Custom Objects & Autobuild

Custom Objects are objects that you can create, organize, and place down. They can be found in the last tab in the editor toolbox, marked with a “C”. Unlike the other tabs, this tab is empty by default, allowing room for your own objects. From there, you can organize the object orders and save them to be placed down later. To create a custom object, select all objects you want to be as a part of the custom object, go to the custom objects tab, and press the create object button to add it as an object. Now you can select this object and place it whenever you need to.

Custom Objects do have their limits, though. Currently as of 2.206, Custom Objects can only have 1,000 objects per custom object. With mods this can be increased to infinity.

While having an object in the tab selected, you can press the arrow buttons to move the position of the object up or down the object list. You can also press the red minus button to remove the object from the list entirely.

Custom objects can be used to merge parts of a level together for collabs. However, due to the 1000 object limit the base game has, mods are needed to bypass this limit. The copy & paste buttons also work between levels in Update 2.2, without the object limit. To merge a part, select the part you want to merge and add it as a custom object, including a group parent object to merge parts easier, then go to your collab and place the part in the correct position. Be sure to make changes if the part doesn’t work correctly; for instance, teleport portals may not appear with the correct offsets.

Templates act as tilesets that Autobuild uses in order to create your desired structures. While in the “Create Blocks” menu, click on the “Browse” button on the bottom and create a new smart template. You can create many different templates, which can be renamed, edited, or deleted at any time. When you want to add to a desired template or use it in autobuild, click the “Use” button to enable it.

To create decoration for the template, go back to the main menu of the autobuild and click the “Paste Template” button in the bottom right. This will place down a template for you to place your decoration on. Decorate the template carefully and consistently; all structures should abide by the same “rules” so the autobuild has the highest accuracy. The diagram below shows some examples of things you should avoid.

Upon filling a template, the designs added can be browsed and edited when you press the “Edit” button on a template in the smart template page. There, you can press “Browse” to view the designs. 

The number on the top right of the designs shows how many variations it has. Clicking on empty designs will paste them into the editor, allowing you to fill them out. Clicking on filled out designs will bring you to a menu that shows all variations of the design present. You can paste selected designs into the editor using the “Create” button, delete variations, or change the chance for variations to occur.

Any decoration within an autoblock will count as a variation, with any changes across the same design will add a new variation. By default, the first decorated variation in the variations list will be used in the autobuild. To make designs vary in autobuilds, select the desired designs and click the “Add” button to add them to the variation list. Clicking “Add” on designs will increase the probability of the design being used, while “Zero” removes the design from the variations list.