Hi. Big fan of your videos. I have a suggestion for you: to make orange cave titles. Most caves are created by water destroying a calcareous stone that got an orange color, but everybody paint them as solid rocks (gray and black colors). Caves made of rock are more usual next of a volcano, usualy a lone corridor for the lava flow out. I think a dark brown color with some orange or yellow highlights could give an idea of a poor iluminated calcareous cave, it would be more realistic and interesting. Calcareous caves eroded by the flow of a river have horizontal lines in their walls with variation of colors from red to white too. Try to look for real caves on pinterest.

My husband plays DnD with his friends and thanks to your videos. I am planning to make some terrain for him.

That is the first cave tile system I've seen that I like the look of.

I was thinking today as I was testing out some of your techniques on my first ever dungeon tiles, just how cool it is that you share all of this with everyone. Its really selfless and generous of you. I'm going to start supporting you on patreon because of how much I respect what you do.

Don't forget to save a few tiles with 4 straight edges to use in the center of really big rooms. Boss monsters sometimes take up a lot of space...

I don't even play DND or make terrain. But I still watch your videos because they are really interesting! keep up the good work

40 - 90 degree corner pieces 20 - Of each: squares, two sided, one sided 9 - 45 degree pieces About a dozen 'fake walls' That's a lot... totally awesome!

Dude, just discovered the channel today. This man is a total savage. So creative, resourceful, thoughtful. I love it! I am going to start making TONS of terrain!

Great idea to use the scrap as a way to narrow the tunnels. I love adding constricting tunnels that my medium sized hero's must crawl through, when encountering Kobolds. Kobolds may be weak, but with traps and advantage on attacks (PC's are effectively prone when crawling) you can make a great combat sequence. I am going to give you idea a shot, I really like it.

You should look at some 1980s tile-based video games - this is a physical analogue of some of tiles which are used to create maps. Nicely done!

My cousin and I were just talking about making some 3d elements for D&D yesterday. and less than 24 hours later I find your channel! I love this layout a lot. especially since it keeps the grid lines. can't wait to try this!!!

I am hoping to make a set for myself very soon, I have decided to do 50 perfect squares and 50 90° and using the wavy scrap pieces either on the outside of the perfect squares to make the walls seem uneven and slightly wider than the 3x3 square or on top (as you showed) to make them more narrow. That way you do not have to make different ones but you still have the same amount of variability.

Man thank you for your videos on hobby crafting for dnd and wargaming super helpful keep kicking ass man

If you would put magnets in the sidefaces of your tiles they would work even better. But all in all i love your system. Your work is very inspiring. Thanks

I had been on the fence about getting a proxxon cutter for a while now . . . this video made me pull the trigger. Ordered from your store on Friday - should have it tomorrow. I'm excited to see what I can make with it.

I made an ice cavern sort of like this, just a more jagged cut. Working on a Crystal version of it and using for round rooms that are to look like the inside of trees. I love this table, great tutorial, ideas flowing like lava now.

I'm revamping my system for caves, this was some great inspiration.

Hell of an undertaking you have ahead of you. May the craft gods be with you sir.

Perfect timing! I just ordered my Proxxon table from your store, and I eagerly await its arrival to start my own modular cave system. You rock!

I love the Idea of this tile system. I just got my proxxon in and I cant wait to use it to make this. I also really liked your video on not using grids on the terrain and my D&D players are all for it. I think a 3 and 6 inch grid system can be great for non grid playing.

I know that this is just the first episode of a series, but I had a little idea that I wanted to share with you. You know those little offcuts that you're using to create narrow passageways? I have a proposal regarding them which you might find intriguing: Paint the upside of them to look like rock, but the underside - paint it pure black. Since your tabletop is pure black, this colour is immediately subconsciously recognised by your players as representing "out of bounds," whilst the grey rock colour represents actual surfaces that their characters can climb and clamber over. So, for instance, your stalagmite stacks (as shown near the bottom of the screen) will have a grey, rocky coloured surface on the top, showing players that they can climb up these stalagmite stacks if they wanted to get a high ground advantage against enemies, or what have you. But your offcuts for making narrow passageways? You can turn them upside down, or right side up to allow you to represent either raised areas on the cave floor, or full cave walls. This will double the "functionality" of all your "cave scatter terrain" to represent both uneven terrain, and walls. Two birds, one stone, and a lot more versatility to your new tileset. I just wanted to share this with you, because it seemed like a good idea, and the flat-on-both-sides nature of these parts seems to scream out for this kind of versatility / usability. Stay awesome. -KM.

Seriously great video's, I've been off to the hardware, got a heap of trinkets and even before I've made anything at all, I've followed you on Patreon. I'd say the last one of four I can do. excellent work - and thank you.

I've always enjoyed your take on building but this is one thing that was always missing. Awesome addition! Your core system is now complete!!!!

I LOVE the 90 to 45 degrees transition pieces idea. It gives A LOT of potential tiling variation with just a tiny piece of terrain and with minimal effects on gameplay :V

So, I know it has been a while since this video, but, as far as the desire to bulk base spray your tiles, why not invest in an electric paint sprayer, they can take acrylics just fine, or better (and cheaper for volume) cheap house paint, some thing like the Wagner 0518050, I have been using one for wargame tables and foam terrain for the last year or so, with great results.

Oh man I love the look of these so far! I've been looking around on KZfaq for ideas on cave tiles but kept running into the same problems you mentioned with your first set. Soon as I saw these I knew you'd solved all my problems! Really looking forward to seeing the project develop, I hope it goes well! 👍

These three tiles are....versiTILE. Ha ha ha! Fantastic! Great job on coming up with this though. I'm excited to see where this goes.

Excellent video and wonderful timing. When it comes to painting, I prefer the base + wash+dry brush technique for tiles, but I have been wondering about the most efficient way to production-style the painting. I'm about to create @100 tiles for my new dungeon set, so this particular series is relevant to my interests. Two suggestions/comments. My experience with full modular sets has led me to build _a few_ 'rooms' (20x20/30x20) and 'corridors (20x10/30x10) without walls and that helps speed up reveals. Also recall that, for mine-tracks, HO rail is 25mm scale and purchasing track (especially used track) could save a lot of time. Again, great video. Keep them coming.

I like the overall scheme. It will be fun to see it finished.

Really looking forward to this little series! They are a great design, look easy to use and easy to store. I will certainly be making some of these as soon as I build my Hotwire table.

Oh man, back in the 80s when I played TDE (German DSA) as DM mostly, the main tool was squared paper where we did exactly what you are doing for Dungeon planing as much as for mapping them. I do not play the new D&D version, still, I like the idea of doing your mapping via those tiles as you could remove some or change them to simulate characters forgetting things or "magic" changing them ...

I'm about to be making a cave system but what I had though about doing is maybe making one board 20x30 for example and get it all gridded then just cutting random shapes and laying them down on it creating the actual tunnels. Idk if it'd going to work well but I'm lazy and it sounds good in my head 😂

That intro was awesome!

i know i'm late to the party, but one thing that i really wish BMC had mentioned is that if you cut a 3 by 3 tile to creat a 90 degree corner, you can use the rest of the tile to serve as a 90 degree inner corner. you can make really really cool shapes by just combining 90° outer and inner corners honestly.

Perfect. I just found my next project. Keep up the great work!

He has seen the light!!!

Black Magic Craft you helped me so much with my o level art exam thank you so much

Yes! TGIF another BMC video! Great video, and impeccable timing. I was just about to make another set of the modular cave tiles from the first video. I still use them for everything. Instead of placing sand on the top of them, I placed a 1' grid on them for my players to be able to judge movement better. I wonder if I can convert my players to the ICRPG banana movement without much of a fuss lol! It would save me considerable time etching my grids. Luckily I've only been using 1' and 2' inch foam so everything links up pretty well. I just place a door or an archway where I connect my old modular cave tiles. This system is a game changer though. I'm looking forward to making my set. Another masterpiece! Thanks for helping bring life to my game table.

Wow! This is a really smart way to make cave tiles!

Great work! I'll definitely be making a set of these for my own table. For the pieces with cave walls, I think I'll rip some to 3x6 first and do a wavy "cave wall" cut to get them to 3x3 to create pieces with supplementary walls... it's not only a productivity saver (only have to cut the wall on each tile 1x instead of cutting straight and recutting jagged) but I can also seamlessly incorporate secret rooms without having to swap tiles or have uneven edges butting together.

The 90's will always be the most important.

this is so good, i was always looking for something different for doing Advanced hero quest, already made the step to a gridless game with that but this will add another great level of play for me..thank you, cant wait for the next videos

Man, i really wasn't that sure for going on towards modular tiles again. Started up with all cardboard DMScotty-/DMGinfo-style pieces, but went full Hankerin lastly, just becaus its easy, its impressive 3D, and its huge in scale, what makes it somewhat more immersive (if that makes any sense). But i really wanted some foam-tiles for caves and stuff - i think this might be the thing here... we'll see :-) probably trying it out with some variation.

Instead of cutting out material on the edges (the wavy lines), you could taper the top edges only, leaving the base at 3x3. That way it won’t look as if it’s waving in and out to a point every 3 inches. A more seamless transition while retaining the base 3x3.

Great idea, well thought out, works! I'm working on my own tile system, and I'll have to integrate this and see if it works.

yay! looking forward to seeing the rest of the series :-) i'll be making a whole dwarven mountain fortress system for use in my wargaming in a few months, so this should come in super handy, especially the mine cart tracks!

Love your videos, keep up the good work. Did you ever get around to making the rail system for mines?

This new system is looking really good! Keep up the good work.

Loved the product, first time viewer, can't wait to see more. Couldn't hear the audio on earbuds in the train unfortunately, a bit low. Looking forward to more and subbed. 😀

Great video! 10/10 By the way, Rails can be easily made out of square ABS plastic rods (1 mm in diameter) + some coffee sticks. You can find them on Alie)

To display a cave system in its fullest you need 6 types of tiles. The first group is the one without cuts (0 Cut). Than you have 2 cuts. Either on opposite sides or next to one another. Than you have 3 cuts. That are the dead ends. And finally you have the one with 4 walls on each side. So just a hole in the ground.

Maybe, if you wanted to differentiate between those rounded pieces in the middle that represent elevation vs. negative space, you could paint one side black? Same with the off cut that you use towards the end. Still paint the sides as normal. I might give it a try.

Nice job! I'm thinking I will try a small set made out of thin MDF or something similar. The system looks great - and doable : ) ThanX

very nice rhyme in the intro

You are a terrain making god!

Nice Intro!!! Thanks for your content

Such a simple idea, but it seems so genius

Could you not also make a set of rocks/rubble/other blockage items to put into areas for restricted hallways? It might be easier and more versatile, and allow you to continue to focus on the 3x3 system that's working perfectly in every other aspect of the game?

Pure awesomeness.

gosh darnet, i just started making the old cave tiles i'm nowhere near done with al of them but i already made some and now you make new better ones unlucky me

this is great. its kinda like the Carcassone tiles, but better becuse it's 3dD

This is seriously clever

Interesting, it may be possible to make it into a kind of turn-based 3D board game if the tiles were small. You could create a Lord of the Rings game where your minis move one tile at a time, it would be a large table and could have 200+ tiles. Maybe somebody wants to do this, but, sadly, I don't have anything that can precisely cut all of those tiles, so I most likely will never do this. But, it's an idea.

Love this idea your vids are top notch man.

Your videos are awesome man. I look forward to them every Friday. Have you considered using or do you already use an air brush? It might help with the black-bombing. Although it won't help with the ModPodge coating. Anyway, such a cool idea. Thank you for all of your tutelage!

you could use an air brush to base coat that much material

FREAKING BRILLIANT!

On a project of this size, wouldn't it be easier to use the tinfoil ball on the foam before you cut it all? Maybe do a few and roll them under a board? (Then just manually touch up any missed spots after by hand).

Great video. Keep it up, can't wait to see the next step.

It will be better, if made the highest with two different bottom (like color or texture), which show wall/column or another side show another lever of cave.)

very cool cave system update

You had me at the rhyme bud!

pretty smart, dig the project

Spray paint with Liquitex brand paint. It's water based and won't melt foam. Pricey though.

Very nice!

so excited to see the video!

try small magnet strips to help hold the pieces together

You should figure out a way to manufacture this and sell it as a product. I'm certain the community would love this because I know I would

INTERESTING...A mine which kobolds can takeover, lace with traps. and then the lord pays the adventurers a shite load to clean them out. You will need to develop some wall traps for those pesky hidden passages, etc...So yeah, mate, sick with 3 inches.

This is freaking GENIUS!!!! :D

Great idea

Do you have a video about your table also? That is prime!

Amazing video tutorials! Everything a new GM needs to create dungeons and caverns. Have you ever used hirst moulds to create dungeon tiles?

Have you ever thought about using an automotive spray paint gun, it should be able to handle modpoge. Let me know if you try it and how it turns out.

Can you put a link to the video showing how to make the track tiles and carts? I can't seem to find it...that sounds so freaking awesome I'd have to try my hand at it!

Have you ever tried that fake stone texture spray paint as a base?

Like for the intro 😂 you are an artist indeed

I would imagine that the tiles, being made of foam, might tend to shift and move around. I wonder if you would fix that using weak magnets or velcro strips.

Have you ever worked with jungle tiles? As in some sort of island.

Why not just prep, texture and paint the board of foam before cutting? You could put a grid on there as well, although that might mess things up with the 45° pieces. Anyway, love your vids!

mind blown

so dope lookin!

Wouldn't there be "five" kinds of tiles, one with four edges preserved, painted up just like the rest, to create a large cavern room? (barring the sixth random angly one and the seventh random wiggly one for passage walls :P )

Find myself wondering if there was a way to use a hand pump spray bottle with watered down base coat. Like one of the large kind you pump to build up pressure then spray. I think it could work as long as you kept the paint fairly thin.

Hi, what should I use under my d&d double sided tiles so they don't slip?

Did that rail-system ever happen? I can't seem to find those video's

Those 3 cave pieces are very versaTILE.

How do I get those clean wavy cuts without a hotwire cutter

Nice ryhme

I was wondering if you have any advice on how many tiles you should make for a good size modular set.