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QuestLines Cartographer

A live web map for your Hytale server.

Terrain drawn the way the game draws its own world map, with your players, regions, cities and quest givers on top. Open it in a browser, on a desktop or a phone, and share a link to any spot.

Cartographer runs on its own. Every QuestLines plugin you also run adds its own layers.

The Map

• Every saved chunk — Cartographer never generates terrain, it only draws what exists on disk
• Edits show up on their own — placed and broken blocks are redrawn within a minute
• Throttled rendering — a full render of a big world won't cost you TPS, and it can pause, resume and carry on after a restart
• Shareable links for any world, position and zoom
• Four layouts — Classic, a surveyor's instrument with coordinate rulers, a modern phone-map look and an adventurer's journal, each in light and dark. Pick one, or let visitors choose
• Players on the map — which way each one is looking, a fading trail behind them, and follow mode across worlds
• Right-click the map to copy coordinates or a link to that spot
• Re-themeable to match your site with one CSS file
• Six languages — English, German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian

Layers

• Always — world spawns and online players, who can hide themselves with /carto hide
• QuestLines Claims — admin regions, lots for sale and rent with status and price, mines, the world border and an activity feed
• QuestLines Nations — city land in nation colours, and town halls
• QuestLines Denizens — townsfolk, and travellers at their live position
• QuestLines Core — quest givers, quest boards and running wave arenas
• QuestLines MMO — points of interest, dungeon entrances and guild halls
• QuestLines Titles — player titles on the map
• Your own — street names, building outlines and notes from JSON files, or anything through the public API

Free vs Pro

The whole map, every layer above, all four layouts and the API are free. Pro adds:

• The private view — /carto link gives a player a personal link that also shows admin-only layers, layers meant for their permissions, and their party. Admins can copy a teleport command for any spot
• Custom layouts — /carto theme copy makes your own from any built-in one

Unlock Pro through Patreon.

Installation

1. Drop the jar into your server's mods/ folder and start the server once.
2. Choose how the map is reached in questlinescartographer.conf: behind a reverse proxy (recommended), or directly on a port your host has allocated.
3. Run /carto reload, then /carto status to see the address.
4. Run /carto render <world> full once to draw a world that existed before Cartographer.

Commands

• /carto status — the map's address and render progress
• /carto render — draw a whole world or one area, pause, resume and cancel
• /carto theme — list the layouts, or copy one to edit
• /carto config — every setting in an in-game editor
• /carto hide, /carto show — players choose whether they appear
• /carto link, /carto unlink — the personal private-view link (Pro)

The QuestLines Suite

Every plugin works standalone; together they share one ecosystem.

• QuestLines Core — dialogue, quests, requirements, actions
• Icons — floating quest-state icons above NPCs
• Dialog — in-game linear dialogue builder
• Titles — player title and rank rewards
• GUI — custom in-game interfaces, no code required
• Claims — land protection, regions, rent and buy plots
• Denizens — native NPC manager
• Arcade — arcade, board and puzzle games
• Hooks — early plugin unlocking extra quest tracking
• MMO — parties, guilds, dungeons, duels and item sets
• Mimics — chests that stand up and fight
• Nations — cities and nations built on Claims
• Balloons — balloons to dye, decorate and tie up
• Cartographer — a live web map of your server (this plugin)