Map waypoints add hotkey

[DrEngine]

Adding map waypoints is a little bit tedious process. What about some hotkeys (lets say 5 pcs). Every hotkey has presetted color, icon. If I click hotkey game adds new waypoint with presetted color and icon, position on my current position and opens dialog for entering waypoint text. I write text and click enter. Quick, simple, comfortable.

[Kiptrix]

You could just open the map with (m) and then right click + create the waypoint. It's not that horrible of a process.

[l33tmaan]

I would appreciate being able to make a 'template' waypoint I can smack down anywhere. I like my little fancy golden pickaxes to mark places for me to mine, but it's slightly tedious to type in in several dozen times.

[DrEngine]

@Kiptrix. It's not horrible process. But it's not so easy as you've said:

Open map. Zoom map so the position of waypoint should be precise. Right click. Write some text. Manually enter color (this is weird). Click icon selector, move down and eventually scroll because your icon is at the bottom of list. Click ok. Ehm.... It's not so straightforward.. 
Finally you use only few of icon (namely: pickaxe, ladder, trader wagon, star, spiral) - no need to have another in the list. You use only few colors mainly because some color is very badly visible on the map (namely: red - for search, orange - special case for example transponder target, yellow - searched but repeatedly user e.g. trader, blue - the place is done/closed).

I usually want to place only these types of waypoints:
- opening of cave (ladder, red)
- ore to pick (pickaxe, red)
- trader (trader wagon, red)
- transponder (spiral, red)

I usually change color to blue as soon as I finish some place (e.g. ores, explored caves)

So few hotkeys for concrete waypoints would be perfect.

[Streetwind]

I'm not entirely sure since I've never done it myself, but my brain claims to remember I saw someone talk about making waypoint macros that only take one keypress to activate.

Let me see if I can find someone in the know.

EDIT: I found a video!

 

Edited December 7, 2020 by Streetwind

[l33tmaan]

That's useful. I wish there was a more convenient way to do that, because I had no idea any of that existed in the game. I only even found out about waypoints by accident, perhaps some documentation on this would help.

[DrEngine]

Macro - perfect solution. However is it possible the macro asks for waypoint title ? Something like that 

"/waypoint addati pick °0 °0 °0 false red #enter_text"  => dialog asks for text, replaces #enter_text with entered text and executes this command. ???

[DanaCraluminum]

There is Waypoint Extensions mod https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/98, very convenient 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Craluminum

[l33tmaan]

There are a lot of mods that should probably just get implemented or adapted into the base game. That and CarryCapacity are two of them.

[RobinHood]

It would be also nice to have some bite more icons maybe -
relevant PeriodicSystem Elements - Cu for Copper,  Fe for Iron, Bi for Bismuth .. e.g. not only the pickaxe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
Skull icon for dangerous places
Dog / Wolf icon, Sheep / Pig icon

[mumblebrainz]

And a color picker 

[Fredrik Blomquist]

I think it would be nice. I know about adding and pinning waypoint, but when getting frustrated about dying i sometimes forget - making me even more frustrated...

[Setsuna22]

My issue for waypoints are if for example you wanted to teleport to them similar names get overwritten in the database so you end up teleporting to whichever one is called last. It's frustrating when you have a few Artisans or food merchants.

Edited July 6, 2021 by Richard Adams
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