RPG Settlement and Exploration Map Generator

It creates a reproducible overhead exploration map for a hamlet, village, or town. The map combines a settlement footprint with homes, roads, services, plazas, water, trees, and the surrounding landscape, so the place feels like part of a wider region instead of a disconnected pile of buildings. It is designed for RPG worldbuilding, campaign preparation, travel scenes, clues, factions, and points of interest rather than tactical combat grids.

Yes. The seed is not only a name. It drives a deterministic layout variant inside the selected settlement type, so two seeds can produce different road patterns, house positions, spacing, service assignments, and wild growth while still respecting the urban grammar of a hamlet, village, or town. Reusing the same seed and settings rebuilds the same starting map.

Hamlet, village, and town each have a different footprint and starting logic. Hamlets support small communities, villages create a more developed local base, and towns make room for denser routes, more services, and broader exploration. The home count reacts to the selected footprint, while still allowing a smaller or larger result within that type range.

Yes. Choose Timber, Stone, Coastal, Highland, Medieval, Edo, or Sahelian. The style changes the visual language of houses, including roof shape, wall treatment, doors, windows, texture, colour accents, and the way nearby trees are drawn. It gives the same settlement generator a different regional or historical identity.

Yes. Choose forest, plains, coast, river, or mountain. The landscape remains the visual context around the settlement and influences water, vegetation, and terrain details, so the village does not always become the only thing on the map. Forest and wild growth can occupy the surrounding space while the settlement stays readable at the centre.

Built-in services include Tavern, Smithy, Temple, Market, Stable, and Hall, and you can add named custom services or landmarks. The generator assigns them with deterministic weights instead of always attaching them to the first few houses: Hall and similar civic services tend toward the centre, while Stable and Smithy tend toward the edge and outer roads, with controlled variation so every settlement does not follow the exact same pattern. Service labels use the full name and appear on readable signs above the building.

Yes. Add a custom service or landmark to the dynamic list and it is saved in local storage for later maps. Custom entries can be removed whenever you want, while the built-in service presets remain available. When you copy a share link or save JSON, the custom service catalog and the marks already placed on the map travel with the settlement.

Yes. Right-click a map cell on desktop or long-press it on touch devices to open the contextual editor. From there you can inspect the cell, add a building, draw a road, paint water, add a tree, or erase it. The contextual menu repositions itself when it would otherwise be clipped by the map or viewport.

Roads are built as a connected graph with clean junctions, including places where three or four paths meet. Painting water affects the exact selected cell. Adjacent water cells join visually into a river, a small pond, or a broader lake shape as the component grows, so manual edits respond to their neighbours instead of leaving isolated marks.

Copy the share link to send a complete editable settlement to another person. It preserves the seed, landscape, footprint, home count, architectural style, selected services, custom service list, generated buildings, roads, water, trees, and manual edits. The same state can also be saved as JSON and reopened later.

PNG is convenient for notes, virtual tabletops, and quick sharing. SVG stays sharp for printing and further vector editing. JSON is the full editable map state, so it is the best option when you want to preserve every generated and manually painted detail rather than only export a picture.