holy SHIT there's a plugin for Godot 4 that replaces the janky ass Terrain system with something that actually works. thank fucking god
it's called Better Terrain and you can just get it from the asset store. had to reference the video tutorial to understand how to get started with the UI but after that it Just Works
@estroBiologist YES this makes things so much easier than my jank blender terrain workflow
@estroBiologist Ah yeah i should've looked up better terrain literally
@estroBiologist my 3d bias showing 
Is the standard 2d tilemapping particularly bad in godot?
@sara the new 4.0 TileMap system overall is a BIG improvement, but the new Terrain system that lets you automate a lot of intricate tile placement is really clunky and barely works tbh. fedi won't let me upload the gif but i posted a comparison on twitter https://twitter.com/estroBiologist/status/1775902448147710335
@estroBiologist Ah gotcha, I usually use LDTk for 2d tilemaps, which is really really good at auto-tiling.
Though i don't have a lot of experience with the godot integration yet
@estroBiologist Wait i may have found a different thing