"ping" the map with a marker?

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"ping" the map with a marker?

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I'm wondering if there is any way to create an entity/whatever that will appear on the world map like the entity destroyed, entity damaged, and defenses engaging the enemy alerts do. I don't care if it appears by the hotbar (would be nice though) I just want to be able to open the world map and see my map marker. Ideally it would appear for 10-20 seconds before fading.

Any way to do this and if so, how?
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Re: "ping" the map with a marker?

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Yes.
You can use dummy station entities to create markers on the map. Sign-post mod does that, some others do too.
I do mods. Modding wiki is friend, it teaches how to mod. Api docs is friend too...
I also update mods, some of them even work.
Recently I did a mod tutorial.
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Ah. I was poking about the lua docs trying to figure it out. Thanks. I'll download one of those and figure out the details.
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