Vitja’s Minimap & Better Map 0.9.0

For Hytale 0.7.2 Release.

• Store surface map images once per world, map profile and chunk in a shared disk archive. Players retain separate, compact exploration bitmaps instead of duplicate image copies.
• Load saved terrain in bounded background pages, prioritizing the area around the player and retaining the existing streaming quotas. The previous 4,096-tile personal image limit no longer applies to the disk archive.
• Resume background surface-map restoration after returning from cave view, without retaining a second history image list.
• Restore nearby minimap sources when returning to already streamed areas, using the existing session's actual image receipts without sending unchanged map images again.
• Keep a bounded image cache rather than the entire explored map in server memory. All paths are resolved below the server-provided plugin data directory.
• Preserve supported older surface archives during migration, with checksummed files, atomic tile replacement and recoverable personal-index writes.
• Refresh saved shared tiles when the native surface renderer reports a changed image, while preserving each player's exploration permissions. Distant unloaded terrain is not continuously regenerated.
• Use /vmap as the only public settings command; remove the old /explorermap entry.

Keep your existing plugin data directory when updating, and back it up first. Unsupported or inconsistent stored formats are preserved and rejected rather than overwritten. Cave views remain local, and this update does not add shared team exploration or live team-player markers.