Top down 2D procedural generation?

so i followed this tutorial on making procedurally generated 2D islands and i followed a tutorial and modified it from sebastian lague. heres the code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Tilemaps;
using System;

public class MapGenerator : MonoBehaviour
{
    public RuleTile[] tiles;
    public GameObject player;

    Tilemap tileMap;
    BoxCollider2D bounds;

    public int width;
    public int height;

    public string seed;
    public bool useRandomSeed;

    [Range(0, 100)]
    public int randomFillPercent;

    public int[,] map;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        tileMap = GetComponentInChildren<Tilemap>();
        bounds = GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
        GenerateMap();

        transform.position = new Vector2(-(width / 2), -(height / 2));
        bounds.size = new Vector2(width, height);
        bounds.offset = new Vector2((width / 2) + .5f, (height / 2) + .5f);
       
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(map != null)
        {
            for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
            {
                for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
                {
                    if(map[x,y] == 1)
                    {
                        tileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), tiles[0]);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        tileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), tiles[1]);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

    }

    void GenerateMap()
    {
        map = new int[width, height];
        RandomFillMap();

        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        {
            SmoothMap();
        }
    }

    void RandomFillMap()
    {
        if (useRandomSeed)
        {
            seed = DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString();
        }

        System.Random pseudoRandom = new System.Random(seed.GetHashCode());

        for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
            {
                if(x == 0 || x == width - 1 || y == 0 || y == height - 1)
                {
                    map[x, y] = 1;
                }
                else
                {
                    map[x, y] = (pseudoRandom.Next(0, 100) < randomFillPercent) ? 1 : 0;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    void SmoothMap()
    {
        for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
            {
                int neighborWallTiles = GetSurroundingWallCount(x, y);

                if (neighborWallTiles > 4)
                    map[x, y] = 1;
                else if(neighborWallTiles < 4)
                {
                    map[x, y] = 0;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    int GetSurroundingWallCount(int gridX, int gridY)
    {
        int wallCount = 0;
        for (int neighborX = gridX - 1; neighborX <= gridX + 1; neighborX++)
        {
            for (int neighborY = gridY - 1; neighborY <= gridY + 1; neighborY++)
            {
                if (neighborX >= 0 && neighborX < width && neighborY >= 0 && neighborY < height)
                {
                    if (neighborX != gridX || neighborY != gridY)
                    {
                        wallCount += map[neighborX, neighborY];
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    wallCount++;
                }
            }
        }
        return wallCount;
    }

}

its very close to sebastian lagues but i just implemented it to use tiles instead of gizmos. does anyone know how id add say more levels (sand between water and grass, stone above grass), and also how would i add items to those areas such and materials in the ground or bushes and plants in the ground? any help would be appreciated!

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Hippity Hoppity. But seriously, thank you, I have been all over the internet and this is the closest to what I need. and you can use different if statements and random.ranges to randomly choose what type of island you want. And what video is it?

So how would I implement this into my game?

The first step would be to stop necro-posting to old threads with vague “how do I…?” questions.

The next step would be to start doing tutorials until you understand the parts necessary and can explain it to your dog or to your grandmother.

Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:

How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:

Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.

Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes.
BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE!!

If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix your error. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix your error. Your error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.

Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.

Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.

Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.

Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!

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The important parts of the error message are:

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Always start with the FIRST error in the console window, as sometimes that error causes or compounds some or all of the subsequent errors. Often the error will be immediately prior to the indicated line, so make sure to check there as well.

All of that information is in the actual error message and you must pay attention to it. Learn how to identify it instantly so you don’t have to stop your progress and fiddle around with the forum.

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