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Better Map Zoom
Makes vanilla map exploration easier by retaining explored areas and banners when zooming out of a map. Free Minecraft Java mod for 26.2.
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Better Map Zoom
Overview
For now, all this mod does is improve the vanilla map experience when zooming out, or scaling, a map. It does its best to persist the area you have already explored, which will scale down and remain in one of the quadrants of the newly zoomed out map. This saves a lot of exploration effort, especially in larger maps!
Known issues:
Because I'm downscaling existing pixel data and not doing a block by block recalculation, you may notice very slight pixel updates when rexploring the zoomed out areas that you've already been to.
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- Ships as better-map-zoom-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 259 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
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