Minecraft:Cartography Table

Template:For Template:Infobox block A cartography table is a utility Minecraft:block used for cloning, zooming out, and locking Minecraft:maps. It also serves as a Minecraft:cartographer's Minecraft:job site block.

Obtaining

Breaking

A cartography table can be obtained using any Minecraft:tool or by hand, although using an Minecraft:axe is the fastest. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Cartography tables can generate naturally inside cartographer houses in Minecraft:villages. They can also generate in the Minecraft:trail ruins structure.

Crafting

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Usage

Placement

Regardless of the player's Minecraft:position during placement, the different textures of the block are always facing the same direction (the texture with the globe in the right corner always faces west, while the one with the Minecraft:compass and map faces up).

Map functions

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The GUI of cartography table Template:In.

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The GUI of cartography table Template:In.

Cartography tables are used for zooming out, cloning, and locking maps (making them unable to be altered). Template:IN, they can also be used for adding pointers to maps, creating empty maps, and renaming maps.

Below is a list of brief descriptions of all available functions of the cartography table:

For more detailed information of each of these functions, see Map § Usage.

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Zooming out a map always starts with an existing map, not a blank map. Zooming it out makes the map aligned to the grid that would include the area of the original map. To build a set of maps such as for a map wall, a player cannot create several level 0 (base) maps at one location then zoom them out before going out into the world to fill them in; the player must start with a base map created in each area to be covered by the zoomed out map. See more discussion of map alignment at Minecraft:Map.

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Renaming a map

Template:IN, the cartography table UI features a text field which can be used to rename a map or empty map. Unlike renaming items at an Minecraft:anvil, this does not cost any Minecraft:experience.

Profession

Template:Main If a cartography table has not been claimed by a Minecraft:villager, any nearby unemployed villager may become a cartographer and claim it as their Minecraft:job site block.