Past Yer Pasture 3D Printed Board Game

Past Yer Pasture is a great opener game for 2 players that is easy, plays in 15 minutes, and has infinite replayability.

The grass is always greener, or so they say. The goats and the sheep both want to cross the same mountain to get to the pastures beyond where they can eat until they’re fat. Try to be the first to get your flock past the other to win.

Past Yer Pasture is a game for your home 3D printer. All pieces are designed to print with minimal or no supports. The pieces can be printed all in the same color, changing colors for different pieces, changing tile colors at certain layers, or in full color, if that option exists for all ranges of 3D printers.

Inspired by Sid Sackson’s “Cross Currents” from Games Magazine Aug/Sept 1989

How to Play

Objective

Be the first player to get all of your pieces into your opponents starting row.

Setup

Scramble up the board tiles and place them in 3 rows of 5 to make a randomized 5x6 board.

Place the goats along one border, and the sheep along the opposite border. Give one die to each player.

High roll goes first.

Moving

On the first player’s first turn they roll their die and get that many movement points for their turn (movement explained below). In subsequent moves, each player rolls their dice but gets the sum of both dice in movement points.

Movement Cost

Pieces can only move into unoccupied orthogonal (not diagonal) spaces. The number of movement points required to make a move is the difference between the numbers on the two spaces, unless the two spaces have the same number, in which case still takes one point to make the move.

The player can use up to their amount of movement points moving any number of pieces on their turn. A player is permitted to stop before all of their movement points for that turn have been used. 

After one piece has moved you have the option to bank your remaining movement points. Take a hoof token for each movement point you want to bank. You cannot have more than 5 movement points banked. 

On any move you can spend hoof tokens for additional movement points.

Manufacturing Notes:

All pieces are designed to print with no supports.

Multi-color printing is not required.

However, if multi color printing is desired, to save on filament changes, the tiles can be printed as though they were single color, but changing filament at the appropriate layers, then adding a little paint to the number dots.

The dice can also be printed single color and have the dots painted in.

The lid of the box is the perfect size for putting the tiles in to make the board.

The instructions can be printed in booklet mode (or 2 pages per sheet) folded over, and will fit in the box.