Making Mapart
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Mapart is a way for players to create a canvas on a 128x128 block area. One of the coolest things that you can do with mapart is you can bring any (appropriate) image that you find online onto MellowCraft! One of the most important things that you need for making mapart is Litematica. Litematica is a mod that you can use with , and is used to create a blueprint of where to place the blocks for your mapart. If you would like to do this the easy way, you can use , which automatically installs Fabric for you. When you are downloading this client, please be sure to install the version for Fabric, and not Forge. One of the great things about Essential is that it works for both MacOS and Windows. If you have deicded to go with Essential Client, I recommend skipping this section and going to the next because it may cause some confusion.
1 INSTALLING FABRIC FOR WINDOWS
To install Fabric for Windows, you would first want to head to this and click the button to "Download for Windows". After downloading this .EXE file run it and you will be prompted with a window to install the client for the latest released version of Minecraft. Since we are installing Fabric for ourselves, make sure that the tab is on "Client" and the correct version of Minecraft that you desire is installed. I would also make sure that your "Loader Version" is on the most recent update before installing. For the "Select Install Location" it should end in your ".minecraft" folder. If done correctly this is what it should look like: PLEASE NOTE THIS GUIDE WAS WRITTEN WHEN THE LATEST UPDATE WAS 1.21.4 — IT MAY NOT LOOK LIKE THIS FOR FUTURE UPDATES.
After you have clicked "Install", you will see a window that will confirm that the version that was input and loader version were installed. Your Minecraft Launcher should have a profile with the Fabric logo with the version that you installed. It is recommended that you launch the game to make sure that everything works. The next steps are in Section 2.
INSTALLING LITEMATICA (AND OTHER DEPENDENT MODS)
After you hit OK, you should be prompted with a folder with a ".minecraft" at the top of the list. After you open this folder, you will se a ton of files, but all that is needed is your "mods" folder. All you have to do nwo is drag the three files from above into your mods folder. If you do not see a mods folder, launch minecraft with Fabric and after the game has fully opened, close it and look for your mods folder. Launch your game after and make sure that everything works! If you are using Essential, after you open your ".minecraft" folder, there should be a folder called "essential [Game Version]. In the folder you should see a mods folder with a file called "Essential" in there. All you need to do is add the 3 files into that folder.
3 CREATING THE RENDER
For the settings on the right, most do not need to be changed at all, except for one. Staircasing allows for the blocks in your mapart to have 3 different colors and a nicer color selection, but it is a lot harder to build without /fly and even harder to take down to get your materials back. The add blocks under are for blocks that cannot be supported by themselves, like pressure plates. If you have an area already planned out for your mapart, I recommend turning this off OR changing the "blocks to add" to something different than the blocks selected on the left list. The other settings are there just to edit the colors of the image and this can change which blocks are required. I wouldn't recommend these settings unless you know what you are doing. The map size setting changes how big you want the map. This can ad more detail, but will make the map bigger and require more blocks. It is recommended to start off making 1x1's. After you select the blocks that you would want, all that is needed is to click the "Download as NBT".
4 USING LITEMATICA TO CREATE YOUR MAP
After creating the render for your mapart, you need to open your ".minecraft" folder again if you closed it. A new folder should have appeared called "schematics". Move the .nbt file you received from Rebane into that folder, and that will automatically add it into the schematics list with no reload of your game needed! I would recommend starting a new creative superflat and pressing your "M" key to make sure that you have the mods installed and working. If it is working, you should get a menu with all available schematics. If not, go back and make sure that the versions of the mods you have installed are correct. If you get the menu, click the "Load Schematics" tab and there should be a green "V" symbol followed by the name of the file that was saved. To load the file, all you need to dis click the name and then load schematic at the bottom left. Now to learn how to make a render correctly, get an empty map and right click it. The best position for this would be an ocean or a giant flat area. After you load an area, you should see yourself as a little white arrow. Now, press "F3 + G" to open up chunk borders. If done correctly, there should be a yellow wireframe in a 16x16 square. Follow these borders to the top left of the map, and then load in your schematic. If done correctly, the line of cobblestone should be at the top and outside of the map. If done incorrectly, your mapart will be made incorrectly with a giant ugly line. The cobblestone line should be 1 block outside of the chunk. This line is known as the "shader line".
When using Fabric, one of the first things you need to download is the . Fabric API is a library mod for Fabric. Another library mod that is needed is . The final one you will need is the actual mod. 2.1 Adding Litematica to your Minecraft folder on Windows The easiest way that you can open your %appdata% folder on windows is by clicking your Windows button and R at the same time. This will be open this menu, and all you need to do is type %appdata% and press "OK".
The website used to render your mapart is called . With this website, you can create renders of images of your choosing for your mapart. You can upload the image by just clicking the "Pick Image" box and uploading the image you would like. The image will be converted to fit a map when you do this. Once you have your image uploaded, you can then choose the blocks on the left that you would like to use in your mapart. If you would like to use the best blocks, I recommend using this . This preset uses almost all naturally obtainable blocks and removes the harder to get blocks. You can choose to add blocks or remove them by clicking the barrier block on the left. After selecting all the blocks that you would like, your preview window will look a little different.
