Cartur's Map Pins

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Pins the world onto your map as you explore it, labelled, so you can find your way back to things without writing them down.

Walk near an ore deposit, a crypt entrance, a wild beehive, an abandoned chest — it lands on your map with a name on it. The pins are saved to your character like hand-placed ones, and they stay put after you clear the node, so you can tick them off yourself when you're done.

What gets pinned

Ore deposits · dungeon and cave entrances · Fuling villages, Greydwarf camps and Charred fortresses · wild beehives · runestones · abandoned chests · named minibosses · leviathans · traders · maypoles · your bed, as home · spawners · wisp fountains · high-value pickables (surtling cores, Yggdrasil shoots, eggs) · boss altars · Deep North dungeons by name.

Every category is a switch. Turn off what you don't care about.

Berries, mushrooms, crops and surface flint are off by default — they would carpet the map and bloat your save. Turn them on if you want them.

Changing a pin's icon

Shift-click any pin on the map to open an editor beside it: rename it, pick a different icon, choose a colour, set its size and opacity, then confirm - or cancel and nothing changes. It works on pins this mod placed and on pins you placed yourself.

Ore pins are already coloured by what the ore is, so copper reads as copper without you doing anything.

There is also an icon grid on the large map, next to vanilla's own row of pin buttons, for choosing what a pin you place by hand will look like. The old icon set is still in that grid, below the current one — pins you placed before the art changed keep exactly the picture you gave them, and you can still pick those icons if you prefer them. Nothing chooses them for you.

Finding a pin

Type in the search box across the top of the map. Everything that does not match fades, so you can see where the copper is without losing the shape of the map around it.

Notable bits

• Emptied chests change icon. Loot a chest and its pin switches to a looted marker, so cleared ones are obvious at a glance. Refill it and it switches back.
• 153 icons to pick from. Every category and every kind under it takes its own icon, so you can set ore, dungeons, chests and the rest to whatever reads best for you. Vanilla pin types still work if you'd rather stay with them.
• Mined-out ore pins remove themselves. Deposits never respawn, so a pin on a worked-out node is a walk to an empty hole. Only pins this mod placed, and only while the game has that area loaded.
• Crowded pins get out of each other's way. Pins stacked on one spot shrink, never below half, and where two names overlap the rarer one is kept - CHEST appears forty times and says less than CRYPT. Point at a pin and its name always shows.
• Dungeons tick off once you have emptied them — every chest empty and every mud pile mined, shown with the same tick you would use by hand.
• Dungeon interiors don't leak. Valheim builds crypt interiors 5000m straight up, sharing their surface zone's coordinates. Without a height gate a crypt full of ore would dump a cluster of pins on the zone centre. This checks.
• Nothing is hardcoded to a prefab name. The list of what counts as ore, a beehive, or a pickable is built at runtime by looking at what components an object has — so it survives game updates, and picks up modded content for free.
• Named labels, properly translated. Names are stored as the game's own localisation tokens, so a crypt reads "Burial Chambers" in your language.

Commands

• carturpins_clear — removes every pin this mod placed.
• carturpins_reicon — resets every pin this mod placed to its category's current icon. Useful after changing icon settings. Hand-placed pins are left alone.
• carturpins_count — how many are on record.
• carturpins_forget_missing — forgets records whose pin is gone, so those places can be pinned again.
• carturpins_clear — removes every pin this mod placed.
• carturpins_reicon — resets every pin this mod placed to its category's current icon. Useful after changing icon settings.

Install

Use a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore / Gale) — it pulls in BepInEx for you.

Manually: drop CarturMapPins.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Config

BepInEx/config/com.jekkle.valheim.carturmappins.cfg, written on first run.

• DiscoveryRadius (60) — how close you have to get before something pins. Things load from further away than you can see, so this stops the map filling in behind you.
• Per category: Enabled, its icon, and a DedupeRadius — how far apart two of the same thing have to be to earn separate pins.
• Chest / LootedIcon — the icon an emptied chest switches to. Leave it on Default to keep looted chests on the normal chest icon.
• General / ApplyPreset — sets every switch at once. Minimal pins the few things worth walking back to, Everything turns on all of it, Defaults restores a fresh install. It is a button, not a state: it goes back to None once applied.
• General / ResetPins — see below.

Most of the list is hidden until you ask for it. There is a switch and an icon for every single kind of thing this mod knows about, which is about 290 settings on their own. They sit behind the Advanced tick box at the top of the settings window, leaving the seventeen categories and their icons in view. Nothing is missing — tick Advanced and it is all there, under the same names.

Coming from 1.2.2? Your icon choices come back on the next launch. 1.3.0 replaced the icon sheet and the names in your config stopped existing, so anything you had picked quietly fell back to the default. Those names are read again now: most become the same icon redrawn, and the handful the new sheet has no answer for keep their original artwork, which is still included. Nothing to do.

Boss altars are off by default. Vanilla already pins them. Its version is weaker — unsaved, unnamed, no hover label — so turn this on if you want a proper named pin, and leave it off if you'd rather not have two markers stacked.

Starting a world's pins over

General / ResetPins, in the settings window. It removes every pin this mod placed and forgets them, so each one is pinned again as you rediscover it — useful after changing which categories you want, or if a world's pins have drifted out of step with what you actually care about.

Pins you placed by hand are untouched, and so is any colour or size you set through the pin editor. Locations come back within seconds; ore, chests and beehives reappear when their part of the world next loads, so walk away and back, or reload.

It is a dropdown rather than a tick box on purpose, and the option is spelled out in full, because a stray click here would throw away a map somebody spent a long time filling in.

If you use badgers Valheim Skies

That mod opens its menu on a hotkey and does not check whether you are typing, so a letter typed into the search box - or into vanilla's own pin-name field - fires it. There is an optional download on this page that fixes it; install it only if you use that mod.

Compatibility

Client-side only. The server doesn't need it and neither do the people you play with. Pins go into your own map data.

Pairs with Cartur's Compass and Clock, which puts these same pins on a compass bar and drops the ones you've ticked off or emptied.