Map Markers Behave Unpredictably

I can confirm something very similar, placed map in item frame on multiplayer server, removed it (somehow got mutiple copies) and the map no longer functioned, no position indicator, and it would NOT fill in areas that were unexplored.

Could you please check if the marker is hidden below the map like in MC-3416 ?

Sorry but I don't get it. How can it be hidden below the map?
I also have a question... Is the bug report ok or do I need to add something?

The arrow might be hidden below the map, please take a closer look at MC-3416 and it's duplicates and check if your bug is the same.

I've been out trying to see if the bug is the same as MC-3146. I had put up 2 copies of a map at my home (on item frames) so I removed them from the wall and now I had 4 copies in my hand. When i looked at them the green markers where still there (the two that I just had removed). Anyway I went to place item frames with maps in them in the two villages that I had put item frames in before. Well now it worked accept the two green markers that where still present from the first two item frames. And after a short while the last green marker (4th) almost entirely disappeared) but now I could see the white marker all the time.

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You can see the green markers tip on the fourth location but that's it.

Alright gonna relate this one to MC-3416 for now.

Uhm I went back to my home to put up item frames again and again place copies of this map. When I did the white marker disappeared again and so I went to check if the bug would be the same as MC-3146 (That is that the white marker would be visible if I went into uncharted territory, but only below the uncharted space) and it wasn't the same.

I went into uncharted territory and the uncharted territory became visible territory but I couldn't see the white marker at any time.

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I logged in once again and now the green markers that was supposed to indicate the villages was no longer present even though that there is maps hanging in item frames at those two locations. The white marker was present yet again though.

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One last comment... I'm sorry but I will not update this any further as I'm not employed by Mojang. Might sound rude but I just wanna play Minecraft in a bug free environment and haven't got the energy or the time to put into this. Hope it gets resolved =)

Neither are we, yet we are here.

maps need a fixin

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

In 13w50a this happens. The white cursor seems to be 'behind' the map; if you find the white cursor to be missing, go off-map, and the white dot will move with your location – but the green or blue of the map will overlap it.

Seems like this goes back to MC-73 too.

Issues with copied maps losing locations [green arrows] and player positions [white arrows] are still happening.
Reset your Minecraft server application for a temp fix - it seems to come back.

It's really bugging me that this is still happening even after 4+ months. I don't care of there are duplicates of this because even the originals aren't really being fixed.
I can't just reset the server every time there is a map cursor bug.

still happens in 1.6.1 [i'm using the biggest scale maps, 1 pix-chunk]
i have 2 maps hanging on frames(near me and in a village) and 2 maps being used by my friend and me. first when i held 2 maps in my hand (3rd with a friend and 4th in a village) and then placed one on a wall, i could see my marker, my friend's, and one in a distant village. i couldn't see the second green one. after putting my map into a chest and destroying/replacing item frame and map on a wall i could see 2 green markers and one white (friend's one)
but when i took 4th map from a chest i couldn't see my own.
there is clearly something wrong with updating markers, still in 1.6.1

I can confirm this is still present in 1.6.2. Player pointers disappear on cloned maps. Cloning maps sometimes makes the pointer appear below the map image.

Still present in 1.7.2, tested in multiplayer:
1. Made a map, activated it and zoomed out to maximum level.
2. Copied the map, placing the copy in an item frame.
3. Explored surrounding terrain. Both green and white arrow still visible.
4. Put the copy in hand into a chest. Did other things for a while.
5. Picked up the map from the chest. Now only the green arrow was visible.

Attempts to see the white arrow below the map failed.
Green arrow did not disappear when removing the map from the item frame, white arrow still hidden.
Problem persisted when replacing the map on the wall, and when shuffling the copies around.
Both map in hand and map on the wall are affected.

I confirm that the bug is still present in 1.7.2

I have two clones of the same map in frames, third in my inventory (and two more in chests).
Whenever I place a third clone on a wall, third green marker fails to appear on the map I'm holding. If I drop my copy and pick it up, then all green markers are present but white marker is gone. If I remove map from the wall, white marker appears back and third green marker disappears as it should.
It only happens to the map I'm holding, maps on the walls function normally.

Problem still exists in 1.7.3. And it seems to me like MC-4068 and MC-3416 are the same problem.

Confirmed in 1.7.4.

Can this please be updated?

EDIT: Thanks.

Is this still a concern in the latest Minecraft version 14w05b? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

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I have tested this in 14w05b. It seems like things are a bit better now – the behaviour seems more predictable – when up to four markers are to be displayed on the map (including all item frames and all players holding the map), everything is ok (in 1.7.4 the problems used to appear even if only one or two markers where shown).

But the fifth marker to be displayed won't show – if another player gets a copy of the map, or the map is placed in another item frame, the new marker won't be visible. Additionally the map previously installed on an item frame by one player won't be visible by the other player (maps disappearing from the item frames seem related to the markers disappearing from the map).

When more than four markers are displayed then it is not longer obvious which four will be visible – this changes when players pick-up, drop or install the map copies on item frames.

The bug still may be quite annoying.

Still happens on 1.7.8/14w11b and is very annoying.

Its fairly easy to reproduce:

1. Start a creative world and create a map. Make 3 clones of it (total nr of the same map is now 4).
2. Place 4 item frames and place 3 map clones in the first 3 of them. (so far so good; 3 green markers and 1 white marker are visible on the map).
3. Place the 4th map clone in the 4th frame. BUG: 4th green marker doesn't appear ! White marker is still present though.
4. Now clone a 5th map. Look at the map. BUG: White marker has now disappeared. But you can now see 4 green markers.

I think I have seen this happen with only 3 total markers, but I don't know why its sometimes 3 and sometimes 4. Perhaps its if you share the map with someone else. Because then you'll have 2 white markers and will reach a total of 4 with just 2 green markers.
But I've also seen it happen with less when moving in and out of range of individual markers several times.

Restarting the server can fix this temporarily because it removes green markers that are out of range, bringing the total of markers below 4 again. But if you get within range of them and they're added to the map and you reach 2-3 green markers, you risk having the bug reappear.

If you knock the maps out of the item frames so the total number of markers goes below 4 again (e.g 1 player marker, 2 green), you get your white marker back.

This still happens in 1.7.9. I am on a minecraft realms server and nobody's maps are working anymore. This probably calls for a server reset to fix, but it hinders map exploration when you can't see your location on the map.

Edit: I think that multiplayer should be added to this issue, as nobody's map on my server is working properly right now, presumably due to this item frame issue.

Still present in 14w30c. The player arrows are rendered underneath the filled area of the map so they are hidden. If you get to the edge of the map, you can sometimes see the white arrow peeking out from underneath. This is present in multiplayer as well as single player.

In my experience, this has nothing to do with how many maps are in item frames. I have created 4 copies of my map and placed only one on the wall in an item frame, and the bug still happens.

Several comments indicate that the behavior is now as described by MC-3416, and may have always been that way, making this a duplicate.