Stealing Map Art

Archiving existing map art

Found map art in the world — Loominary-made or ordinary vanilla map art — and want a copy of your own? The mod can capture any framed map's pixels as a payload in your batch, ready to re-encode, edit in the web editor, or rebuild elsewhere.

Capturing a framed map

1. Look at the framed map (crosshair on it, within reach).

2. Run:

   /loominary import steal
   

3. The map's 128×128 colors become a new carpet-encoded tile in your batch, titled map_<id>. Steal several maps in sequence — each becomes its own tile.

From there it's the normal flow: /loominary export writes the schematic(s), then place and scan at the new location.

There's also /loominary import steal banners for a banner-only capture (legacy mode).

Editing what you captured

Captured art often needs cleanup (compression noise, colors you'd rather merge). In-game editing was removed in v2 — instead, round-trip through the web editor:

1. /loominary save my-capture — write the batch to loominary_saves/my-capture.json.
2. Open the web editor → Import state JSON → pick that file.
3. Edit freely, re-export, reinstall the state.

Reconstructing from a screenshot

The exotic one: if you have a screenshot of a map plus its manifest banner string (the LC/LS name), Loominary can rebuild the payload without ever having decoded it in-game:

/loominary import header <banner-string> <screenshot.png>

The screenshot (a straight-on 128×128 map capture in loominary_data/) supplies the carpet nibbles; the banner string supplies the manifest. Useful for archiving art you only have pictures of.

Debug helpers

• /loominary dumpcarpet — dump the carpet-channel mapping for the map you're looking at
• /loominary dumppalette — dump the full map palette with byte values