Archipelago Map Mod is a Hollow Knight mod used with Archipelago Multiworld Randomizer. It helps to find both item and transition checks.
This is a fork of Phenomenol's fork of CaptainDapper's original mod has been expanded on with many more features and bug fixes.
Dependencies:
- Archipleago.HollowKnight and all of its dependencies.
- MagicUI v1.4.8178.42957. Does NOT work with earlier versions
- Vasi
- Satchel
Compatible optional mods:
- AdditionalMaps. Highly recommended with this mod to view White Palace checks
- RandomizableLevers. Shows lever checks on map
- RandoPlus. Shows Mr Mushroom and nail upgrade checks on map
- Most other mods
- Press
CTRL-M
during a game to enable the mod. Alternatively, click the red button when the game is paused. - fireb0rn's quick MapModS guide (item randomizer)
- fireb0rn's quick MapModS guide (transition randomizer)
- Big pins: Items are reachable according to Randomizer logic.
- Small/grayed out pins: Items are not randomized or not reachable.
- Pins will disappear as you clear their locations. If item previews are enabled, it will show the corresponding previewed item.
- Pin settings are displayed at the bottom. See Pause Menu for more info on the toggles.
CTRL-H
: Expand/collapse the hotkey panelSHIFT
: Pan faster (same as right thumbstick on controller).CTRL-K
: Toggle a panel for the map key for the pin and room colors.- Check out the Map Legend for more details on each pin style.
CTRL-L
: Toggle a panel for pin lookup on/off.- Hover over any visible pin to display info about the name, room, status, logic requirements, previewed items (if any) and spoiler items (if Spoilers on).
CTRL-W
: Toggle benchwarp from the World Map on/off.- Hover over a room with a bench you have been to, and hold the indicated key/controller bind to do the benchwarp. Tap the same bind to switch benches located at the same map room.
- "Mod Enabled/Disabled"
CTRL-M
: Toggle the mod on/off - "Player Icons"
CTRL-1
: Toggle showing other players with APMapMod in the current MW on your map. - "Randomized"
CTRL-2
: Toggle all pins for randomized items on/off - "Others"
CTRL-3
: Toggle all pins for non-randomized items on/off - "Pin Style"
CTRL-4
: Toggle the style of the pins - "Pin Size"
CTRL-5
: Toggle the size of the pins - "Mode": Toggle the map mode
- "Transition": See more info below.
- "Transition 2": Instead of showing all in-logic + visited rooms, only visited rooms appear. Depending on your Randomizer run, this might not change anything (and therefore may not be an option).
- "Full Map": Shows all pins and the full map regardless of map items obtained
- "All Pins": Shows all pins, but only show map areas for obtained map items
- "Pins Over Map": Only show pins over where the corresponding map item has been obtained
- "Customize Pins":
- Toggle each pool on/off.
- "Persistent items": Toggle persistent items to always showing or not.
- "Group by": Toggle the pools to be grouped by location, or by item (spoiler).
- Check out the in-game map key (
CTRL-K
) or the Map Legend for what the colors/brightness of each room indicate. - Hover over a room and press the indicated key/controller bind to find a path.
- If successful, the path route will be displayed. You can try again to change the start/final transition to what you want.
- If the first step in the route is to benchwarp, hold the indicated key/controller bind to do the benchwarp.
- A compass arrow will point to the next transition you need to go to. The shown route gets updated after every transition.
- The Quick Map also shows the list of unchecked/visited/vanilla transitions for the current room.
CTRL-B
: Toggle including benchwarp in the pathfinder on/off.CTRL-U
: Toggle a panel for unchecked/visited/vanilla transitions in the World Map on/off.CTRL-R
: Toggle the route to be displayed in-game to full/next transition only/off.CTRL-E
: Toggle behaviour when going off-route to keep route/cancel route/reevaluate route.CTRL-C
: Toggle the route compass on/off.
- To customize map and UI colors, download the template file and copy it to the same folder that contains the mod file
MapModS.dll
. You only need to quit a save and re-enter one to reload the colors.- For Steam + Scarab users on Windows, the default folder is
...\Steam\steamapps\common\Hollow Knight\hollow_knight_Data\Managed\Mods\Randomizer Map S
. - Colors will be interpreted in standard RGBA format
[r, g, b, a]
. - If you want to keep the default color of something, delete the corresponding line in the file (or change
[r, g, b, a]
to[]
).
- For Steam + Scarab users on Windows, the default folder is
- To customize pins, make a folder called 'Pins' containing your custom PNG files, and copy it to the same folder that contains the mod file 'MapModS.dll'. You only need to quit a save and re-enter one to reload the pins.
- See the default pins for reference.
- You only need to include the files you want to replace the original ones with.
Use Scarab: https://github.com/fifty-six/Scarab
Or, you can install manually:
- Download the latest release of
APMapMod.zip
. - Unzip and copy the folder 'MapModS' to
...\hollow_knight_Data\Managed\Mods
.
If you need any help, feel free to ask in any of the active Hollow Knight Discord servers.
- Special thanks to Homothety and Flib for significant coding help
- CaptainDapper for making the original mod
- PimpasPimpinela for helping to port the mod from Rando 3 to Rando 4
- Chaktis, KingKiller39, Ender Onryo, and Snow for helping with sprite art
- ColetteMSLP for testing out the mod during livestreams
- BadMagic for CMICore/MagicUI and help with the UI migration