PingMark

Share discoveries and keep your party on target!

See how far away every ping is, something vanilla Valheim never shows. Aim, press Z, and your friends see exactly what you found: a named marker, a colored outline and a live distance. Stand still and press Left Shift + Z to sense loot and creatures hidden in the dark around you.

📸 Screenshots

Everyone sees what you found, and how far away it is.

Dropped weapons named and outlined, with who pinged them and their distance

Sense the loot hidden in the dark. One press of Perception outlines every coin, gem and chest around you.

Perception outlining coins, gems and chests in a dark forest

Read creatures and fish from afar. Taming progress and fish quality, without walking up to them.

Wolf being tamed, showing Wolf (2%) and its distance Pinged pufferfish showing its quality and distance

🧭 Features

📍 Pinging

📏 Distance on every ping: world and map pings show who pinged and how far away it is, updating as you move. Works on regular map pings too.
🎯 Aim and ping: mark what you are looking at with its name and an outline, even while running.
💎 Find the loot: dropped weapons, armor and materials glow so they're easy to spot in the grass, and so do cut logs and broken ore deposits.
⏱️ Longer pings: set how long pings stay with Ping Duration (vanilla 5 s).

🐺 Creatures & fish

🎯 Track creatures: highlight a mob with a nameplate and distance that follow it, red for hostile, green for friendly.
🐗 Taming from afar: ping an animal from across the field to see how its taming is going, like Wolf (15%), or how a tamed one feels, like Boar (Hungry).
🐟 Fish quality: pinged fish show their quality before you cast, like Pufferfish • 5, in their own color.
🎣 Watch your catch: ping a fish before it bites and it stays outlined until you land it or it gets away. While a fish is hooked, the Fishsight slot next to your power appears: press Left Alt + Z to switch the outline on or off. Auto Outline Hooked Fish outlines every catch.

🔮 Perception

👁️ Sense what's near: stand still and press Left Shift + Z to outline loot around you for 15 s, handy for coins and gems in dark dungeons. Nearby PingMark players see it too.
🐺 Sense creatures: it also highlights every hostile and friendly creature in range, beyond the usual highlight limit.
⏳ Like a Guardian Power: its own slot shows Ready or the time left, and it's ready again 60 s after each use. Prefer a cost that grows with what you sensed? Set Perception Fatigue Mode to Relative.

🎨 Your rules

👥 Mark teammates: optionally highlight players instead of the spot they stood on (off by default).
🗂️ Choose what counts: pick which objects are Valuables, Locations or Useful, and change colors, labels, keys and range.

🎮 Controls

Shortcut	Action
Z	Ping the spot or object you aim at, or highlight a creature.
Left Shift + Z	Perception (standing still): sense loot and creatures near you.
Left Alt + Z	While a fish is hooked: switch its outline on or off.
Right Ctrl + P	Turn PingMark on or off.
Right Ctrl + Right Shift + P	Open the Prefab Collections menu (admins only on servers).

🎛️ Ping, Perception and Fishsight can be rebound in the game's Settings > Controls (the modifier stays, so Perception keeps Left Shift). Every shortcut is also in the config under 9 - Inputs.

🛠️ Prefab Collections Menu

Decide which objects get a name and outline when pinged.

Search and filter every object and location in the game, including modded ones.
Move objects between colored sections, or add, rename and remove sections.
Auto Sort rebuilds the default Valuables, Locations and Useful sections, modded objects included. Undo reverts, Apply saves.
Find an object's ID: turn on Debug Ping Names (an Advanced setting) and press Z on it.
For admins sharing lists: Copy YAML / Import YAML move every section through the clipboard, a section's Import takes a CSV list, and Export Report writes how every object was sorted to BepInEx/config/JoksterCube.PingMark.AutoSortReport.csv.

🔒 On a server with PingMark, only admins can change collections, and the server checks every change. Collections are saved in BepInEx/config/JoksterCube.PingMark.Collections.yml and synced to all players.

📦 Installation

Install with a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore App), or manually:

Install BepInExPack Valheim.
Extract PingMark into BepInEx/plugins.
Launch the game. Settings are in BepInEx/config/JoksterCube.PingMark.cfg.

Installing on the server is optional. It syncs settings, filters ping range on the server and protects the collections.

🧩 Compatibility

✅ Works in single-player and on servers without PingMark.
✅ Players without the mod can join. They see ordinary pings (no names, outlines or highlights).
📏 Z pings reach players within 200 m of you by default. Map pings stay global.
⚠️ On a PingMark server, every player with PingMark needs the same version as the server. Players without the mod can still join.

🔧 Configuration

Most players never need to change anything. These are the settings worth knowing about. Synced settings come from the server when it runs PingMark.

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Z Ping Broadcast Distance	200 m	✔	How far your Z pings reach. `0` = unlimited.
Send Z Pings To Unmodded Players	On	✔	Players without the mod still get an ordinary ping.
Ping Cooldown	0 s	✔	Minimum time between Z pings.
Enable Other Players	Off	✔	Let Z highlight players.
Show Pinger Name / Show Distance	On		What ping labels display.
Outline Width	2 px		`0` hides all outlines.
Lock Configuration	On	✔	Only admins can change synced settings.

💡 Some settings are hidden as Advanced in Configuration Manager. Turn on Advanced settings there to see them. They are marked with ⚙️ in the full reference below.

Full settings reference

1 - General

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Enabled	On		Turn all PingMark features on or off.
Lock Configuration	On	✔	Only admins can change synced settings.
Refresh Interval ⚙️	0.25 s	✔	How often distances update (0.05–5 s).
Ping Cooldown	0 s	✔	Minimum time between Z pings and highlights (0–60 s).
Z Ping Broadcast Distance	200 m	✔	Sender-to-recipient range (0–10,000 m, `0` = unlimited). Without a modded server, the shorter of both players' ranges applies.
Send Z Pings To Unmodded Players	On	✔	Send ordinary pings to players without PingMark, at any distance.
Debug Ping Names ⚙️	Off		Show the detected object/location IDs when pinging. Useful for editing collections.
Show Ability Names	On		Show the names above the Guardian Power and the ability slots beside it. Turn off to hide them and bring the slots closer.

2 - Ping Label

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Show Pinger Name	On		Show who pinged.
Show Distance	On		Show your distance to pings and highlights.
Show Target Name	On		Show the pinged object's name.
Use Kilometers	On		Show 1,000 m and above as km.
Empty Label Text ⚙️	PING		Text shown when everything above is hidden.
Ping Color	White		Label color.
Match Ping Text To Outline	Off		Use the outline color for the label instead.
Ping Duration	5 s	✔	How long a location or object ping stays: label, outline and map marker (1–120 s).

3 - Camera Ping

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Max Distance	500 m		How far you can aim (10–2,000 m).
Max Underwater Depth ⚙️	10 m		Deeper targets ping the water surface instead (0–100 m).

4 - Ping Targets

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Enable Drops	On	✔	Name and outline dropped items.
Enable Fish	On	✔	Name and outline fish, with their quality.
Enable Gravestones	On	✔	Name and outline gravestones.
Enable Other Players	Off	✔	Highlight players instead of pinging their position (Perception highlights them too).
Enable All Other	Off	✔	Name and outline anything not in a collection (Perception outlines it too).

5 - Outlines

Setting	Default	What it does
Enable Ping Outline	On	Outline pinged objects and players.
Outline Width	2 px	0–10 px, visible through walls. `0` hides outlines.
Ping Drop Color	Purple	Dropped items.
Ping Fish Color	Pink	Fish, and the fish on your line.
Ping Gravestone/Player Color	Orange	Gravestones and players.
Ping Anything Color	White	Other objects.
Hostile / Ally Outline Color	Red / Green	Highlighted creatures.

6 - Mob Highlight

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Enable Mob Highlight	On	✔	Allow creature highlights.
Enable Mob Outline	On		Outline highlighted creatures.
Mob Highlight Duration	10 s	✔	How long a highlight lasts (1–120 s).
Max Highlighted Mobs	1	✔	Highlights per player at once (1–20). A new one replaces your oldest.

7 - Prefab Collections

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Color 1 – Color 12 ⚙️	Gray, White, Red, Orange, Gold, Lime, Green, Teal, Cyan, Blue, Violet, Pink		Palette that collection sections pick from.
Unassigned Section Color ID ⚙️	1		Palette slot for the menu's Unassigned column.

8 - Player Highlight

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Player Highlight Duration	5 s	✔	How long a player highlight lasts (1–120 s).
Hide Own Player Outline	On	✔	Don't outline yourself when someone marks you.

9 - Inputs

Setting	Default	What it does
Ping Shortcut	Z	Ping what you aim at, or highlight the creature you aim at. Also in Settings > Controls.
Toggle Mod Shortcut	Right Ctrl + P	Turn PingMark on or off.
Prefab Editor Shortcut	Right Ctrl + Right Shift + P	Open the Prefab Collections menu.
Perception Shortcut	Left Shift + Z	Use Perception. Only while standing still (no other key held). Its main key can also be set in Settings > Controls.
Fishsight Shortcut	Left Alt + Z	While a fish is hooked, switch its outline. Empty hides the Fishsight slot. Also in Settings > Controls.
Enable Prefab Editor Shortcut ⚙️	On	Turn the menu shortcut on or off.

10 - Perception

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Enable Perception	On	✔	Allow Perception and show its slot next to the Guardian Power. It senses what Ping Targets allows.
Perception Range	10 m	✔	How far around you Perception looks.
Perception Line Of Sight	On	✔	Only sense what you can see: things behind walls, rock or buildings, or buried underground, are left out.
Perception Duration	15 s	✔	How long Perception keeps things outlined (the Perception status).
End Perception Early	On	✔	End Perception and start fatigue once every drop, pickable, chest, deposit and enemy it found is gone.
Perception Max Outlines	64	✔	Most objects outlined per use, nearest first.
Perception Fatigue Duration	60 s	✔	Fixed mode: cooldown from each use, like a Guardian Power. Relative mode: the base fatigue once Perception ends. `0` = none.
Perception Fatigue Mode	Fixed	✔	`Fixed`: ready again the duration above after each use. `Relative`: fatigue starts once Perception ends, adds a cost for everything sensed, and starts early once it's all looted or slain.
Fatigue Per Object	1.5 s	✔	Relative mode: added for each listed object outlined.
Fatigue Per Drop	0.25 s	✔	Relative mode: added for each dropped item on the ground outlined.
Fatigue Per Ally	0.5 s	✔	Relative mode: added for each tamed or non-hostile creature.
Fatigue Per Enemy	2.5 s	✔	Relative mode: added for each hostile creature.
Perception Max Fatigue	90 s	✔	Relative mode: the longest the fatigue can get.
Perceive Creatures	On	✔	Perception also highlights every hostile and allied creature in range, ignoring Max Highlighted Mobs. Players follow Enable Other Players.
Perception Effect	On		Play a Guardian Power style burst around a player who uses Perception (nearby PingMark players see it too).
Perception Effect Color	Light blue		Color of that burst, for your Perception and other players'.
Perception Sound	sfx_WishbonePing_near		Sound played with the burst (any sound prefab, e.g. `sfx_secretfound`). Empty = silent.

11 - Fishing

Setting	Default	Synced	What it does
Auto Outline Hooked Fish	Off		Outline every fish you hook until it's caught or gets away. Off: only a fish you pinged before it bit; the rest wait for Left Alt + Z.

🖼️ Gallery

Outlines in their own colors: treasure and a hostile skeleton, a runestone, a Greydwarf nest.

Treasure chest and hostile skeleton highlighted with distinct colors Runestone marked with a colored outline and distance label Greydwarf nest marked with a colored outline and distance label

Creature nameplates and distances that follow them.

Wildlife highlight with a moving nameplate Friendly creature highlights with names and distances World ping with a live distance label

Fishing: the fish you pinged stays outlined on your line, and the Perception and Fishsight slots sit beside your power.

Hooked fish outlined in pink while fishing from a boat Guardian Power, Perception and Fishsight slots on the HUD

Prefab Collections menu: searchable, color-coded sections of everything that can be pinged.

💬 Feedback & Support

Report bugs or suggest improvements on GitHub.

Author: JoksterCube
Version: 1.6.2
License: GNU GPL v3 or later

Version	Update Notes
1.6.2	• New runes on the Perception icon ring.
1.6.1	• Easier-to-read changelog: every change on its own line.
1.6.0	New: • Pinged tamed animals show their mood next to their name, like Boar (Hungry) or Husk (Happy), and animals being tamed show their progress, like Wolf (15%). • Pinged fish show their quality, like Pufferfish • 3, and have their own toggle and color (Enable Fish, Ping Fish Color). • Ping a fish before it bites and it stays outlined until you land it or it gets away. • A Fishsight slot beside the Guardian Power shows while a fish is hooked: Left Alt + Z outlines that fish or turns it off. Turn on Auto Outline Hooked Fish to outline every catch. • Ping Duration sets how long pings stay (vanilla 5 s). • In Settings > Controls, PingMark's keys now show the mod's name in grey, like PingMark · Ping. Changes: • Perception only senses what you can see: buried treasure and things behind walls or rock are left out (turn off Perception Line Of Sight for the old behavior). • Perception has a new painted icon, on its status and its slot. • The Perception slot lines up evenly with other mods' ability slots beside the Guardian Power, such as TempestRite's Rally Call, and the slots sit closer together: their names are narrower and shrink to fit. Turn off Show Ability Names to hide the names and bring the slots closer still. • The Useful list no longer holds crafting station upgrades, statues, waymarkers or other decorations you can't use; crafting stations themselves stay, and statues and waymarkers are now Locations. • Valuables no longer holds build pieces, or their copies in villages, that only give materials when broken, such as cauldrons; chests, pots, beehives, sap collectors and trophy stands stay, and village braziers and bonfires are now Useful. Press Auto Sort in the collections editor to update a list you already have.
1.5.0	New: • A Perception slot next to your Guardian Power shows when Perception is ready, with a countdown after use; the Perception Fatigue status icon is gone. • Ping and Perception keys can be changed in the game's Settings > Controls. • Perception now senses everything Ping Targets allows, such as gravestones, other players and, with Enable All Other, any object. Changes: • Perception lasts 15 s and is ready again 60 s after use, like a Guardian Power (new Fixed default; Relative mode is still available). Important: • Update together with your server. • Existing configs keep their old Perception timings; set Perception Duration 15, Perception Fatigue Mode Fixed and Perception Fatigue Duration 60 for the new ones.
1.4.0	New: • Perception becomes an ability with its own status, a colored burst and chime, and Perception Fatigue afterwards (Relative mode grows it with what you sensed). • Perception ends early once everything found is looted or slain. • Cut logs can be pinged. Auto Sort: • Traders and their outposts are always sorted. • Wood-only objects are no longer valuables. Changes: • Z pings while moving; Perception only works standing still. Fixes: • Broken ore deposits keep their name and outline.
1.3.0	New: • Perception (Left Shift + Z) outlines listed objects and drops around you, and can highlight nearby creatures. • Birds can be pinged. • The Prefab Collections menu can copy and import YAML and export a sorting report. Auto Sort: • Smarter with modded prefabs. • Rocks, bushes and debris are left out. Fixes: • Dungeon walls and location geometry are no longer outlined.
1.2.0	New: • Pings from others show names in your language and outline the exact object. • Undo for removed sections. • Tidier Configuration Manager settings. Servers: • Only admins can change collections, now kept in their own file. • Ping spam is limited. Fixes: • Many stability, nameplate and shortcut fixes, plus better performance.
1.0.4	• Added more screenshots to the mod page.
1.0.3	• Larger screenshots on the mod page.
1.0.2	• Fixed screenshot sizes on the mod page.
1.0.1	• Fixed oversized screenshots on the mod page.
1.0.0	• Initial release: named Z pings with outlines, distances on world and map pings, creature and player highlights with nameplates, adjustable ping range, plain pings for players without the mod, and the admin Prefab Collections menu.

Date uploaded	a week ago
Version	1.6.2
Download link	JoksterCube-PingMark-1.6.2.zip
Downloads	70
Dependency string	JoksterCube-PingMark-1.6.2

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PingMark

By JoksterCube

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PingMark

Share discoveries and keep your party on target!

📸 Screenshots

🧭 Features

🎮 Controls

🛠️ Prefab Collections Menu

📦 Installation

🧩 Compatibility

🔧 Configuration

1 - General

2 - Ping Label

3 - Camera Ping

4 - Ping Targets

5 - Outlines

6 - Mob Highlight

7 - Prefab Collections

8 - Player Highlight

9 - Inputs

10 - Perception

11 - Fishing

🖼️ Gallery

💬 Feedback & Support

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