Talk:Crater Map/@comment-47100277-20201009043420/@comment-39563968-20201010061335

Certainly you can do that for your playthru. It is actually a reasonably effective mapping technique, at least while you are still in the inner biomes, and before you collect the tech / blueprints to build ... x.

Your radial coordinates notes will not remain accurate for other playthroughs, however, and in fact may be wildly off.

The Lifepod 5 spawn point varies with each game start, to hundreds of possible spawn points all over the central Safe Shallows.

This kind of mapping can be aided if you can develop / imagine a way to mark locations. For example, you could build something cheap, or pile up some stuff from the environment to make a "marker cairn". In shallow areas, you might even be able to make it tall enough to break the surface. Draw distance will limit how far away you can see it, however.