diff --git a/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/engine.xml b/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/engine.xml
index 00f9ef996..41600d1c0 100644
--- a/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/engine.xml
+++ b/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/engine.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
       <GuiFrame rect="0,0,0.5,0.5" alignment="Center" style="ItemUI"/>
     </Steering>
 
-    <Radar canbeselected = "true" powerconsumption="100">
+    <Radar canbeselected = "true" powerconsumption="100" displaybordersize="0.2">
       <sound file="radarPing.ogg" type="OnUse" range="4000.0"/>
       <GuiFrame rect="0,0,0.5,0.5" alignment="Center" style="ItemUI" color="0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0"/>
       <PingCircle texture="Content/Items/Engine/pingCircle.png" origin="0.5,0.5"/>
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
       <item name="Screwdriver"/>
     </fixrequirement>
 
-    <Radar canbeselected = "true" powerconsumption="100">
+    <Radar canbeselected = "true" powerconsumption="100" displaybordersize="0.2">
       <StatusEffect type="InWater" target="This" condition="-1.0"/>
       <GuiFrame rect="0,0,0.5,0.5" alignment="Center" style="ItemUI"/>
       <PingCircle texture="Content/Items/Engine/pingCircle.png" origin="0.5,0.5"/>
diff --git a/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/radarOverlay.png b/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/radarOverlay.png
index 5b50d0e4d..6f7184665 100644
Binary files a/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/radarOverlay.png and b/Subsurface/Content/Items/Engine/radarOverlay.png differ
diff --git a/Subsurface/Content/Items/Tools/tools.xml b/Subsurface/Content/Items/Tools/tools.xml
index 4b7c47691..1b53bfdbc 100644
--- a/Subsurface/Content/Items/Tools/tools.xml
+++ b/Subsurface/Content/Items/Tools/tools.xml
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
     <Holdable slots="Any,RightHand,LeftHand"
               holdangle="30" handle1="-10,0"/>
 
-    <Radar range="6000.0" powerconsumption="10" drawhudwhenequipped="true" detectsubmarinewalls="true">
+    <Radar range="6000.0" powerconsumption="10" drawhudwhenequipped="true" detectsubmarinewalls="true" displaybordersize="0.2">
       <StatusEffect type="OnUse" target="Contained" Condition="-1.0" disabledeltatime="true"/>
       <sound file="Content/Items/Engine/radarPing.ogg" type="OnUse" range="1000.0"/>
       <GuiFrame rect="0,0,0.5,0.5" alignment="Center" style="ItemUI"/>
diff --git a/Subsurface/Source/Items/Components/Machines/Radar.cs b/Subsurface/Source/Items/Components/Machines/Radar.cs
index 97475e616..3b9bb416c 100644
--- a/Subsurface/Source/Items/Components/Machines/Radar.cs
+++ b/Subsurface/Source/Items/Components/Machines/Radar.cs
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Items.Components
         private Vector2 center;
         private float displayRadius;
         private float displayScale;
+        
+        private float displayBorderSize;
                 
         [HasDefaultValue(10000.0f, false)]
         public float Range
@@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Items.Components
         {
             radarBlips = new List<RadarBlip>();
 
+            displayBorderSize = ToolBox.GetAttributeFloat(element, "displaybordersize", 0.0f);
+
             foreach (XElement subElement in element.Elements())
             {
                 switch (subElement.Name.ToString().ToLowerInvariant())
@@ -167,26 +171,20 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Items.Components
         public override void DrawHUD(SpriteBatch spriteBatch, Character character)
         {
             GuiFrame.Draw(spriteBatch);
-
-            spriteBatch.End();
-            spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Deferred, BlendState.Additive);
-
-            int radius = GuiFrame.Rect.Height / 2 - 30;
+            
+            int radius = GuiFrame.Rect.Height / 2 - 10;
             DrawRadar(spriteBatch, new Rectangle((int)GuiFrame.Center.X - radius, (int)GuiFrame.Center.Y - radius, radius * 2, radius * 2));
-
-            spriteBatch.End();
-            spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Immediate, null, null, null, GameMain.ScissorTestEnable);
         }
 
         private void DrawRadar(SpriteBatch spriteBatch, Rectangle rect)
         {
             center = new Vector2(rect.X + rect.Width * 0.5f, rect.Center.Y);
-            displayRadius = rect.Width / 2.0f;
+            displayRadius = (rect.Width / 2.0f) * (1.0f - displayBorderSize);
             displayScale = displayRadius / range;
 
             if (IsActive)
             {
-                pingCircle.Draw(spriteBatch, center, Color.White * (1.0f - pingState), 0.0f, (rect.Width / pingCircle.size.X) * pingState);
+                pingCircle.Draw(spriteBatch, center, Color.White * (1.0f - pingState), 0.0f, (displayRadius*2 / pingCircle.size.X) * pingState);
             }
                      
             if (item.Submarine != null && !DetectSubmarineWalls)
@@ -206,14 +204,23 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Items.Components
                         Vector2 end = (submarine.HullVertices[(i + 1) % submarine.HullVertices.Count] + offset) * simScale;
                         end.Y = -end.Y;
 
-                        GUI.DrawLine(spriteBatch, center + start, center + end, Color.Green);
+                        GUI.DrawLine(spriteBatch, center + start, center + end, Color.LightBlue);
                     }
                 }
             }
 
-            foreach (RadarBlip radarBlip in radarBlips)
+            if (radarBlips.Count > 0)
             {
-                DrawBlip(spriteBatch, radarBlip, center, radarBlip.FadeTimer / 2.0f);                
+                spriteBatch.End();
+                spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Deferred, BlendState.Additive);
+
+                foreach (RadarBlip radarBlip in radarBlips)
+                {
+                    DrawBlip(spriteBatch, radarBlip, center, radarBlip.FadeTimer / 2.0f);
+                }
+
+                spriteBatch.End();
+                spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Immediate, null, null, null, GameMain.ScissorTestEnable);
             }
 
             if (GameMain.DebugDraw)
@@ -500,7 +507,7 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Items.Components
             markerPos.X = (int)markerPos.X;
             markerPos.Y = (int)markerPos.Y;
 
-            GUI.DrawRectangle(spriteBatch, new Rectangle((int)markerPos.X, (int)markerPos.Y, 5, 5), Color.LightGreen * textAlpha);
+            GUI.DrawRectangle(spriteBatch, new Rectangle((int)markerPos.X, (int)markerPos.Y, 5, 5), Color.LightBlue);
 
             if (dir.X < 0.0f) markerPos.X -= GUI.SmallFont.MeasureString(label).X+10;
 
@@ -511,7 +518,7 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Items.Components
             GUI.DrawString(spriteBatch, 
                 new Vector2(markerPos.X + 10, markerPos.Y), 
                 wrappedLabel, 
-                Color.LightGreen * textAlpha, Color.Black * textAlpha * 0.5f, 
+                Color.LightBlue * textAlpha, Color.Black * textAlpha * 0.5f, 
                 2, GUI.SmallFont);              
         }
 
diff --git a/Subsurface/Source/Screens/MainMenuScreen.cs b/Subsurface/Source/Screens/MainMenuScreen.cs
index 35431b920..e41410135 100644
--- a/Subsurface/Source/Screens/MainMenuScreen.cs
+++ b/Subsurface/Source/Screens/MainMenuScreen.cs
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ namespace Barotrauma
             GUI.Draw((float)deltaTime, spriteBatch, null);
 
             GUI.Font.DrawString(spriteBatch, "Barotrauma v"+GameMain.Version, new Vector2(10, GameMain.GraphicsHeight-20), Color.White);
-
+            
             spriteBatch.End();
         }