Magnetic Seafarers Catan Replacement Part Set for 5-6 Players - Dakanzla Designed

   I am a big fan of Dakanzla's magnetic 3D Catan design. I printed a mix of his two main Thingiverse postings with a few remixes with the set I made. (I didn't include every model from the two, see his page for everything) I also wanted to share the storage solutions I designed around his tiles and pieces within this post, and link some other makers whose models would be able to complete a fully 3D printed Catan board game with 5-6 player Seafarers expansion. If your board game is incomplete or the cards or other things are getting worn, take a look at those links. I already had the original board game with the 5-6 player expansion, so I just printed enough to make it 5-6 player Seafarers.

REMIXED:

I remixed Dakanzla's gold tile from his non-magnetic set and scaled it. I haven't printed the latest edit of this remix, but it matches the STL hex dimms, so it should be perfect now.

STORAGE SOLUTION:

My hexagonal storage containers and tile rack are also included with the Fusion 360 CAD files. I used M3 button cap screws and nuts to tie the racks together and I don't feel its the absolute best solution, but it works. The storage containers contain my personal motto because I didn't want the lid top to be too boring, but that can be easily changed in the CAD file.

MAGNETS, GLUE, AND TOLERANCES: (oh my)

For installing the 3x6mm magnets into the base tiles, Dakanzla's page contains excellent instructions on the best way to do it. I personally scaled the caps that lock in the magnets by 3.5 percent so it has a tight interference fit. You really need to do some test prints with the caps to make sure you got the fit perfect from your printer; you are going to be spending more time on that step than anything else. I used regular superglue after still having an undesirable rattle with a few of the assembled bases, and recommend that even with a tight cap fit.

FILAMENT COLOR & PAINTING:

The makes on his page are a great source of inspiration when deciding how to paint the tiles. (he also has multicolor too) I used eSun Bone White for the tiles, harbor tops, and robber. (probably took 2.5 kgs total) I definitely recommend buying a 500g variety PLA set for the player pieces; its just too tedious to paint them and they get handled too much for paint anyway. (Used tester model paints)

COMPONENT LIST:

For those wanting to verify they are not missing anything, here is a list of the components for a complete 5-6 player Seafarers Catan set:

TILES: 7 of each basic resource: wood, brick, wheat, sheep, and ore. 5 deserts, 4 gold, 11 harbors. For water tiles, I personally made 30 for doing the fog islands scenario, but you could print more if you really want every land edge surrounded by water for aesthetic reasons. (55 base magnet rings + X number for water)

NON-PLAYER PIECES: 1 robber, 1 corsair ship, 5 of the 3 to 1 harbor tops, 2 of each of the basic resource 2 to 1 harbor tops, 85 chit tokens, 2 d6 dice. 46 total number tokens - 3 of twos and twelves, 5 of all the others.

PLAYER PIECES: For each of the 6 player piece sets - 5 settlements, 4 cities, 15 ships, 15 roads, and optionally 10 crossing pieces.

DEVELOPMENT CARDS: 34 total - 20 knight cards, 5 victory point cards, 3 monopoly, year of plenty, and road building cards.

RESOURCE CARDS: 24 of each basic resource - wood, brick, wheat, sheep, ore.

OTHER CARDS: Largest army and longest road +2 victory point cards. 6 Build cost reminder cards for each player for the new or memory impaired.

FOG ISLANDS SCENARIO OPTIONAL ADDITIONS: A d12 for randomly selecting the resource value of the discovered tile. (link below) 1 and 7 would naturally be rerolls (could also include a card listing the draw limits of 1 desert, 3 sea, 3 gold max)

Dakanzla has lots of other custom models to play the other Seafarers' scenarios too, I just printed the ones we actually play. See his page for the others.

Links to other makers:

For a d12 to use for randomly drawing number tokens on Fog Islands: (adjust the scaling; its huge)

https://www.printables.com/make/3168559