I think there is also a way to whitelist players if on a server but as meganoth mentioned, it takes almost no time at all to use a password and once they log in with it once they don't have to do it anymore.
You mean something like this?
This is a map I took a screenshot of when I made a random map in the game. It is not a lot of detail but gives me at least a general idea of the map and where cities are located.
Someone made a mod for this a little while ago but I haven't tried it myself as I play solo.
https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9356?tab=description
are you on pc or console? If pc you can get mod or edit the colors of the ore on map.
I am currently using this one.
https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/3678
I still do that now in certain poi's that I know I may pass by on my daily runs. I put a piece of fiber in containers and then if I ever check them again after the respawn timer has run out I just remove it, wait a few seconds and open it again. Rinse, repeat.
There was a time a while ago that if you had loot respawn say for 7 days and on the 6th day you passed within a certain amount of block of a container (I think it was about 8 blocks) that the respawn timer would revert back to 0 (or 1 whatever) and then would have to wait out the timer again for...
The gui is what is throwing me off. Why is everything so far from edges of the screen?
Should things like the info at left be more to bottom left corner, the toolbelt be closer to the bottom of screen, etc
Just saw that a few hours ago someone posted a mod on Nexus that adds tons of menu edits and from what I saw it includes the land claim block.
I have not tried it myself though.