Project Zomboid: Turn the Minimap and World Map On or Off

• Allow Minimap controls the small mini-map window players can keep open while moving around. It is the more "gamey" of the two.

• Allow World Map controls the big map screen, which fills in as each player explores.

The game's standard apocalypse experience ships with the minimap off and the world map on, so if your server has no minimap, that is the game being faithful to its default, not something broken.

1. Open your server's settings and find Allow Minimap and Allow World Map.

2. Toggle each one the way your group wants. Hardcore servers turn both off; relaxed servers turn both on.

3. Save, then restart the server.

By default the game requires a light source to read maps at night: a flashlight, a lit room, a campfire. That is a game rule, not a broken server. It can be turned off through the Sandbox Overrides box at the bottom of your settings with this line:

Map.MapNeedsLight = false

Want everyone to start with the full map already filled in? Add this line to Sandbox Overrides:

Map.MapAllKnown = true

Overrides apply on the next restart, same as everything else. The full override syntax is covered in "Project Zomboid: Change Any Sandbox Setting".

• Reinstalling the game or the mods. If Allow World Map or Allow Minimap is off on the server, no client-side change brings them back.

• Toggling the setting without restarting. Settings apply on restart, but only after you hit Save.

Ping us on Discord or open a ticket and tell us what your group wants the map experience to feel like. We will set you up.