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After spending three days rendering more than 65,000 screenshots… the map is done!

You can browse the map as a guest by heading over to 8BitMMO.net/megamap.  Or even better, launch the map from in-game via Menu > Map to see a marker of where your character is.

The map has a number of nifty features:

Go to any position – Type any coordinates (you can use full coords such as 0,0,0:0,0=65, or just region coordinates 0,0) to see that location in the map.

Get position you are looking at – If you are scrolling around and wondering where a given position is so you can visit it in-game, click ‘Where am I looking now?’ – the answer will be shown in the coordinates input box.

Get URL to this position – Click this to get a URL to the position entered in the coordinates box.  Great for sharing your work with friends!

Where am I in-game? – (only if map launched from in-game) Shows your character’s position from when you first launched the map

Where’s my stuff? – (only if map launched from in-game) If you have lost your building, click this to find out which areas contain your blocks.  Clicking a given position listed will zoom the map there and place a marker nearby.

With the latest server update, town permissions have changed a bit.  By default, town citizens are now only able to pick up their own blocks (though they can still place them anywhere)

If a mayor trusts a citizen a great deal, they can promote them to a Town Official.  Officials have permission to take ANY block from the town.  Mayors should be very careful who they add as an official.

To designate a town citizen as an official, the mayor can type /townoff <player name> in the chat window.

Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas about this!