kinds of generated chest can hold it as well. Map sits between Magma Cream and Melon Seeds in Miscellaneous, number 80 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
CompassCompass
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
PaperPaper
MapMap

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Chest loot
  • Trading

Notes

A filled map can be zoomed out at a cartography table and cloned by combining it with empty maps.

Frequently asked questions about Map

  1. Paper, Compass going into Map, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Map in Minecraft?

    Map is crafted from Paper and Compass at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from chest loot, and Map from trading with villagers, not just the recipe above.

  2. Map on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Map used for?

    A filled map that records explored terrain. Hold it and travel to reveal surrounding areas of the world.

  3. 64 Map drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Map can you stack?

    64 Map fill one slot, and filling it costs 512 Paper and 64 Compass: 64 crafts. A double chest of Map comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  4. Map coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Map added to Minecraft?

    Map was added in the early Alpha development period.

  5. A chest beside Map, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Map in chests?

    Map is chest loot in shipwreck map chests (always), village cartographer chests (about 46%, 1 to 3 at a time), large underwater ruin chests (about 44%), and small underwater ruin chests (about 42%). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

Building with it

A filled map records the terrain you walk over, and copies of it update together. Framed on a wall in a grid, nine or more maps become a single large picture of the world, which is how most servers end up with a map room.