---
title: "Tilemap Overlap Callbacks"
description: "Demonstrates how to use overlapTiles to detect and handle custom interactions between a physics body and specific tile indices, such as collecting items."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/custom-collide-call
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Tilemap Overlap Callbacks

Demonstrates how to use overlapTiles to detect and handle custom interactions between a physics body and specific tile indices, such as collecting items.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Tilemap / Collision](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/custom-collide-call.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### custom collide call.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    cursors;
    pickups;
    player;
    layer;
    tileset;
    map;

    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.image('tiles', 'assets/tilemaps/tiles/gridtiles.png');
        this.load.tilemapTiledJSON('map', 'assets/tilemaps/maps/simple-map.json');
        this.load.image('player', 'assets/sprites/phaser-dude.png');
    }

    create ()
    {
        this.map = this.make.tilemap({ key: 'map', tileWidth: 32, tileHeight: 32 });
        this.tileset = this.map.addTilesetImage('tiles');
        this.layer = this.map.createLayer('Level1', this.tileset);

        this.map.setCollision([ 20, 48 ]);

        this.pickups = this.map.filterTiles(tile => tile.index === 82);

        this.player = this.add.rectangle(96, 96, 24, 38, 0xffff00);

        this.physics.add.existing(this.player);

        this.cursors = this.input.keyboard.createCursorKeys();

        this.cursors.up.on('down', () =>
        {
            if (this.player.body.blocked.down)
            {
                this.player.body.setVelocityY(-360);
            }
        }, this);

        this.info = this.add.text(10, 10, 'Player');
    }

    update ()
    {
        this.player.body.setVelocityX(0);

        if (this.cursors.left.isDown)
        {
            this.player.body.setVelocityX(-200);
        }
        else if (this.cursors.right.isDown)
        {
            this.player.body.setVelocityX(200);
        }

        //  Collide player against the tilemap layer
        this.physics.collide(this.player, this.layer);

        //  Custom tile overlap check
        this.physics.world.overlapTiles(this.player, this.pickups, this.hitPickup, null, this);

        //  Debug info
        const blocked = this.player.body.blocked;

        this.info.setText(`left: ${blocked.left} right: ${blocked.right} down: ${blocked.down}`);
    }

    hitPickup (player, tile)
    {
        this.map.removeTile(tile, 29, false);

        this.pickups = this.map.filterTiles(tile => tile.index === 82);
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    parent: 'game-container',
    physics: {
        default: 'arcade',
        arcade: {
            gravity: { y: 600 }
        }
    },
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Collision

- [CSV Tilemap with Arcade Physics](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/csv-map-arcade-physics.md): Load a tilemap from a CSV file, define colliding tile ranges, and enable Arcade Physics collisions between a player sprite and the map layer. Includes a debug view toggle to visualize collision bounds.
- [Matter Destroy Tile Bodies](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/matter-destroy-tile-bodies.md): Demonstrates how to dynamically remove tiles and destroy their associated Matter physics bodies when triggered by player contact. It uses custom Tiled properties to identify specific tiles and handles character movement with a compound Matter body and sensors.
- [Matter Ghost Collisions](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/matter-ghost-collisions.md): Demonstrates how to mitigate 'ghost collisions' at tile seams in Matter JS by comparing individual tile bodies with a single large convex body defined via Tiled object layers.
- [Matter Physics Platformer with Wall Jumping](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/matter-platformer-with-wall-jumping.md): A comprehensive example of a Matter.js platformer featuring compound bodies and sensors for advanced collision detection. It demonstrates smoothed horizontal movement, wall jumping logic, and converting Tiled tilemaps into physical Matter bodies.
- [Matter Physics Tilemap Collision](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/matter.md): Demonstrates how to convert a Tilemap layer into Matter.js physics bodies, supporting both default rectangular bounds and custom collision shapes defined in Tiled.
- [Matter Platformer with Dynamic Tile Modification](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/matter-platformer-modify-map.md): Demonstrates how to modify a Matter-enabled Tilemap at runtime, including updating existing tile collision shapes and adding new physics-enabled tiles to build a bridge.
- [Matter Tilemap Collision Detection](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/matter-detect-collision-with-tile.md): Demonstrates how to convert a Tilemap layer into Matter.js physics bodies and detect collisions between sprites and specific tiles using body labels and custom Tiled properties.
- [Multiple Tile Sizes and Collisions](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/multiple-tile-sizes.md): Demonstrates how to handle physics collisions across multiple tilemap layers using different tile dimensions (32x32, 64x64, and 32x64) within a single map.
- [Simple Tilemap Collision and Interaction](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/simple-map.md): Demonstrates how to set tile-based collisions, use Arcade Physics with a tilemap layer, and filter specific tiles to create interactive pickups that can be removed from the map.
- [Tile Callbacks](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/tile-callbacks.md): Learn how to trigger custom functions when a sprite interacts with specific tiles using index-based and location-based callbacks. This example demonstrates collecting items and creating secret passages by modifying collision behavior.
- [Tilemap Spotlight](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/tilemap/collision/view/tilemap-spotlight.md): Demonstrates a dynamic spotlight effect over a tilemap using a RenderTexture to mask the scene based on the player's position.

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