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Handmade maps: Interactive Mapping [B42]
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Handmade maps: Interactive Mapping [B42]

Description
Are you bothered by the fact that your character can just simply grab a map out of thin air and find his way like it's a full fledged GPS system? SPEAK NO MORE! This mod completely overhauls PZ's map system.

Major changes:
1. Basicaly, with this mod the world map becomes an physical item (take care of your map, everything it's stored in it, if you lose it, you lose your map knowledge). The world map will also work as a collection of all your maps, both found and crafted (NEW). You can add regions to your world map via the new mapping feature
2. There's a mapping feature, where you can create your own custom maps
3. In the world map, you can no longer see where your character are in real time.
4. The fog of war (undiscovered areas) will no longer be revealed by exploration (walking by), only by the mapping feature.
5. Now, reading a flier will not reveal it's map area in the world map. Instead, a point of interest will be created (Question mark).

HOW IT WORKS (Step-by-step)

1. Get some paper
- Find some sheets of paper laying around or simply tear them off notebooks, notepads and journals

2. Sketch your surroundings
- With a piece of paper and a pencil, you can now draw a sketch of your surroundings (It's available via right click)
- The higher you are, the more you can see (Bigger map area), Make use of rooftops and balconies!
- Obs: Trying to make a map sketch inside a building with no outside view will result in an empty map. Go next to a window to see the area around you.




3. Create your world map
- Use 6 sheets of paper and adhesive tape/stapler/clips to create a handmade Knox Country map (It will start empty)
- Now it's time to build your world map! Get some sketches or town maps, and with some colored pencils, you can transfer them all to the world map. Or if you prefer, go explore the world, and before sleeping, you can add all the places you visited that day.




FAQ:

Q: "Why fliers don't reveal the map anymore?"
A: "Because fliers aren't a map, most of them are just addresses to some place"

COMPATIBILITY:

Due to major changes in the world map code, mods that changes the functionality of the world map and annotations will not work. And sadly, after many tests, nor even cosmetic mods are compatible.

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I made this mod for personal use, as i always thought that the new map system was too easy and unrealistic for a game like PZ. Anyway, feel free to post bugs and suggestions on the comments below.

Workshop ID: 3400448921
Mod ID: NO_INVISIBLE_MAP

Workshop ID: 3400448921
Mod ID: NO_INVISIBLE_MAP
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17 Sep @ 5:55am
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Pó Royal
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Phil 20 Sep @ 4:45am 
Would be also cool if you could give support for the crayons of this mod as well:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3430224478

It introduced 1 crayon per color which you can craft.
Phil 19 Sep @ 3:45pm 
@Pó Royal

The category is exactly the issue. The mod change the category and as you filter only by Cartography no map appears in the list.

You can patch that by changing the line 498 in the file NIM_TransferRegionWindow.lua to:

self.playerMapItems = getPlayer():getInventory():getAllEvalRecurse(function(item) return (item:getDisplayCategory() == "Cartography" or item:getDisplayCategory() == "LitC") and item:getFullType() ~= "Base.HandmadeMap" end)

The other category is "LitC"
Phil 17 Sep @ 7:21am 
@Pó Royal

Oh, so probably the mod that change category. I will test it out.
I have 300+ mods, not sure if would be easy to check...
https://pastebin.com/xGkhKFKy

Which is this one: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3413005308
Pó Royal  [author] 17 Sep @ 6:05am 
@Phil, Can you send me your mod list? It can be a mod conflict or a mod that changes item categories.
Phil 17 Sep @ 2:15am 
@Pó Royal

Not sure why, but I have crayons and maps like Muldraugh map, west point map, they don't show up in the list of maps that can be copied to my handmade map.

https://imgur.com/a/Nq4nkIN

It's a bug or am I doing something wrong?

And by the way, the last update made the mini-game way better, thanks!
Pó Royal  [author] 14 Sep @ 2:51pm 
@Withasideoffries it's working fine on my end
Withasideoffries 11 Sep @ 6:36pm 
Just wanna throw this out there, the Add Note function doesn't work anymore on maps
SIMBAproduz 6 Sep @ 8:48pm 
Your mod has a brilliant idea and concept, my friend. It would be very special to have the opportunity to see a video of it all happening.
Pó Royal  [author] 6 Sep @ 5:44pm 
New update is out. I made some changes based on your feedback.

- There's no longer an add region minigame
- I didn’t remove the sketching minigame, but I did make some improvements. I think it’s faster now and more satisfying.
- Also, adding regions you've visited is back (it's available at "Add region" UI). To keep things balanced, it now uses the sketching minigame as well.

I hope this update pleases both those who liked and those who disliked the minigames.
10 of Hearts 6 Sep @ 1:55pm 
+1 for disabling the minigames as well

Noticed that when I sketch a map, it doesn't actually use up the paper in my backpack. Unlimited paper hack.