# Special map note icon for player's home base

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 19, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181 "2014-05-19T04:49:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/1 "2014-05-19T04:49:55Z")

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How about adding a special map note icon that the player can place on the map to denote the player’s main base?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/2 "2014-05-19T05:21:33Z")

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You can pick the character used and color of a note, so what’s keeping you from adding it yourself?

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**Author:** ![GrizzlyAdamz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/grizzlyadamz/32/8056_2.png) [@GrizzlyAdamz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GrizzlyAdamz)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/3 "2014-05-19T05:36:24Z")

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Alternately, just make an arrangement of notes around it- x marks the spot no?

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**Author:** ![Khrysanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@Khrysanth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Khrysanth)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/4 "2014-05-19T05:45:46Z")

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m  
N  
R;H:Home Base

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**Author:** ![jimboblordofeskimos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/jimboblordofeskimos/32/2_2.png) [@jimboblordofeskimos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jimboblordofeskimos)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/5 "2014-05-19T12:27:52Z")

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whats wrong with a note that says: ‘Giant unsorted piles of possibly useful crap’

Its worked well for me for a while now.

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**Author:** ![Lorknis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/lorknis/32/144_2.png) [@Lorknis](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lorknis)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/6 "2014-05-19T14:21:19Z")

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I live in a subway that in my spare time I mined through 5 full map tiles of solid rock into the sewer next door.

-Realization: Nevermind, I had forgotten you can add notes underground.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/7 "2014-05-20T02:11:53Z")

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[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:2, topic:6181”]You can pick the character used and color of a note, so what’s keeping you from adding it yourself?[/quote]Ok I didn’t realize that.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/8 "2014-05-20T02:23:20Z")

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Apologies if that came across as hostile, didn’t mean it that way, then read it again and realized it might come across as overly aggressive.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/9 "2014-05-20T02:26:10Z")

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Nope, no offense taken, it was more or less a “duh” thing, as I really haven’t looked at the map lately.

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**Author:** ![Paquito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paquito](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Paquito)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/10 "2014-05-20T21:28:54Z")

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> [@HunterAlpha1](#):
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> [quote=“Kevin Granade, post:2, topic:6181”]You can pick the character used and color of a note, so what’s keeping you from adding it yourself?[/quote]Ok I didn’t realize that.

Ditto. Changes that aren’t specifically mentioned in the release changelists are often hard to detect if they’re not in your face.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/11 "2014-05-21T23:35:11Z")

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Err, how exactly do I create a custom map note?

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/12 "2014-05-21T23:45:30Z")

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> [@HunterAlpha1](#):
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> Err, how exactly do I create a custom map note?

1. map screen plz
2. highlight the target map tile
3. N for note, should bring up a box asking you to enter desired text  
2A) Desired character followed by : to select character used. For example, “H:”  
2B) Letter with semicolon to designate color. Example, “g;”
4. Enter the rest of your note, “Home Base” for example, and hit Enter. Total example is “H:g;Home Base”.

Should come out as H Home Base.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/special-map-note-icon-for-players-home-base/6181/13 "2014-05-22T00:26:29Z")

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Got it to work, thanks!