SnakeTography

SnakeSquad's Valheim mods, in one package:

Cartography Snapshot: Cartography Tables show the group's shared map.
Coordinate Marker: console commands for noting spots to add to that map.

Made for SnakeSquad players: the map comes from the SnakeSquad map server, and this package comes with the server key already filled in.

Cartography Snapshot

In No Map worlds, using a Cartography Table's read side opens a full-screen, pannable, zoomable view of the group's map, with a dot where you're standing.

Walk up to a Cartography Table and read it.

Scroll: zoom (up to 8x)
Left-drag: pan
R: reset the view
E, Escape, or a left-click: close. Walking away from the table closes it too.

While the map is open you can still walk with WASD, but the mouse belongs to the map: no turning, attacking or camera zoom.

Zoomed in, the map sharpens using detail tiles the mod downloads in the background and saves on your PC, starting as soon as the game launches. After the first download, only the parts of the map that changed are fetched again.

Press Record Discoveries on a table to check for map changes right away. You'll see "Map updated" or "Map up to date" in the corner.

Settings

The Snapshot Key, Access Client Id and Access Client Secret fill themselves in on first launch from the snapshot-credentials.txt that comes with this package. A value you set yourself is never replaced. Everything is adjustable in the Configuration Manager under SnakeSquad Cartography Snapshot, or in BepInEx/config/com.snakesquad.cartographysnapshot.cfg. If you edit the file while the game is running, use the Reload Config From Disk button.

Setting	Default	What it does
Snapshot URL	SnakeSquad map server	Where the map comes from. Empty turns the mod off.
Only In No Map Mode	on	Only take over tables in No Map worlds.
Show Player Marker	on	Show where you're standing.
Auto-Close Distance	10	Close the map when you walk this many meters from the table.
Download Map Detail On Startup	on	Start downloading detail at launch instead of at the first table.
Request Timeout Seconds	15	How long to wait for the map image.
Verbose Tile Logging	off	Detailed download logging, for troubleshooting.

Coordinate Marker

Open the console (F5) and use:

mark <note>: save your current position with a note
marklist: show saved marks
markexport: copy all marks to the clipboard as note|x,z pairs (your in-game coordinates, unchanged), ready to paste into the map's Add Valheim markers window. Leave its "invert Z" box ticked. Add -d to clear them afterwards.
markclear: discard all marks

Marks only live in memory until exported or cleared.

Biome mark hotkey (unbound until you set one): in the Configuration Manager under SnakeSquad Coordinate Marker → 1 - Biome Mark Hotkey, set Hotkey. Each press adds a mark named after the biome, like Black Forest. By default it marks the spot under your crosshair, up to 100 m away (Max Look Distance), or where you're standing if nothing's in range. Turn off Mark At Crosshair to always mark where you're standing.

North wisp (off until you turn it on): under 2 - North Wisp, turn on Enabled, or set a Toggle Hotkey, and a little wisp light hovers to the north of you wherever you go. North is the top of the map. Only you can see it, and unlike a real Wisplight it doesn't clear Mistlands mist. Distance and Height adjust where it floats.

Troubleshooting

"Map snapshot key is missing or wrong": check Snapshot Key (see Settings) against the one you were given.
"Map access token is missing or wrong": check Access Client Id and Access Client Secret. The map server is behind Cloudflare Access, which turns away requests without them.
Something else: send BepInEx/LogOutput.log from your mod manager profile folder (Settings → Browse profile folder) to whoever runs the map. Copy it before restarting the game, since it's overwritten each launch.

Saved map detail lives in BepInEx/cache/SnakeSquadCartographySnapshot/. It's safe to delete; it re-downloads.