What is Dynmap?
Dynmap, a web based map (think Google Maps for Minecraft Java) – is a super useful tool for any Minecraft Java SMP, but it can also be overwhelming for new players on your Minecraft server. You can find Dynmap on websites like Spigot.
What are we going to change?
When setting up a new server like my latest season of Block Horizon, the first thing I change is the display names of the worlds in Dynmap to make them much more user friendly and easy to read. This is especially useful if you’re using a plugin like Multiverse and have more than the standard Overworld, Nether and The End worlds on your Minecraft SMP.
Before making these changes to our Dynmap, we start off with our maps looking like this:
As you can see, it’s not as clear or as easy to read. It has a lot of unnecessary clutter that just makes things messy. So we’ll make some changes and once we’re done, we’ll end up with something like this:
The end result is much easier to read and so much quicker to find the world we want to view. So let’s take a look at how we can change the display name of our Minecraft worlds in Dynmap!
Pause map rendering before we start
To start off, we’ll need to ensure our Dynmap maps aren’t currently rendering – If they are, we won’t be able to make changes to world display names.
We can pause any rendering using the following command:
/dynmap pause all
The worldset command and how to use it
For our first world, internally within Minecraft this world is called BlockHorizon. We want to have this world display on our Dynmap as Survival. We can set the display names for our world using a command in game, as long as we have the correct permissions to do so, usually OP permissions. The command we use is in the following format:
/dmap worldset ExistingWorldName title:NewWorldName
“ExistingWorldName” is the name of the world we want to change. The dynmap plugin comes with auto complete and should give us a list of world names to select from here.
“title:NewWorldName” is the new name we want to use for this world on our Dynmap. the “title:” part of the command tells Dynmap exactly what we’re trying to update so this is always required.
Renaming our Minecraft worlds
For our first world, internally within Minecraft this world is called BlockHorizon. We want to have this world display on our Dynmap as Survival. We can set the display names for our world using a command in game, as long as we have the correct permissions to do so, usually OP permissions. The command we use is in the following format:
/dmap worldset ExistingWorldName title:NewWorldName
“ExistingWorldName” is the name of the world we want to change. The dynmap plugin comes with auto complete and should give us a list of world names to select from here.
“title:NewWorldName” is the new name we want to use for this world on our Dynmap. the “title:” part of the command tells Dynmap exactly what we’re trying to update so this is always required.
So to have our BlockHorizon world show as Survival on our Dynmap, we’d use the following command:
/dmap worldset BlockHorizon title:Survival
Next we’ll rename BlockHorizon_nether to Nether and BlockHorizon_the_end to The End. We can add spaces to the name if we enclose the name as follows “The End”. The “BlockHorizon_” part of these world names is what adds to the clutter on our Dynmap and makes it much harder to read.
To make these changes, we’ll use the following commands:
/dmap worldset BlockHorizon_nether title:Nether
/dmap worldset BlockHorizon_the_end title:"The End"
And then to finish off with our Dynmap, we’ll make one last change to display our Spawn world as Hub.
/dmap worldset Spawn title:Hub
Once we’re happy with how our Dynmap looks, the last step is to resume map rendering. This will ensure our Dynmap renders and updates as expected once we’re done with out changes. We can do this using the following command:
Resuming map rendering
/dynmap pause none
The above steps will help make your world names in Dynmap on your Minecraft Java server much more readable and easier to use for your players. I hope you’ve found this guide useful!
