Turn any picture into Minecraft map art. Pixels are matched to real map colors, and staircasing the blocks gives every color three brightness shades on the finished map. Runs entirely in your browser, so your image is never uploaded.
A filled map shades each block by comparing its height to the block to its north. One step higher renders bright, one step lower renders dark, and level renders normal. Staircasing the build turns every map color into three usable shades, which is why map artists build in steps rather than flat. This generator solves those elevations for you and shows the resulting height profile.
Switch the mode toggle to Flat for a single-layer image to Minecraft blocks mosaic, matched against real block textures rather than map colors. The Layers slider stacks up to four stained glass blocks over each base block, tinting it toward the exact image color, which is the glass-layering technique builders use for top-down art. The converter then counts your most-used blocks and suggests them as a publishable block palette.
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