Better™️ Cartography Table

Valheim mod that allows precise control over sharing pins via cartography tables. Supports private pins, public pins, and guild pins. Supports NoMap runs, giving cartography tables a purpose in NoMap.

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Features

• Pins are private by default, and can be individually shared to cartography tables.
  • You can now safely go ham and pin all those nice berries / copper veins / whatever floats your boat, without worrying about cluttering another player's map.
• When multiple players interact with the same cartography table at the same time, all changes are reflected in real time.
  • This allows collaborating over the map in real time, especially useful when planning the next expedition.
• Cartography tables can be public (default) or restricted to a guild (if Guilds is installed).
  • For when you want to share super secret guild hideouts with your mates. Not that it ever happens. Definitely don't look for super secret guild hideouts on your servers. Nope...
• If using the NoMap world modifier, the map will be accessible through cartography tables (but only when directly interacting with them).

But why?

The vanilla cartography table is extremely quirky. This often leads to frustration on multiplayer servers when multiple players interact with the table on a regular basis, as shared pins seem to disappear / reappear constantly, and crossing off shared pins does not update the table.

On top of that, since the vanilla cartography table is "all or nothing", some players might refrain from engaging altogether. This is typically the case for those that like to meticulously pin all berries / copper veins / etc. but don't want others to yell at them for cluttering the table, or those that do not want to share some super secret pins they would prefer to keep private.

And of course, the vanilla cartography table has no purpose in NoMap runs.

Vanilla cartography tables, but Better™️

The goal of this mod is to stick as close as possible to the vanilla experience. We keep cartography tables relevant for sharing both pins and map exploration, same as in vanilla: players must still interact with the same cartography table on a regular basis to synchronize progress with other players. For NoMap runs, the goal is to give cartography tables a purpose.

Compatibility with vanilla clients

Public and guild pins are stored separately from vanilla shared pins in the cartography table, thus both modded and vanilla clients can interact with the same cartography tables without conflict. Additionally, modded clients will copy public pins to vanilla shared pins, allowing vanilla clients to receive them seamlessly. However, vanilla clients are not able to contribute back: modded clients can only receive pins from other modded clients.

Compatibility with other mods

Better™️ Cartography Table tries to play nice with other mods by isolating its behaviour as much as possible, and failing that by trying to ensure the other mods will contribute pins in a compatible way. Nevertheless, there might be instances where other mods interacting with pins will result in incompatiblities. Feel free to report any issue you find.

Install

This is technically a client-side mod, but it is strongly recommended to also install the mod server-side for the best experience. If installed on the server, it will enforce all clients to have the mod installed.

Exception: do not install the mod on servers intended for Xbox crossplay, otherwise Xbox players will not be able to join anymore. If you do allow crossplay, note that vanilla clients will not be able to share any of their pins with modded clients (see above for details).

Thunderstore (recommended)

• [Prerequisite] Install r2modman.
• Click Install with Mod Manager from the mod page.
• [Optional] Install Guilds for guild support.

Manually (not recommended)

• [Prerequisites]
  • Install BepInExPack Valheim.
  • Install Jötunn, the Valheim Library.
• Download nbusseneau-Better_Cartography_Table-0.4.2.zip.
• Extract the archive and move everything to your BepInEx/plugins/ directory. It should look like this:

  BepInEx/
  └── plugins/
      └── nbusseneau-Better_Cartography_Table
          ├── CHANGELOG.md
          ├── icon.png
          ├── manifest.json
          ├── plugins/
          └── README.md
  

• [Optional] Install Guilds for guild support.