About SharedExploration
From ThunderstoreServer-side: every map table gets the areas all players have explored, so Read on any table shows everyone's map. Players need nothing.
SharedExploration
A server-side plugin: the server keeps track of where every player has been and adds it to the explored area of every map table. Anyone who uses Read on a map table gets the whole group's exploration, even of places they never visited and even if the others never stood at a table.
What it does
- Every couple of seconds, the server marks the area around each connected player as explored, with
the same radius the game uses for your own map.
- Every 30 seconds (by default), it adds what is new to every map table in the world.
- Map tables also share with each other: something added to one table with Record reaches all of
them on the next update.
- Pins are not touched: only the explored (unfogged) area is shared.
- The explored area is kept between restarts, per world, in
BepInEx/config/SharedExploration/<world>.explored.gz.
Install
On the dedicated server only, with BepInEx: install it with a mod manager's server profile, or copy SharedExploration.dll into the server's BepInEx/plugins. Players need nothing: they use the map tables as usual.
Settings
BepInEx/config/Tie.SharedExploration.cfg, section [General]:
| Setting | Default | Meaning | |---|---|---| | Enabled | true | Add the areas players explore to every map table. | | SampleIntervalSeconds | 2 | How often player positions are recorded (the game explores every 2 s). | | MapTableUpdateSeconds | 30 | How often map tables are updated with the recorded areas. | | ExploreRadius | 0 | Radius in metres revealed around each player; 0 uses the game's own radius. |
Console
mapexplore shows how much of the map is explored and how many map tables there are; mapexplore update updates the tables right away. It runs on the server, so from a player's console it needs a mod that sends commands to the server, such as ServerDevcommands (server mapexplore).
Support
If this mod saved you some trouble:
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 22d ago.
SharedExploration on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.1.2, released 2026-10-13
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 3 recorded builds of SharedExploration.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.2 | 2026-10-13 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.1.1 | 2026-10-09 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.1.0 | 2026-10-08 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run SharedExploration on a Valheim server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogMaps & scenarios
Custom maps, arenas and scenarios to play on.
Runs on your server
From source side supportThunderstore lists SharedExploration as required on the server. Check its Thunderstore page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-13Open ↗
- ✓AuthorTie, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
