SquareMarkers

SquareMarkers

Automatically display useful points of interest on your server's squaremap without requiring players to
run commands.

Players do not need to install SquareMarkers on their clients.

You can check out the mod on this website: http://play.swordfishbe.eu:8080

Features

SquareMarkers can display:

• Player-created area markers
• Nether portal markers
• End portal markers
• End gateway markers
• Lightning strike markers with a configurable lifetime
• Beacon markers
• Sign markers
• Cross-dimensional player markers
• Optional Open Parties and Claims claim areas
• OPAC claim names and colors refresh automatically
• OPAC subclaims have separate areas with their own names and colors
• Optional live warp markers from Fabric Essentials, Essential Commands, and HuskHomes
• Optional live Waystones markers, including sharestones
• Optional last-death markers with configurable expiry
• Persistently hide/show individual markers and inspect status through admin commands
• Configurable layer priorities, labels, feedback, and individual marker types

Markers are automatically added, updated, and removed when the corresponding
object changes in the Minecraft world.

All marker types can be enabled, disabled, and configured individually.

Optional integrations

Open Parties and Claims, Waystones, Fabric Essentials, HuskHomes and Essential Commands are completely optional.
SquareMarkers works normally when it is not installed.

Player-created areas

Players can create named areas without using commands.

1. Create one banner for every corner of the area.
2. Make sure all banners use the same base color.
3. Give every banner exactly the same name using an anvil.
4. Place a lodestone at each corner.
5. Place one of the named banners directly on top of every lodestone.
6. The area will automatically appear on squaremap.

Area behavior:

• The placement order does not matter.
• Only the outermost points are used to draw the area.
• Points inside the outer boundary are ignored when calculating its shape.
• Points can be added or removed at any time.
• Two aligned points create a circle.
• Two non-aligned points create a rectangle.
• Three or more points create an automatically calculated outer boundary.
• The default maximum area size is 512 blocks and can be changed in the
  configuration.

The banner name and base color identify which points belong to the same area.

Nether portal markers

Travel through a Nether portal to register it automatically.

When portal renaming is enabled, a renamed name tag can be used on a portal to
give its marker a custom name.

Portal popups include a button for navigating to the corresponding Overworld or
Nether coordinates on squaremap.

Beacon markers

Beacon markers are created automatically after a placed beacon becomes active.
The marker is removed when the beacon is destroyed.

Sign markers

1. Place a lodestone.
2. Place a sign directly on top of it.
3. Add text to the sign.
4. The sign and its text will appear on squaremap.

Editing the sign updates its marker. Removing the sign or lodestone removes the
marker.

End portals and gateways

End portals and End gateways are detected automatically and displayed on the
map.

No commands or manual configuration are required.

Lightning markers

Lightning strikes are temporarily displayed on squaremap.

The marker lifetime can be configured in seconds.

Cross-dimensional players

SquareMarkers can show:

• Players in the Nether on the Overworld map
• Players in the Overworld on the Nether map

Coordinates are automatically converted using the standard 8:1
Overworld-to-Nether scale.

Spectators, invisible players, and players hidden through squaremap are not
displayed.

Open Parties and Claims

When Open Parties and Claims is installed, claimed chunks are automatically
combined into colored claim areas.

Claim markers update when chunks are claimed, unclaimed, or changed. Claim
names and colors are taken from Open Parties and Claims.

This integration can be disabled independently in the SquareMarkers
configuration.

Warp markers

Warp markers are displayed automatically after they are created.

The marker is removed when the warp location is deleted

Currently warps of Fabric Essentials, HuskHomes and Essential Commands are supported.

Important for HuskHomes: squaremap layers are visible to all map viewers.
If you use permission-restricted warps whose locations must stay private, set marker-settings.huskhomes-warps.enabled to false; squaremap cannot apply per-player warp permissions here.

Waystones markers

Waystones markers are displayed automatically after they are created.

The marker is removed when the waystone location is deleted, you can enable sharestones and undiscovered stones in the config file.

Waystones by BlayTheNinth is supported.

Death markers

Enable this to show the last death of each player on mapped worlds. The lifetime is in seconds (1–604800), defaulting to 30 minutes and can be set in the config file.

Important: death markers are public, including for players hidden from squaremap's live-player layer. Disable this feature or hide their death marker if required.

Status and individual marker visibility

/squaremarkers status
/squaremarkers status details
/squaremarkers marker list
/squaremarkers marker list "minecraft:overworld" nether_portals
/squaremarkers marker hide "minecraft:overworld" nether_portals "100:64:200"
/squaremarkers marker show "minecraft:overworld" nether_portals "100:64:200"

Status is a compact, color-coded summary: green for enabled/visible, yellow for disabled/hidden, and dark gray for not installed. status details shows individual integrations and layer counts per world.

These are console/gamemaster commands. Hiding only removes the marker from the public map, not its source object, and takes effect on squaremap's next update.

Custom player feedback

All 18 player-feedback templates are configurable under the root messages section.
Customize marker creation/removal/rename/color messages, area-point messages, area entry/exit text and sign-marker feedback.
Defaults are English, and missing templates are added without replacing existing settings.

messages:
marker:
add: "Added {type} marker"
rename: "Renamed {type} marker to '{name}'"
interact: "{name}"
rename-failed: "Could not rename {type} marker"
color: "Colored {type} marker"
color-failed: "Could not color {type} marker"
remove: "Removed {type} marker"
area:
create: "Created area: {label}"
point-add: "Added point to area: {label}"
point-add-failed: "Could not add point to area: {label}"
remove: "Removed area: {label}"
point-remove: "Removed point from area: {label}"
enter: "[+] {name}"
leave: "[-] {name}"
sign:
invalid-text: "Text should be a String array with a size of 4"
add: "Added sign marker"
edit: "Edited sign marker"
remove: "Removed sign marker"

{type} represents a marker type, {name} its name or an entered/left area's name, and {label} an area label for point operations.
Text is plain text with the existing feedback colors.
Set a template to "" to suppress that message; sound settings remain separate.
Quote values containing : or # and reload with /squaremarkers reload.

Death-marker text and portal button labels can also be translated in the web map:

messages:
death:
title: "{name}'s last death"
position: "Position: {x}, {y}, {z}"
time: "Time of death ({timezone}): {time}"
portal:
go-to-end: "Go to The End"
go-to-nether: "Go to Nether"
go-to-overworld: "Go to Overworld"

{name} is the player name; {x}, {y}, {z} are death coordinates.
{timezone} and {time} follow the configured death timezone.
Empty death templates hide their line. These map texts apply independently of in-game feedback settings.

Custom area formatting

Area names support a limited and sanitized selection of HTML:

<b>Bold</b>
<i>Italic</i>
<u>Underlined</u>
<br>
<span style="color: #RRGGBB;">Colored text</span>

Unsafe HTML and scripts are escaped before being sent to the web map.

Configuration

The configuration file is generated at: config/squaremarkers/config.yml

Available settings include:

• Enable or disable individual marker types
• Layer priorities
• Area size limits
• Area entry messages
• Feedback messages and sounds
• Always-visible hover labels
• Sign text formatting
• Nether portal renaming
• Lightning marker lifetime
• Cross-dimensional player visibility
• Open Parties and Claims integration
• Warp and Waystones integrations, including sharestones and unnamed stones

Reload the configuration and all marker layers with: /squaremarkers reload

The command can be used from the server console or by a player with gamemaster
command permissions.

Data storage

Marker data is stored per world in JSON files below: config/squaremarkers/

Data is written using UTF-8 and atomic file replacement where supported.

If a marker file contains invalid JSON, SquareMarkers preserves it as a
.broken-<timestamp> backup instead of preventing the server from starting.

Credits

SquareMarkers is based on Pl3xMarkers by Gjorgdy.

SquareMarkers is a server-side, Fabric-only port of Pl3xMarkers, adapted for the squaremap API. In addition to the functionality provided by Pl3xMarkers, it can display additional marker types.

squaremap is developed by jpenilla and its contributors.