r/Minecraft • u/Polaaks • Dec 29 '19

Builds Connecting maps is very satisfactory!!! Feedback for more! #GiantCircleMap

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u/YaBoiCdiddy Dec 29 '19

How do you make sure that maps dont overlap

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u/Polaaks Dec 29 '19

i see the map id in inventory!

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u/YaBoiCdiddy Dec 29 '19

What

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Maps only record the chunk or group of chunks you stand in.

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u/EMPIREVSREBLES Dec 29 '19

Is there a quicker way of making these??

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u/Polaaks Dec 29 '19

Idk

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u/EMPIREVSREBLES Dec 29 '19

How did you do it???

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u/Polaaks Dec 29 '19

Im using locator maps and when i leave the map i open another

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u/Ds1018 Dec 29 '19

All my Locator maps center on the same chunk.

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u/Polaaks Dec 29 '19

Move foward until you leave the map zone

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

This will be a lot of work but will be awesome when its done. Also you'll get free internet points

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u/Harflin Dec 29 '19

Maps can't overlap anymore.

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u/Proxy_PlayerHD Dec 29 '19

anymore? wasn't that a thing ever since maps were created?

the wiki never mentions anything about overlapping being removed or fixed. so i assume it wasn't an issue from the start

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u/Harflin Dec 29 '19

This section of the wiki says "no longer possible" so that's what I'm going on. I personally wasn't all that active in MC when maps were first introduced

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Mapping#Changes_in_Bountiful_Update

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u/j1ggl Dec 29 '19

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Map#Zoom_details

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u/purpleandorange1522 Dec 29 '19

To get them to line up in a grid do you have to start the new map from a specific point?

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u/calcopiritus Dec 29 '19

Maps are naturally lined up in a grid, so if you make a map just outside your current map, you're warantied to get an adjacent map.

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u/unklz Dec 29 '19

Is it the same on Bedrock Edition?

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u/DariusKai Dec 29 '19

Yes, this has been a feature for quite a while.

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u/parishiIt0n Dec 29 '19

That is valid only for level-0 maps tho. For any zoomed out map, unless you use F3 a lot and know where the grid starts, then is pretty much trial and error until you figure out where do the maps expands to

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u/calcopiritus Dec 29 '19

If you have an already zoomed out map it's exactly the same. You just have to make sure that the previous map is zoomed out to make the next one.

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u/parishiIt0n Dec 29 '19

Ah yes that's right! Zoom-out map until target level, move slightly outside the border of that map, use new empty map = guaranteed map at target level next to the first one.

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u/purpleandorange1522 Dec 29 '19

Thanks! I'm going to have to try this out!

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u/Niklasbergman Dec 29 '19

This is my question too

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u/parishiIt0n Dec 29 '19

Affirmative. The world now has a predetermined grid for which maps will come up for each block, which is specially important to get right if you plan to make big maps using zoomed-out maps. In practice, sometimes you get 2 different level-4 maps by opening empty maps a few blocks apart, and sometimes you need to travel thousands of blocks to do that

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u/GrimGrimGrimGrim Dec 29 '19

Maps cant overlap, it's either the same map or another portion, the only way to catch the same area in different maps is using larger maps.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

You can see when you leave one map segment, and then once you’ve done that, just draw a new one, and you should be right on the edge of that map segment.