Hey everyone,
Due to popular demand, I'm adding a game time display under/above the minimap. Like most additions to my mods, this is fully toggleable in the settings.
I apologise for the low frequency of the sneak-peeks! I am constantly working on my mods, probably more than ever before, there just usually isn't much visual stuff to show. Non-visual stuff is what actually takes the ...
2019-09-17 14:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Something cool is coming to 1.14.4 and 1.13.2!
It isn't possible in 1.12.2 and below, unfortunately. "execute in <dimension>" just wasn't a thing. Should still make a couple of people happy :)
Hey!
Some of you may have noticed that I have recently removed all "short link" ads (Adfly) from my download links. I did it because of the awful unskippable ads that they are showing now. I'm not sure how long they've been doing it for but since I haven't gotten any complaints, it's probably not too long.
Since my Patreon page is focused around removing ads, I feel like letting you...
2019-07-31 11:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
I'm pretty sure the new update for the world map mod is ready and I even started porting it to 1.14, as you can see in the screenshot :)
I have reworked the auto-discover feature and now singleplayer worlds will always "refresh" directly from the world save (or on initial load). This speeds up initial loading of the generated world a lot and makes it more seamless.
...
2019-06-20 15:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
I'm pretty much done porting the minimap mod to Minecraft 1.14.2. Here's a quick sneak-peek. I'll probably release it in the Dropbox folder tomorrow (if nothing goes wrong).
While working on this, I discovered a change in 1.14 that might negatively affect the world map mod's performance. Hopefully I'll find a workaround :S Starting with the world map mod ASAP.
The auto-di...
2019-06-12 17:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I'm making huge progress in implementing the long-awaited auto-discover feature. No longer will you have to manually visit areas generated before using the world map mod. It is a singleplayer feature because it needs access to the world save files.
However, I'm planning to make it possible to auto-discover using a custom world save, so it will work on multiplayer...
2019-06-06 14:28:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I've just released my very first finished solo game project (as opposed to working in a team)! I figured some of you might be interested. It's very different from what you know me for though, so I completely understand if you're not ;)
It's a mobile puzzle game for Android called Puzzle Ninja Star. I was working on it on/off for a VERY long time now. I made it with Jav...
2019-05-03 13:32:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone!
I'm currently working on a new feature for the minimap mod that will let you quickly share your waypoints with the other players on the server through ingame chat. Here's a little sneak-peek.
2019-04-01 15:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
The first 1.13.2 version of the Better PVP mod is finally out in the first Dropbox folder. Now all of my mods, which are available for Minecraft 1.12.2, are also ported to the latest Minecraft version :)
Keep in mind that 1.13.2 Forge is very buggy and sometimes doesn't load some of the mods properly. I often need to restart it a few times.
Next, I'm goi...
2019-03-09 12:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe 1.13.2 version of the world map mod is finally available in the first Dropbox folder (and a version of the minimap mod compatible with it)! The release contains a lot of bug fixes that haven't even been released for 1.12.2 and below yet. I'm going to update the other versions very soon though.
There's an interesting bug in MinecraftForge for 1.13.2 where some mods sometimes don'...
2019-03-07 16:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that I'm pretty close to finishing the 1.13.2 version of the world map mod. I've been working on this every single day for this whole week.
Mojang decided to completely stop using block meta data, even for world saves, in 1.13.2, which caused some big issues for the mod because it was also saving blocks using meta data. By using some vood...
2019-03-03 17:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostCheck the first Dropbox folder for the new .jar file. Minecraft Forge for 1.13.2 is currently in beta so make sure you backup your modded world(s) before you do anything with it.
VERY IMPORTANT: The 1.13.2 update broke EVERYTHING in the minimap mod. Even 1.8 can't compare to this. I had to recode a lot of stuff. Make sure you backup your waypoints data (usually in .minecraft/config/...
2019-02-23 18:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
I'm working (probably finished) on a new interface for the Better PVP mod, which temporarily displays the tooltip of the currently held item. The interface will be turned OFF by default. The screenshots show the position of the interface in the "classic" preset. It is fully customizable like for the other interfaces though. Don't mind the weird set of items :)
2018-09-11 17:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostHere.
Hello everyone!
Tomorrow I'll release a huge update for the world map mod. Have been working on it non-stop since early July. I would have posted some screenshots/vids on Patreon but there wasn't anything that visual about the update. I was mainly reworking or improving existing features, optimizing the performance (A LOT), testing and fixing bugs (also a lot but mainly those c...
2018-08-25 18:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough the $120 goal wasn't quite reached last month, I decided to remove banner ads on the minimap download pages anyway.
The current and the following goals need rewriting because the "description" pages now use ads different from what was used when I set the goals. The new goals shouldn't be too different though.
Thank you for your support!
2018-07-06 11:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello,
Just wanted to let you all know that I'll be returning to modding this week. You can most likely expect some updates too. :)
Thank you for your patience!
2018-05-14 10:52:56 +0000 UTC View PostHello there,
Just wanted to let you know why there won't be a minimap update this week (won't be working on the world map either).
Right now I really need to focus on writing my final Bachelor's thesis. I'm behind the planned schedule. The updates will be back as soon as I've caught up. Hopefully, it's next week or the week after that. If there's a bug/error that you need me to fix, I'm af...
2018-04-12 20:21:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Currently working on something interesting.
The mod will soon save .png files per region and use them as cache to "load" the whole discovered world map pretty much instantly. While the world map is loading normally (for dynamic lighting etc) the cached image files will be rendered instead of plain nothing.
This is also a huge step towards full map .png export, which is a highly requested f...
2017-12-18 14:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe server hosting provider that provides me with a VPS that I use to host Patron lists and version check is experiencing power outages. For some reason it takes the game forever to notice the "time out" when connecting to the server, which causes Minecraft loading screen to freeze for a period of time (sometimes forever apparently).
This also means that update notifications and Patreon capes wi...
2017-11-09 17:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally implementing in-game functions for managing worlds/sub-worlds! Renaming files will become unnecessary.
Make World/Server Auto - makes the selected world/server data automatic for the current world/server. Useful when servers change IP but you don't use a domain name to connect.
Make Sub-world Auto - makes the selected sub-world data automatic for the current sub-w...
2017-10-19 00:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Coming in the next update. Should make things a little easier :)
I'm surprised nobody has suggested this yet.
The update might break minimap - worldmap (and other mod combinations) version compatibility, so make sure that you update both mods to the newest version using the Dropbox folder or manually this time.
The update will also add the default black Patreon cape for the $50 pledg...
2017-08-09 14:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostI'm now using topminecraftmods.com as a homepage for Better PVP and Minimap mods so I'm going to change the goals a bit to fit the new pages. Need to wait 24 hours to get stats on the new ads which I need to change the goals accordingly.
Hopefully goes flawlessly :)
EDIT: The new goals are now in place. I offered a cut off my Patreon to the tmcm team to balance out their losses from me rem...
2017-08-06 14:48:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'd suggest everyone who uses MC 1.12 to back all their waypoints data up until the next update. There's a possibility of losing it if you're not careful.
Apologise for the inconveniences!
EDIT: The new update (1.13.1) is available for MC 1.12 in the first Dropbox folder!
2017-06-21 07:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Instant lighting is one of the many things coming with the b1.9 update - the last beta version before full release.
The new update will also include:
* Waypoints search
* Compressed map data
* Full map background loading
* Lots of bug fixes.
2017-05-02 15:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe second goal/milestone for my Patreon page has been reached!
Thank you to everyone who are or have been a part of this.
As promised, 2 square-shaped Google ads on the Better PVP page are going away :)
Also, a lot of new patrons are yet to have messaged me their Minecraft usernames and/or Dropboxes. So please do if you would like to receive the rewards.
2017-04-01 22:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't worry, I'm working on it!
As for the special attacks mod: I want to bring it back but most likely after I "finish" the world map mod. So pretty soon, I think :)
Hopefully I am also able to add cooler visual effects to the attacks.
Xaero's World Map b1.8 and Xaero's Minimap 1.12.1 are now available in the first Dropbox folder!
The world map update is one of the biggest ones I've done so far, if we don't count the initial release. It took me almost a week only to port everything from 1.11 to other Minecraft versions! I have carefully gone through the whole code and fixed a lot of real and even potential bugs/stability issue...
2017-01-27 11:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on the waypoint side-menu that lets you quickly jump the map view to off-screen waypoints!
Will be released on the next update along with many bug fixes.
2017-01-19 23:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patrons,
I've decided to discontinue the patreon-only anarchy vanilla server which I was running as an experiment because people weren't really interested in it.
Instead, I will be moving a lot of mod-related files that are currently hosted on my Dropbox to the VPS the server was running on. It is due to Dropbox removing public link functionality next year.
If you have played on...
2016-12-17 16:32:30 +0000 UTC View Post