The worlds of Minecraft are massive, and you can easily lost from your base. To keep yourself on track, you need to make a map in Minecraft. By combining a compass with eight pieces of paper, the player can make a map in Minecraft.
If you hold a map when you are traveling, it’ll help you to stay on your track and it’ll track your location and record information about the land and the location around you. You can craft or trade for or find the maps in the world of Minecraft.
This map will defiantly help you to figure out where you are, where you have been, and where are headed to. And once you’ve got a map in “Minecraft,” you can add your custom markers or banners to mark off special points in this game.
Here is how to make a map and then how to use it in this amazing game, Minecraft.
How to make or find a map in Minecraft?
There are three ways to find or make a map in Minecraft. You can craft a map, you can trade for one or you can find the map in a chest in Minecraft.
When you are going to make a map in this game, you’ll need to compass and eight pages of paper. You can also craft paper and compass with raw materials in Minecraft.
Note: If you are playing this game in Bedrock Edition, You can also combine nine pages of paper to craft a basic map that can also draw the land or location around you, but it won’t track your location.
Bedrock Edition in Minecraft will also let you start a new game with a map that is already a crafted map.
First of all, we are telling you, how to make a paper? Paper can be crafted with sugar cane, this is one of the most common resources around in this world of Minecraft. Sugar cane can be found near water in both swamp and desert biomes.
You have to place three pieces of sugar cane in a row on the table of craft then it will give you three pieces of paper. So your paper is ready now you can use it. That means you need nine pieces of sugar cane for your map.
Second thing is that you need to craft a compass, you can craft a compass with four iron ingots and one piece of Redstone dust. You have to dig up to the bottom of the world to find out that iron ore and Redstone dust. You will need an iron pickaxe to mine the Redstone.
NOTE: Redstone may be found near lava so be careful when to start to dig.
When you got one piece of Redstone and four iron ore blocks, smelt this ore into four iron ingots with the furnace. Then on your table of crafts, you need to put four ingots in four spaces adjacent to the block’s center. Now you have to place Redstone dust there.
When you got all your materials so it means that you have finally crafted your map. Now you need to put the compass in the center slot of the 3×3 area of the crafting table and insert a piece of paper in each of the other nine slots.
Wait a moment, it is a good thing the map is ready but it’s a piece of bad news, the map is empty and it is useless for the player now the player needs to fill it first.
No doubt, you will have a little bit of idea that many items can be crafted in Minecraft but most items can be found in this game.
It is a fact that you can try to find your map in Treasure chests, but it is not confirmed that your map defiantly will be there in these treasure chests, because, there is only an 8% chance to get a map in the sunken shipwrecks teaser chests.
Infect, If we talk about the treasure chests in a stronghold’s library, so there are 11%chance to find the map in these treasure chests, and there is about a 50% chance to find a map in a cartographer’s chest in a village.
It is said that if you find a map in cartographer, so you can trade with them and ask them to buy a map for seven or eight emeralds in the village.
How to use a map in Minecraft?
It would not be wrong to say, the empty map is not useful for you. You just need to fill up this map. As we know that it is an easy task to fix this map. Simply use the map to draw a picture of everything around you in the world of Minecraft.
Now you need to start Walking around with the map and fill the map with more and more of your surroundings. Now you can keep track with the tiny white marker. No doubt, the world of Minecraft is much bigger than what is shown on your map. If the player leaves the range, you have to make a new map to keep track.
By combining the map with eight more pages of paper at your crafting table, you can zoom out the map. And you can also zoom out the map by combining only one more piece of paper at a cartography table.
You can be done this up to four times in Minecraft, and each zoom level doubles the current range of the map.
Marking a location on Map
We can say that your map becomes more valuable when you have added a custom location marker. If you want to make note of any important or specific area, the colored dots of the marker will show up on your map.
First of all, you’ll need to make the banner to place a marker. If you want to craft a banner you can place six pieces of wool in the top two rows, and one stick in the bottom middle slot of your table of crafts. By using an anvil, you can also make the name of your banner.
When you will get your banner, travel to that spot you want to mark and put your banner down. Then you should hold the map and use the map on the banner. If you succeed to did it correctly, you can see a dot that shows up on your map. With the markers you add yourself, you would not see many icons on the map.
