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# MinedMap
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* Render beautiful maps of your [Minecraft](https://minecraft.net/) worlds!
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* Put them on a webserver and view them in your browser!
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* Compatible with unmodified Minecraft Java Edition 1.8 up to 1.14 (no mod installation necessary!)
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* Illumination layer: the world at night
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* Fast: create a full map for a huge 3GB savegame in less than 5 minutes
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* Incremental updates: only recreate map tiles for regions that have changed
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* Very low memory usage: typically uses less than 5MB of RAM
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## How to use
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MinedMap consists of two components: a map renderer generating map tiles from
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Minecraft save games, and a viewer for displaying and navigating maps in a browser
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based on [Leaflet](https://leafletjs.com/). The map renderer is heavily inspired by
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[MapRend](https://github.com/YSelfTool/MapRend), but it has been implemented in C++
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from scratch for highest performance.
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The viewer expects the the map data in a directory named `data`. To generate a new
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map, create this empty directory inside the viewer directory. Next, to generate the
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map files run MinedMap passing the source and the destination paths on the command
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line:
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```shell
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./MinedMap /path/to/save/game /path/to/viewer/data
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```
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The save game is stored in `saves` inside your Minecraft main directory
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(`~/.minecraft` on Linux, `C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft` on Windows)
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in a subdirectory with the name of your world.
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The first map generation might take a while for big worlds, but subsequent calls will
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only rebuild tiles for region files that have changed, rarely taking more than a second
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or two. This makes it feasible to update the map very frequently, e.g. by running
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MinedMap as a Cron job every minute.
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Note that it is not possible to open the viewer *index.html* without a webserver, as
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it cannot load the generated map information from `file://` URIs. For testing purposes,
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you can use a minimal HTTP server, e.g. (if you have Python installed):
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```shell
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python3 -m http.server
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```
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This test server is very slow and cannot handle multiple requests concurrently, so use
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a proper webserver like [nginx](https://nginx.org/) or upload the viewer together with
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the generated map files to public webspace to make the map available to others.
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## Building MinedMap
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Precompiled MinedMap binaries for Windows (32bit and 64bit versions) are available under
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"Releases" on the Github page. On other platforms, MinedMap must be built from source.
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MinedMap has been tested to work on Windows and Linux. I assume it can also be
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built for MacOS and pretty much any POSIX-like system, but I didn't check. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
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To build from source, you need Git, CMake, the GCC toolchain and the development
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files for the libraries *zlib* and *libpng* (packages *git*, *cmake*, *build-essential*,
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*zlib1g-dev* and *libpng-dev* on Debian/Ubuntu).
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Use the following commands to build:
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```shell
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git clone https://github.com/NeoRaider/MinedMap.git # Or download a release ZIP and unpack it
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mkdir MinedMap-build
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cd MinedMap-build
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cmake ../MinedMap -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
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make
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```
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After a successful build, the MinedMap renderer binary can be found in the *src*
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subdirectory of the build dir `MinedMap-build`. The viewer is located in the cloned
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Git repository `MinedMap`.
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