Item visibility on the mini-map

[martini]

When foraging for items, it becomes apparent that berries, grass, fruit and such shows up on the mini-map. Wouldn't it be better if the items only showed up in the player window, and not on the mini-map? Behaviour as of now draws player attention from the main window to the mini-map, and this deprives the player of an important part of the game experience. It would perhaps be a lot more fun and adventurous if the mini-map only displayed (semi)static terrain in a way similar to a normal map.

Brilliant game you guys have made!
2>1

[Ass_Kraken]

Do you mean completely removing the minimap radar? No, they just added it and it's not going back to the old system.

[martini]

At least for all small items, that is, plants, mushrooms and such. At present I'm almost exclusively looking at the mini-map. 98% of finding things takes place in a tiny square in the bottom left corner. I can't play the game like this. It feels, well, not good.

[dageir]

Just a question to the mods: Was my reply moderated in this thread?

[Ass_Kraken]

At least for all small items, that is, plants, mushrooms and such. At present I'm almost exclusively looking at the mini-map. 98% of finding things takes place in a tiny square in the bottom left corner. I can't play the game like this. It feels, well, not good.

Do you have any suggestions to make it better? Minimap radar is not being removed unless there is a better foraging system.

[martini]

Hmm, let me see what I can come up with..
What have been the major challenges so far? What is the reasoning behind adding the radar?

[dageir]

WIthout it those arrow heads are hard to see.

[Sevenless]

Radar is an intense benefit for finding the smaller objects in foraging. Modded clients have it, and you can't stop them from having it. Most players also like it as a feature. So it's finally been added to the vanilla client to close the gap for those using vanilla compared to those using modded clients.

Modded clients aren't going away anytime soon. If ever.

[Cerbreus]

When foraging for items, it becomes apparent that berries, grass, fruit and such shows up on the mini-map. Wouldn't it be better if the items only showed up in the player window, and not on the mini-map? Behaviour as of now draws player attention from the main window to the mini-map, and this deprives the player of an important part of the game experience. It would perhaps be a lot more fun and adventurous if the mini-map only displayed (semi)static terrain in a way similar to a normal map.

Brilliant game you guys have made!
2>1

Trust me play wurm-online for a month and see how u like NOT having a mini-map... It sucks..

[Wournos]

WIthout it those arrow heads are hard to see.

Almost everything is hard to see without the minimap icons. I developed such massive tension headache the first few days of playing before I switched to Enders Client.
Like Martini said, I also look at the minimap almost exclusively when exploring/gathering material. Feels backwards on some level but it's the only way to avoid snakes and see the valuables.