SharedExploration

SharedExploration

A server-side plugin: the server keeps track of where every player has been and adds it to the

explored area of every map table. Anyone who uses Read on a map table gets the whole group's

exploration, even of places they never visited and even if the others never stood at a table.

What it does

• Every couple of seconds, the server marks the area around each connected player as explored, with

the same radius the game uses for your own map.

• Every 30 seconds (by default), it adds what is new to every map table in the world.
• Map tables also share with each other: something added to one table with Record reaches all of

them on the next update.

• Pins are not touched: only the explored (unfogged) area is shared.
• The explored area is kept between restarts, per world, in

BepInEx/config/SharedExploration.explored.gz.

Install

On the dedicated server only, with BepInEx: install it with a mod manager's server profile, or

copy SharedExploration.dll into the server's BepInEx/plugins. Players need nothing: they use the

map tables as usual.

Settings

BepInEx/config/Tie.SharedExploration.cfg, section [General]:

| Setting | Default | Meaning |

|---|---|---|

| Enabled | true | Add the areas players explore to every map table. |

| SampleIntervalSeconds | 2 | How often player positions are recorded (the game explores every 2 s). |

| MapTableUpdateSeconds | 30 | How often map tables are updated with the recorded areas. |

| ExploreRadius | 0 | Radius in metres revealed around each player; 0 uses the game's own radius. |

Console

mapexplore shows how much of the map is explored and how many map tables there are;

mapexplore update updates the tables right away. It runs on the server, so from a player's console

it needs a mod that sends commands to the server, such as ServerDevcommands (server mapexplore).