Draw Modes

TL;DR

• Use Pencil for single tiles placement
• Use Fill for large terrain or background regions
• Use Selection when you want to move or reuse content instead of repainting it
• Use Attributes to add custom tile data

Pencil

Use Pencil to place the currently selected tile(s) onto the map.

Best for:

• Hand-placing tiles
• Stamping multi-tile selections
• Works with both regular and autotile layers

Erase behavior:

• Right-click erases
• Holding E while left-clicking also erases (best for touchpads)

Flip behavior:

• H toggles horizontal flip
• V toggles vertical flip
• Flip controls are intended for regular tile drawing, not autotile layers

Fill

Use Fill to apply the currently selected tile(s) across a dragged area.

Best for:

• Blocking out large regions quickly
• Filling regular layers with a repeated tile
• Filling autotile layers so the surrounding rules can resolve automatically or with randomizations rules.

Erase behavior:

• Right-click fill erase
• E + left-click fill erase

Selection

Use Selection to capture an area from the map itself.

Best for:

• Moving an existing block of map tiles
• Copying a block of regular tiles back into the brush
• Reorganizing an area without rebuilding it from the tileset panel

Important behavior:

• Ctrl / Cmd + C copies the current selection as a drawable brush only on non-autotile layers
• Autotiles are automatically recomputed
• Pressing Escape clears the current selection

Attributes

Use Attributes to view or edit custom tile data on a single selected tile.

Best for:

• Setting gameplay flags
• Marking interactables, hazards, spawn points, or zones
• Attaching simple string, number, or boolean data to tiles

Important behavior:

• Attribute editing is single-tile oriented

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