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The crowd goes wild: Holdable maps shown in Minecraft photo

This image is bound to make many of you very happy.

Minecraft designer Markus "Notch" Persson released it earlier today, along with this tweet: "Any resemblance to anything at all is coincidental." Well, that's reassuring.

Thankfully, he provided more detail in a blog post on mapping. Maps are of specific areas, so the location where you craft one will serve as the center of that individual map. This functionality will be integrated into multiplayer as well, in case you were wondering. Talk about a godsend.








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PowerPats's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:03
PowerPats
map looks like a penis lol
Don Leno's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:05
Don Leno
GIVE IT TO ME NOW
Epic-Kx's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:09
Epic-Kx
that's a nice bird's eye view of mrandydixon's boner.
32BitSin's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:17
32BitSin
Nice... Now what's this about? Pixelated dongs and teabags don't explain anything.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:19
Char Aznable
You guys must have some weird looking dicks, if that's what the map reminds you of.
PandaOnIce's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:26
PandaOnIce
I is excited
Scuffles's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:36
Scuffles
Doesn't work underground but I can accept that for now :) 1.6 is going to be a good patch.
Naturality's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:39
Naturality
But! But! But getting terribly lost and losing all the buildings you spent hours pouring over was a fundamental part of the Minecraft experience! It was up there with the feeling absolute confusion when first confronted with the game.
kid23455's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:42
kid23455
Thanks, now I can find my old abandoned fort that I left 20 years ago with a large stash of diamond materials, that I lost when I had a mining accident. Well, better late then never.
JerinsFury's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:45
JerinsFury
I approve of this so hard
Scuffles's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:50
Scuffles
@kid23455

Actually with how the maps work .... you can't

Muahahaahahahahaha!

They have a fog of war and only reveal areas you explore while holding the map. So unless you find your lost fortress whilst wielding the map, It shall not be marked upon said map.

On the plus side the Map you will in short order know where your fortress is not.
Joosh's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 16:50
Joosh
O.O

Best thing since the compass
aminoaccident's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 17:16
aminoaccident
Know what would be really nice? If Notch fixed the memory leaks in Minecraft so thousands of players could set the rendering distance to far without getting Out of Memory blackscreens. And these aren't users on shitty rigs, I'm talking the newest gpus, 12gbs of RAM, core i7s. Google it if ya don't beleebmeh.
Frankenson's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 17:26
Frankenson
This is unrelated, but how do I get onto dtoid's minecraft server? Does anyone read the google group?

Also, BONER. MAP BONER.
Frankenson's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 17:26
Frankenson
This is unrelated, but how do I get onto dtoid's minecraft server? Does anyone read the google group?

Also, BONER. MAP BONER.
Onyx Leo's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 17:49
Onyx Leo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSw1F-E_M2A
Max-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 17:52
Max-
YAY YOU CAN CRAFT PICTURES OF PENISES NOW! :D
Beyamor's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 18:15
Beyamor
Not long now, Notch, not long now. Soon we'll be crafting a GPS out of four pieces of redstone and a pumpkin.
PixelSith64's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 18:17
PixelSith64
@Frankenson

The server has been gone for quite awhile not, unfortunately. And they don't even read the Google group anymore.
Frankenson's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 18:36
Frankenson
Damn. Well, map boners will comfort me.
Mr Jonson's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 19:00
Mr Jonson
i miss destructoid's minecraft server :(
fatcatfan's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 20:42
fatcatfan
@agentarsenic:

I initially had that problem on Windows 7, but never under Linux wiht only 4GB of RAM and an ION GPU, and I have all the settings turned all the way up. I think I read somewhere that the issue is fixed by running under the Sun 64bit JRE (if you're on a 64bit Windows).
fatcatfan's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 20:50
fatcatfan
@agentarsenic:

Here's the solution:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/bwod_black_window_of_death
Ian Mackechney's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 22:04
Ian Mackechney
cock map
Lexi Leigh's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2011 23:30
Lexi Leigh
@Naturality

You speak truth, I personally am excited for this, but if you dislike it, then simply don't craft them. ;)
ed hardy uk's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2011 01:10
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