Earthborne Rangers - Challenge Tokens - Free 3D Print Model

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NullRef

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3 Plates - One for each type (Crest / Mountain / Sun)

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1 Plate - All tokens together

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I recently started playing Earthborne Rangers and have had a great time playing it so far, but I found repeatedly shuffling the challenge deck a bit tedious, as it happens so frequently. I noticed that creator samb001 also found this an issue and chose to solve it by replacing the cards with tokens, favouring instead to blindly draw from a bag, and as such shuffling becomes much easier.

While I liked the challenge tokens they had created, this remix aims to improve on them in the following ways:

I've reduced the thickness (from 1.8mm down to 1.2mm)
I've improved the readability by giving all the numbers the same colour (bone white).
I've created a icon on the back of the token to denote the type of challenge card that the token represents, rather than relying on the border of the token.
Alongside the icon on the back, I've also included a “shuffle” icon, rather than relying on me having to remember that all “-2” tokens mean a reshuffle (I'm already pretty bad at remembering to shuffle anyway!)

It's worth noting that the Red (Crest) and Blue (Mountain) tokens by default use 5 colours, and the Orange (Sun) tokens use 6, which means that it technically shouldn't be possible to print these in one go on an A1 with AMS Lite, however it can be done with a little bit of manual filament swapping. To do this, I'll outline my process below:

Ensure that the printer is loaded with:
1. the colour for the background of the base (Blue for Mountain, Orange for Sun, Red for Crest)
2. the colour for the borders (some kind of White)
3. plus the first two colours that the token will print out of the top corners.
Keep the profile's initial amount of colours. It will be 5+.
Check the print process of the 5th and 6th layers, and note the order that the colours will print.
Ensure that when you select Print, map missing colours to the spools of the a colour that has previously been printed in that layer.
Once the print finishes a colour that needs to be swapped over, do so while it is progressing with the rest of the print. This doesn't have to be rushed as there's plenty of time between flushing and printing colours already on the AMS.
Repeat until all the colours have had their turn in the AMS. You may need to swap a colour back again for the 6th layer.

It's a bit fiddly, and would certainly be one of the higher maintenance prints I've done so far, but I far prefer this approach (rather than printing parts separately) as it allows a single piece to be produced with no gluing or seams of any kind.

Of course, if you have a printer that supports 5 or 6 colours then this is a non-issue. Similarly, if you are happy to compromise on some of the colour choices, then I'm sure it's possible to just print in 4 colours.

The steps I've listed above are admittedly a little vague, so if anyone is interested in more detailed instructions, I can lend a hand.

Filaments Used:

SUNLU PLA - Bone White
SUNLU PLA - Green
SUNLU PLA - Yellow
eSUN PLA+ - Fire Engine Red
SUNLU PLA - Blue
SUNLU PLA - Orange

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@JoseMorais

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I loved your design. It will be way better to use chip bag instead of the cards. Unfortunately, my printer only prints 4 colors, and I am having a hard time figuring out how to print 6 colors. Simulated here and I would probably have to change colors 4 or 5 times because of the printing orders.

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@nullref

Yeah, apologies, it's not the easiest print to set off. The example of how do do this specifically with the "Crests (Red)" plate: I start with Cream (A1), Red (A2), Yellow (A3), and Green (A4) on the AMS Lite. In the table I've provided you can see the order in which the colours want to print. If you look at the highlighted part of that table, Blue needs to be swapped in at some point, and the best place is to put it on A4 where Green is. So, when you go to print, we say that Blue is going to be handled by A4 (see the Print Filament mapping dialog screenshot), then, while Red is printing on layer 5, you can swap out Green for Blue (you can pause if you like, but you should have plenty of time). Then once Blue is done on layer 6, swap it back to Green again. It's a mid-print colour swap, but it's pretty easy to do and it allows for 4+ colour printing, which I think is well worth it!

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@user_4253885367

Replying to @nullref :

Where are you seeing that first image? For the life of me I don't see what button to press in bambulabs slicer. I tried printing a single red crest, and it seems it requires at least 4 swaps (color for white, white for color, repeat, something like that).

@nullref

Replying to @user_4253885367 :

When you say first image, are you referring to the table I made to explain the filament print order?

@RaidJTC

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Printed great. Made them a bit thicker and they look awesome. Thanks!!

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@nullref

Oh, amazing. They look great! I was starting to wonder if they were too challenging of a print…! Did you do it with a printer that allowed more than 4 colours or did you go for the “spool-shuffle” approach that I’ve (tried) to document above?

@RaidJTC

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Replying to @nullref :

Just the one AMS so had to swap a bit. Followed your instructions and had no issues (except when I forgot to switch blue back to green the first time). Luckily, if you make a mistake the top layer really helps hide it. Wasn’t too bad at all.

@Iceman98

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1 Plate - All tokens together

They look gorgeous, and it's so much better to shuffle these than the cards.

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@nullref

Amazing! Glad to see you got it working :) Bizarrely I’ve not actually played the game since I designed and printed these, so I'm glad to hear they work well :)

@Wisp

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Perfect! Switching out colors mid print is way easier than it may seem. After slicing just check the order in which colors are printed each layer to find out where you should plan your ‘swapping window’. When sending the print to your printer check where your colors are located on the spools so you can tell the printer on which spool they can expect which color 👍

@user_4253885367

This is probably more of a generic question that some googling on my own would answer - but since it's a flat surface, it's pretty rough on the top. Did you try smoothing it through any method? I'll probably sand it, rather than buy something to layer on top, but maybe there's a neat settings trick to make the printer do it for me (like ironing)?

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@nullref

Yes, there’s absolutely the iron top layers setting. I’ve watched a couple videos on it. From what I can remember your mileage may vary based on a number of things. For what it’s worth, I didn’t (and generally don’t) bother with ironing. this video was pretty informative: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJxxJwK8To&;pp=ygUdYmFtYnUgc3R1ZGlvIGlyb25pbmcgc2V0dGluZ3M%3D