Tools

Click a shape to select it, ⇧-click to add more, or drag a box round several. Drag a selected shape to move it, or drag its points to reshape it; Alt-click a point to remove it. Its settings appear in the Selection tab.

Drag the map around. With the tools that place something on a click (towns, peaks, labels, routes, tracing rivers) a drag moves the map too. With any tool you can also right-drag, or hold Space and drag.

Draws the coast of an island or continent. Everything else sits on the land these outlines make. Its generators make land for you (see Generators).

An area of one kind of land. Pick the kind under the tool before you draw:

Forests: pine, broadleaf, mixed, jungle, palm grove, dead forest. Open land: grassland, savannah, dry scrub, farmland. Dry and cold: desert dunes, black dunes, snow, ice desert. Wet: swamp, lake. Ground: mountain area, hilly ground, flat ground, cliffs, and a plain ground colour. Animals: wildlife roaming the area.

Most kinds have an amount to set in the Selection tab, such as a forest's density or a mountain area's height.

Draws a river's course yourself, from its source. An end near the coast joins the sea.

Click where a river should rise: it finds its own way downhill to the sea or into another river.

Cuts a canyon into the land along the line you draw. Start it out at sea to open it onto the coast.

Click to raise a hill, or drag to raise a ridge. Each stroke builds the ground up a little more, to a highest height. The brush size changes with [ and ].

Lowers raised ground again, or rolling hills down to the plain for a valley floor.

Drag to level the ground to the height where you started: plateaus and terraces.

Drag over the ground to soften its bumps and steps.

A mountain range along the ridge you draw. In the Selection tab: its character (rolling hills, rugged mountains or alpine peaks), height, rock colour and snow.

Click on a range (or a mountain zone or peak) to cut a way through it, for roads and rivers.

A single mountain.

A smoking volcano.

Click to place a town. In the Selection tab, choose its kind (city, fortress, landmark, or a place shown only as a marker), its size (village, town, city, capital) and its style: medieval, dark medieval, nordic, classical, renaissance, desert, East Asian or a nomad camp. Cities can also have highlight buildings that stand out from their houses.

A description written here shows when the town is clicked on the 3D map.

A pin with notes, written in the Selection tab and shown when it's clicked on the 3D map.

Scattered ruins.

Draws a road yourself. Styles: dirt road, paved road, cobblestone, trail or footpath.

Click where the road starts, such as a town, then where it goes: it takes the easiest way over the land, and carries on from there with each click. Esc stops.

A kingdom's border, as a dashed line.

Lettering on the map: click where it goes, then bend it along its points. Choose its font and size in the Selection tab.