Hiking GPS

A live minimap for PEAK, on a handheld GPS you carry. Press M and the mountain is there — 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 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 GPS itself is 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
M	Show or hide the GPS
= / -	Zoom, in fixed steps from 20 m to 2000 m across
N	Tilt: straight down, 75°, 45°

Install

Install it with a mod manager, or drop HikingGPS.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ by hand. Needs BepInEx 5 (BepInExPack PEAK), which the manager installs for you.

The map appears about ten seconds after a run starts, once your character is on their feet.

Settings

Everything is in BepInEx/config/com.abra9987.hikinggps.cfg, written on first launch.

Setting
SizePixels	How large the GPS is drawn
Corner	Which corner it hangs in
MarginXPixels, MarginYPixels	How far in from the edges
PlayerMarkerColour	The colour of the arrow that is you, as #RRGGBB
StartZoomStep	Which zoom step it opens on
MarkerSizePixels	How large the markers are
Icons	Turn the photographed icons off, back to plain markers
StartDelaySeconds	How long after the mountain loads before the map opens

Both top corners are clear of PEAK's own HUD. The bottom two are not: at the default margin the GPS covers the stamina bar on the left and the item slots on the right. To use them, raise MarginYPixels to about 95 bottom-left and 115 bottom-right.

Leave everything under Automation alone — it exists to develop the mod, takes the game over and can quit for you. It is off by default.

Notes

• Steam achievements keep working. PEAK only blocks them during its own custom runs — the check is RunSettings.blockingAchievements, and it returns whether you started a custom run, nothing else. The game looks for no mod loader anywhere. This mod never touches achievements, run settings or Steam, and with the default settings it installs no patches at all.
• 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