# How to change color of tilemap and tilemap only

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-tilemap-and-tilemap-only/30578>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** extension, art\
**Created:** [September 13, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-tilemap-and-tilemap-only/30578 "2024-09-13T17:36:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![ADM\_F](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/adm_f/32/19808_2.png) [@ADM\_F](https://forum.makecode.com/u/ADM_F)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-tilemap-and-tilemap-only/30578/1 "2024-09-13T17:36:29Z")

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Im working on my latest project crate dungeons and i want to add more themes without creating over 500 tiles  
Changing sprites is easy using images  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/3X/1/8/18fbd73f3ae0b6c87bb0a21d1f93cfb6d6e70e40.png)  
Found out how to change the background easily  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/3X/1/9/192047510b83435d258c20c417ae688a833a13f1.png)  
But i’m not sure how to change the tilemap to what i want  
as in changing the colors of the tilemap layer and only that layer.  
is it possible to do so? (hopefully without extensions)

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**Author:** ![codecat1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/codecat1/32/29634_2.png) [@codecat1](https://forum.makecode.com/u/codecat1)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-tilemap-and-tilemap-only/30578/2 "2024-09-14T05:58:23Z")

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Well, one simple way to do it is to make transparent tiles and change the background colors, but another way would be to make individual sprites that get placed on each tile and change the sprite color. To avoid lagginess I would try to find a way to make the sprites disappear when out of player view, but I don’t know how to so I couldn’t tell you how to do it.

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**Author:** ![randomuser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/randomuser/32/32505_2.png) [@randomuser](https://forum.makecode.com/u/randomuser)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-tilemap-and-tilemap-only/30578/3 "2024-09-14T06:09:55Z")

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I doubt it 😭  
You would have to manually make duplicates in different colors, but that’s a ton of blocks