Step 1: Create a blank array of cells, each 9*9 tiles. This example uses 5*5 cells.

Step 2: Scatter points around randomly for the player, block, and kiln to spawn. Add an extra ‘dummy’ point for taste. Mark each of the cells these points are in ‘visited’.

Step 3: Draw lines from the player point to the block point, and the block point to the dummy point and kiln point. Mark each of the cells these paths touch as ‘visited’.

Step 4: Carve out the ‘visited’ cells into empty rooms. Note down exits to each room.

Step 5: Check the available exits in each room. Choose one configuration at random from five possible configurations for that exit configuration (75 room types total). Place these rooms into the correct cells.

Step 6: Output all these to a tilemap and you’re done!
(Excuse the tiny image size. One pixel = one tile.)

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