Blaze Map

Blaze Map is your extensible, open source mapping mod. On top of the basic duties of mapping the world with both a minimap and world map view, Blaze Map is designed to be easy for other mods to add their own custom maps and mapping data.

Features for Blaze Map users:

• Multiple default map types
  • Aerial View
  • Terrain Height
• Multiple toggleable layers of information per map type
• World Map to get a wider view of your world (B)
  • Export an "atlas" view of the World Map (F12)
• Configurable minimap
  • Click-and-drag resizing/repositioning (shift + B)
  • Change which map type and layers are shown (shift + B)
  • Turn on or off (/blazemap minimap on/off)
• Show nearby mobs (configurable in config file)
• Add waypoints to your map with configurable colour and icon (N)
• Manage waypoints in your world (shift + N)
• No cheaty cave view!
  • (Ok, this is more of a lack-of-unwanted-feature for now. But there are plans to add a cave view eventually and it will not be able to x-ray into unexplored areas!)

Features for mod and modpack developers wishing to integrate:

• Fully open source: Blaze Map on GitHub
• Friendly devs who love to help and rarely bite: Discord
• Performance profiling and debugging information (/blazemap debug on/off)
• Integration with Minecraft's in-build performance profiling tools (F3 + L)
• Turn optional features on or off via either config file or API
• Add new map types and layers via API
  • In fact, Blaze Map's default maps are added using our own API!
  • We also dogfood our API via our own Blaze Map addon mod, Cartography [TODO: swap to Modrinth link once Cartography also ported over here]
• Separation of data representation of the world from the visual representation of the world, allowing for more complex visualisations
• Flexible tools for representing data on the map
• Can move data processing off of the main thread to minimise performance impact

Note: This is a temporary description while initially seting up this project. Will fill in more fully later.