PingMark

PingMark

Share discoveries and keep your party on target!

See how far away every ping is, something vanilla Valheim never shows. Aim, press Z, and your friends see exactly what you found: a named marker, a colored outline and a live distance. Stand still and press Left Shift + Z to sense loot and creatures hidden in the dark around you.

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📸 Screenshots

Everyone sees what you found, and how far away it is.

Sense the loot hidden in the dark. One press of Perception outlines every coin, gem and chest around you.

Read creatures and fish from afar. Taming progress and fish quality, without walking up to them.

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🧭 Features

📍 Pinging

• 📏 Distance on every ping: world and map pings show who pinged and how far away it is, updating as you move. Works on regular map pings too.
• 🎯 Aim and ping: mark what you are looking at with its name and an outline, even while running.
• 💎 Find the loot: dropped weapons, armor and materials glow so they're easy to spot in the grass, and so do cut logs and broken ore deposits.
• ⏱️ Longer pings: set how long pings stay with Ping Duration (vanilla 5 s).

🐺 Creatures & fish

• 🎯 Track creatures: highlight a mob with a nameplate and distance that follow it, red for hostile, green for friendly.
• 🐗 Taming from afar: ping an animal from across the field to see how its taming is going, like Wolf (15%), or how a tamed one feels, like Boar (Hungry).
• 🐟 Fish quality: pinged fish show their quality before you cast, like Pufferfish • 5, in their own color.
• 🎣 Watch your catch: ping a fish before it bites and it stays outlined until you land it or it gets away. While a fish is hooked, the Fishsight slot next to your power appears: press Left Alt + Z to switch the outline on or off. Auto Outline Hooked Fish outlines every catch.

🔮 Perception

• 👁️ Sense what's near: stand still and press Left Shift + Z to outline loot around you for 15 s, handy for coins and gems in dark dungeons. Nearby PingMark players see it too.
• 🐺 Sense creatures: it also highlights every hostile and friendly creature in range, beyond the usual highlight limit.
• ⏳ Like a Guardian Power: its own slot shows Ready or the time left, and it's ready again 60 s after each use. Prefer a cost that grows with what you sensed? Set Perception Fatigue Mode to Relative.

🎨 Your rules

• 👥 Mark teammates: optionally highlight players instead of the spot they stood on (off by default).
• 🗂️ Choose what counts: pick which objects are Valuables, Locations or Useful, and change colors, labels, keys and range.

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🎮 Controls

| Shortcut | Action | | --- | --- | | Z | Ping the spot or object you aim at, or highlight a creature. | | Left Shift + Z | Perception (standing still): sense loot and creatures near you. | | Left Alt + Z | While a fish is hooked: switch its outline on or off. | | Right Ctrl + P | Turn PingMark on or off. | | Right Ctrl + Right Shift + P | Open the Prefab Collections menu (admins only on servers). |

🎛️ Ping, Perception and Fishsight can be rebound in the game's Settings > Controls (the modifier stays, so Perception keeps Left Shift). Every shortcut is also in the config under 9 - Inputs.

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🛠️ Prefab Collections Menu

Decide which objects get a name and outline when pinged.

• Search and filter every object and location in the game, including modded ones.
• Move objects between colored sections, or add, rename and remove sections.
• Auto Sort rebuilds the default Valuables, Locations and Useful sections, modded objects included. Undo reverts, Apply saves.
• Find an object's ID: turn on Debug Ping Names (an Advanced setting) and press Z on it.
• For admins sharing lists: Copy YAML / Import YAML move every section through the clipboard, a section's Import takes a CSV list, and Export Report writes how every object was sorted to BepInEx/config/JoksterCube.PingMark.AutoSortReport.csv.

> 🔒 On a server with PingMark, only admins can change collections, and the server checks every change. Collections are saved in BepInEx/config/JoksterCube.PingMark.Collections.yml and synced to all players.

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📦 Installation

Install with a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore App), or manually:

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Extract PingMark into BepInEx/plugins.
3. Launch the game. Settings are in BepInEx/config/JoksterCube.PingMark.cfg.

Installing on the server is optional. It syncs settings, filters ping range on the server and protects the collections.

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🧩 Compatibility

• ✅ Works in single-player and on servers without PingMark.
• ✅ Players without the mod can join. They see ordinary pings (no names, outlines or highlights).
• 📏 Z pings reach players within 200 m of you by default. Map pings stay global.
• ⚠️ On a PingMark server, every player with PingMark needs the same version as the server. Players without the mod can still join.

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