Fresh Ink

Datapack • Vanilla+ • Survival-friendly • Server-ready • English & French Languages

Supports Minecraft Java 26.1 → 26.2

✨ Why Fresh Ink?

Tired of cartographers selling you the exact same map over and over ?

In vanilla, an explorer map is drawn once when the offer unlocks, every purchase after that is just a copy.

Fresh Ink makes every map one of a kind.

Each purchase charts a brand-new destination on the spot, up to ~2,800 blocks around you so, buy two maps, get two different adventures.

• 🗺️ Every map is unique : generated at the moment of purchase, never a copy.

• 🧭 All 10 map trades supported : jungle, swamp, the 5 village types, ocean monument, trial chambers and woodland mansion.

• 💰 100% vanilla balance : prices, trade levels, quantities and map names untouched.

• 🛡️ Bulk-buy safe : sealed maps never stack and purchases are never lost : if no destination can be found nearby, the map is refunded and retried automatically 30 seconds later.

• 🌐 Bilingual : map names follow each player's own game language, the pack's messages switch with a single command.

• 🧹 Clean & reversible : no terrain changes, no world-gen edits, remove it anytime.

⚙️ How it works

The cartographer sells a « sealed map ✦ ».

The instant it lands in your inventory, Fresh Ink swaps it for a freshly drawn explorer map, with a little sound cue and a confirmation message.

📥 Installation

1. Download the .zip (don't unzip it).
2. Drop it into your world's datapacks folder (Edit World → Open World Folder → datapacks).
3. Quit and re-open the world — a simple /reload is not enough: trade changes only load at world startup.
4. Minecraft shows an "experimental settings" warning: that's normal (the game classifies any villager-trade edit this way). Click through and play.

New world: use the Data Packs button on the create screen.

Server: put the .zip in world/datapacks/ and restart the server — players don't need to install anything.

🌐 Language / Langue

Messages are in English by default : To switch (operator permissions required, like /reload):

/function fresh_ink:lang/en   →  messages in English !
/function fresh_ink:lang/fr   →  messages in French !

The choice is saved per world, map names always follow each player's own game language automatically.

🧑‍🌾 Existing worlds & villagers

Adding Fresh Ink to an ongoing world

Perfectly safe : nothing touches terrain or world generation, the trade offers are stamped into each villager the moment they unlock, so:

• Cartographers with already-unlocked map offers keep their old maps for those slots.
• Their next level-ups use Fresh Ink sealed maps.
• Brand-new cartographers use Fresh Ink for everything.

💡 Tip : a cartographer that has never traded can be reset, break its cartography table, let it lose the job, then place the table back : all of its offers reroll with Fresh Ink.

❓ FAQ

Does it work on multiplayer servers ?

Yes ! It's a fully server-side datapack : install it once on the server, players need nothing.

Does it change my world or my gameplay ?

No terrain, world-gen or crafting changes, only the cartographer's 10 map trades are touched so you can uninstall anytime.

Why the "experimental settings" warning ?

Minecraft flags any pack that edits villager trades this way, it's expected and safe, side effect : such worlds can't be uploaded to Realms (a Minecraft rule, not a bug).

Any lag?

Charting a map can freeze the game for a split second, the same structure search vanilla runs when a cartographer levels up. Bulk purchases convert one map per tick to spread the load.

Can I uninstall it?

Yes, you can ! just delete the .zip from datapacks and restart the world, Cartographers that unlocked sealed-map offers while the pack was active will keep an inert souvenir map in those slots : harmless, just pointless.

💚 Credits

Made with care for map collectors and explorers by MrReLaX !

⛏️ Happy exploring!

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