How to craft location maps on Minecraft APK?

A free gaming and crafting application developed by Mojang Studio in 2009. It contains outstanding features that make it unique. It has a set of amazing tasks at each level. The players enjoy all modes and give high ratings. Kids and adults highly prefer the game as it holds different levels that are easy, medium, and hard.

It is a free online and offline game with adventure, crafting, and fighting tasks. Players have to create different things for crafting, like paper, maps, books, fireworks, etc. All the things have specific recipes by which they are made. Many things related to paper made of 3 sugar cans and craft board. Most users are confused about crafting maps. So, you will get complete guidelines about crafting a map in this blog.

Uses of maps in apk Minecraft game:

Maps are the most useful and important part of Minecraft free game. Some of its uses are given below:

• It is very helpful in finding your friends when they enter your world. Otherwise, finding friends in such a big world will be more difficult and time-consuming.
• With the help of maps, players can easily find their enemy and attack it.
• Maps also have the facility of marking on them, which helps in marking the places where you are going or where you are now.
• These maps lead you to your mission and prevent you from straying. It is extremely helpful in the completion of missions.

Steps for Crafting the Map of Minecraft APK:

Map = 8 paper + compass

• The very first step in crafting a map is making paper, which can be done in just 2 steps that are:
• Take 3 sugarcanes (easily available near water, ocean biomes, dessert, or swamps) and a crafting box. Place sugarcanes horizontally in 3 grids of the box; your paper is ready.
• Now, you have to arrange a compass; as you know, that compass is made of iron, so you must arrange iron.
• Iron = 1 Redstone dust + 4 iron ore
• Redstone and iron ore can be obtained through mining in caves.
• When you arrange all the elements, take a 3*3 crafting box, place Redstone in the center, and arrange 4 ingots adjacent to the blocks around the Redstone. It will turn into a compass.
• Now it’s time to craft a map by placing a compass in the center of the 3*3 crafting box and setting 9 papers around it. It will turn into an empty map.

How do you use this empty Map in the Minecraft MOD app?

It is very easy to use;

When you are on a mission, draw your surroundings on the empty Map, and the system will recognize your location and start showing you more locations automatically. It will fill your surroundings, and you will be pointed as a white dot on the Map.

Zooming feature in Map:

The Map does not show you the whole world simultaneously in the same interface. It shows you a specific area around you from a few centimeters away. That looks short from far. So, you can zoom in on your digital Map for assistance. It will increase its range and double the viewing power or the screen viewing 4 times. For zooming, you will need 8 or 1 more paper for the Map’s expansion.

Expansion details;

Level 0/4 — 128×128 blocks

Level 1/4 — 256×256 blocks

Level 2/4 — 512×512 blocks

Level 3/4 — 1024×1024 blocks

Level 4/4 — 2048×2048 blocks

Marking feature in Map the Minecraft free game:

Players can also mark specific locations through markers on the Map. That will need a banner that can be crafted through 6 wools and 1 wooden stick; wool should be of the same color, then arranged in a 3*3 craft box in a way that 6 types of wool are in the two rows and the wooden sticks are in the bottom of the last row. It will create a banner that allows you to mark positions, which is very helpful for traveling.

Cloning of Map:

This feature helps mark the Map, as when you have two maps in the same direction, you can mark points on one Map and see the destination on the other. It increases the understanding of indications and marks. It will be easy to find the actions.

You can create a copy of the Map through the following steps:

• Place the Cartography table
• Add a map
• Add an empty map
• Move the Map to the inventory
• Here, you have two maps.

Map content:

The Map consists of square pixels arranged in a 128*128 grid. The pixels have a color similar to the color of that area. When zooming is applied, it is enlarged to 2048*2048 blocks.