Yes, you can zoom them out by placing the original map as your 'compass' and putting another eight pieces of paper around it, moving it to the next level. Which I successfully did, so I suppose my issue isn't a bug at all and how the game now works. However, at second zoom level, it's still no where close to what the original map 'saw'. Is zoom level five the original map size? It just seems silly that I need like an entire stack of reeds to accomplish what the map used to be with only eight pieces of paper...
So... what was the 'original' map zoom? Because it seems to me a map at a 1:1 ratio is fairly useless, so I guess I'm unsure why the game was adjusted to such. :/ I just need that much more paper to make a map that's actually useful like the original was?
Image attached (I believe!).
Map at improper zoom...
MC-754 does seem to be a similar issue. Someone commented on that thread that restarting the server would 'fix' the issue - restarting the server DID make the white player marker appear once more on my own map (which was part of my problem), but the green item frame marker was also still on it as seen in the original picture.