Frequently asked questions

A gallery and trading hub for maparts. Upload your builds straight from the game, browse everyone else's, and trade copies with other players.

Yes, a password is required. Open the sign-in page to get an 8-character code, then whisper it to the verification bot in-game — the exact command is shown on the sign-in page. That works every time, first sign-up or returning: the first time, it creates your account and asks you to choose a password; after that, it asks for your existing one.

Want to upload maparts too? That needs the Maparts Link mod. Once you're signed in, the site offers a fresh code and the /maplink CODE command to link it — you can also skip that and do it later. Note that /maplink by itself only ever signs in an account that already exists; it can't create one, so it's never the very first step.

Minecraft 1.21.4–1.21.11 (Java 21) or 26.1.2+ (Java 25) with Fabric Loader and Fabric API, plus the Maparts Link mod jar matching your version in your mods folder. See the guide for the full setup walkthrough.

Two things together: your in-game username, and your password. The server this community plays on runs in offline mode, so there's no Microsoft account check involved — anyone could type your username into their own client. Your password is what actually confirms it is you each time you sign in, same as on any other site.

Just run /maplink again with a fresh code from the login page, then enter your existing password when asked — there's nothing to transfer or reset.

Uploads happen entirely in-game so the site always has exact data: the real map colors, the size in item frames, and each frame's map ID — not a photo of a screen. Stand in front of a mapart wall and run /mapupload with the mod installed.

Look at any frame in the wall and run /mapupload. The mod finds the whole connected rectangle of frames on its own. To name it yourself, add a title: /mapupload My cool build.

The mod looks at the custom item names on the maps themselves — players often name multi-map builds something like "Sunset (3/6)" — strips the counter, and uses the remaining name ("Sunset") as the title automatically. If no map has a usable name, it just uploads untitled and you can add one later. Tip: typing Untitled in any search box brings up every mapart with no title.

A precise way to pick the exact rectangle when you don't want the automatic wall detection. Run /mapselect looking at one corner frame, run it again looking at the opposite corner, then /mapupload. Selecting the same frame twice captures a single 1×1 map.

Yes — look at the wall and run /mapuploadall. It automatically splits the wall into separate arts (first by matching map names, then by whether the artwork visually continues across a frame border) and uploads each one as its own draft. Groups it can't split cleanly into a rectangle are skipped — grab those individually with /mapselect. On a big wall it may pause for a few seconds first while it waits for every map's data to finish loading from the server, so nothing gets missed.

Nothing is duplicated. If the exact same image (by content, not filename) already exists on the site — anyone's upload, draft or published — you're simply added as an owner of that existing mapart instead, instantly, with a link to it. Nobody's data is ever removed or replaced by this.

If a step (creating the draft, sending the image, or processing it) fails to reach the site, the mod automatically retries once, 5 seconds later, before giving up. If the image itself turns out to be broken or oversized, that draft is removed automatically — you never end up with dead, broken drafts cluttering your maparts.

Every upload starts as a draft, visible only to you on your maparts. Nothing appears in the public gallery until you hit Publish. You can unpublish again later, which pulls it back out of the gallery without deleting it. A public draft you leave unpublished for five days is published automatically, so a build you meant to share doesn't stay hidden because you forgot the last step — a draft you set to private is left alone.

Up to 64×64 item frames per mapart — far bigger than almost anyone will need. There's no limit on how many separate maparts you can upload.

If it's sat as "Processing" for more than a few minutes, it didn't finish. Your maparts dashboard will show it as Didn't finish with a delete button — safe to remove, then just try the upload again.

On your maparts, the title, authors, and 18+ flag are editable directly in the row — click in, make your change, click away (or toggle the checkbox) and it saves itself. A small toast confirms it.

Open Full editon any of your maparts (from the dashboard or the mapart's own page) for the complete form: description, authors, when it was built, 18+ flag, build type (flat/staircased, carpet/full-block), and public/private visibility. Visibility is now per-copy: setting yours to private only hides yourcopy, and other players who have the same mapart keep their copies visible by their own choice. That page also shows the exact captured metadata — size, upload date, and the per-frame map list — which can't be edited since it comes straight from the game.

Once someone else owns a copy — through a trade, or by uploading the same image — that mapart is shared data, not just yours anymore, so deleting it isn't allowed. You'll see a Shared chip instead of a delete button. The same rule applies while a mapart sits inside an open (not yet completed or cancelled) trade.

Yes — the maparts dashboard has filters for status (draft/published/ processing), SFW vs 18+, author, size, build type, tags, a text search, and a sort order (newest, oldest, biggest, or smallest), so you can find one upload out of hundreds quickly.

You can suggest a correction right from the mapart's page — title, description, authors, built date, or the 18+ flag. The owner gets notified and can accept or decline it; nothing changes until they do, and you'll be notified either way once they review it.

Yes — a mapart can list several authors. Enter them comma-separated (e.g. "Steve, Alex") in the quick-edit or full edit form. Each name links into the gallery's author filter so anyone can find everything a given builder is credited on.

The author is whoever actually built the mapart in-game; the uploader is whoever ran the upload command (and therefore owns the account the draft lives under). They're very often the same person, but don't have to be — you can upload and credit someone else as the builder.

The gallery's filter bar covers a text search (title/author), author and size (searchable dropdowns), build type, tags, a sort order (newest, oldest, biggest, or smallest map), and — signed in — a toggle to hide maparts you already own. You can also paste an in-game map id straight into the search box to jump to the mapart that uses it, type Untitled to find maparts with no title, or pick (no author)— first in the Author dropdown — to find ones with nobody credited yet. 18+ maparts are excluded by default; check "Show 18+" to include them. Picking more than one tag narrows to maparts that have all of them, not just any one.

A tag is a short label like "medieval" or "pixel-art" — there's a built-in list of around 80 covering subjects, styles, themes, origins and more. Only moderators and admins can create a new one, but anyone can attach an existing tag to their own mapart from the quick edit or full edit form, and can filter the gallery, profiles, their own uploads page, or a trade by it. A mapart can carry as many tags as fit. If the tag you want doesn't exist yet, use Suggest a tagon the mapart's page — a moderator reviews it and, if approved, the tag gets created and applied for you. (Moderators and admins see the same button, but it applies the tag immediately for them — no review needed, and they can edit the Tags field on any mapart's full edit page, not just their own.) Some tags are marked 18+ and follow the same visibility rules as an 18+ mapart: hidden from signed-out visitors, and from the filter list until you choose to show 18+ content.

An automatic read of how it was actually built: Flat or Staircased (real height variation vs. a flat surface), and Carpet or Full-block (which material makes it up). You can filter the gallery by it, or correct it yourself on the edit page if the automatic guess is wrong — your choice always wins over a future re-guess.

Maparts flagged 18+ render blurred with a click-to-reveal by default. Signed-in users can turn this off for themselves in dashboard preferences — anonymous visitors always see the blur.

An automatic visual-similarity check (not an exact match) that surfaces published maparts that look close to the one you're viewing — recolors, small variants, or the same art re-uploaded differently. It's purely informational and never blocks or merges anything.

It tracks who has a physical copy in-game, separate from who uploaded it. Uploading a mapart automatically makes you an owner; completing a trade adds ownership for what you received; uploading an image that already exists adds you as an owner of the existing one. Multiple players can own the same mapart at once, and each owner controls their own copy independently — whether it shows on their profile, and whether it's marked not-for-trade.

User-curated groups of maparts shown on your public profile. Everyone starts with one called "My first collection"; create as many as you like from your collections, rename them, and mark each public or private. Private collections are visible only to you. You can also add or remove maparts and drag them into whatever order you want, right on that page — someone viewing your profile sees that order when they open the collection and pick Custom order in the sort menu.

Yes, at 6b-art.../u/YourUsername. It shows your public collections, stats (uploads, owned, completed trades, wishlist size, collection count, member-since date, your average trade rating, and your leaderboard rank if you have one), your followers and who you follow, and the same filters as the main gallery. It only shows maparts whose copy you've kept public — anything you've hidden from your profile (or that's still a draft) doesn't appear to visitors.

Yes, from their profile page — turn on notifications for them and you'll hear about it whenever they publish a new mapart. Every profile also lists its followers and who it follows.

Yes, a public one ranking players by trades completed, maparts uploaded, in-game maps, maparts owned, average trade rating, and coins. Each tab explains what it counts — for example Mapscounts the individual in-game map squares across every mapart you own a copy of (a 10×10 mapart is one upload but a hundred maps), so it ranks differently from Uploads.

Open any mapart's page, find an owner in the Owners & trading section, and hit Propose trade. Pick what you're offering and what you want back — either side can be empty, so pure gifts and pure requests both work.

Pending (waiting on the other player) → Accepted (meet up in-game and exchange the copies) → Completed (both sides confirm it happened, which grants ownership of what was received and unlocks ratings). While a trade is still pending, either side can change what's being offered or requested without cancelling and starting over. Either side can cancel before completion, and the recipient can decline a pending proposal. Every trade — including declined and cancelled ones — stays in your permanent trade history.

Yes — every trade has its own chat, right on the trade's page, that refreshes every few seconds while it's open.

A list of maparts you want but don't own yet. Add one from its page; owners of anything on your wishlist get a notification that you might be up for a trade.

Yes — once a trade is completed, both sides can leave a 1-to-5-star rating. Trades you've completed but haven't rated yet are highlighted in your trades list so you don't forget, and your average shows up on your public profile.

Yes, from your dashboard preferences — separately choose whether you're willing to receive 18+ maparts and/or safe-for-work ones in trades. A trade that would send you something you've opted out of is blocked automatically, on either side.

Upload a new mapart — one coin per map id, so a 5x5 wall is worth 25. Have a suggested correction you made on someone else's mapart approved — 5 coins. Or invite a friend (see below). Your balance and full history are on your coins dashboard.

Share your personal invite link from your coins dashboard. Once the person you invited uploads their first 3 maparts — proving they're a real player, not a throwaway account — they earn a one-time coin bonus, and so does everyone up the chain who helped bring them in, up to 5 levels back. Those first 3 uploads don't separately earn upload coins too, since they've already earned the invite bonus for the same action.

Staff-run raffles you enter by spending coins on tickets — see open giveaways for what's running and what it costs. More tickets means better odds. Once entries close, staff draw a winner at random from every ticket sold.

Trade activity (proposed, accepted, declined, cancelled, completed, items changed, rated), new trade chat messages, someone wishlisting a mapart you own, a new upload from someone you follow, a correction or tag suggested on one of your maparts (and the response once you review it), coins from an invite, winning a giveaway, and account sign-ins via /maplink — plus a one-time welcome when your account is first created. You can choose which of these reach you — see the next question.

Yes. The Notifications page has a Delivery preferencespanel where you turn each category — trade activity, trade chat, wishlist, suggestions, follows, coins & invites, giveaways, account — on or off for the bell. Turning a category off stops it lighting up the bell and its unread count; it does notdelete anything — every notification is still recorded and you'll always find it in the full list on that same page.

If you turn on browser push notificationsin that same Delivery preferences panel, your device alerts you even when 6b-art is closed. Your browser asks permission first; it's set per device, and you can turn it back off any time — turning it off stops push everywhere for your account. If you dismissed or blocked the browser's permission prompt earlier, you can ask again from the panel (a blocked site needs you to switch it back to Allow in your browser first). The per-category toggles apply to push too, so you can keep, say, trade chat as push-only.

Just open the bell — everything currently unread is marked read the moment the panel opens. For more control, the full Notifications page lets you search, filter by type, and mark things read or unread one at a time. Read notifications older than 90 days are cleared out automatically so the log stays useful.

A small text box on every mapart's page, visible only to you — useful for jotting down coordinates, material lists, or reminders. Nobody else, including the uploader, can see them.

Open your dashboard and use Sign out everywhere under Sessions & mod access. It instantly signs out every website session and disconnects every mod link — including the one you're using right now — so you'll need to run /maplink again afterward.