K's Cartography Table

About this mod

Share your waypoints and your map with other players in a vanilla-friendly way, by transcribing on a Cartography Table or an Advanced Cartography Table, both craftable after you reach the copper age.

In combination with the mod Palantir the Advanced Cartography Table will also let you travel in spirit to unexplored places to survey the terrain or look for resources.

Features

Simple cartography table

Advanced cartography table

Palantir integration

Palantir

Preserve memories of your travels. Share them with fellow players (on shrooms).

Configuration

Use ConfigLib (requires ImGUI) for easy in-game configuration, or edit the config file manually:

Config Location: VintageStoryData\ModConfig\kscartographytable.json

Default Configuration File

{
  "ImmersiveMode": false,
  "ChunksPerPacket": 25,
  "PacketDelay": 0.2,
  "VerboseDebug": false,
  "WaypointUpload": true,
  "WaypointDownload": true
}

Configuration Properties

• ImmersiveMode if true will disable all chat messages
• ChunksPerPacket how many map chunks to transcribe at once. Increasing this will make the transcription faster but could cause server or client overloads.
• PacketDelay how many seconds to wait between packets. Decreasing this will make the transcription faster but could cause server or client overloads.
• VerboseDebug if true will log additional messages
• WaypointUpload if false will not upload your waypoints on any cartography table.
• WaypointDownload if false will not download the waypoints on your map.

Compatibility

This mod is currently tested and compatible with the following mods:

It should also be compatible with any mod that adds more icons.

Commands

Known issues and bugs

• Sometimes joining a server after updating will cause a crash. The crash happens only once at the first login and then doesn't reoccur.
• The automatic boat markers from Auto Map Markers can cause some repeating messages when transcribing on the map. Deleting the boat waypoints usually fixes the issue.
• With two advanced cartography tables next to each other, the second one might display the wrong blockinfo on the right side. Please do not interact and move farther away from the first one.

Roadmap

• Remove waypoints deleted by other users from the player's map on interaction (added in v1.0.1)
• Add a way to wipe the map on the cartography's table (added by DiZurix in v1.0.3)
• Prevent multiple interactions firing while the player holds down right click (fixed by DiZurix in v1.0.3)
• Also share explored areas of the map (added in v2.0.0!)
• Add a way to choose which waypoints you want to share or others can share with you
• Finer control for the waypoint delete command, so you can for example only delete waypoints for a specific player, or only delete your waypoints with a specific icon
• (If feasible) Add a GUI to see the map present on the table
• Visual effects for map interactions
• Performance improvements: moving the map read/write logic off the main thread.

Special thanks

• Trini for the awesome title image
• DiZurix who updated the mod for 1.22, added a new wipe feature and several improvements!
• Spaturno for the amazing Advanced Cartography Table model, for all the help with brainstorming, bugfixing and testing, and for being the best husband in the whole world.
• chrisunfocused for being so kind to implement compatibility patches on his amazing FastMap mod