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Pok?dex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes

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    Pokédex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes

    Hello,

    The nest indicators in my Pokedex are sometimes incorrect and I have no idea how to fix this. I just made my own townmap and edited it; the name of the locations and routes are just fine but the nests indicators are a bit messed up somehow.

    The only topic I found about nests indicators was this tutorial by FL, but it seems a bit outdated and I can't manage to make it work in 15.1.

    Any help would be appreciated!
     
    I "solved" it while writing, but I'll post it anyway:

    The correct locations are effectively displayed on the map. However, some additional locations show up on incorrect places.

    Here are the locations for Caterpie in my game; the blue zones are the correct ones; the red one isn't.

    By "incorrect", I mean that the zone in red is not even defined anywhere in my townmap.txt file.

    [PokeCommunity.com] Pok?dex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes


    I thought I might have made a mistake using the html townmap generator (ie encoding wrong coordinates), but the zone is indeed not defined:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Pok?dex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes


    This happens for other Pokemon (here, Rattata):

    [PokeCommunity.com] Pok?dex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes


    Again, for Geodude:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Pok?dex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes


    In this last case:
    - The minimap displays locations that are defined in townmap.txt; however, no encounter with Geodude is set up for those locations in encounters.txt (EDIT: this is in fact not true since Geodude is frequently taken as an example in default maps, I only checked the locations I defined myself)
    - Furthermore, there is one missing location (in purple), for which Geodude is defined in encouters.txt. This location is called "Mine" and should be displayed:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Pok?dex nest indicators are inaccurate sometimes


    After doing this post, I come up with the conclusion that it can't originate from mistakes I would have made in encouters.txt or townmap.txt (there are too many of them).

    What seems plausible to me is that there is a kind of overlay between the original region coming with Essentials and the region I created.

    And indeed this was the problem. By deleting the original info in "encounters.txt", it solved my issue. I almost forgot it was there... There should be another option though if the game entails several region map (which is not my case).
     
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    There should be quotation marks around "Mine" if I'm not mistaken. So it should be
    Spoiler:
     
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