About Better Map Zoom
From ModrinthMakes vanilla map exploration easier by retaining explored areas and banners when zooming out of a map.
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.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 2 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Better Map Zoom on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Fabric
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.0+mc26.3, released 2026-09-18
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 26.2 to 26.3 (2 versions) | 26.3 |
From 2 recorded builds of Better Map Zoom.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0+mc26.3 | 2026-09-18 | 26.3 | Fabric |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-06-16 | 26.2 | Fabric |
Run Better Map Zoom on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogMaps & scenarios
Custom maps, arenas and scenarios to play on.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Better Map Zoom as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Fabric
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 1 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-03Open ↗
- ✓AuthorShaosil, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
