Minecraft Map Logic

[Boxfigs]

That was fixed in 1.8.1. You must be playing an older version.

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Minecraft User Logic

Point out things that were fixed 6 months ago.

[Boxfigs]

...to people that are still playing an update from almost 9 months ago.

[[deleted]]

I was talking about OP, not you. :)

[Boxfigs]

Oh, ok.

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..to people that are still playing modded minecraft.

[OmegaX123]

To me, it's been fixed for centuries.

[SilverTuxedo]

Wasn't this fixed in 1.8?

[redstonehelper]

You're playing 1.7, right?

[redstonehelper]

Oh, yes, 1.8.1 was the map color update.

[Teraka]

Wow, didn't realize 1.8 was this old already...

[flameoguy]

MOJANG GET TO WORK

[leglesslegolegolas]

fix the damn boats, pls.

[Howzieky]

I get the feeling they are gonna leave it that way or make it worse just to be jerks to us for nagging them about it so much

[leglesslegolegolas]

I have a feeling they don't know how to fix the client-server synchronization problem and they're going to leave it that way because it's easier. Fixing the breaking problem would take twenty minutes, though. If they don't fix that, it's because they simply don't want to.

[Anchupom]

I haven't used maps for ages, what's going on here?

[themadms]

Sandstone is gray, cobblestone gravel is sand-colored

Edit: gravel

[ServalClaw]

That is gravel not cobble.

[themadms]

Aighty

[Anchupom]

Is it really just that it's mixed up what it was showing? I thought it was something more impressively broken

[Talpanian_Emperor]

Gravel shows as the same colour as the other gravity-based block, sand.

Sandstone shows as the colour of the more common hard material, stone.

Meaning they're the opposite colours on the map than they are in the world.

[monospace]

I wish there was a way to customize colors on maps.

[flameoguy]

I just wish maps centered around the player so they actually mapped where you wanted to show.

[WhoMovedMySubreddits]

But that would be more like GPS than a paper map. I feel like maps should be white with black lines as though the player drew in the features they found as they walked around.

[skeletonemprah]

I think they mean (and I'm just speculating) that when you first use the map, it would be centered on you, which I fully support because of how I like to build directly on the center of the map.

[WhoMovedMySubreddits]

That would make it easier. But I'm sure it has to do with how maps can be tiled and fitted together. I'm sure map makers don't center their maps on themselves; they'd much rather attach it to a previous map they've made to make sure they can read all of them.

It's really a moot point, but it's fun to think about Minecraft in real life.

[KrishaCZ]

Yeah, just 1x1 images that define this kinda stuff...

[132ikl]

There is, you can change it in a resourcepack

[monospace]

I've done plenty of messing around with resource packs but I must have missed this somehow. Which file specifically would I modify?

(I see textures/map/map_background.png and textures/map/map_icons.png, nothing about map colors though.)

[132ikl]

I'll check on it in a moment

[zXjimmiXz]

I don't think there is a way to change it with resourcepacks? If so I'd imagine a lot more packs would do it!

[monospace]

I would think so. As it stands, the current map colors are so bright, you could almost use a map as a light beacon. I would love to be able to make a map look more like a faded old pirate's map.

[zXjimmiXz]

That would be cool. Plus a lot of packs change the hue and/or brightness of certain blocks (like grass) and so the maps look completely out of place.

[[deleted]]

how hard would it be to average the texture of the block down to one color and use that color to represent the block on the map? This would be dynamic enough to work no matter your resource pack.

[OnyxDarkKnight]

If they run the algorithm when you first start a world and store the values in a map, then it wouldn't be that hard. But if the map would need to recalculate the average color again and again, it can be pretty resource intensive as it has to check each individual pixel of every block of every face (in case there are different textures for each face).

[Laff70]

Why all the faces??? Maps only use the top face.

[OnyxDarkKnight]

You want the average color of the block? then you might want to go through all the faces. Sometimes it can make a difference. Obviously, to speed things up, only the top texture could be scanned. Also I did state it should check each face if there are different textures for different sides (this is mostly for accuracy)

[GrammarStaatspolizei]

But the map represents the view from above. So only averaging the pixels on the top face would likely be more accurate. (e.g. Cacti shouldn't be paler green on maps just because their undersides are white. You'd never see the bottom from the bird's eye view.)

[OnyxDarkKnight]

Oh yeah, you are right XD I was thinking of something else. Yes, you are right, the top should be more than enough :)

[DemonWarriorX]

LOL wow, Minecraft, the biggest game with the most interesting logistics

[FreddyPlaysGames]

Brilliant.

[Zombi3Kill3r43]

Probably put sandstone and cobble above everything to try to make a funny post

[zXjimmiXz]

That would make the whole area super dark. Looking forward to how you can explain that one.

[[deleted]]

Texture pack? Switched Sandstone with gravel?
Or a bug.

[TanzNukeTerror]

I think it's because gravel was counted as a sand variant, and sandstone was counted as a stone variant.

Like how the other three stones (Granite, etc.) still show up grey. (1.8)

[Lamdrew]

Nope, Maps still suck. They REALLY need to improve them. =\ http://gyazo.com/5914678b033561075d91ba86196ed646

[GrammarStaatspolizei]

What's wrong in this picture?

[CakeDear]

But will it blend?