Xaero's Minimap Mod: Download and Install Guide (26.3)

Xaero’s Minimap puts a map of everything around you in the corner of your screen, and it keeps the look of vanilla Minecraft while doing it. Add the entity radar, waypoints, automatic deathpoints and a cave mode that switches on by itself, and it’s hard to get lost again. For Minecraft 26.3, version 26.5.3 is out for every major loader.

What the minimap shows

The map draws the terrain around you in the colors of vanilla Minecraft maps, with height shading so you can read hills and valleys. An Accurate mode uses the colors of block textures and biomes instead. You choose the shape and the behavior:

• Square or circle.
• Rotating with you, or locked to north with an arrow that shows where you’re facing.
• Size, zoom and position on screen are all adjustable, down to a single pixel.

Coordinates sit right under the map. The biome name, light level and game time can be switched on in the settings.

Entity radar

The radar shows what’s around you: mobs as yellow dots, players as white dots and items as red dots, while other entities like arrows show up in purple. Hostile and friendly mobs can get different colors, and instead of dots the map can show little icons, usually the mob’s head.

Waypoints and deathpoints

Press B to create a waypoint. It appears on the minimap and in the game world, so you always find your way back. Press U for the full list, where you can edit, sort, sort into sets and share waypoints in chat. Teleporting to a waypoint works if you have permission for the teleport command.

Every time you die, the mod sets a skull-shaped deathpoint at the spot automatically.

Cave mode

Underground, cave mode switches on by itself and maps the tunnels around you. It should also kick in inside buildings, and you can set how big the “roof” above you has to be before it activates.

Xaero’s Minimap for Minecraft 26.3

The current release is Xaero’s Minimap 26.5.3 for Minecraft 26.3. It came out for Fabric, Quilt and NeoForge on September 17, 2026, and for Forge on September 20. On Fabric it requires Fabric API. The mod has more than 112 million downloads on Modrinth.

How to install Xaero’s Minimap

1. Install your mod loader for Minecraft 26.3: Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge or Forge.
2. On Fabric, also download Fabric API for 26.3.
3. Download Xaero’s Minimap for 26.3 from Modrinth or CurseForge, filtered by your loader.
4. Put the file into your mods folder. That’s .minecraft/mods for the vanilla launcher, or your instance’s mods folder in Prism, the CurseForge app or the Modrinth App.

It’s a client mod. On a server it’s optional, and a fair-play edition without entities and cave maps exists for PvP servers.

Keys and tips

• Z enlarges the map, I and O zoom, Y opens the settings. All keys are in the vanilla Controls menu.
• In the settings you’ll also find a chunk grid, a slime chunk overlay and a light overlay that marks blocks where mobs can spawn.
• Want the whole world? Xaero’s World Map adds a full-screen map of everything you’ve explored and works together with the minimap.