Too Many Bones Trove Chest Organizers

April 15, 2026 Update:  There is a new tray to hold Trover along with all of his skill dice, initiative die, chips, heat-up peg, the relevant tyrant dice, and his bag.  I also added a miscellaneous card tray to the top tyrant drawer.  You can place Carcass's recipe cards either in Carcass's Gearloc tray or in this new card tray.  You will also need to move Riffle's deck to sit above the card trays in the drawer that holds most of the cards.  There are photos and a video to show you where to move things.

December 9, 2024 Update:  I updated the Baddie trays so they now hold all of the released promo chips to date, including the set of Korean Baddies released late last year.  As before, there are two options for the trays.  One set is if you have either the CTG 2020 Promo Pack or the BGG Chinese Baddies, and the other is if you have both.  The Chinese Baddies are duplicative of the 2020 Promo Pack, which includes English versions of those same Baddies, but some people like to keep both in their trays.  The revised trays now make it a bit easier to retrieve the small adventure mat tracker from the drawer.  The heads/tails promo chip goes with the lane dividers and thick day counter.  Let me know if you have any questions.

October 14, 2024 Update:  Added new tyrant trays to make room for three new trays to hold the Gearloc Brassmags in the tyrant drawers.  Also added a chip divider for those who do not have enough to divide the Baddies according to every point value.  I also cleaned up this listing a bit and provided a new video overview of everything in the chest, including the new trays added today.

This is a set of trays to further organize the Too Many Bones Trove Chest.  Here are the trays and their features.

Separate Setup Card Trays for Base Game, Undertow, and Unbreakable

• These are stored in the main card row, and each tray has a labeled handle.  Just grab the set you want and you are on your way to playing.  

• I created two versions of these trays.  Option 1 has open space below the handle, which makes it a bit easier to get the cards out of the innermost slots on the trays.  These print without supports, but I recommend printing them with a low layer height so the overhangs are smaller.  Option 2 makes the handle solid all the way to the bottom of the tray, so there is no issue with overhangs and they may provide cleaner prints for some.  

• The photos show where each type of card goes, but the cards all generally go in the following order. 

  • Special Encounters

  • Day 1 Cards

  • Day 2 Cards

  • Day 3 Cards (only applies to the base game)

  • A slot for miscellaneous cards (e.g., Day Counter card, encounter deck cover card, Rage of Tyranny/40 Waves/40 Caves rules cards, and campaign cards for Undertow and Unbreakable, if you choose to include them here instead of in the dedicated campaign tray described below)

  • Solo Encounters

  • General Encounters

• Each slot has room for the related expansion cards.  For example, the base game Day 1 slot has room for the base game Day 1 cards, the Age of Tyranny Day 1 cards, and the Rage of Tyranny base game Day 1 cards.

Separate Loot and Trove Loot Trays for Base Game, Undertow, and Unbreakable

• I prefer to keep my Loot separated by the set the Loot came from.  With these trays, I can grab the one I need, place it on the table, give a quick shuffle, and the Loot is ready to go.  

• Each tray is labeled with TMB, Undertow, or Unbreakable.  To keep the text to be sharp, I recommend printing these with a 0.4 mm nozzle at 0.2 mm layer height.

• The filenames for the separate trays begin with “TMB Loot - Option 3.”  

• For all you maniacs who like to mix your Loot from base, Undertow, and Unbreakable, I created an alternate set of Loot trays that fit in the same space as the separate Loot trays described above.  There are two advantages to this alternative set of trays.  

  • They can hold more Loot cards.  If you play with lots of promo Loot, these may better accommodate your prodigious collection.  

  • The Trove Loot stack is much shorter than the regular Loot stack, so I reduced the height of the Trove Loot portion of the tray and filled in that missing vertical space with another card tray that rests on top of the Trove Loot portion.  You can store other cards in that tray if you'd like (perhaps any promo loot you have that you don't regularly use).  I don’t have photos of this mixed-Loot version, but if you look at the .stl files that begin with “TMB Loot - Option 4,” you’ll see how the trays look.

• Print one set of the files with Option 3 or Option 3 in their name.

• The Loot trays here (either Option 3 or 4) replace the acrylic Loot and encounter tray that comes with the Trove Chest.

• (Options 1 and 2 are older versions of the trays that do not work if you are using the Baddie queue trays discussed below.  Although they are no longer preferred, I have left them on the listing in case anyone prefers them and still wants access to those files.)

Build-a-Tyrant and Nobulous Apprenticeship Program Tray

• A Build-a-Tyrant and Nobulous Apprenticeship Program tray holds all of the lab dice, spliced tyrant dice, spliced tyrant initiative die, spliced tyrant stat dice, Nob and Apprentice cards, and yellow pegs.  

• You still use the Build-a-Tyrant tyrant tray to hold the BAT tyrant encounter cards, the BAT tyrant card, and the spliced and proto-tyrant chips, but this tray holds essentially everything else you need.  

• By moving so many dice to this tray, it also frees up a lot of room in the other dice trays kept elsewhere in the Trove Chest, giving you some breathing room in those trays.

Campaign Tray

• A campaign tray holds all of the Age of Tyranny components, including the campaign cards, boon cards, scar cards, scar tokens, and scar dice.

• A nested tray holds the Undertow and Unbreakable campaign cards.  This tray has recesses that lock on to ridges on the main Age of Tyranny Tray to hold it in place.  

• If you prefer to place the Undertow and Unbreakable campaign cards in the larger setup trays described above, they will fit in the provided slot for miscellaneous cards.  You could then use this nested tray for a different purpose (e.g., to hold promo cards you don't regularly use).

Holders for Gale's Blue Upgrade Tokens and Polaris's Orbs

• These are circular cups that are the diameter of a chip.  They fit in the chip storage slot in Gale’s and Polaris’s Gearloc trays, and they hold Gale’s blue upgrade tokens and Polaris’s orbs.  

• Place these holders underneath the Gale and Polaris Gearloc chips, and the Gearloc trays will close flush.

Baddie Trays

• These trays hold all the Baddies in the lower-left drawer of the Trove Chest.  

• Baddies are separated by type, and there are columns where you can also store your setup chips (lane markers, wreckage, lava, thick day counter, adventure map token, and Lab Rats health chips).  

• The lanes are sized to fit all the regularly released content (base, Undertow, Unbreakable, and Automaton of Shale), nearly all known promos (minus the latest Korean promos), and three clear CTG dividers per typical Baddie row (one each for 1/5/20 point Baddies).  Later this year, I will update these trays to also hold the Korean Baddies.

• Everything is spaced so you do not need to remove the Baddie trays from the drawer to get the chips out.

• There are two versions of the Baddie trays.  It turns out that the 2020 CTG promo pack contains the same Baddies as the Chinese Baddie promo pack sold on the BGG Store.  The only difference is the language used on the chips.  Since many people will own only one set of these Baddies, Option 1 of the Baddie trays supports either the 2020 CTG promo pack baddies OR the Chinese Baddies.  But for you uber-completionists out there, Option 2 supports both sets.

• New October 14, 2024:  A Baddie chip divider for those who do not have enough of the clear dividers to separate the Baddies by point value.  When printing these, ensure that there are no seams along the edges of the circular areas where the Baddie and point value stickers are to be placed.  At least on my printer, if there are seams at the edges of these circular areas, they will print with holes at those seams.

Baddie Queue Trays

• A huge thanks to Hextra for conceiving of these trays and printing the many prototypes I sent him.

• Because the Baddie stacks have now gotten quite tall, especially with some tyrants, you can print a set of Baddie queue trays.  They each have four columns to hold chips with adjustable dividers.  Just grab the Baddie types you need from the Baddie trays, mix up the 1s/5s/20s, place them in rows in the BQ trays, and you are all set to draw from these trays to create your Baddie queues during the game.

• These trays fit inverted over the top of the Baddie trays, so you can store them directly in the same Trove Chest drawer as the Baddies.  

• There is a slot in one of the Baddie trays to hold the dividers.  

• There are two versions of the BQ trays:  one with puzzle-shaped connectors to hold the two BQ trays together and one without the puzzle-shaped connectors.  Most of my photos show the version without, but you can see the puzzle connection in one of the photos.

Tyrant Trays (New as of October 14, 2024)

• Individual tyrant trays customized to the components for each tyrant.

• But don't CTG's tyrant trays already do this?  Generally yes.  But by making custom trays for each, I can fit many more tyrants in a single tyrant drawer than the one-size-fits-all trays that come with the Trove Chest.  With the saved space, I was able to fit the Gearloc Brassmag minis into the Trove Chest as well.  Also, some of the tyrants do not fit very well in the stock trays (e.g., Goblin Queen with her many loot cards from Rage of Tyranny).

• The tyrant trays are individually labeled on the top.  If you do not have additional tyrant stickers, you can just read the name of the tyrant directly from the tray itself.  But if you do have some additional tyrant stickers, you can place them in a recess that is on the top of the tray.

• Each tray has a small handle that allows you to grab any tyrant directly and pull it out of the box.

• Once out, the trays allow you to see nearly the entire front of the tyrant card without opening the tray.  This helps you quickly see how many days the adventure may be, as well as the Baddie types.

• The inside of each tray holds all tyrant-related components (dice, chips, and cards, including promo chips and cards), including components from Rage of Tyranny.

• For the Automaton of Shale, I also sized the tray so it will hold all the AoS loot.  You can choose to store it with the tyrant or mix it with your other loot.

• The trays are intended to be placed in alphabetical order, although the exact order is not essential.  However, if you plan to use the Gearloc Brassmag trays as well, it is important to put Mulmesh, Nexus, Nobulous, Nom, Oxide, Rok & Rol, and Vol'Kesh in the tray with the Brassmag trays.  Doing so will ensure that the Brassmag trays fit properly.

• Another huge thanks to Hextra for testing prototypes of these trays, as well as the Gearloc Brassmag trays listed below.

Gearloc Brassmag Trays (New as of October 14, 2024)

• Three trays to hold all the Gearloc Brassmag minis.  These are similar to my bot trays for burncycle, if you are familiar with those.  See the video below if you are not familiar with how those trays work.

• Place the Brassmag on the corresponding Gearloc chip and place it in the specific slot labeled for that Gearloc.  The Gearlocs are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right on the trays.

• Dart and Boar'd, as well as Duster and Nightshade, should each be paired into the single slot bearing the pair's names.  Both of their chips will also fit in the double-wide chip slots for them.

• If you have all the promos and the ally pack, you will have one extra chip each for Ghillie and Tink that will not fit in the Gearloc storage trays that come with the Trove Chest.  I made a double-wide slot for each on the Gearloc trays so you can now hold all their chips in the main Gearloc tray plus the Brassmag mini tray.

• The slots for the Lab Rats are all the same size, so you can store any Lab Rat in any space labeled “Lab Rat.”

• Since Gale and Polaris will now have their chips stored with the Brassmags, Gale's scars and Polaris's orbs may be able to fall out of the standard Gearloc trays through the holes in the tops of those trays.  To prevent this, print the Gale and Polaris chip lids that I added to the listing, and place them over the top of the little scar/orb holders in the main Gearloc trays.  The video shows this in more detail.

To achieve the trays as shown (although your prints will undoubtedly look better than mine), print two of “TMB Polaris Orbs and Gale Blue Upgrades x2,” 24 of the tyrant tray covers, as many Baddie chip dividers as you want, and one of everything else (selecting appropriate options, as desired).  Everything prints without supports, but I suggest using a low layer height on the setup trays so the overhangs on the undersides of the arched handles print better.

I have included the original OpenSCAD files in case anyone wants to improve on the designs for non-commercial purposes.

Here is an updated YouTube video showing how it all fits.  Sorry for the bad quality, but the video should give you a good idea of how you might want to organize the content.

Trover and Misc Card Tray (New as of April 15, 2026)

I added a new tray to hold Trover along with all of his skill dice, initiative die, chips, heat-up peg, the relevant tyrant dice, and his bag.  The bag that comes with Trover is quite small, so I replaced it with a larger microfiber bag from the BGG Store (13 cm x 16 cm, I believe).  Either bag will fit in Trover's tray with the dice.  There is also room to store a set of four stat dice in Trover's tray.  You can grab these from another Gearloc or purchase any four 16 mm D6 dice you'd like. 

My primary design goals were to:

• have enough room in the tray to include everything you'd need to play with Trover, without needing to fish components out of several other trays;

• make it easy to look through the tyrant dice to find one that corresponds with a tyrant you are using, as many of the tyrant dice are now stored in Trover's tray;

• store a larger bag; and

• fit everything sensibly in the Trove Chest.

As shown in the photos and the video below, Trover's tray now occupies the space where I used to store Riffle's deck and Carcass's recipe cards.  I moved Riffle's deck to sit above the card trays in the drawer that holds most of the cards (see photos or video). For Carcass's cards, you can either store them in Carcass's Gearloc tray or a new miscellaneous card tray that I added to the top tyrant drawer.

For more details, here is a video overview:

To print the updated trays, go to the folder called "Trover Update" and print the Trover tray & lid, plus the Misc Cards tray & lid.

For the Trover label, I didn't like that it had an & at the front.  It makes sense if you use the sticker on Riffle's tray, the way Chip Theory recommends storing Trover.  That way it looks like it says "Riffle & Trover."  But with Trover having his own tray, I opted to cut off the & from the front of his label.  There is an indentation on the side of the lid where the sticker will fit if you do the same trimming, as shown in the photos.