How to make a map in minecraft

When someone is asking how to make a map bigger in Minecraft, it can mean one of two things. Either you might be looking to increase the blocks in the map thus aiming for a larger world, or you mean to zoom more in the map you hold in Minecraft.

Whichever it is, don’t worry, they essentially would mean the same thing depending on what you are aiming for. Today we will focus on ‘Expanding’ the map in your hand in-game.

Cartography table minecraft

So let’s get right into it.

How to Make Map Bigger in Minecraft

To make a map bigger in Minecraft, combine your Map with Paper in the Cartography Table to upgrade it to Level 4 Map (1280 blocks). Now the Minecraft world scaling ratio will go from 1:1 to 1:16 by map level 4.

This means your map will cover an area of 128×128 blocks, 256×256 blocks, 512×512 blocks, 1024×1024 blocks, and 2048×2048 blocks for Zoom Level 0/4, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 respectively.

So to zoom out you need to add paper to Map in the cartography table for each zoom level.

Let’s look at this in a step by step manner below:

1. Combine any 4 Planks to create Cra
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