I checked this one against the original MapleStory map files and I have to leave it as it is — that cluster is genuinely there in v83.

The Victoria Island world map carries a list of every map it knows about, each with a hand-placed dot position. The Kerning City subway maps are entries 93 to 101 in that list, and the positions are (-249,-65), (-267,-73), (-279,-79), (-290,-82), (-297,-88), (-290,-94) for Line 1, and (-268,-84), (-261,-95), (-270,-98) for Line 2. Our list matches those numbers exactly, digit for digit, and the background painting is anchored at the same point, so the dots land precisely where Nexon put them. The real client draws a dot for every entry in that list without exception, so those nine showed up there in 2007 too.

I agree it looks wrong — they're crammed on top of each other out past the coast, north-west of Kerning. That's just sloppy work by whoever placed them, and it's the kind of thing I can't tidy up without stepping outside "faithful to v83", which is the one rule the whole project hangs on.

If they're actively getting in your way when clicking around the map, that's a different and fixable problem — tell me and I'll look at how overlapping dots pick a winner on hover. But moving or hiding them isn't something I'll do.

Our version of the map is lacking the actual drawings of those subway areas, our version does NOT use those. Please remove the subway map dots/selectors from the world map regardless of v83

Fixed — the Kerning subway now rides with Kerning City instead of sitting as nine loose dots in the sea west of Perion.

On where those dots came from: I was wrong to call them hand-added. They are entries 93-101 of Cosmic's WorldMap010 dump, verbatim — every id, coordinate and type. What actually happened is that Cosmic dumps a LATER client than we target: 108 world-map entries against v83's 93. That later client broke the six subway platforms and three Line-2 areas out of the Kerning City town group and moved the whole cluster west. Real v83 (binary GMS Map.wz) keeps all nine inside the town group, one dot for the whole city, and the WZ outranks Cosmic for this kind of data, so that is what we now ship. Standing on a platform still lights the Kerning City pin.

While I was in there I checked all 93 groups against the WZ and found three more leftovers from the same import: the Sleepywood dungeon group had picked up Damp Tree-Forest and lost one entry, the Tree Dungeon group was missing Forest Up North IX, and Mushroom Castle had four extra wedding-hall maps appended. All three are back to the v83 list, so the Victoria Island map is now group-for-group identical to the original.