Hiking GPS

A handheld GPS for PEAK. Find it in a suitcase on the beach, hold it in both hands, and the mountain is on its screen — real terrain, drawn by the game itself, seen from above.

Client side. Only you install it. Nobody else in the lobby needs it, the host does not need it, and it changes nothing anyone else sees.

What it is

A real item. It turns up in beach luggage the way a rope or a compass does, it is picked up, carried, dropped, thrown, pocketed and hung on a backpack like anything else, and its screen is only on while it is in your hands. Put it away and it goes dark; take it out and it wakes where you left it, at the zoom you chose.

What it shows

• The real mountain. Not a redrawn diagram: a camera looking down at the world you are standing in, so what is on the screen is what is under you.
• Chests, campfires, statues, belltowers, capybaras and the scoutmaster, each drawn as a picture of itself rather than a coloured dot. Opened chests disappear, so the map only points at loot that is still there.
• Height, which is what PEAK is about. A marker grows and lightens above you and shrinks and darkens below — thirty metres sideways and thirty metres up are nothing alike on this mountain.
• Everyone else on the climb, at any distance.
• Your altitude and the distance to the nearest unopened chest.

No game assets ship with this mod

The device is modelled and drawn for the mod. Every marker icon is photographed from your own copy of the game, once, the first time you see that kind of thing — so the pictures always match the version you have, and nothing of PEAK's artwork travels.

Controls

Key
= / -	Zoom, in fixed steps from 20 m to 2000 m across
N	Tilt: straight down, 75°, 45°
M	Switch the device off and on while holding it

The buttons on the device press when you do, and it clicks.

Install

Install it with a mod manager and the rest comes with it. By hand, it needs BepInEx 5 (BepInExPack PEAK) and PEAKLib (PEAKLib_Items, which brings PEAKLib_Core along) — put HikingGPS.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ beside them.

Without PEAKLib the mod still works: there is no item to find, and the same map is pinned to a corner of the screen instead, shown with M once a run starts. That is also what you get with Tracker/AsItem set to false.

Settings

Everything is in BepInEx/config/com.abra9987.hikinggps.cfg, written on first launch. The ones worth knowing:

Setting
Tracker/Rarity	How often it turns up in luggage. Rare by default
Tracker/SpawnPools	Which luggage. The beach by default — a map is worth most before the climb
Tracker/Scale	How large the device is in the hands, as a multiple of its real size
Tracker/MarkerScale	How large the markers are on its screen
Tracker/HoldX, HoldY, HoldZ, TiltDegrees	Where it is held, relative to the head, and how far its screen leans back towards you
Minimap/StartZoomStep	Which zoom step it wakes on the first time
Minimap/Icons	Turn the photographed icons off, back to plain markers
Sound/Volume	The chirps and clicks; 0 for silence

The Minimap/SizePixels, Corner and Margin settings size and place the corner map, for when there is no item. Both top corners are clear of PEAK's own HUD; the bottom two need MarginYPixels raised to about 95 bottom-left and 115 bottom-right.

Leave everything under Automation and Debug alone — they exist to develop the mod, take the game over and can quit for you. All of it is off by default.

Notes

• Steam achievements keep working.
• If PEAK crashes on startup with BepInEx installed, launching with -dx12 is the usual fix.
• Please do not report bugs to Aggro Crab or Landfall while running mods. Uninstall first, check the problem is still there, and only then report it.

Source and issues: github.com/abra9987/Peak-Hiking-GPS