ParchmentMap

Parchment Map

A map you have to make, carry and keep up to date yourself. It replaces the game's own map, and it is just as much at home in worlds played without a map (the nomap world modifier, part of the Hardcore preset).

You craft a parchment at the workbench. The map exists only on that parchment:

• The map opens only while the parchment is in your hand. Put it away and there is no map again.
• The land is charted only while you walk with the parchment in your hand. Both hands are busy: no shield, no weapon, no punching.
• What you see is first only noted down. It appears on the map when you use a cartography table.
• The map is just a picture. It shows neither you nor other players, no pings, shouts or raids, and it does not follow you: it opens where you last looked.
• Marks go only where the map is already drawn. That includes boss marks from runestones: if the place is not on your map yet, you only get turned towards it.
• No pings. You cannot point at a place and have it appear on everyone's map. A place is shared by words, or through the cartography table. Pings from other players are not shown either.
• Whistle instead: the Z key, the last slot of the emote wheel (that is the way on a gamepad), or /whistle in chat. Your character raises a hand to the mouth and gives a long finger whistle, echoing off the valley: nothing appears on any map, but the others hear where you are — the sound comes from your direction and fades with distance, so they can walk to you. It costs stamina, you cannot sprint while whistling, and each player's whistle has its own pitch. Creatures hear it too, like a pickaxe on rock, and come running.
• A compass, once you have iron — and lightning. A separate item, put together from parts like a real one: a bronze case, an iron needle magnetised by the lightning of an obliterator, a wooden lid. Carry it in your bag — no need to hold it, your hands are busy with the map. The top of the compass is north and the red end of its needle shows which way you face, everywhere alike: open the bag and the needle swings inside the compass icon and settles; open the map and the compass lies in its top left corner on a compass rose; keep it on the hotbar and its needle is always in sight. The map is drawn north up, so the two agree. If the compass is in the way on the map, K takes it off and leaves just the compass rose with the cardinal directions; the same key puts it back.
• A detailed picture, if you want one. With the separate SatelliteMap mod installed, zooming in shows the drawn part of the parchment as the world itself: relief, shores, forest, the paths you have made, buildings, ruins and boss altars. How detailed it is decides the parchment (for now: the DetailLevel setting). Without that mod everything else works the same.
• The map shows the land as you saw it, not as it is now. Build a house, lay a road, cut a forest: the parchment does not know. Walk there again with the parchment in your hand to note the changes, then visit a cartography table to draw them. Needs SatelliteMap 0.2.0 or newer on the server and on your side; with an older one the picture follows the world live.
• Every parchment is its own map. A fresh parchment is blank. Drop it, put it in a chest, hand it to a friend: the explored area and the marks travel with the item.
• The cartography table copies maps between parchments, so a lost parchment is not lost progress.

How to use it

1. Once you have iron, make a Compass (all recipes configurable):

• at the forge: a Bronze compass case (1 bronze) and an Iron needle (1 iron);
• put the needle into an obliterator (the game's own: 8 iron, 4 copper and a thunder stone from Haldor) and pull the lever — the lightning makes it a Magnetised needle. Put the needles in alone: everything else in there burns;
• at the workbench: a Wooden compass lid (2 fine wood), then the Compass itself: the case, the magnetised needle, the lid and 2 bronze nails.

Keep the compass anywhere in your bag; open the bag or the map to see the needle, or put it on the hotbar to keep it in sight. On the open map K hides the compass and shows it again; the compass rose stays either way.

1. Craft a Parchment map at the workbench: 2 deer hide, 1 coal, 1 feathers (configurable).
2. Equip it like a tool. While it is in your hand, walk around: the parchment notes down what you pass.
3. At a cartography table, with the parchment in your hand:

• Read draws your notes onto the map and copies everything the table already knows onto your parchment.
• Write does the same and also adds your map to the table's records.

1. Open the map with the usual key (M) while the parchment is in your hand. Marks are placed as usual, on drawn land only, and are stored on the parchment.
2. Read a runestone with the parchment in your hand: the boss mark is added if that place is already on the map. Without the parchment, or if the place is still blank, you are only turned towards it.

To copy a map: hold parchment A and Write, then hold parchment B and Read. On a world where items are deleted on death, Write before you leave home: a new parchment will get everything back from the table.

A mark you erase stays erased: it does not come back from the table, and your next Write removes it from the table too.

The tooltip of a parchment shows how much of the world is charted on it, how much is still waiting for a table, how many already drawn places you have charted anew (changes waiting for a table), and how many marks it has.

Copying through the table copies the picture too: a parchment that reads the table gets every place the way the most recent cartographer saw it.

Installation