Hex Map Generator — a free fantasy hexmap maker
The Dark Island of Frostmere
About this hex map generator
This is a free hex map maker for tabletop role-playing games, worldbuilding, and anyone who wants an island that did not exist a moment ago. Press the button and it draws a new one: terrain across a hex grid, settlements placed where the land suits them, and roads routed between those settlements.
Eight terrain types are generated — water, mountains, forest, grassland, hills, desert, swamp, and brush — each with its own hand-drawn symbol rather than a flat fill. Settlements come in three sizes, cities down to villages, and every map gets a name.
Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored. The whole hexmap generator runs in your browser, needs no account, and costs nothing. Press the button again for a different world.
Open source
The generator is MIT licensed and the source is on GitHub. Terrain is grown from a seed so coastlines stay plausible, settlements are scored against the land under them, and roads are then routed between settlements around whatever the terrain makes expensive to cross.
Built by Alexander Kohlhofer.