<span style="text-decoration: underline;">This mod is best used on a new world. While it can be used on existing worlds (and safely removed at any time), the result will be that all previously placed glyphs will change appearance.</span>
I enjoy playing without the map and using various tools to navigate and wayfind. One of those tools are cave art glyphs made by chalk and charcoal. Adding new glyphs is surprisingly difficult, and a couple mods tackle this in different ways. I've decided to go about it in a third way and remove the glyphs I personally use the least or couldn't interpret. In their place I've added a few, vanilla-styled glyphs I felt were lacking. Additionally, I've reorganized the glyphs in the GUI into categories that feel more sensible. I've also added a new pigment in the form of bioluminescent larvae. These can be gathered from the top-most section of glow-worm colonies when broken. Because glow-worms are finite (and also beautiful), it is possible to break a single block, replace it, and break it again to gather more larvae. This is an intentional choice to avoid the extinction of glow-worms.
Features:
- Reorganized glyphs.
- Removed uninterpretable glyphs.
- Added new vanilla-styled glyphs.
- New cave art pigments:
- Cyan, made from bioluminescent larvae harvested from glow-worms.
- Blue, created by using lapis lazuli like chalk or charcoal.
- Red, created by using cinnabar like chalk or charcoal.
- Green, created by using malachite ore like hematite ore.
Full Glyph List:
v1.1.0
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 120px;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 20px;"> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Up Arrow</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Down Arrow</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Left Arrow</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Right Arrow</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Ahead Arrow 1</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Ahead Arrow 2</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px;"> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Exclaimation Mark</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Checkmark</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">X</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Empty/Null/No Entry</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Danger/Death</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Ladder</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px;"> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Bow & Arrow/Hunting</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Pick/Mining</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Home/House/Shelter</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Camp/Tent/Shelter</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Ruin/Tower</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Boat//Port/Dock</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px;"> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Person/Human</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Priest</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Warrior</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Drifter</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Handprint</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Gear</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px;"> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Wings</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Birds</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Rabbit/Small Prey</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Gazelle/Large Prey</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Dog/Wolf/Predators</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Butterfly</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px;"> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sun</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Mountain/Cave/Triangle</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Water</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Fire/Brazier/Campfire</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Alchemy</td> <td style="width: 16.6667%; height: 20px; text-align: center;">Writing Square</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Roadmap:
<span style="font-size: 8pt;">(that might never happen)</span>
Spoiler!
- <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Larvae processing.</span>
- <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Touch up the <span style="text-decoration: line-through; font-size: 8pt;">sha</span> dog/wolf glyph.</span>
- <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maybe remove one of the bird glyphs.</span></span>
- <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Added malachite, cinnabar, and lapis lazuli.</span></span>
- <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Colour tweaking.</span>
