GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Maps are crucial if you have long-term plans to play in any Minecraft world. As the name suggests, maps allow you to chart specific areas in the world ...

You can make a map in "Minecraft" by combining a compass with eight pages of paper. If you hold a map as you travel, it'll track your location and record information about the land around you. Once ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While it might seem like a brand new Minecraft map is random, there's a lot of math happening under the hood to ensure that mountains look like ...

Today, Hacker News brought an interesting new Minecraft world-generation tool to our attention. Arnis uses free geospatial data from OpenStreetMap to generate detailed Minecraft maps based on a ...

Maps are an important tool in Minecraft. That’s especially true once you start moving away from your initial spawn spot. Of course, we don’t need to preach the importance of a map. You’re here because ...

This is the biggest map you can create! Image used with permission by copyright holder If you created a realm using the “flat” type, you don’t need a map. They’re only 256 x 256 blocks, meaning you’ll ...