I printed myself a sushi go insert with my new A1!
(Picture stolen from its creator)
And as nothing existed to get grand Austria hotel + let’s waltz into a single box I designed and printed my own solution:)
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For anyone else struggling, the Agricola (z-man) folded space insert fits in the GAH box and does a serviceable+ job organizing. That is what I have. (and a 3d printer is what I do not have)
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Are those custom bits? One of my sticking points with Grand Austria Hotel is that everything is cubes (the enemy of theme).
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They are. A gift from my wife. 3d printed by someone else.
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I spent a whole day modelling (and another printing) this insert for Emberleaf + expansion.
I feel like I’ve betrayed the foam-core fraternity, but you can squeeze so much in!
Particularly proud of the (hard to see) trays for each type of animal that pop straight on the player boards and have windows in the bottom that show the icons for when the animeeples are removed.
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I haven’t built any foamcore lately. If I had a 3D printer I would definitely print a few inserts.
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Heh, I still have my library to produce card holders in whatever desired internal and external size, with steps…
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I’ve been busy making inserts now that my CAD skills are improving.
Gazebo
Night soil
And rolling heights
Next up will likely be taverns of tiefenthal with the expansion, or perhaps an attempt to get arnak and expansions in as few boxes as possible (1 seems unlikely!)
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Looks very professional!
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While that meeple tray for Rolling Heights looks amazing, it also looks a lot more troublesome to work with than just a baggie for the different colors. But I don’t know the game, so maybe it’s perfect.
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Each player only has around 10 meeples maximum. Finding them from a jumble was frustrating and seeing how many are left can be important. Given the excess space it doesn’t really matter where exactly they go back in so I’m hoping it will be fine!
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Wingspan and three expansions (Europe, Oceania, and Americas) in the base game box. I’ve cheated a bit by keeping the solo mode stuff in a separate box. I’ve also only kept the player boards from Oceania and ditched all of the stupid card trays.
I haven’t tried getting the Asia expansion in there yet, just because it’s currently living in a cupboard in our motorhome which is packed up for the winter. I might go and retrieve it soon for the purposes of more bird Tetris… I suspect I’d have to get rid of the birdfeeder to get everything in.
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Are the expansions to this worth it? I’ve only played the base game once but, other than looking pretty, the different birds just give similar mechanical benefits. Whats the benefit (again, other than looking pretty) of getting different birds?
I will freely admit that I mostly buy the expansions because I enjoy having more birds and more bird facts 
Each of the expansions does add new mechanical elements though:
- Europe: adds birds with powers that trigger at the end of the round (in addition to when activated or when played)
- Oceania: adds birds with powers that trigger at the end of the game, as well as a new ‘wild’ food type that disappears at the end of the round (nectar), and a new scoring mechanism (points for spending the most nectar. Also adds my favourite round end goals: “birds with beaks pointing left” and “birds with beaks pointing right”
- Asia: Adds a standalone 2-player mode (hence why it’s in the motorhome) and a 6-7 player mode that supposedly doesn’t make the game take forever - haven’t tried that yet.
- Americas: adds the hummingbirds described above - probably the biggest mechanical change of all the expansions.
I’ve read that some people regard the Europe expansion as “fixing” the tendency to spend the whole of the last round using the lay eggs action.
Worth-it-ness ranking for me personally:
- Oceania
- Americas
- Europe
- Asia (I don’t especially want to play with 6-7 people and the duet mode wasn’t that much better than regular 2-player mode)
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