MapRoutes

MapRoutes

Draw freehand routes and markings directly on the map — synced with every other player who has this mod installed. Plan a journey, mark a route to a boss, warn your friends about a base location, and see their drawings too.

Features

• Freehand drawing on the large map, rendered on the minimap as well.
• 9-color palette — pick a color from the in-game toolbar to start drawing with it.
• Eraser — click near any line (yours or a friend's) to remove it.
• Clear All, with a confirmation prompt since it removes everyone's drawings.
• Show/Hide toggle to temporarily hide all drawings without losing them.
• Collapsible toolbar styled with the game's own UI textures — while it's collapsed, drawing is disabled so you don't draw by accident.
• Multiplayer sync — new lines, erases, and clears are broadcast live to everyone connected who has the mod. A player joining later automatically receives the current state from the host.
• Persists locally per world/save even without other players connected, so nothing is lost between sessions.

How to use

1. Open the large map (M).
2. Click the toolbar in the top-right corner to expand it if collapsed.
3. Click a color to arm the brush, or the eraser icon to arm erasing.
4. Hold the action button (right mouse button by default) and drag to draw; click to erase.
5. Click the panel's collapse button to lock drawing off again.

Configuration

Available via ConfigurationManager (F1) in-game, or the config file BepInEx/config/sopmehua.valheim.maproutes.cfg:

• Enabled — turn the mod on/off entirely.
• ActionButton — which mouse button draws/erases (default: right mouse button).
• LineThickness / MinimapLineThickness — line width on the big map / the corner minimap.
• MinPointSpacing — minimum distance between points while drawing (performance vs. smoothness).
• EraseRadius — how close the cursor needs to be to a line to erase it.

Multiplayer notes

Sync only happens between players who both have MapRoutes installed — everyone else is unaffected, no errors. The host (or whoever is authoritative for the world) holds the source of truth; if you're a client and the host doesn't respond within a few seconds (e.g. they don't have the mod), your own locally cached drawings are shown instead.

Language

The mod's UI and config descriptions follow your in-game language setting: English if the game is set to English, Russian if it's set to Russian, and English for any other language.