World · How it works
Map and markers
The world map (M), its relief layer, your checkpoints, the compass at the top of the screen and the 3D view of the planet.
In the game
How to get it
M opens the map: the wheel zooms, drag to move, right click adds a checkpoint. Its "Visible in game" switch shows it on your screen; the mountain button turns on the relief.
What it is for
Find your base again, mark a lode or a friend's house, see the highest mountains before you go; rockets pick their landing point on it.
Why it exists
A world of a whole planet needs a way to find your way.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
The map draws every place you have seen, from above, in the colours of the land.
The map (M)
- Wheel: from 1 m per pixel to the whole planet as a disc. Drag to move; the person button recentres on you.
- North is up. Your arrow shows where you face; coordinates and altitude follow the cursor.
- What you explored is drawn for good: the map remembers between sessions.
- The whole planet's relief is shaded even where you never went, and the Relief layer (the mountain button) paints the unexplored in heights: sea, plains, hills, highlands, mountains.
Checkpoints
- Right click the map: New checkpoint -- a name, one of 8 colours, and the switch "Visible in game".
- Your list (up to 200) sits on the right under MY CHECKPOINTS, with the server's PUBLIC ones below. A click centres the map and opens its card: go there, rename, recolour, delete.
- "Visible in game" puts it on your screen at its bearing with its distance. Far ones beyond the curve of the planet show on the horizon with a "HORIZON" or "OTHER SIDE" badge.
The space view
The SPACE tab at the top right shows the planet in 3D from orbit, with your checkpoints and the other bodies; right click a planet to place a checkpoint on it.
On the progress path
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A sub-action of the step Spyglass: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.
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