Don't Starve

Don't Starve

Minimap HUD
Sammie 29 Jul, 2020 @ 10:01pm
HUD disappears in Shipwrecked worlds
Description

Occasionally when closing the "real" map, all HUD elements will disappear. In this state you cannot even press escape to bring up the menu (however you still can press ~ to open the console). You can still move around but cannot do anything.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Enable Minimap HUD mod only.
  2. Create a new Shipwrecked world Update: Got it to happen in RoG world too
  3. When given the choice to make the world compatible with Hamlet you can select yes OR no -
  4. I've seen it happen in both scenarios.
  5. At this point I'm a little unsure what 100% causes it, but I can reliably get it to happen within a minute.
  6. It seems like it happens more often near the coast line? Probably not related.
  7. Having the mini map open/closed seems to have an effect. Generally I close mini map, open and close "real" map, then open mini map, open and close "real" map and repeat. Sometimes spamming the open/close "real" map key.

I mention spamming but that's just how I was able to reproduce this quickest. It happens even if you don't.

Other information

Originally I thought this may be due to mod conflicts, but I was able to get in this state with only this mod. (When Simple Healthbars is enabled, pressing Ctrl + H to show its menu while in the missing HUD state throws an exception and you get the bug report screen -- that was when I first encountered all of this so I thought it was to blame.)

I tried to do this on both a Hamlet world as well as a Reign of Giants (Hamlet compatible) world and neither had the issue. It seems unique to the Shipwrecked world (and to clarify, as I mentioned above, not the Shipwrecked compatibility). This has now happened on a RoG world (Hamlet compatible). Prior to this I was playing on RoG without other DLC (so "RoG compatible" I guess) and didn't have issues. So possibly it is Shipwrecked and up?

Closing remark

I understand modding is a thankless job. I appreciate your contribution to the community and am willing to help how I can. I myself am a developer but am unfamiliar with LUA. From browsing some other comments I saw that you mentioned this mod is essentially a wrapper around Klei's map and just shows it on screen. So it's possible the bug is on their side but hopefully it isn't and we can solve this.
Last edited by Sammie; 30 Jul, 2020 @ 6:07am