For context we played for her first time over Christmas with my family and she got addicted. Came home from work to this masterpiece. Gotta love proof you picked the right person :)

About six months ago I started this project of a fully hand made Catan set. I'd already shared some pictures of my progress earlier and I'm glad to say I'm finally finished!

I wanted animals on each of the land tiles and for the knights I didn't want them to all be the same generic knights so I made them warriors from all over the world.

All the land and sea tiles are cut out cardboard that I drew on with coloured pensil and then preserved with some acrylic varnish. All the development and resource cards are cut out paper in plastic sleaves. The houses and roads are made of clay that I painted.

I'm quite happy with how it all turned out, but it was a lot more work than I anticipated.

Hey Settlers! 🐑
Since the first time I played CATAN (~25 years ago 🙈), I’ve been hooked. So I tried something a bit wild: I rebuilt the entire game in LEGO – tiles, ports, roads, cities, the robber, everything – and also made sure it’s actually fully playable and not just for display…

Just a few details:

• ~5,000 pieces and still super sturdy (yes, we actually play on it 😊)

• Fully modular: packs down quickly or hangs as 3D wall art when game night is over (see the pictures)

• Designed to work with expansions (Cities & Knights, Seafarers, 5-6 players...)

• Built to feel good in your hand - chunky cities and roads + play stand to keep everything organized

• Additional accessories: trophies, card holders, bank, dice tower etc. all completely out of LEGO…

So as you can see, I really went a little crazy… I was just hooked by the idea that I couldn’t let go anymore. Every time I sat down, I wanted to make it a little better… 🤷‍♂️

And now I am quite curious what you think of it. Do you like it? Is it too much? Would you even consider to play on it? Any must-use house rules I should build around?

Please go easy on me – it’s kind of my baby at this point 😅 But I’d still love to hear what you really think of it…

👉 And if you want to support this project on LEGO Ideas, here is the link:
LEGO Ideas: CATAN - The Game & 3D Wall Art

Birthday cake a friend of mine made for my birthday a while back I thought this would be a place where it'd be truly appreciated. Hoping to give her a boost on her instagram page as a thank you https://www.instagram.com/little_rose_cakes/ . Its also vegan!

Small background: my eldest child has recently been interested in playing more advanced board/card games. Got Catan for Christmas after getting nostalgia for when I played with friends several years ago. My wife and daughter were a bit unsure at first but as we sat down and played it, they got into it. Now we play on a weekly basis and always suggest this more than other games.

Reminder this sub is for all skill levels, keep it civil in the comments

We're going to play this map tonight with friends.

I made this custom resin Catan and I wonder if anyone would actually buy them, with all the cool 3D printed ones I see! If you would buy one, how much would you pay?

I made it myself, just used a tiny little bit of AI (basically built the whole thing with AI). Now I'm just going to spam the subreddit daily because my idea is so original and nobody has done it before.

Oh, and if you could test it and give me free feedback, that would be awesome!

(sarcasm)