# What's the difference between these 2 extensions?

**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-these-2-extensions/44443
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 10, 2026, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-these-2-extensions/44443 "2026-06-10T03:29:52Z")
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### Author: ![ScriptScraper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/scriptscraper/32/35438_2.png) [@ScriptScraper](https://forum.makecode.com/u/ScriptScraper)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2026, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-these-2-extensions/44443/1 "2026-06-10T03:29:53Z")

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They both do the same thing, so I don’t which one to use.

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### Author: ![redSprite](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/redsprite/32/34262_2.png) [@redSprite](https://forum.makecode.com/u/redSprite)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-these-2-extensions/44443/2 "2026-06-10T17:30:19Z")

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Both extensions do add fundamentally the same category, but tile utils simply has _more!_  
Also tile utils is more easily accessible than tilemaps.  
And also note both tile utils and scene have pretty much all the blocks tilemaps has so there isn’t really any purpose for downloading that one.

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### Author: ![engineer703](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/engineer703/32/35135_2.png) [@engineer703](https://forum.makecode.com/u/engineer703)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-these-2-extensions/44443/3 "2026-06-10T17:30:45Z")

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It seems arcade-tile-util is almost the same, but since it has some more stuff, I think use that. I mean, it is what I use, and the tilemaps extension is in beta, so just maybe use arcade-tile-util? I honestly have no idea why there are these two extensions and not just one.

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### Author: ![richard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/richard/32/5417_2.png) [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-these-2-extensions/44443/4 "2026-06-10T17:31:01Z")

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yeah, arcade-tile-util is the one to use. that’s the one that actually gets updates