How to Alter a Minecraft Map

Create a map from materials found in Minecraft. Grow three sugar cane plants and harvest them, acquiring nine individual sugar cane parts. Sugar cane grows naturally along water in the game. If you do not already have sugar cane to grow, look along the water in your game. You can grow sugar cane by placing it down directly next to water, wait a few minutes and then harvest it by striking it with your avatar's bare hand. After harvesting, place the sugar cane in a workbench and fill up three vertical spaces in a row with three sugar cane parts each and you will be able to craft paper. Click on the paper icon three times to gather nine pieces of paper. Craft a compass by placing redstone in a diamond pattern in a workbench with an iron billet in the center. Place paper on the edges of the workbench area and insert the compass in the middle. This will create a map. Click on the map and put it in your inventory.

Traverse the area where you crafted the map to fill it with viewable date. When a map is first made in Minecraft it only contains viewable information for a small area. In order to fill up the entire map with information you must explore the entire area that the map will cover.

Place the map in a chest once you have altered your landscape and mapped your area. Build, grow or destroy things in your Minecraft world.

Update the map by bringing the map to an area of your world that you alter. A map in Minecraft will not update with new landscape information until you bring the map to that area.