Alternative Map Key

This mod replaces most of the symbols used for ASCII overmap keys. This has no effect on the large overmap screen when using overmap tiles (tiles enabled by default). It will still replace the symbols used in the overmap in your sidebar.

General Guidelines

Land features are symbols. They're in big chunks so you don't really need a letter to tell you what each space is. For the same reason, houses are left as they were.

Buildings will be represented by the first letter of their English name. P for Pizza not Parlor. All letters are upper case.

Vision Levels

Land feature tiles with less than full visibility are lighter shades of the full visbility tiles.

• Full vision forest is a green #, low visibility forest like tiles are a light green #

Building tiles with less than full visibility are lower case letters with the same colors of their relevant category.

Colors

Colors mark the (loose) thematic category

• Blue - Service and Entertainment

  • Laundromats, gyms, arcade, football field, radio, movie theaters, amusement parks, spas, hair salons, banks

• Brown - Farming, Nature, and Outdoors

  • Cave, campsite, farm, orchard, hydroponics farm, mushroom cave, dairy farm

• Cyan - Magical (This is primarily modded tiles)

  • Magic shops, magic academy, attunement altar, forge of wonders

• Green - Food, Booze, and Restaurants

  • Grocery store, bar, restaurant, coffee shop, brewery, candy shop

• Light Blue - Vehicles, Repair, and Fuel

  • Garages, parking lots, gas stations, car sales lot, parking ramps, go cart track

• Light Cyan - Hardware, Tools, and Construction

  • Public works, home improvement, electronics store, construction sites, machine shops, plumbers

• Light Gray - Workplaces and Abandoned

  • Offices, mines, factories, docks, call centers, dumps, industrial

• Light Green - Housing and Residential

  • Houses, apartments, hotels, mansions, trailer parks, dorms, old folks homes

• Light Red - Medical, Drugs, and Cybernetics

  • Hospitals, doctor's offices, pharmacies, vet, meth lab, pot farm, cyber boutique, optometrist, autodoc

• Magenta - Retail and Supplies

  • Most miscellaneous stores. Any place that sold stuff not covered elsewhere

• Pink - Science, Radiation, Monsters, and Weirdness

  • Slime, fungus, labs, craters, robot dispatch center, anomalous zones
    • Labs will be pink for ground level coloring to stay on theme but other levels will vary to maintain vanilla differentiation between tiles

• Red - Guns and Military

  • Gun stores, police stations, bunkers, FEMA, LMOE, checkpoints, mil outposts, minefields, army camps

• White - Tourism, Culture, Education and Public Spaces

  • Museums, libraries, bookstores, churches, cemeteries, college campus, theater, gallery, parks, public spaces/gardens

• Yellow - Government and Public Services

  • Subways, fire, electric stations, sewer plants, prisons, courthouse, evac shelter, mail center