When everything is set up, this is a complete Catan set that plays for up to six people. The tabletop layout uses hex terrain tiles, round number tokens, and interlocking wooden border frame segments, with harbor docks that even come with miniature ships. Six sets of colored wooden playing pieces cover roads, settlements, and cities, so a full table is covered from one box.
Everything is cut from plywood sheets on a laser cutter, with printed or engraved graphical overlays adding the artwork to the pieces. Neodymium magnets act as the locking mechanisms throughout, holding parts in place during play. The storage side is where the project really shows its ambition: card-holding trays, small containers for every part, and a partitioned wooden insert that sits inside a large decorative box. That main box has engraved lid artwork reading CATAN and side latches held shut by magnets, plus a dedicated space for a printed rulebook.
Putting it away looks just as considered as setting it up. The board breaks down into modular edge segments and hex stacks, and the components get packed into individual wooden modular boxes with magnetic lids before everything slots into the master box. Given that the whole thing took the maker several months of work, that level of organization feels earned.
One open question: there is an alternative design that accommodates two different card sizes, and the maker has not spelled out which sizes that variant covers. Anyone curious can judge for themselves, since the source files are published for free on Thingiverse as thing number 7204267 and on an itch.io page. Talsi Sunstorm has said anyone who builds one is welcome to send a picture, which seems a fair ask for files this generously shared.
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