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When you enter a saved world a 2nd time and already had the full map explored, Is it suppose to repaint itself again?

eg: as you explore the fully explored map, some gray dots appear and have to be repainted. covers a small portion

hmm, not quite sure what you mean. Are you saying parts of the map un-map themselves? can you post a pic to show?

It changes to reflect changes in your world. i.e. large structures, excavations.

The map updates..

this is the map from "Couple Of Mountains"


the red box is the area where it repaints. notice the odd dots that dont belong? i understand that the map has to repaint, why does this happen if there are no changes to the map (eg: no blocks removed or added). this happens when re-entering a saved map and re-exploring it

The map is not constant. It will constantly change with each block placed/added and will constantly take a snapshot of the world. Some areas sometimes may get gibbled, its not a perfect snapshot, and this is common with everyone regardless to explore depth. I wouln't worry so much about such a small amount of detail that is missing.

The real test is, do those "questionable" pixels change/disappear when you get close to them (without changing/moving blocks)? or do they remain on your map? If they remain, then that is how the map is displaying that 8-block by 8-block space, if they do change, then you might be right, and the map may be loosing some data here and there... although those out-of-place dots look like where structures might be located to me.... or sandy areas... or possibly areas that were never fully mapped out.