Map blips

Mafia II map icons are selected with a (library, iconId) pair. Library 0 contains twelve icons addressed by IDs 1 through 12; the other available libraries contain one icon each at ID 0.

Blips are authoritative server entities. They replicate to connected players, can remain at a fixed world position, and can follow a player or vehicle.

Creating a map blip on the server

Use Blip.create(x, y, z, library, iconId, color?, virtualWorld?) from a server resource:

const droppedBlips = [];

Events.on("playerCommand", (player, command) => {
  if (command !== "dropblip") return;

  const position = player.position;
  const blip = Blip.create(
    position.x,
    position.y,
    position.z,
    0, // Library
    1, // Icon ID
    5  // Navigation palette index
  );

  droppedBlips.push(blip);
});

Call blip.setIcon(library, iconId) to change an existing icon. blip.attachToPlayer(player) and blip.attachToVehicle(vehicle) make it follow an entity; blip.destroy() removes it. Keep references to created blips so your resource can destroy them when they are no longer needed.

The optional color is an index from 0 to 8 into the game’s navigation palette; a blip created without one uses 1. The game names these entries after what it uses them for (default, player, enemy, neutral, friendly, objective, vehicle, shop, police), and the names do not describe the colour that renders: in game, 0 draws black, 7 red, and 8 green. Place a test blip before relying on any other index for a particular colour.

Available map icons

Library	Icon ID	Preview
0	1
0	2
0	3
0	4
0	5
0	6
0	7
0	8
0	9
0	10
0	11
0	12
1	0
2	0
3	0
4	0
5	0
6	0
7	0
8	0
9	0
10	0
11	0
12	0
13	0
14	0
16	0
17	0
18	0
19	0
21	0
22	0
23	0
24	0
25	0
26	0