MapCreator

Build maps better. Together.

discontinued due to personal reasons!

MapCreator is a lightweight, inventory based map management tool which allows users to create, load, delete, import and clone custom Minecraft maps. For your custom needs!

Features

Create new maps from templates
Manage (load, delete, clone) already existing worlds
Easy import of traditionally saved maps
Lightweight & asynchronous map management
Ability to store custom maps permanently in databases such as MongoDB, MariaDB (MySQL), SQLite, or on your file system
Sort your maps by creating unique categories
Ability to manage all maps and categories through an inventory
Multilingual console messages (languages currently available: English, German)
Each player may choose a suitable language via /language, otherwise the language will be picked automatically
Uses less disk space and provides more performance than traditional maps
No need to install anything by yourself - MapCreator does everything for you (except for MapCreator itself ¬‿¬ )!
Powerful API for Java Developers
Continuous development with many planned features
24/7-Support at our Discord-Server

Requirements

Java 16
Spigot 1.17.1 (PaperMC recommended)
Access to the server console (for the automated setup)
Access to a database (MongoDB, MariaDB (MySQL), SQLite)

Installation

Make sure your server is stopped, or will be restarted. Do not reload your server!
Download the latest version of CoreAPI & MapCreator from GitHub Releases
Move the downloaded jar-file to the plugins-folder
Start (or restart) your server
Go through the installation process (setup) in your console by answering the prompted questions with commands (commands represent the data, may be infinitely long)

Development

Maven

<repository>
    <id>dementisimus-dev-release</id>
    <url>https://repo.dementisimus.dev/release/</url>
</repository>

<dependency>
    <groupId>dev.dementisimus.mapcreator</groupId>
    <artifactId>MapCreator</artifactId>
    <version>INSERT_LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION_HERE</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Gradle

maven {
    name 'dementisimus-dev-release'
    url 'https://repo.dementisimus.dev/release/'
}

compileOnly group: 'dev.dementisimus.mapcreator', name: 'MapCreator', version: 'INSERT_LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION_HERE'

Example usage

// Docs: https://docs.dementisimus.dev/release/MapCreator/INSERT_LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION_HERE/dev/dementisimus/mapcreator/creator/api/package-summary.html
MapCreator mapCreator = new CustomMapCreator();
MapCreatorMap mapCreatorMap = MapCreatorMap.of("myMapName", "myMapCategory");

// MapCreator.Action.LOAD loads 'mapCreatorMap', for more Actions see 
// https://docs.dementisimus.dev/release/MapCreator/INSERT_LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION_HERE/dev/dementisimus/mapcreator/creator/api/MapCreator.Action.html
mapCreator.perform(MapCreator.Action.LOAD, mapCreatorMap, performance -> {
    // do something with MapCreator.Performance
});