Updated Map Mods 2020

This pack and every other map pack before 2020 is now out of date, the developers updated the file locations a few years ago.

If you install it, most will show but some/many will not since the locations have been changed.

It's safe to install, but just be aware of that.


All maps from previous Zip, this is a long running ZIP others have been updating that I added some maps to. These are not HD maps, they are the normal modded maps at the normal size. I didn't make any of these maps, I just put the images into the dat files and added to the zip.

Changed Abyssea maps to:

http://mdh.gamependium.com/strategies/abyssea/

Updated maps that were missing from Bg wiki etc for:

Moh Gates map 2 293/5.dat
Cirdas Caverns map 2 292/7.dat
Yorcia map Updated
Marjami Ravine updated
Dho Gates updated
Woh Gates updated
Outer Rakaznar 1 and 2 updated 311/108 - 109
Inner Rakaznar 1 and 2 added 318/101 - 102
Escha Zitah added 333/8.dat
Escha Ru'aun added 337/37.dat
Reiseinjima added 342/69.dat

If anything is missing or there are better maps let me know, the escha maps are very colourful!



All current maps.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LXuosHrayjnfL2qVIY4kZjUFfQEO37d2/view?usp=sharing

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Bastok only maps (3) from the Remapster project:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xTLk-jM8kSHTLq_-blzcVGQyHeGT5ksz/view?usp=sharing

https://remapster.com/blog-2/

you are my new hero! thank you.

These are great maps. Thank you for sharing these.

Any plans to revisit the older maps in this new colorful style?

Hey Radical~

Is there any way to increase the resolution of in-game maps? Or is it similar to that of the name-plate font, and you cannot change it?

I messed around redrawing some maps only for them not to work :(

These are awesome though~!

I saw someone asking for updated map mods so I spent an hour updating them, none of the images are my work so little chance of that :P If someone wants to make nice custom maps (at 512x512) then I can certainly port them into the files and zip them up.


Sadly you can't make the maps bigger. At least not with the tools we use anyway, if you try put bigger maps in the game will just show 1/4 of the map.

oh hey, didnt know people still used my maps. cool.

There is a problem with the Yorcia map, it's not properly centered.

I'll fix it next week and re-upload.

Radial thanks again for this, just wanted to point out, Yorcia Weald is about half a grid too far north than what displays in game, it's east to west seems spot on, but needs adjusted north about half a grid.

If you can tell whats going on not the end of the world to figure out, so not the end of the world not getting fixed.

i take it back, it is kinda tricky still figuring out where you're at compared to the map. heh, for real though thanks again for skinning these, tremendously helpful.

Finally fixed that Yorcia map.

rom/302/66.dat

So the link in the "ALLMAPS 7-17-20" google drive file link in the first post will have these updates as of Sept. 11th, 2020?

yeah it's a zip with all the map dats in it, I just grabbed the old zip pack someone made and updated the new maps mentioned.

It's this (and another zip someone else made):

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/47849/updated-custom-map-pack-soa-and-rov/

with new maps updated basically.

I wondered because I have multiple maps packs (4... wait now 5 with this) from over the entirety of FFXI's life still saved on my external hard-drive (along with extensive archives of other dat mods since basically the beginning of FFXI's time). Sadly, I always forget which map pack is best (mostly for the older maps). One of these days, I'll open them all up with a model viewer and try to create a frankenstein final map pack out of the mess.

However...

It's basically all the maps others made before, with about 15-20 new ones. I didn't make any of the maps tho, they are off BGWIKI.

Can these be used with XI-Pivot?

EDIT: IT DOES! w00t!

Found a new zone (CIty of Pawnee, Indiana) while watching 'Parks and Recreation'.

I newly installed FFXI today. There is no ROM4/3 folder in the game any longer, yet this map pack contains many roms inside a folder marked as ROM4/3. Wondering how many more folders in this map pack are now incorrect since SQ has updated their installer?

The devs have been changing file structures for a while, removing lots of files to lower the overall size of the install as well as changing some things around.

Most of the mods in this zip were not made by my at all and were made by 3-4 different people, they are upto 10 years old. I only added 5-6 new ones.

I might go back at some point and see what's been moved around.

You'd be doing us all a favor if these were all complete again. I have ran against a few that no longer work in my pivot.

So they moved all the expansion maps away from expansion specific folders and into the main folder, so any map from any expansion won't be modded. The file locations need to be updated.

Gonna try update them today / tomorrow.

Updated the zip in first post, there is really no reason to download it again if you already have it. I mainly just removed a lot of excess files that were no longer needed, from multiple modders updating these over the years.

Now only the first rom folder is needed.

Only update is to the outer Ra'kaznar maps to give directions to Apex Bat camp, everything else is the same.

Maps are from BGwiki, if there are no newer maps available there I have nothing new to put in place for that zone.

I considered adding maps from the "remapster project" but there isn't really any important information on them, they aren't complete and I would have to downscale them if I did anyway, there is no way to HD maps as the dimensions are set. They have to be 512x512.

I added 3 bastok maps from that project as an additional zip below the main one, if anyone wants to try those.

FFXIDB only loads maps if they are in the base locations, not via xipivot.

If you installed from the old zip and want to delete the old unused files that are no longer needed, they are listed below: There is no reason to actually do this, they are doing no harm.

Is there a reason those abyssea maps are used instead of normal the good ones that actually show all the nms? Because that just makes me have to google the good maps anyway...

Link me to them.

Hello RadialArcana,

Thank you for working on an updated map pack. Running into an issue:

1. Downloaded and extracted Maps
2. Made backup of original files
3. Copied/replaced original files with mod files
4. When PlayOnline attempts to transition to FFXI full screen the game completely crashes.
5. Reinstalled original files with back up, no issue.
6. reattempt mods, same thing happens.

I am unsure what is causing it, just thought I would let you know.

Enjoy the day,
~ Otomis

Are you sure you're installing them into the correct folders?

I have them installed myself and have no crashes, the files are just maps so they won't even be loaded until you're in the game.

I usually use https://www.bg-wiki.com/images/2/2b/Abyssea_-_Uleguerand-Map.jpg

abit to much information maybe and idk if it can be easily ported ingame.

Problem is, the maps have to be downscaled to 512x512. The game then upscales them to 1024x.

So they end up looking blurred, maps with a lot of text that was added at higher res end up being unreadable.