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Documentation site is up at http://docs.overviewer.org!

Doc sources are available in the docs/ subdirectory of the repository. Contribute to the docs by forking our repository and submitting a pull request.

Join us on irc.libera.chat #overviewer!

Map Examples - Post links to your rendered maps here!

Config Examples - Got a configuration file that is a bit more involved than normal? Post a link here for others to learn from.

Services that use Overviewer - Run a service that uses Overviewer? Post a link in here! (For-profit included)

Available Modifications - Addons, mods and scripts that can enhance the power of Overviewer's output.

TODO List - Things that we have decided we want to do but haven't done yet

Ideas for Major Changes - Discussion on major and possibly backwards-incompatible changes that are wanted.

Frequently Asked Questions

See http://docs.overviewer.org/en/latest/faq/

News

• Aug 24, 2014.

  I forgot we had a news section on the wiki! Hi there! We'll have Overviewer updated for the Minecraft 1.8 soon!

• Feb 17 2012

  From now on, news will be posted to http://overviewer.org/blog/

• Nov 26 2011

  New Chunk-scanning branch has been merged. This should vastly improve the performance of incremental renders with only a minor increase in memory usage. As always, report bugs to the issue tracker if I broke anything. -brownan

• October 28 2011

  New documentation site is ready for the primary focus at http://docs.overviewer.org/en/latest/

• September 9 2011

  Rendermode options (including the mineral overlay, height fading, and some other neat things) has been merged into master! See the documentation section for details. --agrif

• August 18 2011

  The Configurable North feature has now been merged into master! --eminence

• August 06 2011

  As an appreciation to all the hard work every contributor has made to the Overviewer project, I have created a small video showing the git commits in a visual way using gource, from the start of the project up to the 05/08/2011. Video link --derchrisuk

• July 14 2011

  Progress continues, possible cave/subway render mode and configurable direction (North being in any corner, upper-right, upper-left, etc) in development. Check the Issues area for more details. --KT

• April 29 2011

  The dtt-c-render branch has finally been merged into master! Please check the Documentation section of our wiki for details on some of the changes. --eminence

• April 4 2011

  We have just pushed some next-generation code to a branch called 'dtt-c-render'. This version is much faster and will be the basis for new development. Please try it out and let us know what you think. See all this comment --eminence

• March 23 2011

  Overviewer development is still very active. We are currently working on a new version that promises to be several times faster and more flexible. You can follow the development here, here, or in #overviewer on freenode -eminence

• Feb 26 2011

  Support for the McRegion format has been added. Please test it out and report any bugs you find. -eminence

• Dec 14 2010

  Version 0.0.5 is released, and a Windows binary had been uploaded. Thanks to all the contributors that have picked up the slack in my absence! -brownan

• Oct 31 2010

  Sorry I haven't been working on this much. This semester got really busy for me. -Andrew