Ping to Map

Pop a temporary JourneyMap waypoint when someone pings a spot with Ping-Wheel.

You ping "come here!" with Ping-Wheel, but it never shows on the map — so for big builds people still can't find the spot. This addon drops a temporary JourneyMap waypoint the instant a ping happens, and clears it automatically — by default in sync with Ping-Wheel's own ping duration, so the ping and the waypoint vanish together.

• 📍 Instant temporary JM waypoint on every ping (cyan, or the pinger's team colour)
• 🤝 Made for co-op — "rally point", "enemy spotted", "mine here" become visible at a glance
• 🕒 Auto-expires together with the ping — by default follows Ping-Wheel's ping duration, so the in-world ping and the map waypoint disappear at the same time (or set a fixed 1–600 s / permanent)
• 🌐 Client-side only — no need to install it on the server
• 💡 Pure addon — depends on Ping-Wheel + JourneyMap you already have; no items/blocks

How it works

Ping-Wheel has no public API, so this mod uses a Mixin (@Inject(at = @At("HEAD"))) on Ping-Wheel's ping handler to read the pinged coordinates + author, and forwards them to JourneyMap's waypoint API. Ping-Wheel's own behaviour is never interrupted. Inner-class isolation means it never crashes if JourneyMap is absent.

Supported loaders / versions

Minecraft NeoForge Forge Fabric 1.21.1 ✅ ✅ ⚠️ chat-only 1.20.1 — ✅ ⚠️ chat-only

• ✅ = full JourneyMap integration · ⚠️ chat-only = JM integration disabled, ping received only · — = NeoForge has no 1.20.1

Configuration

config/pingtomap-client.toml (or the Mod Config GUI on NeoForge/Forge):

Key Default Description feature.enabled true Master switch feature.registerOwnPings true Also waypoint your own pings (false = teammates' pings only) appearance.syncWithPingWheel true Waypoint disappears together with the Ping-Wheel ping — its lifetime follows Ping-Wheel's ping duration appearance.waypointLifetimeSec 30 Fixed lifetime in seconds, used only when syncWithPingWheel is off (-1 = permanent) appearance.useTeamColor true Use vanilla scoreboard team colour (false = fixed cyan)

Compatibility

Mod Support Note Ping-Wheel required Mixin target JourneyMap optional (CLIENT only) Waypoint target; silently ignored if absent Voice Chat mods (Plasmo, etc.) unaffected Ping-Wheel coexists with them, so does this Xaero's Minimap / Worldmap not supported Xaero has no public API

Known limitations

Fabric builds — JourneyMap integration disabled. JourneyMap's Fabric builds don't expose the client waypoint API that add-ons need (the IClientAPI plugin interface is Forge/NeoForge-only), so on Fabric the ping is received but no JM waypoint can be placed. Use Forge or NeoForge for JourneyMap waypoints; on Fabric, use the sister mod Ping to Map: Xaero's edition (Xaero's does expose its API on Fabric). No NeoForge 1.20.1 build — use Forge 1.20.1 for 1.20.1.

Install

1. Install your loader for your MC version.
2. Install Ping-Wheel (required).
3. Forge / NeoForge: install JourneyMap (recommended). Fabric: JM integration currently disabled (chat-only).
4. Fabric only: also install Forge Config API Port.
5. Drop the pingtomap jar for your loader/MC (latest, from the releases page) into mods/ (client only — no server install needed).

License

MIT — modpack use, modification and redistribution OK, credit not required (welcome).

Author: KURONAMI · Built on Ping-Wheel / JourneyMap. Sister mod: Compass to Map.