Map Art Maker

Put your own pictures on Minecraft maps and hang them in your builds.

Open a Map Art Maker, add empty maps, and paste an image URL or drag in a local picture. Choose a grid from 1×1 to 3×3, then create the maps for your display.

Each tile uses one empty map. Finished maps keep the picture rather than filling with terrain as you explore, and other players can see the art. Place them in item frames to assemble the display.

Hoppers can supply blank maps and collect finished ones for repeated jobs. URL images are downloaded by the server; private-network addresses are blocked by default.

No other mods are required.

Paid commissions for videos, streams and servers. Send me your idea: [email protected]

All Rights Reserved. Free to include in any modpack, on any platform, monetized or not, without permission or credit.

Source: https://github.com/KURONAMI333/map-art-maker

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

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 1x1 up to 3x3 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 (1x1 to 3x3) 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.

Paid commissions for videos, streams and servers. Send me your idea: [email protected]

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