Carturs Map Pins

Cartur's Map Pins

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. 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.

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 · boss altars · Deep North dungeons by name.

Every category is a switch. Berries, mushrooms, crops and surface flint are off

by default — they would carpet the map and bloat your save.

Changing a pin's icon

Shift-click any pin to open an editor beside it: rename it, pick a different

icon, choose a colour, set its size and opacity. Works on pins this mod placed and

on pins you placed yourself.

There is also an icon grid on the large map, next to vanilla's own pin buttons, for

choosing what a hand-placed pin will look like. Drag the small gold square in its

top left corner to move the whole panel, and it stays where you put it. Only the

square drags, so clicking an icon still picks the icon.

Keeping the map readable

A world you have played for a while fills up, and an ore field is a dozen separate

deposits — so it was a dozen identical pins in one white blob. Pins with the same

name standing on the same patch of ground now draw as one. Zoom in and they

separate again. Nothing is deleted: every pin is still on the map, still saved and

still searchable.

Pins are full size until the map is 15% zoomed out and shrink to 60% at the

whole-world view, and names stop being drawn past 20% out. Both points are

settings, and both can be turned off. Sizes glide and pins fade rather than popping

in and out.

There is also a switch to draw pins with no names at all, if you want the map to

read as icons — the names stay searchable, they are just not drawn. And one to stop

drawing pins further than a set distance from your character, off by default.

Chests you have emptied fade to half, so a chest you have been through reads as

dealt with without losing its place.

Your own short labels

If you keep a compact naming convention — R5, B7, SC, FC — write it in

BepInEx/config/carturpins_labels.txt, one kind per line:

Pickable:Raspberry=R{qty}

Dungeon:Sunken Crypt=SC

Ore:Copper={qty} {name}

{qty} is how many pins of that kind are merged into the marker at the current zoom,

and is left out when there is just one. {name} is the normal name in your language.

The first time you load a world the file is written for you, every line commented

out, listing the kinds already on your map; the key of any pin is also the first

field of its line in the.pins.txt record. Changes apply the next time you load a

world.

Only what is drawn changes. The saved name stays, so search, the rename box and the

pin list still read "Sunken Crypt". Pins you renamed yourself keep your name, and

pointing at a pin shows its full name. The labels are yours alone: other players see

them only if they use the same file.

Death markers

The game drops a marker where you died and never takes it away, so a long save ends

up with markers for graves that are long gone. Loot the grave and its marker goes

with it.

Finding a pin

Type in the search box across the top of the map. Everything that doesn't match

fades, so you can see where the copper is without losing the shape of the map.

Notable bits

• 158 icons to pick from. Every category and kind takes its own.
• Emptied chests change icon. Loot a chest and its pin switches to a looted

marker. Refill it and it switches back.

• Mined-out ore pins remove themselves. Deposits never respawn, so a pin on a

worked-out node is a walk to an empty hole.

• Dungeons