Changelog

1.1.1

Map Compile

• Added a REMOVE TILE button to the compile panel — wipes the tile belonging to the cartography table you're currently standing at, deleting its PNG and updating the session index. Mirrors the dedup-by-table-position rule the existing UPDATE TILE uses, so it always acts on the same tile UPDATE TILE would replace. Lets you undo a tile capture without wiping the whole session via CLEAR
• The button only appears when you're at a table whose tile is already in the session (it pairs with UPDATE TILE); placed next to it in the panel so the trio at the current table — UPDATE TILE, REMOVE TILE, COMPILE — read together. Greyed out and labelled REMOVE (L-CTRL) until you hold Left CTRL, so a misclick on UPDATE TILE's neighbour can't silently wipe a hard-won tile

1.1.0

Output format (new — applies to SAVE and SEND TO DISCORD)

• New Output config section with three settings:
  • Output.Output Format — JPEG (default) or IndexedPNG. Drives the on-disk format for the compile result-panel SAVE button and the wire format for SEND TO DISCORD captures and compile sends. The file extension follows the format (.jpg / .png) so the on-disk filename matches the actual bytes
  • Output.JPEG Quality — 50-100, default 88. Quality for the JPEG path; 88 keeps pin captions readable, below ~80 noticeably softens label edges
  • Output.Indexed PNG Colours — 16-256, default 64. Palette size for the indexed-PNG encoder. Maps quantize very well (~6 dominant biome colours) so 32-64 is usually indistinguishable from a full-colour PNG while being ~5× smaller; raise to 128-256 if Map Style is enabled and the gradient shading is banding
• New indexed-PNG encoder — 8bpp palette built via median-cut on a 15-bit histogram with Floyd-Steinberg dither. Keeps pin-label edges crisp (no DCT ringing) while delivering JPEG-class compression for typical maps
• COPY MAP clipboard output always emits JPEG (regardless of the Output Format) — indexed-PNG palette quantization on an 8192² image takes multiple seconds on the main thread, long enough that the COPY button looks frozen; JPEG encodes the same image in well under a second. The shared Output.JPEG Quality controls both paths so a tuned value carries over
• SAVE status line now reports format, encoded size, and dimensions (Saved 7234×4521px JPEG q88 3.4 MB native resolution) so format A/B testing doesn't require opening the file
• SEND TO DISCORD compile send now updates the result-panel status with success/failure when the request finishes — previously the panel was stuck on Sending to Discord... forever

Removed configs (replaced by the new pipeline)

• Removed General.Capture Method — texture capture is the only path now, and it now handles everything the screen-capture path used to. Compile tile capture follows the same simplification (texture-only)
• Removed General.Capture Super Size — implicit; the texture capture path now sizes off the on-screen map rect and scales up to the longest-edge cap automatically
• Removed Controls.Copy Full Resolution Modifier — COPY MAP now always captures at full resolution (capped at 8192 px on the longest edge). The CTRL modifier's purpose was raising the cap above the Discord-safe one; that cap is gone, so the modifier has nothing to gate
• Removed Discord.Send Max Dimension — replaced by the Output Format encoder. SEND now sizes the capture at the longest-edge cap and relies on JPEG / indexed-PNG compression to stay under Discord's 10 MB attachment limit (a typical capture lands ~2-5 MB at JPEG q88)
• Removed Map Compile.Max Output Dimension — preview/COPY/SEND use a hardcoded 4096 px cap (keeps recodes snappy at compose time); SAVE goes up to 8192 via the existing native path. The previous setting only ever clamped the preview, so its absence doesn't change SAVE behaviour

Renamed

• Controls.Screenshot Key → Controls.Send Key (BepInEx won't migrate the binding — players who rebound this will need to re-set it)

Default change

• Map Style.Style default flipped from Topographical back to None. The full styled pipeline (biome wash, contours, hillshade, fog smoothing) was rendering at the full 8192² capture size every send/copy, which froze the SEND button for 30+ seconds on a large explored map. Style rendering now runs at native screen resolution (the styled output is intrinsically low-frequency, so a 2K-class internal render is visually indistinguishable from 8K), and the default ships off so first-run captures stay snappy

Capture pin handling (live SEND / COPY)

• New PinCaptureFilter runs for the duration of each SEND / COPY texture-capture frame:
  • Hides Player and Death pins for the capture — these are session-scoped and the compile path already excludes them, so SEND/COPY now matches compile behaviour out of the box. Hold LEFT CTRL at SEND / COPY click time to opt out for one-off shares (deaths, party positions)
  • Strips TMP rich-text tags from boss / location captions (<color=orange>THE ELDER</color> → The Elder) so localized styling doesn't leak into the captured image
  • Force-shows every named pin's caption GameObject for the capture frame — vanilla UpdatePins hides captions past the m_showNamesZoom threshold, so a zoomed-out screenshot previously missed every pin name. Caption state is restored immediately after the capture
  • Survives ZenMap's per-frame ShowLabel(IsCursorOver || IsLabelTogglePressed) postfix via a [HarmonyAfter("ZenDragon.ZenMap")] patch that re-activates the captions every frame between Apply and Restore
• Texture-capture path now blits the pin name root (Minimap.m_pinNameRootLarge) in addition to the icon root — captions appear in texture-mode captures too, matching what the old screen-capture path got via the back buffer
• Pin captions in the live capture and the compile composite render with a one-pass SDF outline (wider sample band painted black under the white face) — readable over snow plains, swamp, and other busy biomes without the per-offset stamp passes the previous outline did

Map Compile

• Pin icons in the composite now read from each pin's live UI Image.sprite and Image.color (with pin.m_icon / Minimap.GetSprite(type) as fallbacks). Sprite swaps from mods, discovered-location pins, and boss head outlines now reflect in the composite — previously the compositor pulled the original asset (e.g. orange filled boss head) instead of what the player actually saw
• Pin names are now localized + rich-text-stripped before stamping. Boss / location pins stored as $enemy_gdking tokens render as The Elder (etc.) on the composite, with no leftover style tags
• Pin captions sample their font size + FontStyles from Minimap.m_pinNamePrefab so compile captions look identical to live-map captions (same absolute pixel size, same italic/smallcaps if vanilla uses them) instead of the previous hardcoded scale
• Pin sizing now applies a 0.25× scale on top of the composite/screen px-per-px ratio so pins read as discrete markers at composite resolution — pixel-proportional sizing made them feel oversized when the composite spanned many tables' worth of world
• Per-tile pin cull: pins whose world position falls in the black gaps between non-adjacent captured tiles are no longer stamped on the composite. The outer bounding-rect cull (rectangle containing every tile) used to draw pins on those "no data" regions
• Compositor seam fix: removed the 1-pixel-wide tile-boundary averaging. The floor/ceil destination math leaves a 1-pixel overlap column at every adjacent-tile boundary; averaging both tiles' edge pixels there produced a visibly different colour from the un-averaged interior columns, lighting up as faint vertical/horizontal seams on the composite. First-paint pixel wins now, so the boundary reads as a continuation of whichever tile got there first

Capture lighting

• General.Normalize Capture Lighting now uses fixed neutral-noon values (Meadows-tuned ambient/sun/fog) instead of reading per-biome m_currentEnv day colours. The previous behaviour gave consecutive compile tiles different brightness depending on which biome the player was standing in when each tile was captured — fixed values give every tile the same lighting, which is what "normalize" is supposed to do

Compatibility

• Bumped the ZenMap dependency floor to 1.7.8

1.0.9

Map Style (new)

• Added Map Style.Style (client-only) — optional stylized rendering for SEND / COPY captures, reconstructed from Valheim's own map data so explored areas show detail while unexplored stay fogged. Four modes:
  • Old Map — aged-parchment chart with biome wash, Perlin grain, height-contour and biome-edge lines (a faithful reimplementation of ASpy's MapPrinter GenerateOldMap pipeline that reads directly from Minimap instead of rescanning the world)
  • Chart — flat topographic chart with contour and biome-edge lines, no parchment grain
  • Topographical — shaded-relief terrain with hillshading, contours and biome-edge lines (default)
  • Satellite — naturalistic shaded terrain, no line work
  • None (or removing the entry) keeps the normal in-game map look
• A selected Map Style forces the texture-capture path for that capture (the screen-capture path screenshots the unstyled live map, so styling has to go through the offscreen render). Capture Method config is unchanged for None
• MAP COMPILE tiles also style when Map Style.Style is non-None — each tile renders through the same pipeline at tile resolution and the composite stitches stylized terrain. Per-tile cap of 1536px on the longest internal render edge keeps ADD TILE responsive (~7× cheaper than rendering at the full 4K tile size); the GPU bilinear blit to tile resolution is visually indistinguishable for the intrinsically low-frequency styled output
• Render runs on a background thread — the per-pixel passes (biome blur, shallow-water field, hillshade, contour and biome-edge lines, final smoothing) would otherwise stall the game for a noticeable fraction of a second on a 2048² map texture. Layer read-back and the final Texture2D upload are on the main thread

Capture

• The texture-capture path's default output now matches the player's screen resolution (measured off the large-map image rect) instead of a fixed 1920×1080. SEND/COPY on a 1440p/4K screen produces noticeably sharper PNGs without needing CTRL+COPY; CTRL+COPY still upsizes to the 4096px full-resolution cap. Falls back to 1920×1080 when the rect can't be measured
• SEND MAP and COPY MAP buttons now reflect in-flight state: while a capture is running, both buttons grey out and the one matching the current operation swaps its label to SENDING... / COPYING.... Restores hotkey labels and interactability when the capture finishes — useful since a styled or full-resolution capture can take noticeable wall time, and the previous silent button would let the player queue duplicate clicks

Map Compile

• ADD TILE mirrors the same busy treatment — while a tile capture is in flight (including the styled-render path, which can take hundreds of ms per tile) the whole compile panel greys out and ADD TILE shows CAPTURING TILE.... Re-entry guard at the click handler too, so a button event queued before the layout refresh can't kick off a parallel capture
• A center-screen message announces the capture (Capturing tile... or Rendering styled tile... when a Map Style is active) so there's an immediate response even before the button label updates

1.0.8

Map Compile

• Map compile now honours the global Capture Method config. Compile tiles use screen capture by default (matching SEND/COPY), with texture capture still available as the alternative. Brings compile in line with the rest of the mod's capture pipeline — one switch governs every capture
• Screen-capture compile tiles crop to the clamped-uv sub-rect of the visible map so each tile's PNG aligns exactly with the world rect recorded for it. No black bars from zoom-past-the-world-edge bleed into adjacent tiles in the composite
• Texture-capture compile tiles now render at a 4K-class longest edge sized to the clamped-uv aspect ratio (was a fixed 1920×1080). Matches the per-tile detail of CTRL+COPY full-res and avoids spending pixels on the long axis when the clamped-uv is near-square

Capture lighting

• Normalize Capture Lighting now applies to every capture path (texture and screen, SEND/COPY and compile). Previously it only affected the texture path; flipping it on now also keeps screen-capture SEND/COPY and compile tiles noon-lit so mixed-mode sessions stay visually consistent. Disable to have all captures reflect the live time of day

Fixes

• Fixed compile texture-capture tiles showing horizontally-stretched pin icons when the large map was zoomed out past the world edge. Terrain rendered at clamped uv but pins were laid out from the raw uvRect, so icons got stretched/shifted in the captured PNG. The blit now remaps icon positions and sizes through the raw→clamped uv mapping; identity when zoom stays inside [0,1] so framed captures are bit-for-bit unchanged

Compatibility

• Bumped the ZenMap dependency floor to 1.7.6

1.0.7

Server config sync — now via Jotunn

• Replaced the custom RPC sync and the optional ServerSync compatibility shim with Jotunn's SynchronizationManager. Server-synced settings now sync through Jotunn's standard, well-tested path: the server's value is pushed to clients, the entry is locked client-side, and the client's local value is cached and restored on disconnect. No protocol version to keep in step anymore
• Jotunn is now a required dependency (ValheimModding-Jotunn-2.29.0). ZenMap (already required) depends on Jotunn too, so most setups already have it
• ServerSync is no longer used — remove any Discord.Lock Configuration expectations; locking is handled by Jotunn's admin-only mechanism instead

Map Compile

• Added a CLEAR button to the compile panel — wipes the whole session (in-memory tiles and the on-disk session folder) and returns to idle. Shown while compiling and when a saved session is resumable. Stays greyed out and labelled CLEAR (L-CTRL) unless Left CTRL is held, so a destructive wipe can't be hit by accident next to CANCEL

Fixes

• Fixed compile tiles captured from a ZenMap table at full reveal radius being wrongly flagged partial and demoted by the compositor (so they could be overwritten by other tiles' fog). ZenMap reveals a circular disc, which the per-pixel rectangle test can never fully satisfy; compile now trusts ZenMap's own reveal-completeness ratio when ZenMap is the reveal source, and falls back to Valheim's per-pixel m_explored test only for vanilla walking exploration

Config defaults

• Pin Label.Include Distance now defaults to false (was true). Existing configs are unaffected — BepInEx never overwrites a saved value

Compatibility

• Bumped the ZenMap dependency floor to 1.7.4

1.0.6

Map Compile — resumable sessions & full-resolution save

• Compile sessions now survive SAVE/COPY/SEND TO DISCORD/DONE — only DISCARD/CANCEL deletes a session. DONE returns to compile mode with all tiles intact; sessions persist across restart (RESUME COMPILE (N))
• SAVE now writes a full native-resolution PNG — no Discord-safe downsample, sharpest tile maps 1:1, hard-capped at 8192px on the longest axis. Filename includes pixel dimensions; the status line reports native vs. clamp. Preview/COPY/SEND payloads stay at the Discord-safe size
• Renamed compile-mode FINISH (N) → COMPILE (N) — produces a result without ending the session
• Compiled-map captions now render in Valheim's in-game font (Averia Serif Libre SDF + outline) via a Unity TMP pass instead of a system serif

Map Compile — tile sharing (new)

• Added SHARE to the compile panel (EXPORT when no webhook is configured) — exports every session tile as a self-describing PNG with its world rect embedded in a standard tEXt chunk (still a normal viewable image). With a webhook, tiles post to Discord one attachment per message; copies are always written to compile-share/out/<world>/
• Auto-import: PNGs dropped in compile-share/incoming are scanned when the large map opens during a compile session, merged into the active session, then moved to incoming/processed or incoming/ignored. Tiles dedup by stable identity (world + rect + capturer), so re-sharing updates in place instead of stacking
• Added Map Compile.Enable Map Sharing config (default true, server-synced) — off hides SHARE/EXPORT and disables auto-import
• Added Map Compile.Share Message Template config (supports {player}/{tileCount}, server-synced)

Fixes

• Fixed compile mode getting stuck after a compile: closing and reopening the minimap with the result panel open left no result panel and no START/RESUME button. The session is now preserved across map close; reopening shows RESUME COMPILE (N) (re-COMPILE for a fresh result panel)

Capture

• Added Pin Label.Show on Compile Mode (default true, server-synced) — gates the "of Spawn" captions on the compiled map (still gated by Pin Label.Enabled) without affecting plain COPY/SEND
• MAP COMPILE captions are now stamped once onto the finished composite instead of baked per-tile — baked near-white captions lost to the per-tile chroma-pick wherever tiles overlapped. Drawn-on-top labels have a black outline for readability over any biome
• The screen/texture COPY/SEND paths still bake per-pin "of Spawn" captions when Pin Label.Enabled; the texture path now rasterizes their TMP glyphs from the font atlas (SDF-aware), matching the screen path
• Added General.Normalize Capture Lighting (default true, client-only) — texture capture renders the map as if at noon, eliminating the dark/light seams between tiles captured at different times of day; the environment's day palette is applied for the offscreen pass and globals restored immediately after

Named cartography tables (new)

• Tables now carry a human-readable name, resolved from the closest named map pin sitting on the table (within ~8m). ZenMap auto-pins each table as the vanilla "house" icon — rename that pin (or drop a Town pin on the table) and the mod treats it as the table's name. No name set → behaves exactly as before
• Added a {table} placeholder to Discord.Message Template. Like {spawnDir}, it's substituted in place when present and auto-appended for legacy templates saved before it existed, so existing configs pick up the table name without manual edits
• The table name is captured per tile when added and persisted in the compile session JSON, so it survives even when the table is far away/unloaded at compile time. Compiled-map captions now read {pinName} — {dist}m {dir} (name, direction, or both — whichever is available), gated by the same Pin Label config

Compatibility

• Bumped the ZenMap dependency floor to 1.7.3 — ≥1.7.3 self-heals the Graphics.CopyTexture called with mismatching texture sizes error on expanded worlds (broke fog reset/explore-all and degraded compile tiles on older versions); updating ZenMap is the fix

1.0.5

• Repository moved to github.com/codewithbjim/ValheimMods — updated website_url in the manifest and all README image links to the new host

1.0.4

Map Compile (new)

• Added MAP COMPILE mode — stitch every cartography table you visit into one large PNG
  • Bottom-left panel on the large map: START COMPILE / RESUME COMPILE (N) (idle), ADD TILE (N) / FINISH (N) / CANCEL (active)
  • ADD TILE is enabled only when the map was opened at a cartography table; tiles within ~8m of an existing tile replace it in place (lets you re-shoot a table without ending up with duplicates)
  • Per-world, per-player session persisted to disk after every add — a crash or disconnect mid-mapping doesn't lose progress
  • FINISH opens a result panel with a thumbnail and five actions: SAVE (writes PNG to disk; morphs into COPY DIR afterward to put the folder on the clipboard), COPY (clipboard), SEND TO DISCORD (uses webhook + compile message template), DISCARD, DONE
  • Added Map Compile.Max Output Dimension config (default 2560, range 512–8192, server-synced) — caps the longest pixel dimension of the composed PNG; default keeps even dense compositions under Discord's 10MB free-tier attachment limit
  • Added Map Compile.Compile Message Template config (default "{player} compiled a map from {tileCount} cartography tables.", server-synced) — supports {player} and {tileCount} placeholders

Capture / clipboard

• Added Discord.Send Max Dimension config (default 2560, range 512–8192, server-synced) — caps every image sent to Discord or copied to the clipboard, keeping 4K / ultrawide captures under Discord's 10MB free-tier limit
• Added Controls.Copy Full Resolution Modifier config (default LeftControl) — hold while clicking COPY MAP (or COPY in the compile result panel) to raise the cap to 4096 for high-fidelity edits in an image editor
• MapCaptureTexture.CaptureMap now accepts a custom output resolution; CTRL+COPY in texture-capture mode renders the shader at 4096×2304 fragments instead of upscaling a 1920×1080 capture
• Show Biome Text toggle and the SEND/COPY buttons now share a single uniform row height with the new compile panel

Server sync / config

• More settings now flow through ServerSync and the built-in RPC sync: Discord.Send Max Dimension, Discord.Message Template, Map Compile.Max Output Dimension, Map Compile.Compile Message Template, Pin Label.Include Distance, Pin Label.Include Map Item Sources
• RPC protocol bumped to version 8 — older clients/servers will silently fall back to local config if versions don't match
• Renamed config section Cartography Table Labels → Pin Label
• Moved Capture Super Size and Capture Method from Discord to General
• Removed UI.Button Alignment config — capture buttons are now pinned bottom-right and the compile panel bottom-left, sharing one row at the bottom of the map

Logging / quality of life

• Added General.Enable Logs config (default false) — silences info/warning messages from this mod in the BepInEx console and Player.log unless explicitly enabled
• All internal logging routed through a single ModLog helper so the toggle catches every call site

1.0.3

• Added COPY MAP button beside SEND MAP — copies the captured PNG to the system clipboard (paste straight into Discord/Slack/etc.)
• Added Controls.Copy Key config (default F11) — clipboard-copy hotkey while the large map is open
• Button labels now show the bound hotkey, e.g. SEND MAP (F10) / COPY MAP (F11) — auto-update when the keys are re-bound
• Added Cartography Table Labels: every visible cartography-table pin in the screenshot is decorated with a {distance}m {Direction} ({bearing}°) caption (e.g. 1240m NorthEast (45°)), baked into the captured image
• Pin labels render only during capture, not every frame, and only for pins vanilla is currently rendering (icon-type filter, viewport, shared-map fade all respected)
• Added Cartography Table Labels.Enabled config (default true, server-synced) — master switch for the per-pin labels
• Renamed config section Spawn Label → Cartography Table Labels
• Removed Use Full Direction Names config — directions are now always spelled out (NorthEast instead of NE)
• Removed " of Spawn" suffix from labels (the bearing makes the reference implicit)
• {spawnDir} now falls back to the player's current position when the map is opened via the M key (no cartography table or map item involved), so Discord captures always include a direction
• {spawnDir} is auto-appended to the Discord message when the placeholder is missing from a legacy Message Template value (BepInEx never overwrites existing config defaults)
• Removed the Discord hint that was appended to the cartography-table hover prompt — the in-map buttons (now labeled with their hotkeys) make it discoverable
• Added Show Biome Text toggle to the capture container (cloned from Valheim's native SharedPanel toggle) — checks whether the biome label appears in captured images
• Added Discord.Show Biome In Capture config (default false): client-only, also writable via the in-map toggle
• Large-map canvas is now elevated to the top sort order during screen capture, preventing external HUD elements from overlapping the captured image
• Changed UI.Button Alignment default from Center to Right

1.0.2

• Renamed internal button class from DiscordButton to CaptureButton
• Capture now hides all large-map UI overlays (panels, buttons, hints, etc.) except the map image and biome label, producing cleaner screenshots
• Added UI.Button Alignment config (Left, Center, Right) to reposition the capture button container without restarting
• Server-managed webhook URL: when using the built-in RPC sync, the server pushes Webhook URL to clients in memory only — it is never written to client config files

1.0.1

• Document and package release aligned with current mod behavior
• README: spaced config key names, screen capture as default, spoiler/cloud options, server-synced field list
• Capture UX: webhook required before the UI control is usable; minimap Button UI hidden during capture for clean images
• Hide clouds applies to both screen and texture capture paths

1.0.0

• Initial Thunderstore package setup
• Added single capture button flow (texture or screen based on config)
• Added texture capture fallback to screen capture
• Added server-authoritative config sync path