Cartography Table

Cartography Table Recipe

How to Craft Cartography Table

Cartography Tables are used for cloning, locking, and scaling maps, and for applying map decorations.

oak_planks
oak_planks
paper
paper
Crafting
cartography_table

Ingredients Needed:

  • oak_planks
    2x Oak Planks
  • paper
    2x Paper

Step-by-step Instructions

  1. Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
  2. Arrange the materials as shown in the grid above, then place the output Cartography Table into your inventory.
  3. That’s it! You can now use or place your new item.

Ingredient Tips

Oak Planks

Oak Planks: Crafted from any logs in a 2×2; great starter material found in all forest biomes.

Paper

Paper: Crafted from 3 sugar cane in a row; sugar cane grows on sand/grass near water.

Uses for Cartography Table

  • Expanding (scaling) maps
  • Cloning maps
  • Locking maps to prevent further updates
  • Adding map markers with banners

Fun Fact

Before the cartography table, players had to spend extra paper to resize or clone maps; this workstation dramatically reduces paper costs.

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