About Map2Minecraft

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Map2Minecraft turns real places into Minecraft worlds. Pick a spot on the map, like your street, your school or a city you love, and a few minutes later you can walk around it in Minecraft.

What it does

  • It reads the map data for the area you pick from OpenStreetMap: building outlines, roads, rivers, parks, railways and more.
  • It adds the real shape of the land from open elevation data, so hills and valleys are where they should be.
  • It builds the area block by block at about 1 block per metre, with real street layouts and buildings you can walk into.
  • You can look around your world in 3D before you pay anything.
  • You download it for Minecraft Java Edition (1.21.4 or newer) or Bedrock Edition (1.21 or newer). No mods are needed. It’s an ordinary saved world.

Worlds are only as detailed as the map. Big cities are usually mapped in great detail, while some small towns have only a few buildings on the map so far. Interiors are generated, not copied from the real buildings.

Who’s behind it

Map2Minecraft is a small, independent project, run by Brewer Family Interests LLC in Kentucky, USA. It isn’t a big studio, and it isn’t affiliated with Mojang, Microsoft or the Arnis project. When you write to us, a real person reads it and replies.

Built on Arnis

The engine inside Map2Minecraft is Arnis, an open-source world generator created by Louis Erbkamm and improved by its community on GitHub. Arnis is a free desktop app you can download and run yourself. Map2Minecraft runs a modified version of it on our servers and adds what a website needs: the map picker, 3D previews, building large areas in the cloud, and delivering worlds by download or email. If you like making things yourself, Arnis is well worth a look.

Why some of it costs money

Building a world takes real computing power. A large city can keep a server busy for most of an hour, and servers and email cost money every month. Looking around your world is always free, and the smallest worlds can be unlocked for free with an email address. Paying for bigger worlds keeps the site running and pays for making it better. See our refund policy for what happens if a world doesn’t work.

Credits

  • Arnis by Louis Erbkamm and contributors, licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
  • Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Thousands of volunteers map the world, and every world on this site is built on their work.
  • Elevation from the Terrain Tiles open dataset. Its sources include 3DEP (formerly NED), SRTM and GMTED2010 terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; ETOPO1 from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; EU-DEM, produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union; and national elevation data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. See the full attribution.
  • Place search by Nominatim, using OpenStreetMap data.
  • Satellite imagery in the map picker by Esri, Maxar and Earthstar Geographics.
  • Walkable previews rendered with BlueMap.

Minecraft

NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang Synergies AB. You need your own copy of Minecraft to play the worlds we make.

Say hello

Questions, ideas, a world you’re proud of, or a problem we should fix? Use our contact page. The fine print is in our terms, privacy policy and refund policy.