tBIN and tIDE

The tBIN map format is a binary format used by the tIDE Tile Map Editor, while the tIDE map format is an XML-based format used by it as well. tIDE was used by Stardew Valley, a successful game that spawned many community mods.

Tiled ships with a plugin that enables direct editing of Stardew Valley maps (and any other maps using the tBIN or tIDE formats). This plugin needs to be enabled in Edit > Preferences > Plugins. It is not enabled by default because it won’t store everything (most notably it doesn’t support object layers in general, nor external tilesets), so you need to know what you are doing.

Note

There is only one plugin, called tbin. Despite its name, it enables support for both tBIN and tIDE maps.

Note

The tBIN and tIDE formats support setting custom properties on the tiles of a tile layer. Since Tiled does not support this directly, « TileData » objects are created that match the location of the tile, on which such properties are then stored.