MIMESIS - MarkerMod

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Turn paintballs into permanent dungeon markers. Puddles and the footprints you leave normally vanish almost instantly - MarkerMod makes them persist so you can mark rooms, paths and dead ends, with optional color cycling and infinite paintballs.

Features

• Keep footprints - the paint footprints you leave after walking through a puddle persist instead of fading away (on by default).
• Keep puddles - the spawned paint puddles themselves also stay instead of drying up (off by default).
• Configurable lifetime - a single setting controls how long persistent paint stays visible, in seconds (default 86400 = 24 hours, minimum 1 second).
• Paintball color cycling - while holding a paintball, right-click to cycle its color through Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Purple, White, Black and back to default. The color applies locally to the held item and paint effects (on by default).
• Infinite paintballs - paintballs are not consumed when thrown, so you never run out of markers (off by default).

Requirements

Component	Version
MIMESIS	0.3.2
MelonLoader	0.7.3+
MimicAPI	Required - MimicAPI 0.4.2, Nexus download, install separately

For Nexus, install MimicAPI 0.4.2 separately. Keep one Mods/MimicAPI.dll; the mod archive does not include it. Thunderstore resolves its existing MimicAPI dependency through the mod manager.

Installation

• Recommended: install through a Thunderstore mod manager (r2modman / Gale). MimicAPI is pulled in automatically as a dependency.
• Manual: download MarkerMod.dll, make sure MimicAPI.dll is also installed, and drop both into MIMESIS/Mods/. Launch the game once to generate the config file at UserData/MelonPreferences.cfg.

Configuration

Stored in UserData/MelonPreferences.cfg under the MarkerMod category.

Each Steam lobby uses a snapshot of the host's infinitePaintballs, preventPaintballSelfDamage and allowLongPaintballThrows settings. If the host does not have MarkerMod, these gameplay options use vanilla behavior. Footprints, puddle display, display lifetime and color cycling stay local. Client configuration is not overwritten. Change the host's gameplay configuration before creating the next lobby.

Option	Description	Default	Values/Range
keepFootprints	Keep paint footprints after puddles dry. When enabled, footprints persist even after the puddles have dried up.	true	true / false
keepPuddles	Keep spawned paint puddles for the configured lifetime. Footprints are controlled separately by keepFootprints.	false	true / false
permanentLifetimeSeconds	Lifetime in seconds for persistent paint - how long marks remain visible. Values below 1 are clamped up to 1 second at runtime.	86400	Any positive number of seconds (min 1; default 86400 = 24h)
infinitePaintballs	Paintballs are not consumed when thrown, so you never run out.	false	true / false
enablePaintballColorChange	Allow changing paintball color by right-clicking. Cycles through Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Purple, White, Black.	true	true / false
preventPaintballSelfDamage	Prevent projectile self-hits and self-hits from paint fields. Host rule; the projectile protection also covers other projectiles.	true	true / false
allowLongPaintballThrows	Experimental host rule: increase the navmesh search radius for all physics projectiles to reduce early landings.	false	true / false

Usage

1. Hold a paintball and throw it to create a puddle.
2. Walk through wet paint to leave footprints.
3. With keepFootprints / keepPuddles enabled, the marks persist for the configured lifetime so you can navigate complex dungeons.
4. Right-click while holding a paintball to cycle its local color (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Purple, White, Black, then back to default).
5. With the host's infinitePaintballs enabled, paintballs are not consumed when thrown.

Compatibility

Built for Mimesis 0.3.2 / MelonLoader 0.7.3. Requires MimicAPI.

Credits / License

Author: DooDesch. Released under the MIT License (Copyright (c) 2025 DooDesch). Source: github.com/DooDesch-Mods/Mimesis-MarkerMod.

AI disclosure

The mod icon is AI-generated.