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Map Preview Icons

by Eroxen

Map Preview Icons shows a small preview of each map as its item icon, so one map can be told apart from others at a glance.

FabricForgeNeoForgeQuiltServer required, client optionalAll rights reserved26.3

What it does

Players who carry many maps often have to open each one to find the right area. Map Preview Icons draws the map's content onto its inventory icon, so a stack of similar-looking maps can be searched by sight. It is required on the server and optional for players.

Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, all for 26.3, with a datapack option. The datapack disables the vanilla recipe that extends map zoom out at the Crafting Table and enables zoom extension only at the Cartography Table. Snapshot builds are published. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.

Key features

  1. Map preview icons

    Each map item displays a small preview of its contents as its inventory icon.

  2. Faster map searching

    Maps can be found by their icon in inventories holding many similar-looking maps.

  3. Cartography-only zoom

    A datapack limits map zoom extension to the Cartography Table and removes the Crafting Table recipe.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.30.2.0+mod0.2.0+mod0.2.0+mod0.2.0+mod
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.

Questions

Does the server need Map Preview Icons?

Yes. The server requires the mod, while a player's client may run it as an optional addition.

Which loaders does Map Preview Icons support?

Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, all for 26.3.

In the catalog

Map Preview Icons is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.

Decoration mods12,078Fabric modsMods for 26.38,071

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What the author says

If you've ever used maps in Minecraft, you've probably ran into the issue where you have dozens of maps in your inventory, and now you need to hold them one by one to find the one you're looking for. With Map Preview Icons, that's a thing of the past! Map item icons now show a little preview of the map, so you can…
Eroxen, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
Eroxen
Published
2026-09-08
Updated on Modrinth
2026-09-15
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

AdventureDecorationUtility
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