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An in-editor level blockout tool for Godot that adds CSG-style primitives (blocks, prisms, cylinders, stairs, tubes), boolean operations, and a face/vertex/edge editing workflow directly into the Godot viewport. It's aimed at Godot users who want a Hammer/TrenchBroom-like blocking-in workflow without leaving the engine, rather than modeling levels in Blender and importing meshes.
Solid feature depth for a blockout tool: clip, intersect, subtract, merge, mirror/rotate/scale on selections, plus primitive generators (stairs, cylinder, prism, tube) with gizmo-driven manipulation. Blocks get collision automatically, so a blockout is playable immediately without a separate collision-authoring pass. It also goes beyond pure blockout into art-ready territory with a dedicated material dock and a UV editor (including triplanar unwrap), so blocks can be textured properly instead of just placeholder-gray. Actively maintained with version-pinned releases tracking specific Godot versions, a real documentation site built from the doc/ folder, and a Discord for support.
Upgrades across versions can break existing level scenes - the README itself tells you to back up your project before updating and walks through a manual 'Upgrade' step to migrate old CyclopsBlocks nodes, which is a real risk if you've got levels built up and aren't paying attention to release notes. It's tightly version-locked to specific Godot releases (1.5.0 needs 4.7+, 1.0.2 needs 4.2+, anything earlier needs 4.0), so moving your project to a newer Godot can mean waiting on a compatible plugin release first. It's a single-maintainer project funded through Ko-fi donations with no sign of a team behind it, so continuity risk is real if the author steps away. Cloning the repo for source (versus grabbing a release zip) requires Git LFS for the binary art assets, which is an extra hoop if you want to build from source or contribute.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →