GUI That displays downloaded map

[NPCtom]

Is there any update on when the GUI displaying what you have downloaded will be released? I think something similar to Xaero's World Map would be quite cool where you can move through it and see the different chunks. For now I have been using Minecraft Overviewer which is a very tedious process.

[uyjulian]

Would adding a button to open a third-party program such as MCEdit or Minecraft Overviewer be okay?

[Pokechu22]

I don't have any current time scale, other than "after the next update". My current goals for the next release are still the fixes related to maps and backups, and ideally also the build system fixes (but I might end up having to bump that again, especially since the build system isn't really tied to a version of the mod so delaying releases for something that doesn't directly affect releases doesn't make too much sense).

My current thoughts on a gui like that are to make it as simple as possible -- probably just listing chunks that have been saved and when they were saved, without giving an actual map. There are two reasons for this: a) it'd be much simpler to write without writing a lot of complex minimap logic, and b) it'd be faster performance-wise since I think it's pretty trivial to get a list of saved chunks in a region while actually loading chunks is more intensive. Of course, I haven't actually tried implementing it yet, so I wouldn't know for sure. And it might be possible to render an overlay on top of existing minimaps too -- that's something else I'd want to look into.

A button that renders the map externally is also something that'd be nice to have; I've wanted to add some kind of toolchain system for quite some time but never got around to it. I'm not sure exactly what it would look like, though.

[Tsoccerguy3]

This feature is not really needed , add in the https://journeymap.info/Home mod .
Although you can use their API to make the calls internally , this is not needed if they player is in a Forge modded instance . The player can trigger a in game offline map of everything in the save file .It can be viewed in game or in browser . The player can put Minecraft and the browser side by side for even more convenience . There is also Voxel minimap for a in game map that can be viewed at anytime by pressing the keybind (M)

[Pokechu22]

I've been doing some work on this (along with some other things). Here's my very early mockup:

Color-coding is done by the time the chunk was saved (which vanilla does store!), currently fading green to "yellow" (I'm going to make it less ugly, I promise... I've been looking into HSL for other unrelated stuff too and it seems like the right thing to use here) over a day and yellow to red over a month. Those numbers aren't necessarily the most useful but worked well for testing on my very small map.

While other things exist that very adequately cover the actual minimap uses, I think that something for time is still useful and that's why I've been working on this (in addition to other miscellaneous cleanup).

[Pokechu22]

The GUI I mentioned earlier should be in the 1.14 release which will hopefully be out in a few hours. It's not completely done yet, but it's at least a starting point.