Okay, in the Beta 1.6 update, maps were added to the game. I looked at the maps. I thought they were cool. Then after a while I started to notice how bland they are. That got me thinking, what if maps had placeable symbols. Heres a list of what I think should should be added:
Home
Mine
Cave
Portal
Way-point(ranges from 1-10)
Destination
X
Different colored markers for player locations in multiplayer(Idea by Ravenspact)
Each of these would have its own symbol. The symbols are completely up to the Mojang Team to decide. Its you have any more ideas, please feel free to add a reply with your ideas. These would be JUST symbols, no words. What should happen is that when your holding a map, just click the TAB button. A GUI will appear with all the symbols on it, then you just drag and drop onto your map. This could be very useful for many reasons. Your home is small, so the map wont detect its there, just add a symbol. Keep losing all the caves you find, just make a symbol.
This is just an idea that I think would be great to have in-game. Please vote in the poll if you think it would be great to have this.Feel free to tweet to Notch about this idea, maybe he'll implicate it into the game.
I like this idea, me and my brothers were playing last night and we were thinking the same exact thing. Also, it would be cool to incorperate different colors to the player markings in multiplayer - so that when me and my brothers play, and we're all holding the same map, we don't see 3 white markings but instead each of us is assigned a random different color so that we can tell who's where. We had 4 people on at one time and it got quite confusing figuring out which mark was who. Your idea is great, I'd just like to add this one to it.
Maybe there should also be a symbol for dungeons and maybe an option to switch the map from above ground to under ground.
The thing about that is the fact that underground can range from over 100 different levels. Maps should stay only working in the overworld, let complicated and a lot less cheating.
I was thinking there could be some sort of craftable mapping station. You take your map after you've explored a bit and in the workbench you surround it with planks like so:
When placed you can see the map on top and when you right click it the map fills the screen. On the side there are several buttons like duplicate map, set zoom levels, and maybe even an option to sort of "stitch" the maps you've made together. Left click once and you map pops out just like a record. To put it back in, just right click with the map in-hand. You could place the markers on the map when using this box.
Another idea is to place maps on a wall like a painting. just surround the map with 8 sticks in the crafting bench and there ya go! Mountable paintings! It would show up on the wall as a 2x2 square. You could place other maps next to it and the sort of merge together. To get the map back simply place it in the crafting square.
Home
Mine
Cave
Portal
Way-point(ranges from 1-10)
Destination
X
Different colored markers for player locations in multiplayer(Idea by Ravenspact)
Each of these would have its own symbol. The symbols are completely up to the Mojang Team to decide. Its you have any more ideas, please feel free to add a reply with your ideas. These would be JUST symbols, no words. What should happen is that when your holding a map, just click the TAB button. A GUI will appear with all the symbols on it, then you just drag and drop onto your map. This could be very useful for many reasons. Your home is small, so the map wont detect its there, just add a symbol. Keep losing all the caves you find, just make a symbol.
This is just an idea that I think would be great to have in-game. Please vote in the poll if you think it would be great to have this.Feel free to tweet to Notch about this idea, maybe he'll implicate it into the game.
That would no diamond
AND, it will be even better if we can edit our mark points like "first time i killed a pig"
or something like this.
You got my vote.
Thank you for the Notch *eats it* Yummy :biggrin.gif:
The thing about that is the fact that underground can range from over 100 different levels. Maps should stay only working in the overworld, let complicated and a lot less cheating.
When placed you can see the map on top and when you right click it the map fills the screen. On the side there are several buttons like duplicate map, set zoom levels, and maybe even an option to sort of "stitch" the maps you've made together. Left click once and you map pops out just like a record. To put it back in, just right click with the map in-hand. You could place the markers on the map when using this box.
Another idea is to place maps on a wall like a painting. just surround the map with 8 sticks in the crafting bench and there ya go! Mountable paintings! It would show up on the wall as a 2x2 square. You could place other maps next to it and the sort of merge together. To get the map back simply place it in the crafting square.