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How to Craft Cartography Table in Minecraft

Cartography Table in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Expanding, copying and locking maps. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.14.

A Cartography Table costs you 2 Papers and 4 Planks, put together at a Crafting Table. Its pattern is two Papers side by side in the top row and four Planks in a 2x2 square. Each attempt hands back 1 Cartography Table. Cartography Tables double as furnace fuel: 300 ticks each, so 43 of them smelt a full stack of 64.

Cartography Table Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Cartography Table is minecraft:cartography_table. In commands the namespace may be left off, so cartography_table works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p cartography_table
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p cartography_table 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve cartography_table 1

Cheats have to be on for Cartography Table to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

The Cartography Table clones, extends and locks maps. It is the job site block for cartographer villagers. Cartography Table uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.14, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with paper (craft from sugar cane) and planks (craft from logs).

What A Stack Yields

16 crafts drain a stack: 64 planks become 16 cartography tables. Bring 32 paper along for the ride. Craft 16 takes the last planks, with nothing spare.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
PaperPaperPaper2xCraft from sugar cane
Planks4xCraft from logs

Collect 2x Paper (craft from sugar cane) and 4x Planks (craft from logs) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

The Full Chain

3 Sugar Cane makes 3 Paper, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 4 Planks and 3 Sugar Cane.

  1. 1
    Sugar CaneSugar Cane3PaperPaper3Paper
  2. 2
    Cartography Tablethis page

Gather this first

4PlanksSugar CaneSugar Cane3Sugar Cane

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    PaperPaper2x Paper

  2. 2

    4x Planks

  3. 3

    Cartography Table

Minecraft crafting recipe for Cartography Table: 2 x Paper, 4 x Planks in a crafting table, making 1 Cartography Table.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 2x Paper and 4x Planks. Plan the Paper first: craft from sugar cane.

Uses for Cartography Table

  • Expanding, copying and locking maps
  • Cartographer villager job site

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Cartography Table on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Cartography Table in Minecraft?
To craft a Cartography Table you need 2 Papers and 4 Planks at a Crafting Table. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Cartography Table.
What do you need to make a Cartography Table from scratch?
Gather 4 Planks and 3 Sugar Canes and you have everything a Cartography Table needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Can you craft a Cartography Table without a crafting table?
The inventory grid is too small for a Cartography Table, so you need a table. It is laid out as two Papers side by side in the top row and four Planks in a 2x2 square, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Cartography Table?
Here is where each part of a Cartography Table comes from. Paper: craft from sugar cane. Planks: craft from logs.
How many Cartography Tables do you get from one craft?
The Cartography Table recipe makes one Cartography Table per craft.
What is the item ID for Cartography Table in Minecraft?
The Cartography Table item ID is minecraft:cartography_table, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write cartography_table on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Cartography Table?
Use /give @p cartography_table to put a Cartography Table in your own inventory, or /give @p cartography_table 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Cartography Table recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 2 Papers and 4 Planks at a Crafting Table gives you a Cartography Table, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Cartography Table?
For the cartography table the answer is Minecraft 1.14, and it is not a guess: that release carries the recipe, the one before it does not. The current release still makes a Cartography Table exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
2 Papers and 4 Planks in, 1 Cartography Table out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.14 describes this recipe and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Cartography Table per craft against the stack size.

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