Xaero's World Map

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Project overview

Do not use XaeroPlus with this mod! It is not affiliated with me and causes critical untrackable bugs/crashes. It is also allegedly affiliated with a server griefing group, which can put your server builds at risk. Xaero's World Map mod adds a self-writing fullscreen map to your Minecraft client. Works as a separate mod but is a lot better with Xaero's Minimap. The reason why it's available separately is to keep Xaero's Minimap as light-weight as possible. This mod is mostly client-sided. Installing it on the server side is optional for some additional features like world identification. The mod is still in development! Please report any bugs that you encounter or otherwise they probably won't get fixed. Make sure your world is optimized ( Singleplayer - Edit - Optimize World ) for the Minecraft version you're playing (repeat after every Minecraft update). It takes A LOT longer to generate singleplayer maps from unoptimized world saves. Follow me on Mastodon (Twitter alternative)? mas.to/@xaero96 Support me on Patreon? patreon.com/xaero96 Thank you! Features A self-writing world map (as opposed to manual paper maps). You can create multiple maps on the same server address and switch between them either manually or automatically. Works in Singleplayer, Multiplayer and on Realms. Intuitive interface. Open the map screen by pressing M . Move the map around with your mouse and zoom in/out using the mouse wheel , similar to Google Maps. All relevant controls are listed in a tooltip on the map screen and you can customize a lot of them. Optional automatic multiple world detection on servers. Server-sided configs with an in-game UI screen that let you control in real time how players on your server are able to use the mod. You can base it on ranks/permission (xaero.world_map.enforced_server_profile). Supports FTB Ranks, Odyssey Roles, LuckPerms and general permission APIs. Displays chunk claims and ally players from the Open Parties and Claims mod. Lets you claim or forceload chunks directly from the map. Resource pack support. Changing the resource packs causes the whole world map to regenerate. Cave dimensions support (for example the Nether). Optional vanilla maps mode, which makes the world map look like the vanilla paper maps. Terrain shading customization. "Footsteps" that show you your most recent path taken. Settings that can help improve the performance of the mod when necessary. Although in most cases the mod should perform great by default. Xaero's Minimap integration. The minimap mod will display chunks provided by the world map. The world map mod will display waypoints from the Xaero's Minimap mod. Also works with the Better PVP mod . You can create, edit and teleport to the waypoints without leaving the map interface. Potion effects to control the usage of the world map for the players on your server/map. The following potion effects exist as of writing this: xaeroworldmap:no_world_map. The effects are of the neutral type by default, but you can also specify a harmful type by appending _harmful to the end of the effect ID, for example xaeroworldmap:no_world_map_harmful . Since version 1.14.0 of the mod, you can open an on-map waypoint menu by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner of the map screen. In the waypoint menu, you can see a list of all your map waypoints from the rendered sets, interact with them with the mouse cursor, filter them by name in a text field. The menu also lets you toggle the visibility of disabled waypoints, toggle rendering all sets and change the current waypoint set. Hovering over the waypoints in the menu also acts as hovering over them on the map: they are highlighted on the map and you can use the right-click or hover controls to interact with them. An option to export a map as a PNG image file. The mod tries to export the whole map, so it might not work, if the map is millions of blocks in length. I'm planning to give more options for exporting the map in the future! Option to limit your map access by binding it to an item required in your hotbar or to be equipped. For example, add mapItemId:minecraft:compass anywhere in the config file to bind it to the compass item. This way the map will not work unless you have the compass in your hotbar or equipped. Forum thread | Get Xaero's Minimap FAQ How do I restore pre 1.30 update Nether maps in multiplayer to be displayed in the "full" cave mode type? First, exit the server and locate the Minecraft game directory that you're using to play on the server. In the game directory, go into xaero/world-map/Multiplayer_[server_address]/DIM-1/[map_folder] . In older versions, xaero/world-map is simply XaeroWorldMap . If such doesn't exist already, create a folder called " caves ", without the quotation marks, and go into it. Inside the caves folder, create a folder called " -2147483648 ", without the quotation marks, if such doesn't exist already. Go back into the folder that contains the " caves " folder and move all " .zip " files to the caves/-2147483648 folder. Feel free to delete the cache folders or also move them with the " .zip " files. How do I set up cave mode to behave like it used to pre 1.30 before cave mode wa

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Compatibility at a glance

Minecraft versions in this snapshot: 1.20.5, 1.20.3, 1.19.3, 1.17.1, 1.17, 1.15.2, 1.14.4, 1.8.9, 1.19, 1.18.1, 1.18, 1.16.1

Loaders and platforms: Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt, undefined

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