MapRoutes
Draw routes and markings on the map with friends. Multiplayer-synced freehand lines, colors, eraser, and a show/hide toggle.
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MapRoutes
Draw freehand routes and markings directly on the map — synced with every other player who has this mod installed. Plan a journey, mark a route to a boss, warn your friends about a base location, and see their drawings too.
Features
- Freehand drawing on the large map, rendered on the minimap as well.
- 9-color palette — pick a color from the in-game toolbar to start drawing with it.
- Eraser — click near any line (yours or a friend's) to remove it.
- Clear All, with a confirmation prompt since it removes everyone's drawings.
- Show/Hide toggle to temporarily hide all drawings without losing them.
- Collapsible toolbar styled with the game's own UI textures — while it's collapsed, drawing is disabled so you don't draw by accident.
- Multiplayer sync — new lines, erases, and clears are broadcast live to everyone connected who has the mod. A player joining later automatically receives the current state from the host.
- Persists locally per world/save even without other players connected, so nothing is lost between sessions.
How to use
- Open the large map (M).
- Click the toolbar in the top-right corner to expand it if collapsed.
- Click a color to arm the brush, or the eraser icon to arm erasing.
- Hold the action button (right mouse button by default) and drag to draw; click to erase.
- Click the panel's collapse button to lock drawing off again.
Configuration
Available via ConfigurationManager (F1) in-game, or the config file BepInEx/config/sopmehua.valheim.maproutes.cfg:
- Enabled — turn the mod on/off entirely.
- ActionButton — which mouse button draws/erases (default: right mouse button).
- LineThickness / MinimapLineThickness — line width on the big map / the corner minimap.
- MinPointSpacing — minimum distance between points while drawing (performance vs. smoothness).
- EraseRadius — how close the cursor needs to be to a line to erase it.
Multiplayer notes
Sync only happens between players who both have MapRoutes installed — everyone else is unaffected, no errors. The host (or whoever is authoritative for the world) holds the source of truth; if you're a client and the host doesn't respond within a few seconds (e.g. they don't have the mod), your own locally cached drawings are shown instead.
Language
The mod's UI and config descriptions follow your in-game language setting: English if the game is set to English, Russian if it's set to Russian, and English for any other language.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.