More types of collision detection?

Is there a way to just check if an object has collided with anything? Making an object have a collision SFX for every single object it touches is so tedious because I have to do the same script over and over again for each object is just so tedious. Can anyone relate?

check out families

Yeah, families are the way to go. Though you still might have to do several checks for each type of object because families cannot group different ones together eg. tilemaps+sprites+9patches. But it still cuts down the amount to just a handful no matter what.

And if you find yourself writing the same actions over and over, it's best practice to put those inside a function (or as of newer versions, custom actions)