Map Art Maker

Players craft the block from 3 sticks, 5 planks and 1 empty map, in a cartography-table shaped recipe that fits a survival build. The block takes empty maps through its upper faces, consumes one per output tile, and a hopper beneath it can extract the completed maps, so large batches run unattended.

The picture can be pasted as an image URL, dropped in as a file, or chosen through the block's screen, and both ways work. A picture can be laid out as a 1x1 tile, up to a 3x3 grid of nine maps for larger murals, and dithering can be switched off before creating the maps. Finished maps are locked with the same mechanism vanilla uses when a map is locked with glass in a cartography table, and the mod places them as ordinary maps.

Completed maps live on the server, meaning any player who grabs one sees the identical image as the rest of the group. The block's effect on the world is limited to the map itself: walking around with one hand in a map never overwrites the real terrain behind it, and vanilla maps only ever show terrain. The mod runs on the client and the server, and a server admin can manage permissions through a launcher plugin. Map Art Maker is released under All rights reserved, is not open source, and its files cover 1.21.1 and 26.2 for NeoForge.