December 7, 2025
Description
I made some openable crates that can be used in various tabletop games! I thought that it'd be fun to have them be openable, as I could then put little pieces of paper inside each one that lists what's there when they're opened up. Maybe it's a crate full of fish, maybe there's a swarm of rats... there's only one way to find out! And sure, I could just tell my players what's inside each as they open them, but there's something fun about letting them actually open the crates themselves =)
I've made two versions, medium and small. The medium crate takes up a full 1 inch square, but if the board is busy it might be easier to use the small ones, which leave a bit of wiggle room in case some other model needs to overflow its own square a little bit.
These are designed to be printed with a 0.25 mm nozzle, as some of the walls are quite thin and so may not be printable with a larger nozzle. These are fairly slow prints, as the wood texture means that the printer doesn't have many straight lines and so doesn't spend much time at full speed. On the plus side, no supports are required!
As always, the .blend file and pre-supported .3mf (including the one that I used to print this on my Prusa MK4s, although the support points should work for SLA printers) for this model are available to my patrons at https://patreon.com/VirtuallyJason. If you appreciate my work and have a few dollars to spare each month, please consider joining!
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike