BetterMap

BetterMap is a server-side mod that overhauls Hytale’s world map. With 850,000+ downloads on CurseForge it is one of the most-installed mods in the Hytale ecosystem, built with Paralaxe under the Ninesliced banner and released under the AGPLv3 license.

Features

• Persistent exploration: the map reveals itself as you travel and saves your progress, with crash-safe auto-save so nothing is lost.
• Cave mode: a dedicated underground view for navigating tunnels and caverns, with optional cave fog of war.
• Full waypoint system: create, edit, share and teleport to waypoints from an in-game UI.
• Linked exploration: let all players contribute to a shared global map.
• Player radar and position HUD: see nearby players and coordinates in game.
• Admin settings: tune map quality, visibility, teleport permissions, world borders and tracked worlds.

The map fills in as you explore, with custom markers and waypoints.

Waypoints

The waypoint system is the heart of the mod: a clean menu for managing locations, sharing them with other players, and teleporting where permitted.

Browse, edit and jump to saved waypoints.

Naming, recolouring and configuring an individual waypoint.

A waypoint rendered in the world, visible at a distance.

Cave mode & map quality

Cave mode renders the underground separately from the surface map.

The map renders at configurable quality so server owners can trade detail against performance: up to 80,000 chunks on low quality, 25,000 on medium, or 8,000 on high.

Lower quality setting, lighter on the server.

Higher quality setting, with crisper terrain detail.

Configuration

Server-side configuration UI for tuning BetterMap’s behaviour.

My role

Developer alongside Paralaxe (Team Ninesliced). Written in Java as a server-side Hytale mod.