# How to add custom waypoint?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715 "2019-02-07T09:55:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Ricky\_Van](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ricky_Van)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/1 "2019-02-07T09:55:55Z")
so im starting to do some crafting and building base now rather than exploring and looting like i used to play, but im a kind of player who build a base, explore far away and end up forget where is my base located…
is there any way i could put some custom waypoint in the map? that would be helpful for me…
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### Author:  [@Uvi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Uvi)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/2 "2019-02-07T11:26:30Z")
Go to overmap and press shift+n.
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### Author:  [@Damnit-Jenkins](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Damnit-Jenkins)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/3 "2019-02-07T14:58:30Z")
The over map has a note placement ability. Vorminthrax has a youtube quick tip or univetsity course on it. You can set a symbol and color in additon to the note.
Vorms whole quick tips and university videos are super helpful. I reccommmend giving them a look.
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### Author:  [@Ricky\_Van](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ricky_Van)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/4 "2019-02-07T18:58:46Z")
so that “Add note” function was the customm waypoint? hell, from the first time i play this game, i thought that Add Notes function was just for adding notes about that particular place rather than custom waypoint…
thanks for the info…
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### Author:  [@Damnit-Jenkins](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Damnit-Jenkins)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/5 "2019-02-07T20:01:51Z")
Its pretty cool. Ive assigned a bright cyan “B” for all my bases, lower case bright green “g” for loot spots.
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### Author:  [@Invalid\_Username](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Invalid_Username)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/6 "2019-02-07T23:04:20Z")
I like to mark dangerous areas with a red 0, since it has the strikethrough in the center of it making it look like the “prohibited” symbol. Areas like minefields or roadblocks, instant-death places like that.
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### Author:  [@Ricky\_Van](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ricky_Van)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/7 "2019-02-08T09:13:37Z")
never marked dangerous place but i mark my base with X… now i confused which one is my base and my storage area XD
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### Author:  [@Damnit-Jenkins](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Damnit-Jenkins)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/8 "2019-02-08T19:00:42Z")
You can change the colors. I like using bright colors to catch the eye.
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### Author:  [@Ricky\_Van](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ricky_Van)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-add-custom-waypoint/18715/9 "2019-02-09T03:03:50Z")
oh now that’s better… now i have purpose in this game.