MapTracker

Discover, remember and navigate to useful places on Valheim's native minimap and large map.

MapTracker tracks creatures, portals, dungeon entrances, resources, plants and other world objects. Choose what to show, remember important discoveries and share them with friends.

Client-side. Requires BepInEx. No server plugin required.

Track what matters

Open the large map and click the gear button to open MapTracker's searchable filters. Choose a category or search for an object type, then use:

• Show object to display that type on the map.
• Keep discovered to remember its location after leaving the area.
• Notify to receive a notification when you discover a new object of that type.

The catalog includes creatures, portals, dungeons, ore, plants, containers, dropped items, structures and other registered objects, including supported types from installed mods.

Portals display their tags. Dungeon entrances have distinct symbols, visited states and manual completion marks. Portals and dungeons are remembered by default. Observed portal destruction removes its marker; old portal locations are checked again when you revisit them. Separate settings control collected plants, depleted ore and completed dungeons.

Dungeon states

• White: discovered, but not yet entered.
• Light blue: visited after entering the dungeon.
• Gray with a completion mark: manually marked as completed.

Left-click a dungeon marker on the large map to toggle its completed state. Click it again to remove the mark. If it belongs to a collapsed group, reveal the group first and then click the individual entrance. Alt + left-click selects navigation instead of changing completion. Navigation target highlighting takes priority over these state colors. With Share discoveries enabled, dungeon visits and manual completion changes also update entrances already discovered by your friends. Update both clients to 1.0.4 or later for completion marks and resets to synchronize reliably. Progress changes receive priority within the existing traffic limits; concurrent changes converge using saved logical revisions, independently of PC clocks.

Different observations of the same dungeon entrance share one marker, retaining visited and completed states and favorites. Older shifted markers are reconciled when you revisit the loaded location or receive a confirmed shared discovery. Separate nearby dungeon entrances keep their own markers. Update participating clients to 1.0.5 or later for shared legacy-entrance reconciliation.

Customize both maps

The Minimap and Large map configuration sections have independent creature icon, size and name controls. Use trophy heads and custom creature icons, or relationship-colored dots:

• Red: hostile creatures.
• Green: friendly creatures.
• Yellow: neutral wildlife.
• Cyan: tamed creatures.

Adjust black silhouette outline thickness and set creature and other-object font sizes separately. Stars and group counts remain visible. Minimap names use a configurable distance from your character; large-map names respond to zoom and available space. At close zoom, portal captions take priority and normally appear above their icons without hovering. Other individual names can move above their markers when the lower position is occupied, so a portal and dungeon at the same spot can both be labeled. Names still respect visibility filters, map edges and the space available; hover reveals any remaining hidden names.

New profiles use minimap dots with hidden creature names and large-map creature icons with names at close zoom. Existing settings are preserved when updating.

Contrast object icons and Object outline thickness add optional black outlines to portals, resources, plants, structures and other non-creature markers on both maps, independently of creature outline settings. Dungeon and ruin symbols retain their built-in outlines without an additional layer.

Keep crowded maps readable

Overlapping markers can group when you zoom out and separate as you zoom in. Counts appear in the center of the representative icon. Click a group to reveal its members at their actual locations; its detail list stays clear of their icons and names.

Plant and creature icon grouping have separate switches. Maximum group span (m) limits the full group span in the world, up to 800 meters, default 400.

Group creature names combines nearby creatures of the same type into one caption, such as Leech ×3, while their icons stay in place. It is enabled by default with a 15-meter radius and works independently of icon grouping.

Discover and remember

Choose a discovery radius in whole meters, the full client-loaded area, or Line of sight. Sight detection accounts for the camera, obstacles and mist, including mist-clearing effects such as the wisplight.

New discoveries come from objects loaded by your client. Remembered locations remain available according to your filters. Live creature and dropped-item positions are temporary. Discovery autosaves serialize and write a detached snapshot in the background, using atomic replacement and keeping the preceding save as a backup; live creature positions are excluded from these saves.

Save, load or delete built-in and custom presets with Presets. The built-in sets are Default, Gathering, Exploration and Household. Presets store the filter window's Show object, Keep discovered and Notify choices. Configuration manager preferences remain independent. Use the share icon beside any preset to choose an online player. The recipient can accept or decline; acceptance adds a copy to their preset list without applying it or overwriting a same-named preset. The recipient list checks compatibility when opened. Players without a compatible, responding MapTracker build are gray and cannot be selected; hover over a name for the reason. Both players need a build that supports these checks. Sharing → Block incoming preset offers silently ignores offers and is off by default. Preset sharing is manual and independent of discovery and creature sharing; there is no background preset broadcast. Progress cards show the transfer percentage on both clients without blocking gameplay, including connection pauses and final save confirmation.

Navigate to objects, players or map locations

Alt + left-click a marker, a public player or any point on the large map to start personal navigation. Player targets follow their public map positions. A gold HUD arrow shows the direction relative to your camera, with the destination icon, name and distance. Empty map locations show their name and distance without an object icon.

• Change the selection gesture with Navigation → Select navigation key.
• Right-click your target to cancel it.
• Press F10 to cancel navigation, or change Cancel navigation key.
• Navigation ends automatically when you arrive within 5 meters of the destination.

Navigation pauses its arrival check while teleporting or inside a dungeon. Player tracking stops when the player disconnects or hides their position.

Share discoveries and destinations

Sharing requires MapTracker 1.0.3 or later on every participating client. The current capability protocol does not exchange data with 1.0.0-1.0.2 clients. Update the participating clients together; existing local discoveries and filter settings are preserved.

Discovery sync runs in small acknowledged batches, sends changes instead of restarting the entire database on each presence check, and pauses when the game's outgoing connection is congested. Traffic is capped across all recipients; large discovery databases synchronize gradually in the background. Share discoveries enables sending and receiving static discoveries; Share creature positions separately enables sending and receiving live creatures. Enable the corresponding setting on both clients. Other player pins only shows or hides ordinary player-created pins shared through the game's cartography table; it does not affect mod exchange or mod markers. When both Share settings are off, automatic discovery and creature exchange sends no data, handshakes or acknowledgements, regardless of ordinary pin visibility. Manual preset sharing remains available when explicitly requested.

Participating players need MapTracker installed. Enable Sharing → Share discoveries on both clients to exchange static discoveries using your own display and retention filters. All remembered local discoveries are eligible; dungeons and portals are sent before other object types. Previously received retained discoveries are kept when sharing is disabled.

Shared dungeons, ore, roots, plants and other static locations merge into your normal discovery set. Discovering the same object together produces one marker. Keep discovered retains received locations after the sender leaves or you restart. Fresh ally observations can appear in distant zones outside your own detection radius.

Share creature positions enables sending and receiving live creatures, independently of static discoveries, and is disabled by default. Shared creatures use their network identity to avoid duplicate markers; local observations take priority. Live positions disappear when updates stop. Observation lifetimes adapt to the number of creatures and recipients within a 30-180-second limit, allowing crowded groups to synchronize under the traffic budget. This retains the last received position during delayed updates; it does not make remote movement instantaneous.

With Share discoveries enabled, Alt + middle-click an object or any map location to send a shared navigation destination. Change this gesture with Navigation → Share navigation key. Your personal destination remains active alongside the blue shared destination. Targets are highlighted in gold, blue or a blended color when both selections match. Map summaries appear in the lower-left corner of the large map.

Discovery notifications

Charred Fortress appears under Dungeons with a fortress symbol on both maps. Its existing discoveries and per-type settings retain the same identity. New dungeons and its individual Notify option can announce a newly detected fortress; this does not start the creature-search arrow. Opening its Charred Chest marks that fortress as visited (blue), even without taking loot. The visit is shared through Share discoveries, just like other dungeon progress; no new sharing channel is added. Merely discovering or approaching the fortress does not mark it visited. Click its marker to toggle manual completion separately.

Select Notify for creature types to show a Creature found card and an independent green [Search] HUD arrow at the same time with the creature icon, name and distance. It starts with the nearest eligible detected creature and keeps that target until it dies, disappears, is hidden by your creature filters, or you reach it within five meters. It then announces the next nearest eligible creature outside that five-meter arrival zone. A reached creature stays excluded only while it remains detected: leave the detection area or teleport away and return to begin a new encounter with that creature. Losing detection clears the arrow immediately; no last-known position or creature history is saved. Keep discovered remains unavailable for creatures.

Creature search respects Show object, creature relationship and detection filters. Fresh shared creatures are eligible when Share creature positions is enabled. Notifications → Show creature search arrow controls this arrow separately from personal and shared navigation; no map pins or map arrows are added. Creature Notify choices are included in map filter presets. Personal and shared navigation and their key bindings remain independent.

Enable Notifications → New dungeons or select Notify for individual static types. Newly discovered objects appear in a dark HUD card below the navigation arrows, with an icon, a gold New discovery heading and a bright name.

Cards appear one at a time for four seconds. Opening the large map or menus pauses their display. Saved places, received static discoveries, dropped items and collected resources do not trigger new local discovery notifications. Creature-search encounter cards use the same queue; a creature card is canceled if its target stops being eligible.

Installation

Mod manager: install MapTracker in your Valheim profile. The required BepInEx dependency is included in the package manifest.

Manual: install BepInEx for Valheim, then copy the package's BepInEx folder into your game folder.

An in-game Configuration Manager is optional and useful for adjusting display, detection, grouping, navigation and notification settings. The filter window is available through the gear button on the large map.

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