Press M in Sons of the Forest to show the GPS map full screen. Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out around your position. Press M again to close it.

The map is the same one the GPS uses, shown north up. Your position is the yellow arrow, other players are blue arrows with their names, Kelvin is his K and Virginia is her heart. Everything your GPS shows is on the map too, such as discovered caves, GPS locators and other points of interest.

Waypoints

While the map is open the mouse cursor is free. Left click anywhere on the map to set a waypoint, left click it again or right click to clear it. Your waypoint is yellow. It also shows in the world as a pin with the distance to it, visible through trees and terrain.

In multiplayer your waypoint is shared through the game chat. Players with the mod see it on their map and in the world in your color, which matches your arrow on their map, and the chat line is hidden for them. Players without the mod see a chat line with the coordinates. Each player has one waypoint at a time and waypoints clear themselves after 5 minutes.

The M key

In the base game M raises the GPS tracker. With this mod installed a quick press of M opens the full map instead. Hold M for about half a second to switch M back to raising the GPS, and hold it again to switch back to the map. The choice is saved to UserData/Map.txt. The change only happens while the game is running with the mod loaded. If M does not raise the GPS after you remove the mod, rebind it in the game's control settings.

Multiplayer

Client side only. Nothing gets installed on a dedicated server. Every player who wants the full map needs the mod, and players without it are not affected. Everyone in the game shows up on your map, whether or not they have the mod.

Installation

Step 1: Install RedLoader

RedLoader is the mod loader for Sons of the Forest. The game cannot load any mod without it, including this one, so install it first. You only have to do this once.

Download RedLoader.zip from the latest RedLoader release
Extract it into your Sons of the Forest folder, the one containing SonsOfTheForest.exe, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sons Of The Forest
You should now see version.dll and a _Redloader folder sitting next to SonsOfTheForest.exe
Launch the game once and wait until you reach the main menu. The first launch takes a few minutes while RedLoader processes the game files
Check that MODS appears on the main menu, then quit

Step 2: Install Map

Download Map.zip from the latest release
Open the Mods folder inside your Sons of the Forest install, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sons Of The Forest\Mods
Extract the contents of the zip into that Mods folder

When you are done it should look like this:

Sons Of The Forest/
  Mods/
    Map.dll
    Map/
      manifest.json

Updating

Run the installer again. It replaces the old version.

Usage

Input	What it does
`M`	Opens and closes the full map
Hold `M`	Switches M between the map and the GPS
Left click on the map	Sets your waypoint, or clears it if you click it
Right click on the map	Clears your waypoint
Mouse wheel	Zooms in and out around your position

The map closes by itself when you open a menu, the console or chat.

Building

This section is only for those who want to modify the source or build it yourself.

Requires the .NET 8 SDK and a RedLoader install that has been launched at least once, so the interop assemblies exist. The build script offers to install both if they are missing.

.\build.ps1 -Install

The game folder is found through Steam. Override it with -GameDir "path" or the SOTF_PATH environment variable.

To produce a release zip:

.\build.ps1 -Package

Credits

Built against RedLoader by Toni Macaroni. Asset data from sotf-rigprobe.