COVER IMAGE: GREENFIELD. These plugins allow you to view your Minecraft world from above in various ways and through various means. Some are server only, some can be used locally, and they have different performance and features. Common features include top-down and 3D view, map markers for players, waypoints.
Do your research before picking a good plugin, however DYNMAP is by far the most popular and reliable on servers. Comment any tools I missed. Cover image: A dynmap world in top-down view.
Dynmap
- Dynmap® | SpigotMC – High Performance Minecraft
- This is the original and most popular plugin. It works on servers only and gives you a custom URL based off your servers IP to access your dynmap. Updated to the newest Minecraft versions.
- Customizable with add-ons like ChunkyBorder | SpigotMC – High Performance Minecraft
ChunkyMap x Dynmap
- Dynmap rendered with Chunky is awesome : chunky (reddit.com)
- GitHub – leMaik/ChunkyMap: Photorealistic Dynmap world map renderer using Chunky (Minecraft 1.13 and newer).
- It’s possible to incorporate the Chunky rendering software into Dynmap if you are ok with sacrificing performance for realism. A “drop-in replacement for the Dynmap HDMap” plugin 1.13 and above.
- “Rendering takes forever, but in the end, you get a path-traced Dynmap!”
BlueMap
- Home | BlueMap (bluecolored.de)
- This plugin is an advanced and optimized version of the Dynmap. Does the exact same job on servers.
- Customizable with add-ons like 3rd Party Support | BlueMap (bluecolored.de)
SquareMap
- GitHub – jpenilla/squaremap: squaremap is a minimalistic and lightweight world map viewer for Minecraft servers, using the vanilla map rendering style
- “A minimalistic and lightweight world map viewer for Minecraft servers, using the vanilla map rendering style”
Pl3xMap *for Paper*
- GitHub – BillyGalbreath/Pl3xMap: Pl3xMap is a minimalistic and lightweight world map viewer for Paper servers using the vanilla Minecraft rendering style
- “A minimalistic and lightweight world map viewer for Paper servers using the vanilla Minecraft rendering style”
LiveAtlas
- GitHub – JLyne/LiveAtlas: A Dynmap, Squaremap, Pl3xmap and Overviewer frontend for the modern web
- “A Dynmap, Squaremap, Pl3xmap and Overviewer frontend for the modern web”
- “A more modern interface and improved performance for busy maps. LiveAtlas is a drop-in replacement for Dynmap; Squaremap, Pl3xmap and Overviewer maps are supported with some additional configuration.”
Overviewer
- Minecraft Overviewer
- “A command-line tool for rendering high-resolution maps of Minecraft Java Edition worlds. It generates a set of static html and image files and uses Leaflet to display a nice interactive map.”
- Local non-server only.
