Minecraft World Map

Credits

This archive only exists because of the work of many people over many years. Thank you.

Minecraft World Map and its community

skeight, who started Minecraft World Map in 2011 and ran the website and the game server.
The staff of the website and the server: skeight, Ahrash2194, Amber_1, AustinAuranymph, Benfa79, blob0318, cowie124, IkePrime, larperdoodle, massivetuna, Nathangorr, QuantumNova, Styyxx, Tuddsfn, and everyone else who helped. See the Staff page.
Everyone who uploaded a world, built on the server or wrote on the forum. The worlds, builds and posts here are yours.
Blobbers, a former member of the server staff, who kept a copy of Creative Archive 1.8. It was thought lost until that copy turned up in October 2026.
The former staff who saved and shared the Play archives, the Server Lobby and the schematics.

Archives that saved it

Leonard Richardson's Minecraft Archive Project, which saved every world on the website in May 2014 (project page).
The Internet Archive, which keeps those worlds and gives them out for free (the Minecraft Archive Project collections).
The Wayback Machine, whose saved copies of the website's pages gave us the forum, the history and the Creative Archive previews (web.archive.org).
Common Crawl, whose web crawls saved more of the forum (commoncrawl.org).

The look of this site

This site is made to look like Minecraft World Map did at its last saved copy, in January 2021. Its pages were rebuilt from the Wayback Machine's copies of the original pages, with the original stylesheets. The original design belongs to Minecraft World Map. These original files were copied so the archive looks like the original:

the original site stylesheet (original, Wayback Machine copy);
Bootstrap 3.1.1 and its Glyphicons Halflings icon font, which the original site used (getbootstrap.com, MIT licence);
the forum's MyBB theme stylesheets and its theme images (forum icons and table headers); the list of files and the copies they came from is kept with the site's source;
the sky, grass and stone background strip (original, Wayback Machine copy);
the Minecraft World Map icon next to the site name (original, Wayback Machine copy);
the default Steve avatar shown next to user names (original, Wayback Machine copy);
Amber_1's head picture from the home page (original, Wayback Machine copy).

The forum software was MyBB.

World maps

Like the original site, the zoomable world maps are drawn from the world files with Minecraft Overviewer (GPL-3.0 licence), using the block pictures from Mojang's Minecraft game files, which are not part of this archive. The maps are shown with Leaflet 1.9.4 (BSD 2-Clause licence; its licence is kept with the copy at /assets/vendor/leaflet-1.9.4/LICENSE).