Cartography
A cartographer draws maps on blank maps with a pen: a local map, a city map or a sea chart of the land around them, or a map of a whole world. The rules are the ones of every craft: see Carpentry for the chance, failures, tools that wear out and Make last; a map is never exceptional nor marked. A map, once drawn, opens and takes a course of pins as every map does.
How to draw a map
Section titled “How to draw a map”- Carry a mapmaker’s pen and blank maps in your backpack.
- Double click the pen. The crafting gump of cartography opens.
- Press the button before a recipe, and stay where you want the map centred: it is drawn where you stand when it is finished, 1.25 seconds later.
The recipes
Section titled “The recipes”| Recipe | Cartography | Draws |
|---|---|---|
| Local map | 10 to 70 | 64 tiles each side and 2 more a point of skill, on a drawing of 200 |
| City map | 25 to 85 | 64 tiles and 4 more a point of skill, at least 200, on a drawing of 200 to 400 |
| Sea chart | 35 to 95 | 64 tiles and 10 more a point of skill, at least 200, on a drawing of 200 to 400 |
| World map | 39.5 to 99.5 | 20 tiles a point of skill around Britain, wherever you stand, on a drawing of 200 to 400 |
| World map of Ilshenar, Malas, Tokuno, Ter Mur | 39.5 to 99.5 | The whole of that world |
Each takes one blank map. The local, city and sea maps show the facet you stand in, up to its edge. UOX3 also takes a blank scroll; here that is left to the scribes. UOX3’s skill numbers are off by a digit or past any skill: the converter writes the classic ones instead.
Change the rules
Section titled “Change the rules”- The recipes are
data/crafts/cartography.toml. - The pen is the template with
script_id = "cartography_tool"(scripts/items/cartography_tool.lua); how a map is drawn isscripts/common/cartography.lua. The pen and ink is a scribe’s: it opens Inscription. The mapmaker sells the mapmaker’s pen (mapmakerspen) and buys it back; a scribe and a mage sell the pen and ink.
Existing roots
Section titled “Existing roots”mgctl init never replaces a file you may have changed. Copy from the distribution data/crafts/cartography.toml,
data/crafts/resources.toml, scripts/common/crafting.lua, scripts/common/cartography.lua,
scripts/items/cartography_tool.lua, templates/items/skills/tools/cartography.toml and
templates/items/skills/tools/inscription.toml. If drawing a map fails, the player is told “You could not finish what
you made.” and the server logs why.
Not yet
Section titled “Not yet”Treasure maps.
See also
Section titled “See also”Made with ❤️ by Tom
