I've always found it best to just think about what you have good ideas for. A map always ends up best if it starts with a good idea, rather than just start with a random area. So just go through the map in your head, think a little about what you would put there if making a map. Then decide if you have a good enough idea for the larger area or not.

You can create a new map the normal way, and then just use clipboard copy to copy over the entities you want, and then trimming away the parts you don't need with tools like :CC2BREAK:/:CC2SPLIT:.

Lots of information here:

Ralf also did a live stream:

vthumb(cMHYlD97R2E|Live Mapping: Detail Maps)

Great work. I am also pretty certain that none of my players have above 12 INT, because they suck at puzzles. But what about the characters? They just as bad?

Some people like to go shopping, and find great comfort and peace in that.

In honor of that, I am doing a casual stream, making a nice peaceful battle map for use in a mall or similar location when your players just want to have some time off with nothing bad happening to them.

Feel free to watch using the player below, or head over to the stream at YouTube to be able to participate in the chat.

As usual, the scheduled time in your timezone should be visible in the forum sidebar, or YouTube will tell you if you visit the video. It even have a nice notify option if you like to be bothered by emails.

The issue is probably the #-character, which refer to the installation directory, you want the @ which refers to the data directory, like this:

#27,@Bitmaps\Icons\CONS.bmp:[Construction sheet/layer]{}|MCONS;

(@ was new with CC3+, which means older instructions use # because everything was in the install directory then)

And yea, you also need those number suffix files, those are for different toolbar sizes.