Once maps come out in the next update, we should be able to 'store' a map inside a book, FINALLY making books useful as more than a step in making purely decoration blocks. Holding a book and right-clicking would bring up a menu with the options for observing the contents or storing a map. The map storing option would bring up another menu similar to a chest but maybe with fewer slots and only maps can be placed into them. Observing the contents would bring something up similar to the map itself (only being able to see it if you're actually looking down at it) that looks like an open book with a scaled down version of the maps you've stored on those pages that are navigated by pressing a keyboard button or right clicking or maybe just another menu to look at them with "Previous Page" and "Next Page" buttons. I was thinking we could see two pages at once, one with the scaled map and a page next to it where we can add notes. I know it might seem a bit complicated for Minecraft, but it would be a useful feature to have when you're out navigating huge areas or just need a place to put all your maps. I'm sure there are ways to simplify all this though.
I think this is an amazing idea. I love it, nothing more to say cause I think its awesome so that when you have lots of maps they don't spam your inventory space.
I don't think they'll implement it with a chunk grid format. I mean, you spawn randomly so if you created a map and you were, say, very close to the south eastern corner of that chunk set, now you've got a map you can only fill by exploring toward one quarter of the compass. Now, if they implemented the maps in such a way that is always filled in from the center outwards, you could make more natural and realistic chartings of the land. For instance, let's say the maximum amount of blocks a map can fit in it's recording capacity is 1,000 x 1,000 blocks, now all you have to do is make a complete map from the center of where you spawned (or wherever you wanna start mapping from) then go to the very edge of the complete map and travel 500 blocks straight outwards in one of the cardinal directions (north, east, west, south) as close to the middle of that edge as you can get and create another map there and fill it out. Now you have two maps that fit together perfectly at the edges AND if you want to look at a map of a specific area, let's say a spot that's right in the middle of a 2 x 2 set of chunk sections, you don't have to keep switching between four different maps to get an idea of what that area looks like in your head from trying to memorize one small part of four maps, you can just create a map at the center of the area you want to observe and fill out from there until you can see what you're trying to see. This makes charting the land more like real life and much more dynamic. I mean, not all maps of the world were drawn out from the exact edge of the last map someone made nor do they all coincidentally fit together like puzzle pieces.
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What do you think?
I like it.