Cartography Settings

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The cartography settings allow you to customize how the map is rendered, and what is shown on it.

For map color filters and shader options, see Map Filters.

Toggles

The bold toggle settings below are enabled by default.

Toggle	Description
Always Map Caves	Always map every cave layer in your vertical chunk, even when on the Overworld surface. Disabling this will improve performance.
Always Map Surface	Always map the Overworld surface, even when underground. Disabling this will improve performance.
Blend Foliage	Blends foliage colors between biomes. Disable to improve performance.
Blend Grass	Blends grass colors between biomes. Disable to improve performance.
Blend Water	Blends water colors between biomes. Disable to improve performance.
Clear Unlit Caves	Unlit and inner slice blocks are rendered clear instead of black. This option only affects newly mapped blocks.
Ignore Glass Ceilings	Being under a glass roof will not switch to cave mapping
Ignore Heightmaps	Ignores chunk heightmaps if the top layer of the world is not rendering correctly. This may impact performance.
Ignore Snow Blocks	Ignores all snow type blocks from mapping. This is an experimental feature and may have weird side effects and may be removed in the future.
Map only Player Chunk	Only maps the chunk the player is currently standing in. It ignores any distance setting.
Map Biomes	Provides a map of biomes.
Map Topography	Provides a contour map that shows elevation changes
Show Map Shadows	Blocks will cast shadows on map.
Show Bathymetry	Shows the terrain of the ocean floor and under water
Show Crops	Crops are shown on the map
Show Plant Shadows	Plants and crops will cast shadows on the map
Show Plants	Plants are shown on the map
Show Surface Above Caves	A dim view of the nearby surface is visible when underground
Show Water Biome Colors	Shows water colors based on biome.
Use Antialiasing	Enhances the shading effect used to show elevation changes. Disabling may improve performance.
Use Cave Lighting	Use the actual light levels underground. Disable to use full light.
Use Nether Surface Lighting	When enabled, uses actual world light levels for the Nether surface map. When disabled, uses maximum brightness so the map is always visible.
Use Transparency	Transparent blocks will reveal what is below them

Other Settings

The default option for each setting below is marked with bold text.

Setting	Options	Description
Reveal Shape	Square Circle	Shape of the map area revealed around you. Circle reveals fewer chunks than Square and will improve performance.
Render Delay	Range: 100 - 60000 (in milliseconds, Default: 500)	Time (in milliseconds) between render passes. Higher values can improve performance, but may result in missed chunks while travelling.
Cave Distance	Range: 0 - 32 (in chunks, Default: 0)	Radius of chunks around you that are eventually mapped underground or in dimensions with no sky. Lower values can improve performance. Values greater than Minecraft's render distance have no effect. Set to 0 to mirror the video option chunk render range.
Surface Distance	Range: 0 - 32 (in chunks, Default: 0)	Radius of chunks around you that are eventually mapped on the surface in dimensions with a sky. Lower values can improve performance. Values greater than Minecraft's render distance have no effect. Set to 0 to mirror the video option chunk render range.
Custom Max Topo Height	Range: 0 - 320 (in blocks, Default: 0)	The height that topography mapping uses for the max height calculations. Any blocks above this height will be white. Changing this setting may have dramatic effects on the topography map. Set to 0 to use the world default max build height.
Auto Cave Mode Threshold	Range: 1 - 100 (in blocks, Default: 2)	How many blocks to switch to cave mode. This is useful for preventing cave mode switching when going in a house.