New In 2025 Version – Worldographer: RPG Map Software

Below is a list of new features and UI improvements in the 2025 version!

General UI

Pick among multiple themes/color schemes. Use the Options menu and pick Set Theme.
Left sidebar controls are on tabs instead of drawers. This lets each tab have individual scroll areas. For example, scroll through all the Terrain/Feature choices without moving the other controls to toggle things like sizes, gm only, etc.
Better layout of controls helps you to keep more related controls on screen at one time. For example, a Feature’s label settings are all on one sub-tab of the Features tab.
Buttons of Terrain and Features can be resized so you can better see them. Labels appear at the bottom of each.
New Color Picker that lets you click anywhere on the map to set the picker to the color where you clicked. (In addition to the prior Color Picker options.)
Better River Generation ensures longer rivers and optionally uses a new river icon set.
When drawing ‘curve’ lines, the control points are a different color.

World/Region Generation

Faster! Because it is much faster the preview area auto-updates to any setup changes for much larger maps (up to 1000×1000 hexes vs. 200×200 before).
Check a box on the setup screen to auto generate coasts, rivers, empires/nations (with cities, towns, etc.), hex crawl locations, and roads.
Better world generation algorithm that factors in wind patterns and different latitudes when placing vegetation and places deserts much more often at 30 degrees N & S latitudes.
Configure the terrain used for world generation. Use another tile set for a different style or to make an alien world. See Configure Terrain Used on the World/Kingdom Setup Screen.
Can configure the number of settlements when generating Empires/Nations.

City/Town/Village Generation

Dungeon/Battlemat Generation

New, more configurable Dungeon Generator. See the bottom right area of the section of the Battlemat setup screen. Enter a set of room names and sizes and how they should be connected into a text field.

New Functionality

Terrain can now be on any map layer.
‘Dynamic’ Terrain. Set up terrain to be blank/just a color, then have the system auto-magically add features (clusters of trees, hills, mountains) based on the terrain type. Requires setting up a ‘dynamic terrain’ file and adding it via the Configure menu.
Road Generator for world/region maps to auto-connect cities/towns/castles and optionally villages/forts/ruins.
More Random Hex Crawl options.
More Generate Coasts options–use a new icon set for coastlines that match the Classic style terrain.
Feature Labels and Decorations have more controls to better position and rotate them.
More controls for ‘Elevation’ and ‘Railroad’ lines. Control the width, length, and separation distance of the small lines.
Control the Opacity of individual map layers.

More/New Icons

Icons for Classic style coasts and rivers in an artistic format that matches the classic terrain icons.
New icons for Classic style Cultivated Farmland, Hard Clay Desert, Metropolis, Elevator Shaft, Horse Fair, and more.
New icons for Isometric Style for the above and even more.

Better Import/Configuration Options

When importing icons as features or terrain, the parent folder becomes the category of those icons. If using Add Custom Terrain/Features (individual files or folders) you can set this category manually.
Add Custom Terrain/Features (individual files or folders) allows you to set the configuration of all the files (size, color background if it is terrain, category, etc.) either individually or as a group.
Add Custom Terrain/Features lets you offset the icon in case the raw icons have extra padding on any/all sizes. It also lets you specify a polygon to ‘clip out’ just a section of the icon. For Hex Kit art, if the folder name has ‘hex_kit’ anywhere in the path, it pre-fills the polygon for Hex Kit icons.

Better Export Options