Turn the Minimap and World Map On or Off
Project ZomboidGuideTwo dashboard toggles: Allow Minimap (the small live map window) and Allow World Map (the full map screen). Flip them any way you like; no map progress or world data is ever lost by toggling, and exploration players already earned is remembered. They apply on the next restart after you save.
The two maps
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.
Open your server's settings and find Allow Minimap and Allow World Map.
Toggle each one the way your group wants. Hardcore servers turn both off; relaxed servers turn both on.
Save, then restart the server.
"I can't read the map at night"
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 = falseReveal the whole map
Want everyone to start with the full map already filled in? Add this line to Sandbox Overrides:
Map.MapAllKnown = trueOverrides apply on the next restart, same as everything else. The full override syntax is covered in "Project Zomboid: Change Any Sandbox Setting".
Things that will NOT fix a missing map
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.
Whether players can see each other on the map is a different setting (Players Visible on Map): see "Project Zomboid: Turn PVP On or Off (and Keep It Fair)".
Add-on map mods (new towns) are installed through the Mods panel and the Maps field: see "Project Zomboid: Mod Load Order and Custom Maps".
Every sandbox setting from the dashboard: see "Project Zomboid: Change Any Sandbox Setting".
