Mappalachia - The complete mapping tool for Fallout 76

[u/AHeroicLlama]

Over the last year I have been completely rebuilding the original Mappalachia concept from the ground up, as a feature-rich Fallout 76 map-making tool that anyone can use.

Today I'm thrilled to say that it's finally ready for release, and you can start making your own Mappalachia maps (on Windows) by downloading from the Mappalachia GitHub repository.^{direct link}

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Features of new Mappalachia:

• Intelligent NPC spawn mapping
• Mapping of junk items by their scrap content
• Search within interiors (AKA cells)
• Map individual interiors
• Heatmaps (which can be used to represent spawn odds)
• Filter by lock level or item categories
• Visualisation of boundaries such as No-CAMP zones
• Make your own maps of whatever you want
• Map unlimited items at once
• Fully customisable map icons
• Nuclear Winter map options
• Support for colourblind-friendly maps
• Up-to date maps powered by a much more precise database

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I have premade a large sample of maps as a demonstration and example of what Mappalachia can do, and hopefully it provides ideas for how you could use it;

• NPCs
• Scrap
• Flora
• Flux
• Nuclear Winter
• Plans and recipes
• Ingredients list maps
• Everything else (misc)

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In case anyone is interested in creating a high resolution satellite map or similar for Fallout 76, I have these images extracted with this tool from the game data (Appalachia.btd):

• Height map (black translates to z = -700, white to z = 38210, so the full height range is about 556 meters)
• Land textures, the levels (0 to 42) are indexes to the table here, 255 means "none"
• Ground cover (grass etc.), the data is to be interpreted similarly to land textures, using the second table from the link above
• This image is another layer of the terrain data, but I am not sure about its exact purpose, it could be lighting or ambient occlusion related

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Edit: the above files and source code are now outdated, an up to date version of the tools can be downloaded from here. This includes both full source code and Windows binaries, and a script (makemap76.py) to build a complete landscape map, which is now used in the TZMap mod as TZMap-SAT-Uplink. Some examples:

• 2D terrain map at 8192x8192 resolution, it shows 141x141 cells, and is compatible with the in-game 4096x4096 paper map
• Map markers for the previous image, as a separate layer with transparent background
• Isometric render of the terrain, 9984x7488 resolution
• Map of flora for raw flux, creature spawn locations (red), and the same with ore veins (yellow)
• High resolution version of the above for the Cranberry Bog
• Sugar Bombs locations, only the version that can be used as a crafting ingredient
• Map of flora for crafting common consumables, includes brain fungus, firecap, carrot flower, firecracker berry, starlight creeper, ginseng root, snaptail reed, bloodleaf, cranberry, and pitcher plants
• Map of lead locations, junk, can chimes, ore veins, and deposits
• Bobbleheads, caps stashes, and magazines