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I'm surprised this isn't common knowledge by now but the in game map on MC360 is actually 862x862, not the 1024x1024 you see everywhere. It's easy enough to check with the maps now listing coordinates and as you visit each corner you will see each axis traverses from -431 to +431. However if you play around at 0 on either axis you'll notice 0 block seems to actually be two blocks wide. So perhaps it's technically 863x863. I plan on checking in the near future.


Also wouldn't it be nice to have maps update as the world changes? I know I just put in several hours building an edge of the map highway/railway only to be disappointed when it didn't show up on the map and as such wasn't easily noticed by other players with there maps as I had hoped.

I'm not sure I understand your question completely, so forgive me if I'm reading it incorrectly, but structures do show up on maps.

Yeah my question was "wouldn't it be nice to have real time updating?"

And then perhaps I will have to double check but I had a 5x500 strip of structure crossing a large section of water that was not appearing on my in game map.

Okay Glad my reading comprehension is in full swing. Maps do indeed update with the environment. Perhaps reboot your game if it is not showing up? Something that large should be rather noticeable on a map.

Maps only seem to update for me when I have one out, and then I have to re-update the chunks by walking over them.

The map size has been known to be 862x862 since before the coordinates were added to maps. The people who say its 1024x1024 just can't get it through their heads.

Maps only update if you're holding them. On top of that, one pixel represents an 8x8 section, or 1/4 chunk. I suppose if your 5-wide road were straddling a dividing line between two sections, it'd make up the least-prevalent block type in either section, and thus the more common block type would appear for that pixel on the map.

I had started a massive build & laid down about half the foundation, and man, did it show up on the map!

Yeah they need to increase the map pixel density, to match that of the PC version.

The in-game item map is 1024x1024. The world you walk in is actually 864x864 not 862.

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The world you walk in is actually 864x864 not 862.

It's 2 blocks man two blocks, let it go.