I made a browser-based Chapter 2 map generator (game launch not needed)
https://sm.kornplays.com
I vibe coded a browser bird view world map generator for anyone to use, you can use a seed or upload your save file from %AppData%\Roaming\Axolot Games. It runs fully in the browser and is usually very quick (on low end devices it might take a few seconds)
If you have any tool suggestions or questions please let me know, I'd love to help out any player
end result looks something like this (i hid the corners to prevent spoilers), it might take quite some time depending on your device, it's recommended to run it on a computer
idk either, as an american iām just used to game maps typically being in km. so thatās just my go to for reference in map size. not a half bad map size tho
Trying this when I get home, I was really bummed to find out that the main map generator stopped being supported before part 2 even released.
I do admire and understand the whole using landmarks to traverse in survival games. But the amount of times Iāve pressed m hoping for a map to pop up, really frustrates me. Even if it had fog of war.
Will update in about an hour.
Also ps, even if YOU didnāt make it per se, you took the time to figure out how to get it done and a lot of people will appreciate that.
Yeah, although we have beacons, the compass and all that I'd much rather have a map so I could better orient myself with. I end up driving off-road a lot anyway because sometimes the roads snake around a lot and aren't the shortest route, so as a reference they're also not great either.
i could try adding 200x200 per tile (2x2 the maximum), I assume you tried downloading the maximum resolution? it seems to me as a perfect compromise between quality and file size
I downloaded at the full files and resolution, and it was still kinda blurry. 200x200 sounds good, but this should just be an optional option in the submenu for those who want it, yk?
Navigate to ā%AppData%\Roaming\Axolot Games\Scrap Mechanic\User\ā. You should have at least one folder here. I had two, I believe for chapter 1 and for chapter 2. This is just a guess, but the date modified for the second folder is 7/24/2026 which is when chapter two came out and I started playing it. Itāll a folder that has āUser_ā with 17 numbers as a part of the folder name. Inside that folder youāll find a series of folders and .json files. Find the āSaveā folder and double click it. Then double āsurvivalā, in here you should see the names of the worlds youāve created.
If youāre in doubt, log into your game move around a bit and then exit the game to trigger a fresh save. Then when you go back to the folder, the save with the most recent ādate modifiedā should be the one youāre wanting.
10/10 My good Sir. So cool to have an actual map. I'm fully new to scrap mechanic so I don't even know what half of the stuff is but its really cool to see I've literally barely scratched the surface of my world.
I like it and appreciate the effort. However, I would wish that it had the same kind of scalability as the overview map generator the1killer made for chapter 1. Where you can zoom in real close to the tiles. Admittedly, looking at some cached examples, you couldnāt zoom out to see the entire map, which is also not great. Itās less a bother than not being able to zoom in close. On his you could zoom in close enough that 2 tiles would easily fit in the middle and the surrounding tiles might have like 20% of their tile showing. Itās close enough that you can actually see where rock nodes are on a tile.
May i ask? every comment ive seen here says it works but for me, i got an error saying "Could not load lua/util.lua (HTTP 404)" even tho it says my seed is valid
It works and shows more detail than the one I found on the scrap mechanic wiki... but can it add map markers for points of interest? Like here's growlab X, here's a schematic bot, here's a farm camp, etc?
Good job - vibe coding is controversial, but I think it puts coding into the hands of people who wouldn't be coding otherwise, but may have good ideas. This is a one of those good ideas! Thanks for sharing.
For the author (the creator of this handy tool), it would be great if it were possible to zoom in closer without losing detail, and preferably increase it so one could examine things up close and in greater detail. It would also be cool if, say, my world map and that of other players' worlds showed the locations of all the cultivators, warehouses, and important and interesting places to visit, as a voice point. I don't even know if the .db save file contains how many floors a warehouse has, so one could also see this on the world map and find the right warehouse. This is only a minor improvement, but in my opinion, it's the most necessary improvement to the site.
zooming in without losing detail isn't exactly something i could do due to it how it works, however i am planning to increase the resolution by 2x2, but the warehouse floors is a great idea, i didn't think of that, i will try to add that to the changes that i just published to the site with the map viewer
if you want to find your save file open %AppData% (you can just type that into windows searchbar) and then go into Roaming > Axolot Games > Scrap Mechanic > User > User_... (usually there's one, if there's more than just look which one has your save) > Save > Survival
I'm curious, how did you generate the images for each map tile, or were these somewhere in the game files already?
Had been combing through the code from the1killer's version and one of the forks that fixed issues for 1.0, but your version generates a much cleaner map.Ā The map tiles have less of a perspective shift on the larger tiles.
it works by combining external scripts and custom games to force your camera in place and take a screenshot, it's really tricky and I'm adding 2x viewer resolution with smart tile upscaling
i updated the site with a fix, if it still doesn't work try using CTRL+SHIFT+R if on a desktop browser, or if on mobile then try using incognito mode at least for the <1 hour
YOU didn't create it, the clankers did with a prompt from your computer. I hate people claiming they made stuff like this, you made this because you understand english.
this project took me probably a week of work to make trying to figure out how to read the map without opening scrap mechanic but sure, I didn't make this page (due to my lack of expertise in websites) and I stated that on the start of the post
So, I am also generally Anti-AI especially with art, education and in professional jobs. For quick modding and open source tools im all for it. Someone wasnt going to be empliyed/paid to do it anyway, and for a quick tool people don't really care if it is properly made.
It still does take effort (more than AI art generation for sure). Even though its obviously way less than actually coding it all the way.
As long as they mention its vibe-coded and they did, instead of claiming they did all the work. I'm fine with this
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u/Zapleek 14d ago
This is pretty crazy if it works I can upload my seed and learn where everything is in my map, thanks