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Sneak-peek: Full Screen Cave Mode WIP
🕑 Added 2023-04-03 12:20:52 +0000 UTCHello there,
I'm back to bring you a preview for a very exciting upcoming feature that people have been requesting for almost as long as the world map mod has existed. I personally always saw this idea as a bit of an overkill, so it was never a priority for me. You could say that I finally CAVED IN (sorry).
I have been working on this for about a month now. The video showcases the best case scenario for using the cave mode, which is for world-save-based singleplayer maps. Access to the world save enables the mod to reload the map at any Y level range, from anywhere, at any time, similar to how it has always worked in the minimap mod, just on a much bigger scale. In addition to that, a map instance is now divided into multiple layers which are automatically switched between based on what the current top Y for mapping is. There will be an option to manually configure the top Y level. In multiplayer, the different layers work exactly as if they were different map instances altogether. Unfortunately, without world save access, this means that each map layer would have to be explored separately. Not that it's that big of an issue though, since most players only care to see the caves that are close to them. There is also going to be a cave mapping mode that works almost exactly the same way as Nether maps currently work, where the mod attempts to map out all of the underground no matter the Y level. It could be a good option for multiplayer, if you don't want to deal with exploring multiple cave layers.
This whole thing has caused quite a few performance nightmares so far that I had to figure out, and that's likely not even the end of it. Hoping to bring it all to you very soon though. Feel free to let me know what you think!
As always, thank you for your continuous support! It means a lot.
Comments
This is so awesome! Thank you for working on this, I'm really looking forwards being able to use it in-game. It's been a feature that I've been desperately wanting for many years. I understand your initial stance on it being overkill (''cheaty'') as I almost exclusively play on Bukkit-based servers (Paper/Spigot) rather than single-player or realms. The vast majority of the owners and staff on these servers view minimaps as a whole as ''cheaty'', and sometimes even ban players for using them at all. So it makes sense that a cave map would be seen like this to an even greater degree. Having to explore layer by layer is just fine in my opinion. This is because sole reason I even needed this in the first place is so that I can retrace my steps through caves I've already been through. Without a larger map of the caves, it becomes a bit more difficult to do. However, the ability to auto-map it like you mentioned would be wonderful. Minor edit: Looks like Patreon's formatting breaks when you use the US regional format quotation marks. So, I've edited those to be double apostrophes instead.
