# Questions about Creating maps

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/questions-about-creating-maps/16051>\
**Category:** The Toolbox\
**Created:** [August 1, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/questions-about-creating-maps/16051 "2018-08-01T00:27:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TheMurderUnicorn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/themurderunicorn/32/5706_2.png) [@TheMurderUnicorn](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheMurderUnicorn)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/questions-about-creating-maps/16051/1 "2018-08-01T00:27:33Z")

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So, I’ve been working on learning how to add various things to the game through json. Right now I’m trying to understand creating a new building/map.

I got

> **[KrazyTheFox/Cataclysm-DDA-Map-Editor](https://github.com/KrazyTheFox/Cataclysm-DDA-Map-Editor)**
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> A simple map editor designed to enable quick editing of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead's json map formats. - KrazyTheFox/Cataclysm-DDA-Map-Editor

  
compiled, but when I run the .jar it asks for my directory. After selecting the cdda root directory, it closes and nothing ever happens. Anyone use that thing? The last reference I found to this working for someone was two years ago. Is it just broken due to changes over the last few years?

I also found references in the forum to the ability to export directly using the in-game debug menu map editor. Is that possible or was it just a concept that never got implemented? I can’t seem to find anything in-game that makes me think it’s possible to save or export a created landscape. I can spawn in buildings but I don’t see the ability to save changes.

I’ve been reading about how to edit a map through .json, but that seems like it would be the most difficult (or maybe I mean tedious?) of the three apparent options, so I wanted to ask about the others before I put in the effort of doing it all from scratch. I’m definitely a UI sort of guy and would prefer to do things that way.

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**Author:** ![TheMurderUnicorn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/themurderunicorn/32/5706_2.png) [@TheMurderUnicorn](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheMurderUnicorn)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/questions-about-creating-maps/16051/2 "2018-08-01T00:41:03Z")

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EDIT: As I often do, I found a solution within ten minutes of posting, so I just look like an idiot.

The map editor I linked works with 0.C, the stable. So . . . Yeah. I don’t know how to delete my thread =\ Sorry everyone.

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**Author:** ![mlangsdorf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mlangsdorf/32/2462_2.png) [@mlangsdorf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mlangsdorf)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/questions-about-creating-maps/16051/3 "2018-08-01T02:26:33Z")

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Heh. You should see the 8-9 aborted posts I wrote last week as I was working on the CBM install code. I’d painstakingly detail my current insolvable problem in preparation for begging anyone to explain my current error to me - and in the process realize whatever syntax or logic error I’d made. So the posts got deleted and I moved onto the next problem.

Don’t feel bad about posting a question and then figuring out the answer: it happens. Good for you for posting the answer, though.