Map Art Maker

Paste an image link, or drop a picture file onto the block, and get vanilla map art you can craft and place like any other map.

Vanilla maps only ever show terrain. This adds a craftable block that turns any picture into a locked filled map, ready to frame on a wall — either alone or as part of a larger grid for a mural. No admin permissions, no launcher plugin: it’s a block and a recipe, built for survival.

Features

• Paste an image URL, or drag a local image file onto the block’s screen — both work
• Build 1×1 up to 3×3 grids (up to 9 maps) for larger murals
• Toggle dithering on or off before creating
• Consumes empty maps from your inventory, one per output tile
• The block accepts empty maps from the top or sides and lets a hopper pull finished maps from below, so bulk runs don’t need to be babysat
• Finished maps are locked, the same mechanism vanilla uses when you lock a map with glass at a cartography table, so walking around the world with one in hand never overwrites it back into real terrain
• Multiplayer-safe: finished maps are stored server-side, so every player who picks one up sees the same picture

How to use

1. Craft a Map Art Maker block (3 sticks, 5 planks, 1 empty map — cartography-table shaped).
2. Place empty maps in the input, then either paste an image URL or drop an image file onto the screen.
3. Pick a grid size (1×1 to 3×3) and hit Create. Take the finished maps out, or let a hopper do it.

For server admins

When a URL is used, the server is the one that fetches it, so loopback, LAN, and cloud metadata addresses are refused out of the box — a player can’t point the machine at your internal network. A config option opens that up if you deliberately host images somewhere private the server should reach.

Not in this version

• No clipboard image paste — only a typed/pasted URL or a dropped file work
• Dithering is a fixed algorithm you switch on or off, not a choice of algorithms
• No automatic item frame placement — you place the finished maps yourself
• No editing or deleting map art after it’s created
• No Create contraption integration

No other mods are required.

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Bugs and questions: comment on the CurseForge page, or DM @kuronami333 on X.

All Rights Reserved. Free to put in any modpack, on any platform, monetised or not – no permission needed, no credit required. Source is published so you can read exactly what it does: https://github.com/KURONAMI333/map-art-maker