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Settings

JourneyMap provides more than a few configuration options, allowing you to customize the behaviour and appearance of many different aspects of the mod. All of these settings are made available through the settings manager.

Overview

To get to the settings manager, open the full-screen map and click the settings button at the bottom, or press the O key. Each entry in the list represents a specific category of settings - click on it to expand and see the settings within.

Note

Each category has a Reset button. Please note that pressing this button will reset the settings in that category to the default settings bundled with JourneyMap, instead of simply discarding your changes.

Some of these categories have quite a few settings. Feel free to skip to a specific category by clicking on the links on the right side.

Grid Settings

Both minimap presets and the full-screen map may have a configurable grid overlay. You can customize this overlay by clicking on the Edit Grid… button below the settings in each respective category.

You can also reach this from the full-screen map by holding the Shift key and clicking on the grid button at the top.

Grid-Settings

The grid outlines individual chunks on the map. Grid styles that include region lines will draw an extra grid with differently-coloured lines to outline world regions on the map.

  • Select a colour for the grid lines by clicking on the colour wheel.
  • Select the map type (day, night or caves) to edit on the left side.
  • Click the Reset button to reset the current map type to the default grid settings.
  • Click the Cancel button to discard your changes and close the grid editor.
  • Click the Save button to save your changes and close the grid editor.
Setting Options Description
Style Squares, SquaresWithRegion, GridRegion, Dots, Checkers Change the type of grid overlaid on the map
Opacity Percentage: (default: 50) How opaque the grid should be drawn

Minimap Settings

JourneyMap allows you to have two minimap presets. Each preset represents a separate set of settings - essentially allowing you to have two distinct minimaps available to switch between.

Note

The settings for each minimap are identical, so we’ll only cover a single preset below.

To switch between minimap presets, press the switch minimap preset key (the # key by default).

Minimap-Settings

Toggles

By default, all of the following toggle settings are enabled.

Toggle Description
Enable Minimap Enable or disable this minimap preset
Show Animals Show or hide animals
Show Caves Toggle automatically switching to cave mode
Show Compass Toggle showing compass points around the edge of the minimap
Show Day/Night Toggle automatically switching between day and night mode
Show Entity Names Show or hide entity names
Show Grid Show or hide the grid overlay
Show Mob Headings Toggle showing which way mobs are facing
Show Mobs Show or hide mobs
Show Pets Show or hide pets
Show Player Headings Toggle showing which way other players are facing
Show Players Show or hide other players
Show Reticle Show or hide midpoint lines pointing to the center of the minimap
Show Self Show or hide your own location and heading
Show Villagers Show or hide villagers
Show Waypoint Labels Show or hide the names of waypoints
Show Waypoints Show or hide all waypoints
Verbose Location Toggle between a long or short form of your current coordinates

Info Slots

Info slots are text areas above and below the minimap that show extra contextual information. There are four of them, numbered from top to bottom.

Minimap-Slots

All info slots can be set to one of the following:

  • Blank: Nothing, hide this info slot
  • Biome: The biome you're currently in
  • Dimension: The dimension you're currently in
  • FPS: The game's FPS counter
  • Game Time: The current ingame time, as represented by Minecraft's daylight cycle
  • Game Time Real: The current ingame time, shifted to match a real clock
  • Light Level: The light level of the block you're standing in
  • Location: Your current coordinates
  • Region: Your current region coordinates
  • System Time: The current real time, according to your computer

Other Settings

The default option for each setting below is marked with bold text.

Setting Options Description
Location
  • x, z, y (v)
  • x, y (v), z
  • x, z, y
  • x, y, z
  • x, z
 The format of your coordinates, as shown in an info slot
Map Heading
  • North
  • Old North
  • My Heading
 Which direction the top of the map should face - Note: only circle maps support the "My Heading" setting
Mob Display
  • Small Dots
  • Large Dots
  • Small Icons
  • Large Icons
 How mobs should be displayed on the minimap
Player Display
  • Small Dots
  • Large Dots
  • Small Icons
  • Large Icons
 How other players should be displayed on the minimap
Position
  • Top Right
  • Bottom Right
  • Bottom Left
  • Top Left
  • Top Center
  • Center
 The location of the minimap on your screen
Real Game Time Format
  • HH:mm:ss
  • H:mm:ss
  • HH:mm
  • H:mm
  • hh:mm:ss a
  • h:mm:ss a
  • hh:mm:ss
  • h:mm:ss
  • h:mm a
  • h:mm a
  • hh:mm
  • h:mm

The text format of the real game time, as shown in an info slot

  • H: Hours (24-hour, without leading 0)
  • HH: Hours (24-hour, with leading 0)
  • h: Hours (12-hour, without leading 0)
  • hh: Hours (12-hour, with leading 0)
  • mm: Minutes
  • ss: Seconds
  • a: Time of day (AM/PM)
Reticle Heading
  • Compass
  • My Heading
 Change the orientation of the reticle
Shape
  • Circle
  • Square
  • Rectangle
 Change the shape of the minimap
Compass Font Scale Range: 1 - 4 How large the compass text should be relative to the GUI scale setting
Font Scale Range: 1 - 4 How large the info slot text should be relative to the GUI scale setting
Frame Opacity Percentage, default: 100% How opaque the frame around the outside of the minimap should be
Map Opacity Percentage, default: 100% How opaque the map view itself should be
Size Percentage, default: 30% How large the minimap should be, as a percentage of the window size

Full-Screen Map Settings

The full-screen map provides a large, scrollable view of your entire map. Just like the minimap presets, it can be customized to a great deal.

To switch open the full-screen map, press the full-screen map key (the J key by default).

Full-Screen-Settings

Note

A handful of the following options are also available as buttons on the full-screen map view itself. For more information on this, please see the full-screen map page.

Toggles

By default, all of the following toggle settings are enabled.

Toggle Description
Enable Minimap Enable or disable this minimap preset
Show Animals Show or hide animals
Show Caves Toggle automatically switching to cave mode
Show Compass Toggle showing compass points around the edge of the minimap
Show Day/Night Toggle automatically switching between day and night mode
Show Entity Names Show or hide entity names
Show Grid Show or hide the grid overlay
Show Mob Headings Toggle showing which way mobs are facing
Show Mobs Show or hide mobs
Show Pets Show or hide pets
Show Player Headings Toggle showing which way other players are facing
Show Players Show or hide other players
Show Reticle Show or hide midpoint lines pointing to the center of the minimap
Show Self Show or hide your own location and heading
Show Villagers Show or hide villagers
Show Waypoint Labels Show or hide the names of waypoints
Show Waypoints Show or hide all waypoints
Verbose Location Toggle between a long or short form of your current coordinates

Other Settings

The default option for each setting below is marked with bold text.

Setting Options Description
Location
  • x, z, y (v)
  • x, y (v), z
  • x, z, y
  • x, y, z
  • x, z
 The format of your coordinates, as shown on the map
Mob Display
  • Small Dots
  • Large Dots
  • Small Icons
  • Large Icons
 How mobs should be displayed on the map
Player Display
  • Small Dots
  • Large Dots
  • Small Icons
  • Large Icons
 How other players should be displayed on the map
UI Theme
  • OceanMonument
  • Purist
  • Stronghold
  • DesertTemple
  • EndCity
  • ForestMansion
  • NetherFortress
 Change the theme of the buttons around the fullscreen map - Note: If you have extra themes installed, there will be more to toggle through than shown here
Font Scale Range: 1 - 4 How large the text should be relative to the GUI scale setting

Webmap Settings

The webmap is an entirely different way to view your map - in a web browser instead of from directly within Minecraft. This allows you to have a map view visible on another screen, or even another device!

Webmap-Settings

Important

There are a lot of settings in this category that don’t do anything at the moment. Instead, the webmap is configured using its own interface - see the webmap page for more information on this.

Because of this, only the settings that actually do anything are documented below.

Toggles

By default, none of the following toggle settings are enabled. You will need to enable the webmap before you can use it.

Toggle Description
Enable Web Map Whether the webmap should be enabled and accessible

Note

While there is an input to provide a port for the webmap to use, it is currently ignored. JourneyMap will attempt to use port 8080 by default - if that isn’t available, it’ll attempt to find a port that is.

The correct port is always shown in chat when the webmap is enabled.

Waypoint Settings

This category allows you to change some settings relating to how waypoints behave and are displayed. Waypoints also have a number of individual settings - you can find out about those on the waypoints page.

Waypoint-Settings

Toggles

The bold toggle settings below are enabled by default.

Toggle Description
Enable Waypoint Manager Enable the waypoint manager - you can disable this if you use another
mod to manage waypoints
Auto Remove Death Waypoints Whether death waypoints should be removed when you approach them
Create Deathpoints Whether death waypoints should be created when you die
Display Death Waypoint Label
on map overlay		 Whether to show the name for death waypoints on your minimap and
full-screen map

Other Settings

The default option for each setting below is marked with bold text.

Setting Options Description
Custom Waypoint Teleport Command Text input: /tp {name} {x} {y} {z}

The teleport command that should be used when you teleport to a waypoint, using the following placeholders:

  • {name}: Your player name
  • {dim}: The target dimension
  • {x}: The waypoint's X coordinate
  • {y}: The waypoint's Y coordinate
  • {z}: The waypoint's Z coordinate

This setting is ignored in single player or if JourneyMap is installed on a server; teleportation happens without a command in that case.
Death Date Format
  • MM-dd-yyyy
  • MM-dd-yy
  • dd-MM-yyyy
  • dd-MM-yy
  • yyyy-MM-dd
  • yy-MM-dd

The text format of the date of death, as shown in the death waypoint label

  • dd: Day
  • MM: Month
  • yy: Year (2 digits)
  • yyyy: Year (4 digits)
Death Time Format
  • HH:mm:ss
  • H:mm:ss
  • HH:mm
  • H:mm
  • hh:mm:ss a
  • h:mm:ss a
  • hh:mm:ss
  • h:mm:ss
  • h:mm a
  • h:mm a
  • hh:mm
  • h:mm

The text format of the time of death, as shown in the death waypoint label

  • H: Hours (24-hour, without leading 0)
  • HH: Hours (24-hour, with leading 0)
  • h: Hours (12-hour, without leading 0
Auto Remove Death Waypoint Distance Range: 2 - 64 (in blocks) How close you need to be to a death waypoint for it to be deleted automatically, if Auto Remove Death Waypoints is enabled
Maximum Distance Range: 0 -10,000 (in blocks) How far away you need to be from a waypoint for it to be displayed, including in the world, on the minimap and the full-screen map
Setting Options Description
Custom Waypoint Teleport Command Text input: /tp {name} {x} {y} {z}

The teleport command that should be used when you teleport to a waypoint, using the following placeholders:

  • {name}: Your player name
  • {dim}: The target dimension
  • {x}: The waypoint's X coordinate
  • {y}: The waypoint's Y coordinate
  • {z}: The waypoint's Z coordinate

This setting is ignored in single player or if JourneyMap is installed on a server; teleportation happens without a command in that case.
Death Date Format
  • MM-dd-yyyy
  • MM-dd-yy
  • dd-MM-yyyy
  • dd-MM-yy
  • yyyy-MM-dd
  • yy-MM-dd

The text format of the date of death, as shown in the death waypoint label

  • dd: Day
  • MM: Month
  • yy: Year (2 digits)
  • yyyy: Year (4 digits)
Death Time Format
  • HH:mm:ss
  • H:mm:ss
  • HH:mm
  • H:mm
  • hh:mm:ss a
  • h:mm:ss a
  • hh:mm:ss
  • h:mm:ss
  • h:mm a
  • h:mm a
  • hh:mm
  • h:mm

The text format of the time of death, as shown in the death waypoint label

Auto Remove Death Waypoint Distance Range: 2 - 64 (in blocks) How close you need to be to a death waypoint for it to be deleted automatically, if Auto Remove Death Waypoints is enabled
Maximum Distance Range: 0 -10,000 (in blocks) How far away you need to be from a waypoint for it to be displayed, including in the world, on the minimap and the full-screen map

Waypoint Beacon Settings

By default, waypoints are displayed in the world using a beacon beam in the distance, which allows you to see where they are from anywhere in the world. By default, you can look towards the beam and see the waypoint’s icon and label as well. This behaviour can be customized below.

Beacon-Settings

Toggles

The bold toggle settings below are enabled by default.

Toggle Description
Always Map Caves Whether to map caves below you when you’re on the surface
Always Map Surface Whether to map the surface above you when you’re in caves
Blend Foliage Whether to apply biome colours to foliage
Blend Grass Whether to apply biome colours to grass
Blend Water Whether to apply biome colours to water
Ignore Glass Ceilings Whether to remain in surface mode when under a glass ceiling
Map Topography Whether to generate a contour map that shows elevation
Show Bathymetry Whether to show underwater terrain on the map
Show Crops Whether to show crops on the map
Show Plant Shadows Whether to plants and crops should cast shadows on the map
Show Plants Whether to show plants on the map
Show Surface Above Caves Whether to show a dimmed view of the surface when in cave mode
Use Antialiasing Whether to use anti-aliasing to improve the shading effect used to show elevation
Use Cave Lighting Whether to show lights underground - disable for a fully bright map
Use Transparency Whether transparent blocks should reveal what’s below them on the map

Other Settings

The default option for each setting below is marked with bold text.

Setting Options Description
Reveal Shape
  • Circle
  • Square
 Whether to reveal chunks in a circle or square - circle reveals show fewer chunks at once, and so perform better
Render Delay Range: 0 - 10 (in seconds, default: 2) How often JourneyMap should try to render the chunks around you - Higher values can result in better performance, but may result in chunks being missed when travelling at high speed
Cave Max Distance Range: 1 - 32 (in chunks, default: 3) The maximum distance within which to attempt to render the map while in a cave - if you set this higher than your render distance, then this will use that instead
Surface Max Distance Range: 1 - 32 (in chunks, default: 7) The maximum distance within which to attempt to render the map while above ground -if you set this higher than your render distance, then this will use that instead

Advanced Settings

This section contains advanced settings for power users and those that may wish to tweak some of JourneyMap’s internals.

Warning

The settings in this section cam have extreme effects on the performance of your client. We don’t recommend touching these settings unless you have a good understanding of what you’re doing, or you’re directed to do so by a member of the JourneyMap support staff.

If tweaking these settings crashes your client or causes your computer to lag horribly, don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Advanced-Settings

Toggles

The bold toggle settings below are enabled by default.

Toggle Description
Announce Mod Whether to announce in chat when JourneyMap is ready to use
Check for Mod Updates Whether JourneyMap should check for updates on Curse
Hide Sneaking Entities Whether sneaking/crouching creatures should be hidden
High Display Quality Uncheck to improve zoom performance and memory usage, but reduce
display quality and lower performance of minimap rotation when set to “My Heading”
Record Cache Statistics This is intended for beta testers - enable to record statistics for each cache

Other Settings

The default option for each setting below is marked with bold text.

Setting Options Description
Logging Level
  • INFO
  • ALL
  • DEBUG
  • ERROR
  • FATAL
  • OFF
  • TRACE
  • WARN
 Set how verbose JourneyMap's logs are, but note that some log levels can cause serious performance problems
AutoMap Poll Frequency Range: 500 - 10000 (in ms, default: 2000) Delay between automap region tasks - lower values will make the map generate faster, but will cause significant performance drops while mapping
Browser Poll Range: 1000 - 10000 (in ms, default: 2000) This setting isn't currently implemented and may be removed in a later version of JourneyMap
Cache Animals Range: 1000 - 10000 (in ms, default: 3100) How long radar data for animals is cached for - lower values will impact performance
Cache Mobs Range: 1000 - 10000 (in ms, default: 3000) How long radar data for mobs is cached for - lower values will impact performance
Cache Player Range: 500 - 2000 (in ms, default: 1000) How long data for your character is cached for - lower values will impact performance
Cache Players Range: 1000 - 10000 (in ms, default: 2000) How long radar data for other players is cached for - lower values will impact performance
Map Tile Render Type Range: 1 - 4

Change rendering strategy for map tiles if they appear blurry on your video card:

  1. Linear & mirrored
  2. Linear & clamped
  3. Nearest & mirrored
  4. Nearest & clamped
Maximum Animals Range: 1 - 128 (default: 32) Maximum number of animals displayed on the radar
Maximum Mobs Range: 1 - 128 (default: 32) Maximum number of mobs displayed on the radar
Maximum Players Range: 1 - 128 (default: 32) Maximum number of players displayed on the radar
Maximum Villagers Range: 1 - 128 (default: 32) Maximum number of villagers displayed on the radar
Radar Range Lateral Range: 16 - 512 (in blocks, default: 64) Lateral distance to search for entities to display on the radar - high values will cause a significant performance hit
Radar Range Vertical Range: 8 - 256 (in blocks, default: 16) Vertical distance to search for entities to display on the radar - high values will cause a significant performance hit