A world builder in your browser
Build your Fantasy World
Map the land your campaign plays in, the continent your novel crosses, or an island for a geography lesson. Sketch the coast, paint forests and deserts, raise mountains and let rivers find their own way, then fly over it all as a living 3D map, with towns, roads and travellers, by day and by night.
Free, and no account needed to start. New to it? Read the quickstart.
Drawing The Jade Isles
A warm archipelago: jungle and palm beaches, green-rock peaks, a smoking volcano, towns with pagodas and castle keeps, and busy sea lanes.
How it works
From a sketch to a world
- 1
Draw
Coastlines, forests, deserts and mountain ranges on a flat map, like sketching on parchment. Trace over a map image of your own if you already have one.
- 2
Shape
Raise hills, lower valleys and level plateaus with the sculpting brushes, on the flat map or right on the 3D one.
- 3
Explore
Fly over it in 3D: towns built to their size and style, rivers and roads, ships at sea, lit windows by night, rain and drifting clouds.
What you can put on the map
Everything a world needs
Land and climate
Pine, broadleaf and dead forests, jungle and palm groves, deserts and black dunes, savannah, swamps, snow, ice and farmland.
Mountains
Ranges drawn along their ridge, single peaks and smoking volcanoes, passes through them, canyons and cliffs.
Water
Lakes, and rivers you draw yourself or start at a source and let find their own way down to the sea.
Towns and roads
Towns, fortresses and landmarks in different styles, ruins, and roads that take the easiest way from place to place.
Borders and lettering
Kingdoms' borders, names lettered onto the map, and markers with notes that open when they're clicked in 3D.
Life on the map
Wagons, riders and caravans on the roads, trade ships and fishing boats, animals in the wild, lanterns after dark.
Who it's for
A world for every story
Writers
Map the world your story happens in, and see how far it really is from the capital to the mountains before your characters set out.
More for writersGame masters
Build the land your campaign plays in, with markers and notes on the places that matter, and send your players a link to look around.
More for game mastersReaders and fans
Bring a favourite book's world to life in 3D, the way Erilea was made from Throne of Glass.
Game makers
Sketch a world for your game and try out its geography, then export it as a file to take further.
Teachers
Build an island with a class and watch rivers find their way down to the sea, snow settle on the heights and towns grow along the coast.
More for teachersDaydreamers
No plan needed: draw a coastline and keep going until it's a place you'd like to visit.
Keep it, share it
Your world, wherever you go
In your browser
No account needed: your worlds are kept in this browser, and any of them can be exported as a file.
In your account
Sign in to have your worlds on every device, with earlier versions to go back to.
Shared with a link
Anyone with the link can look around your world in 3D, without being able to change it.
Made with the same map
Erilea
The world of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass, from the Frozen Wastes to the Southern Continent, with the story's events placed where they happen, book by book, so later books don't give anything away. Its capital Rifthold can be visited up close, glass castle and all.
Your world is waiting
Start from an empty sea, or from one of the examples, and change it into your own.
Start a world