diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Button/index.scss b/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Button/index.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index 3529db77d..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Button/index.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-@import '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/scss/styles.scss';
-
-.button-rich-text-button {
-  .btn {
-    margin-right: base(1);
-  }
-
-  &__modal {
-    display: flex;
-    align-items: center;
-    height: 100%;
-
-    &.payload__modal-item--enterDone {
-      @include blur-bg;
-    }
-  }
-
-  &__header {
-    width: 100%;
-    margin-bottom: $baseline;
-    display: flex;
-    justify-content: space-between;
-
-    h3 {
-      margin: 0;
-    }
-
-    svg {
-      width: base(1.5);
-      height: base(1.5);
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Button/index.tsx b/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Button/index.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 75ffc7b1e..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Button/index.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-import facelessUIImport from '@faceless-ui/modal'
-
-const { Modal, useModal } = facelessUIImport
-import React, { Fragment, useCallback } from 'react'
-import { Transforms } from 'slate'
-import { ReactEditor, useSlate } from 'slate-react'
-
-// TODO:
-import Button from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/elements/Button'
-import Form from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/Form'
-import reduceFieldsToValues from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/Form/reduceFieldsToValues'
-import Submit from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/Submit'
-import Checkbox from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/Checkbox'
-import ElementButton from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/RichText/elements/Button'
-import Select from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/Select'
-import Text from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/Text'
-import X from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/icons/X'
-import MinimalTemplate from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/templates/Minimal'
-import './index.scss'
-
-const baseClass = 'button-rich-text-button'
-
-const initialFormData = {
-  style: 'primary',
-}
-
-const insertButton = (editor, { href, label, newTab = false, style }: any) => {
-  const text = { text: ' ' }
-  const button = {
-    type: 'button',
-    children: [text],
-    href,
-    label,
-    newTab,
-    style,
-  }
-
-  const nodes = [button, { children: [{ text: '' }] }]
-
-  if (editor.blurSelection) {
-    Transforms.select(editor, editor.blurSelection)
-  }
-
-  Transforms.insertNodes(editor, nodes)
-
-  const currentPath = editor.selection.anchor.path[0]
-  const newSelection = {
-    anchor: { offset: 0, path: [currentPath + 1, 0] },
-    focus: { offset: 0, path: [currentPath + 1, 0] },
-  }
-
-  Transforms.select(editor, newSelection)
-  ReactEditor.focus(editor)
-}
-
-export const ToolbarButton: React.FC<{ path: string }> = ({ path }) => {
-  const { closeAll, open } = useModal()
-  const editor = useSlate()
-
-  const handleAddButton = useCallback(
-    (fields) => {
-      const data = reduceFieldsToValues(fields)
-      insertButton(editor, data)
-      closeAll()
-    },
-    [editor, closeAll],
-  )
-
-  const modalSlug = `${path}-add-button`
-
-  return (
-    <Fragment>
-      <ElementButton className={baseClass} format="button" onClick={() => open(modalSlug)}>
-        Button
-      </ElementButton>
-      <Modal className={`${baseClass}__modal`} slug={modalSlug}>
-        <MinimalTemplate>
-          <header className={`${baseClass}__header`}>
-            <h3>Add button</h3>
-            <Button buttonStyle="none" onClick={closeAll}>
-              <X />
-            </Button>
-          </header>
-          <Form initialData={initialFormData} onSubmit={handleAddButton}>
-            <Text label="Label" name="label" required />
-            <Text label="URL" name="href" required />
-            <Select
-              label="Style"
-              name="style"
-              options={[
-                {
-                  label: 'Primary',
-                  value: 'primary',
-                },
-                {
-                  label: 'Secondary',
-                  value: 'secondary',
-                },
-              ]}
-            />
-            <Checkbox label="Open in new tab" name="newTab" />
-            <Submit>Add button</Submit>
-          </Form>
-        </MinimalTemplate>
-      </Modal>
-    </Fragment>
-  )
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Element/index.scss b/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Element/index.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index 467ee8064..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Element/index.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-@import '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/scss/styles.scss';
-
-.rich-text-button {
-  margin: $baseline 0;
-}
-
-.rich-text-button__button {
-  padding: base(0.5) base(1.5);
-  border-radius: $style-radius-s;
-
-  &--primary {
-    background-color: $color-dark-gray;
-    color: white;
-  }
-
-  &--secondary {
-    background-color: $color-light-gray;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Element/index.tsx b/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Element/index.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ac8af1ed..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/Element/index.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-import React from 'react'
-
-import './index.scss'
-
-const baseClass = 'rich-text-button'
-
-export const ButtonElement: React.FC = ({ attributes, children, element }) => {
-  const { label, style = 'primary' } = element
-
-  return (
-    <div className={baseClass} contentEditable={false}>
-      <span
-        {...attributes}
-        className={[`${baseClass}__button`, `${baseClass}__button--${style}`].join(' ')}
-      >
-        {label}
-        {children}
-      </span>
-    </div>
-  )
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/index.ts b/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/index.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index cfca4e349..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/index.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-import type { RichTextCustomElement } from '../../../../../../packages/richtext-slate/src/types.js'
-
-import { ToolbarButton } from './Button/index.js'
-import { ButtonElement } from './Element/index.js'
-import { withButton } from './plugin.js'
-
-export const button: RichTextCustomElement = {
-  name: 'button',
-  Button: ToolbarButton,
-  Element: ButtonElement,
-  plugins: [withButton],
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/plugin.ts b/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/plugin.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 665bc1430..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/elements/Button/plugin.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-import type { Editor } from 'slate'
-
-export const withButton = (incomingEditor: Editor): Editor => {
-  const editor = incomingEditor
-  const { isVoid } = editor
-
-  editor.isVoid = (element) => (element.type === 'button' ? true : isVoid(element))
-
-  return editor
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/Button/index.tsx b/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/Button/index.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 3913e283c..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/Button/index.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-import React from 'react'
-
-import LeafButton from '../../../../../../../packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/RichText/leaves/Button'
-
-const Button = () => <LeafButton format="purple-background">Purple Background</LeafButton>
-
-export default Button
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/Leaf/index.tsx b/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/Leaf/index.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index a0256dcd4..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/Leaf/index.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-import React from 'react'
-
-const PurpleBackground: React.FC<any> = ({ attributes, children }) => (
-  <span {...attributes} style={{ backgroundColor: 'purple' }}>
-    {children}
-  </span>
-)
-
-export default PurpleBackground
diff --git a/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/index.ts b/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/index.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index b0ad9b62e..000000000
--- a/test/admin/components/richText/leaves/PurpleBackground/index.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-import Button from './Button/index.js'
-import Leaf from './Leaf/index.js'
-
-export default {
-  name: 'purple-background',
-  Button,
-  Leaf,
-}
diff --git a/test/admin/components/views/CustomDefault/index.tsx b/test/admin/components/views/CustomDefault/index.tsx
index ea10fb572..fbdafef51 100644
--- a/test/admin/components/views/CustomDefault/index.tsx
+++ b/test/admin/components/views/CustomDefault/index.tsx
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ import LinkImport from 'next/link.js'
 import { redirect } from 'next/navigation.js'
 import React from 'react'
 
-import type { AdminViewProps } from '../../../../../packages/payload/types.js'
-
 const Link = (LinkImport.default || LinkImport) as unknown as typeof LinkImport.default
 
+import type { AdminViewProps } from 'payload/types'
+
 import { Button } from '@payloadcms/ui/elements/Button'
 import { SetStepNav } from '@payloadcms/ui/elements/StepNav'
 
diff --git a/test/auth/config.ts b/test/auth/config.ts
index 15bed3b8a..2b231b469 100644
--- a/test/auth/config.ts
+++ b/test/auth/config.ts
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ export default buildConfigWithDefaults({
           custom: 'Hello, world!',
           email: devUser.email,
           password: devUser.password,
+          roles: ['admin'],
         },
       })
 
diff --git a/test/auth/payload-types.ts b/test/auth/payload-types.ts
index dadfe21b7..90baa3a3c 100644
--- a/test/auth/payload-types.ts
+++ b/test/auth/payload-types.ts
@@ -156,6 +156,6 @@ export interface PayloadMigration {
 
 
 declare module 'payload' {
-  // @ts-ignore 
+  // @ts-ignore
   export interface GeneratedTypes extends Config {}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/test/dataloader/config.ts b/test/dataloader/config.ts
index be3424a43..e05d248c0 100644
--- a/test/dataloader/config.ts
+++ b/test/dataloader/config.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { slateEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-slate'
 
+import type { Post } from './payload-types.js'
+
 import { buildConfigWithDefaults } from '../buildConfigWithDefaults.js'
 import { devUser } from '../credentials.js'
 
@@ -79,6 +81,6 @@ export default buildConfigWithDefaults({
   },
 })
 
-export const postDoc = {
+export const postDoc: Pick<Post, 'title'> = {
   title: 'test post',
 }
diff --git a/test/dataloader/int.spec.ts b/test/dataloader/int.spec.ts
index c86dddd8d..2d57ab042 100644
--- a/test/dataloader/int.spec.ts
+++ b/test/dataloader/int.spec.ts
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ describe('dataloader', () => {
       })
 
       const innerMostRelationship =
+        // @ts-expect-error Deep typing not worth doing
         relationAWithDepth.relationship.relationship.richText[1].value.relationship.relationship
 
       expect(innerMostRelationship).toStrictEqual(relationB.id)
diff --git a/test/graphql-schema-gen/payload-types.ts b/test/graphql-schema-gen/payload-types.ts
index 165418181..b74a99f4d 100644
--- a/test/graphql-schema-gen/payload-types.ts
+++ b/test/graphql-schema-gen/payload-types.ts
@@ -154,5 +154,6 @@ export interface PayloadMigration {
 
 
 declare module 'payload' {
+  // @ts-ignore
   export interface GeneratedTypes extends Config {}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/test/helpers/sdk/index.ts b/test/helpers/sdk/index.ts
index 5998f13a2..bf5f5310e 100644
--- a/test/helpers/sdk/index.ts
+++ b/test/helpers/sdk/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import type { SendMailOptions } from 'nodemailer'
 import type { PaginatedDocs } from 'payload/database'
+import type { SendEmailOptions } from 'payload/types'
 
 import type {
   CreateArgs,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ export class PayloadTestSDK<TGeneratedTypes extends GeneratedTypes<TGeneratedTyp
     })
   }
 
-  sendEmail = async ({ jwt, ...args }: { jwt?: string } & SendMailOptions): Promise<unknown> => {
+  sendEmail = async ({ jwt, ...args }: { jwt?: string } & SendEmailOptions): Promise<unknown> => {
     return this.fetch({
       operation: 'sendEmail',
       args,
diff --git a/test/live-preview/utilities/formatLivePreviewURL.ts b/test/live-preview/utilities/formatLivePreviewURL.ts
index d74dea0e4..a398b8d8e 100644
--- a/test/live-preview/utilities/formatLivePreviewURL.ts
+++ b/test/live-preview/utilities/formatLivePreviewURL.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import type { LivePreviewConfig } from 'payload/config'
 
-import type { Tenant } from '../payload-types.js'
-
 export const formatLivePreviewURL: LivePreviewConfig['url'] = async ({
   data,
   collectionConfig,
@@ -13,7 +11,7 @@ export const formatLivePreviewURL: LivePreviewConfig['url'] = async ({
   // For example, multi-tenant apps may need to lookup additional data
   if (data.tenant) {
     try {
-      const fullTenant = (await payload
+      const fullTenant = await payload
         .find({
           collection: 'tenants',
           where: {
@@ -24,7 +22,7 @@ export const formatLivePreviewURL: LivePreviewConfig['url'] = async ({
           limit: 1,
           depth: 0,
         })
-        .then((res) => res?.docs?.[0])) as Tenant
+        .then((res) => res?.docs?.[0])
 
       if (fullTenant?.clientURL) {
         baseURL = `${fullTenant.clientURL}/live-preview`
diff --git a/test/plugin-cloud-storage/int.spec.ts b/test/plugin-cloud-storage/int.spec.ts
index 9cfea43d3..bb834e410 100644
--- a/test/plugin-cloud-storage/int.spec.ts
+++ b/test/plugin-cloud-storage/int.spec.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import * as AWS from '@aws-sdk/client-s3'
 import path from 'path'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'
 
+import type { Config } from './payload-types.js'
+
 import { describeIfInCIOrHasLocalstack } from '../helpers.js'
 import { initPayloadInt } from '../helpers/initPayloadInt.js'
 import configPromise from './config.js'
@@ -103,7 +105,7 @@ describe('@payloadcms/plugin-cloud-storage', () => {
     uploadId,
     prefix = '',
   }: {
-    collectionSlug: string
+    collectionSlug: keyof Config['collections']
     prefix?: string
     uploadId: number | string
   }) {
diff --git a/test/tsconfig.typecheck.json b/test/tsconfig.typecheck.json
index db7501ac8..b5d2267a3 100644
--- a/test/tsconfig.typecheck.json
+++ b/test/tsconfig.typecheck.json
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "noEmit": true,
-    // Ideally, this should be "." once we get rid of all relative package paths
-    "rootDir": "..",
-    "declaration": true,
-    "declarationMap": true,
-    "outDir": "./just-in-case",
+    "rootDir": ".",
+    "baseUrl": ".",
     "target": "esnext",
     "module": "NodeNext",
     "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
@@ -17,25 +14,89 @@
     "lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"],
     "resolveJsonModule": true,
     "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "sourceMap": true,
-    "strict": false,
     "types": ["jest", "node", "@types/jest"],
-    "incremental": true,
+    // "incremental": true,
     "isolatedModules": true,
     "plugins": [
       {
         "name": "next"
       }
     ],
-    "paths": {}
+    "paths": {
+      "@payload-config": ["./_community/config.ts"]
+    }
   },
-  "exclude": ["dist", "build", "node_modules", ".eslintrc.js", "dist/**/*.js", "**/dist/**/*.js"],
+  "exclude": ["dist", "build", "temp", "node_modules"],
   "include": [
     // "./test/_community/**/*.ts"
-    "./**/*.ts"
-    // "/**/*.ts",
+    // "./_community/**/*.ts"
+    "/**/*.ts"
     // "../packages/**/src/**/*.ts",
     // "../packages/**/src/**/*.tsx"
   ],
-  "references": []
+  "references": [
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/create-payload-app"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/db-mongodb"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/db-postgres"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/graphql"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/live-preview"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/live-preview-react"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/next"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/payload"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-cloud-storage"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-cloud"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-form-builder"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-nested-docs"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-redirects"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-search"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-sentry"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-seo"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/plugin-stripe"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/richtext-slate"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/richtext-lexical"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/translations"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../packages/ui"
+    }
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/test/versions/e2e.spec.ts b/test/versions/e2e.spec.ts
index 150bd8ead..790de3dc5 100644
--- a/test/versions/e2e.spec.ts
+++ b/test/versions/e2e.spec.ts
@@ -580,6 +580,7 @@ describe('versions', () => {
         collection: autosaveCollectionSlug,
         data: {
           title: 'some title',
+          description: 'some description',
         },
         draft: true,
       })
diff --git a/test/versions/seed.ts b/test/versions/seed.ts
index 98fdd39eb..1f00522c9 100644
--- a/test/versions/seed.ts
+++ b/test/versions/seed.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 import { type Payload } from 'payload'
 
+import type { DraftPost } from './payload-types.js'
+
 import { devUser } from '../credentials.js'
 import { executePromises } from '../helpers/executePromises.js'
 import { titleToDelete } from './shared.js'
 import { draftCollectionSlug } from './slugs.js'
 
 export async function seed(_payload: Payload, parallel: boolean = false) {
-  const blocksField = [
+  const blocksField: DraftPost['blocksField'] = [
     {
       blockType: 'block',
-      localized: 'text',
-      text: 'text',
+      localized: null,
+      text: 'Hello World',
     },
   ]