i having the map overlap problem too, seems its starts making the notes infinitly, for me happens only in MP

@SilverBeam it seems that there's compatibility issues with the Shared Faction/Coop Map Symbols mod (https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877685881)

With only these two mods turned on, issue persists both in singleplayer and multiplayer (both the vanilla map layer and mod one).

Due to an unknown issue, notes from your mod transform into the notes on the map and then overlap on each other, which is not supposed to happen.

Unfortunately, as I do not have modmaking experience, I'm not sure what exactly causes this issue, but I would like to assist you if that is required.

Your mod is great, keep up the good work!

Is there any way to get rid of the notes? While the zones are toggle-able, the notes stay on the map at all times.

@Ryan
Performance impact is negligible. The map is updated once every 5 seconds, and only the cells surrounding the player are updated. If you want max performance, you can just keep the map overlay disabled and enable it only when needed. Data collection still happens in the background, and the only taxing part of the mod is map drawing.

performance impact in low end systems?

@Naxdar
Those numbers you are referring to are for all the zombies surrounding the player. What the mod does is take those zombies and assign them to a 100x100 grid. I cannot physically know zombies that are not immediately around the player because the game itself does not spawn them until you visit an area for the first time.

When you leave a cell/zone, my results are cached and kept displaying, so i can assure you that the count is as accurate as the game allows me to.

@Ryan
You can disable or enable the mod overlay as you see fit from a button on the bottom right of the world map

@Commander Thicc
The mod caches the tiles you visited and those immediately around. Computing the whole map is impossible for 2 reasons:
1) It would be computationally absurd
2) Zomboid only spawns the zombies near the player, so until you visited an area for the first time, no zombies are there at all

It's a neat addition to my SP game (especially clearing bigger, more convoluted cells/buildings). Grid breaks on higher/closer mini-map zoom but nonetheless working as intended.

Thanks!

This mod breaks the "Put clothes on while walking" somehow. Just made it stop working immediately. Also thought it would display all cells all at once but it did not. Seems decent but also locks the mini map to a specific zoom otherwise the grid breaks on it. Decent mod. 6.5-7/10 I think

@awesome_dylon Default Apocalypse setting will spawn over half a million zombies. Remember to turn off respawn in the sandbox settings, otherwise the zombies will keep re spawning.

make it so i can see this only when i have a radar or only on certain days

for singleplayer what zombie rates would make this balanced and legit for wiping all zombies out of Kentucky

I'm not sure if it's this mod or build42 in general. I will see 200 something in crossroads mall. Clear probably 180 ish, then with no respawn settings and no migration I come back next day and there is 250? Across all squares.

I tested the mod in debug on the latest PZ version (42.5.1), to compare with the debug zombie population map, and the numbers given by this mod are all wrong. I suspect it counts the zombies inside the active area only and write that number for the entire 100x100 square, missing those that aren't loaded. Something probably broke with one of the recent patches.

@FreakyFerret Could you perhaps send me a screenshot via DM, imgur, or whatever you prefer?

I do not have a high resolution screen and i would be interested to see what you are talking about.

RadarZ does work perfectly with Spring Cleaning. My only issue remaining is the text is way big on my map. I'm playing in 4k though, and that's likely the cause.

RadarZ is compatible? Very nice to hear!

I am a bit saddened that the ingame minimap just straight up ignores symbol scaling, sigh, nothing i can do about it sadly.

For those wondering, RadarZ does work with this.

@SilverBeam Works like a charm indeed. Sorry for doubting it.

oh cool i thought it broke :D

Thanks for the response! Maybe put that in the description because i wasnt aware of it and in screenshot you also dont see anything of it ;) but very nice work anyways!

I added proper support for Illiterate characters, The way tell me if it still produces only question marks for you.

@The way it's gonna be: Make sure that your character is not "illiterate", otherwise you cannot read/write on map. That is a Vanilla mechanic.

@Demenz Dustin: the mod is already compatible with the minimap. Allow the minimap from the sandox options, open it by holding "M". Due to Vanilla limitations, you cannot see text there, and symbols won't scale, but the square colors around will be correct and update as you move!

@silverbeam this was just released and is what i meant, https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3436681654 a dream <3

@The way it's gonna be, i also have a lot of ???? on my one, i think it's not a bug/error, but you need to "visit" those tiles to get info on Z's there. As soon as you are in that tile you'll see a number - i mean you can even see them "????" in his screenshots above....

Did a bit more than an hour of play testing. Build 41, heavily modded, previous save game on a modded map (New Albany)
So far after around 3 hours on two start ups, no issues yet. I really like the real time migration numbers, granted i dont have alot of map explored. I might duplicate my main playthrough and test this mod to really stress test it, alot of map and alot of zeds for the code to count in real time.

The mod issue was solved for a moment, but it's pretty cursed right now.
What i love is that everyone has a different issue apparently.
My problem : every number of zombies written on the map in chunks now says "????????"
It started like 12 hours into a game.
A lot of ???? are also written on the map itself, even if i untoggle zombie density.
I'd say all the issues we have are probably compatibility related given the sparsity in symptoms and the fact i got like 50 mods.

@santax no its just an overlay within the Map that shows the zombies around you

Its broken, i've disabled it in game, uninstalled it and removed the mod from my game folder and it still shows up in game.

Is it used to clean the corpses of zombies already eliminated?

https://www.tiktok.com/@igotshitposts/video/7255726088301628674?lang=en

can it be shown in minimap bottom right? used this one in b41 and i freakin loved it - but from what i see difference is minimap always shown and only shown when opening map right?

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1619603097&searchtext=eris+minimap

So I'm still having issues. I flip on the toggle zombie density button, green squares work (but no text) while orange and grey squares will flash for half a second with text and then immediately vanish. So far I've been able to narrow down the suspect to MinimapZ, which gives you a kind of minimap radar of nearby zombies.

If that's not it, my other suspect is 'limitless zoom in' but I'm still testing that one out.

gonna test it for an hour will report back

Mod is theoretically compatible with anything, i have yet to encounter any mod that interferes with it.

Hosted MP is now fixed, lemme know if you spot further issues!

Is this mod compatible with Bandits NPC mod ?

The map seems to be working (updating zombie number properly) but toggle button still don't work. If set to off, new areas of the mod map won't appear, but old ones still be there. And it still generates a ton of errors every few seconds. Like 2-5 thousands errors. In few minutes I got all the way to error count of 200 000+

Upd. Scrap that, started a new game and there was 0 errors. Probably just needed new game or clean save.
This is one of those mods, that you wouldn't think you need, until you try it, after that, you wont play without it.
Great and original idea, splendid determination to get thru the thorny path and make it work. And a well deserved place in the proud and respected group of mod creators! Great work!

The mod seems to work fine in singleplayer B41 but doesn't work in multiplayer, at least not self hosted. Clicking Host and starting a fresh game the map has the toggle zombie density button but clicking it does nothing and the map is empty. Loading a singleplayer game works fine.

Yeah, this is proving more challenging than anticipated. The root cause of the bug is some inconsistency somewhere in the game's code, where stuff is not reset properly to what it should be. It is unclear to me what might be causing this, as any test i tried would not be able to reproduce this issue. Thanks to Tidurian's suggestion i have pushed an update that should make the code resilient even to unexpected data. Thanks everyone for your patience, i truly hope this will be the last update before the one that introduces advanced settings for the colors.

Sounds like this is proving to be one hell of a difficult mod, good luck, appreciate the effort! :>

Latest version just now doesn't do anything. No annotations on the map, no errors. Pressing the toggle zombie density button does nothing.

Tested with the new version. results in Discussion

Pavlus, due to how the map works i cannot make textures that "change" when in Isometric or Aerial, sadly

Sorry, i was away from home this weekedn. I just pushed a new update that should fix the occasional issue. Please check again now.

Hey mod author, check the discussions. You made the mod, you take CARE of the mod.

great mod, works perfectly

For me mod works, but I can't toggle it off, and it dont look proper if you use map in non top-down view. Also get this error

Working fine to me. at least your mod is fully compatible with symbol size slider mod.
Btw, can we have a option for colors?(Green-Yellow-Red)
For example, I just ignore less than 5 zombies and want to color the cell to green.