MapleCompass 0.4.0

The Grind Tracker gets a window of its own and stops starting over by itself, "Mapping the world" no longer slows the app, and every window speaks in MapleStory's own typeface.

Personal use only. MapleCompass reads map data live from NiaMeowDB (meowdb.com) under a personal-use arrangement; it must not be shared publicly until MeowDB gives written permission (ADR 0003). Mob pictures come from maplestory.io, a fan site serving Nexon's own art, under the same terms (ADR 0006). Using any third-party tool with MapleStory is at your own risk.

Changes

• The Grind Tracker has its own window. It opens just below the panel once you track your EXP, and you can drag it anywhere, even outside the game window; it keeps that spot relative to the game. It shows Time to Level, your EXP per hour over the last 5 minutes and the whole Session, and deaths. Its circular arrow resets the Session and its × closes it; the Session carries on while it's closed. A new button on the panel (or Ctrl+Shift+G) shows it again, and closed stays closed until you do.
• No more "warming up" out of nowhere. A single misread of the EXP bar early in a level could make the Grind Tracker think you'd switched character minutes later, and wipe your Session. It now recognises that it's still your level and carries on. When you really do switch character, it starts afresh and says so. Once warmed up, a Session no longer warms up again after a break.
• Ctrl+Shift+R no longer resets the Session. Ctrl attacks in MapleStory, so Shift+R mid-fight could clear it without asking. Reset from the Grind Tracker's window instead.
• "Mapping the world" no longer makes the app lag. MapleCompass now remembers the world it has mapped, so search, Distance and routes know every map from the moment it starts. Maps over a week old are refreshed quietly in the background, one every 30 seconds. While maps it has never seen are being fetched, a gauge like the game's own fills as they come in.
• Click the map's title to open its MeowDB page (as Ctrl+Shift+M does). The toolbar's MeowDB button is gone; the title still drags the panel once you move the mouse.
• Hidden Portals and Mobs fold away. Click either heading to collapse that section to its heading, which then says how many it holds. Your choice holds from map to map and the next time you start MapleCompass.
• MapleStory's own typeface. Every window is set in NEXON's Maplestory font, and the overlay's text is drawn as heavy and clear as the game's Quest Helper beside it.
• Mob Cards for mobs whose MeowDB page has no Other Attributes (Pig, Ribbon Pig) no longer say the page has changed.

The first time 0.4.0 starts, it builds its map of the world from the pages earlier versions saved, so the panel may say "Mapping the world: 0 of 422" for a minute; after that it starts knowing every map.

Download (Windows 10/11, 64-bit)

File	What it is
MapleCompass_0.4.0_x64-setup.exe	Installer (recommended). Installs for your user over 0.3.x, with a Start menu entry and an uninstaller.
MapleCompass_0.4.0_x64_en-US.msi	The same, as an MSI package (installs for all users, so it asks for admin rights).
maplecompass-0.4.0-portable.exe	No install: run it from any folder. Needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime, which Windows 11 already has.

Quit the running MapleCompass first (its compass in the notification area: Quit MapleCompass). The files aren't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say it "protected your PC": choose More info, then Run anyway.

See 0.2.0 for everything MapleCompass does.

Map data: NiaMeowDB (meowdb.com). Mob pictures: maplestory.io. Title recognition: ocrs (model under CC BY-SA 4.0). Typeface: Maplestory by NEXON.