Lodestar

A smooth, good-looking minimap for Hytale that follows you on the surface and underground, and looks the way you want.

Lodestar puts a live map on your screen without the stutters, freezes or flicker other minimaps can bring. Pictures are built in the background and moved as whole images, so the map glides with you even when you're exploring new land.

Make it yours: pick from 7 frame designs, 10 colours and 6 map styles, go round or square, and put the map anywhere on your screen. The menu shows each look as a picture before you pick it.

Smooth minimap

• Round or square, at three zoom levels: Far, Normal and Near
• A smoothly turning arrow in the middle shows where you're facing
• Built for performance: no texture reloads, no hitches when entering new areas, and no background work while you stand still

Creatures on the map

• Nearby creatures and players appear as face icons, or simple dots, or not at all
• Colour-coded rings: red for hostile, pale for neutral, green for friendly

Info under the map

• A clean plate with your coordinates, zone name, time of day and weather
• Underground it also shows how deep you are

Two menus

• /minimap opens Settings: what the map shows, with every option explained in one line
• /minimap look opens Customize: how the map looks (see below)
• A live preview of your map sits next to both, and your real map changes as you click
• Settings are saved per player

Frames

• 7 designs: Classic, Bold, Double, Slim, Compass (tick marks like a compass dial), Studded and None
• 10 colours: Gold, Silver, Copper, Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst, Frost, Obsidian, or Match map style
• Match map style gives the frame the colours of your map style, and switches to the Night colours with the map after dark
• Every design and colour works on round and square maps, and the N/E/S/W letters match the frame

Put it anywhere

• 9 quick spots: any corner, the middle of any edge, or the centre, one click each
• Move the map: click to pick it up, move your mouse, and click again to drop it anywhere. Your real map follows the mouse while you move it.
• The position is kept as a share of your screen, so the map never ends up off screen at a different window size
• Bottom gap: keeps the map clear of the ability bar when it's low on the screen

See it before you pick it

• Shape, zoom, frame, colour and map style are all shown as small pictures of what you'd get
• Frames and colours are shown as close-ups of the rim, so the details are easy to compare
• The one you're using has a gold outline

• Topographic (default): hill shading and height lines
• Classic: the game's own colours with soft shading
• Parchment, Night, Ink and Vivid
• Night style after dark: the map switches to Night by itself from 7 pm to 6 am, and back in the morning
• Each style has its own ring, arrow and info plate

• Head underground and the map switches to a cave map of the level you're on
• Works in tight tunnels and huge open caverns
• Cave memory: tunnels just above and below you show faintly in the rock
• Roofs, trees and buildings don't fool it into thinking you're underground
• Depth: the info plate shows how far below the surface you are
• Way out: the spot where you went underground is marked automatically. Follow it (/pin out) and Lodestar leads you back to daylight.
• Breadcrumb trail: faint dots on the cave map show the way you came

• /pin opens the Atlas, a pin manager with no typing needed
• Mark the spot you're standing on, name it, and pick from 12 symbols and 9 colours
• A live compass shows each pin's direction, distance and height difference
• Follow any pin: a gold marker shows the way on the minimap, even when it's far off-screen
• Death recovery: when you die, your death spot is tracked automatically and clears itself when you get back to it
• Share places: send a pin to everyone nearby with one click, or to one player with /pin sendto
• Server places: admins can mark spots like spawn and shops for everyone
• Photo spots: with the Viewfinder photo mode mod, the spot where you start a photo session gets a camera pin

Command	What it does
/minimap (or /mmap, /lodestar)	Open the menu on Settings
/minimap look	Open the menu on Customize
/pin	Open the Atlas (pin manager)
/pin add <name>	Pin your current spot
/pin remove <name>	Delete a pin
/pin list	List your pins
/pin track <name>	Follow a pin (/pin track death for your last death spot)
/pin untrack	Stop following
/pin out	Follow the way out of the cave you're in
/pin share <name>	Share a pin with players within 100 blocks
/pin sendto <player> <name>	Send a pin to one player
/pin server list	List the server's places
/pin server add <name> / remove <name>	Add or remove a server place (needs lodestar.serverpins)
/minimap reload	Reload the server settings (needs lodestar.admin)

Everything is on by default. To turn something off for everyone, edit config.properties in Lodestar's data folder and use /minimap reload. Options you turn off show as "Off (server)" in players' menus, so nobody wonders why a switch does nothing.

Setting	What it does	Default
creatures	Creature faces and dots on the minimap	true
players	Other players on the minimap (turn off for PvP)	true
caveView	The cave map underground (off = always the surface)	true
coordinates	Coordinates under the map	true
wayOut	The way out pin and breadcrumb trail underground	true
sharing	Players can share pins with players near them	true
serverPins	Show the server's places	true
photoSpots	Camera pins for Viewfinder photo sessions	true

Permissions (change them with the game's /perm commands)

Permission	Lets players	Default
lodestar.share	Share pins	Everyone
lodestar.serverpins	Add and remove server places	Admins
lodestar.admin	Use /minimap reload	Admins

1. Drop the Lodestar jar into your Mods folder.
2. Enable Lodestar for your world.
3. Join the game. The minimap appears in the top-right corner. Type /minimap look to make it yours.

• Built for Hytale 0.7.x, and runs on 0.7.3
• Works alongside BetterMap. Lodestar uses /pin instead of /waypoint, so the commands don't clash.
• Updating from an older Lodestar? Your settings carry over, and a map you had in a corner stays in that corner.

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment. A screenshot and where it happened (surface or cave, which style and frame) help a lot.

Find your way. Follow the star.