Spirit Island Insert - All Content (through NI), Original Box, No Lid Lift

This insert fits all content from Spirit Island, Branch & Claw, Jagged Earth, Feather & Flame (Promo Pack 1 and Promo Pack 2), Horizons of Spirit Island, and Nature Incarnate in the original Spirit Island box, with no lid lift! It's a tight fit, but if like me you often travel with Spirit Island and are looking for the most compact way to bring it all, this is it.

NOTE: Requires the thinner “foil” Spirit panels that are sold separately.

Features

• All content through NI, including the Horizons board, Event board, rulebooks, and Horizons Quick Start manual
• Fits in the original Spirit Island box with absolutely no lid lift at all
• Spirit card dividers
• All trays are easy to remove (space for fingers where needed)
• All token trays are open and shallow, none of those "perfect fit" slots where you have to line up/stack tokens to put them away
• Two sets of trays, one for each side of the table, for Energy, effect tokens, Invaders, and Dahan
• Power & Event cards have quick-setup trays
• All components, cards, etc. are locked in place in defiance of even the most enthusiastic jostling
• Presence tray has a fun quick-release trap door mechanism

Compromises

• Does not support sleeves
• Requires thinner Spirit panels (purchased separately)
• No deluxe tokens (they would probably fit, just fewer of them)
• Most token trays are a little tight, so you sometimes have to adjust things a little to get them to lie flat
• Some tokens (particularly the Invaders and Dahan) will not fit the trays unless some pieces are excluded (still should be plenty for most players, especially when playing with 1-3)
• Excludes redundant components (e.g. Horizons's invader tokens)

Printing

I printed with the following settings:

• 0.4mm nozzle
• 0.20mm layer height
• Grid supports

Some trays, like the Adversary Reminders tray and the Energy tray, have feet that extrude 1mm under them to help lock them into the trays below them, meaning the majority of the tray will be printed with 1mm supports under it that can be a little annoying to remove. I found tweezers and patience worked well.

The most challenging part to print is the Presence tray, which requires numerous supports. I recommend printing it upside-down, which should require less filament overall. The corresponding doors should be undersized enough that tolerances don't have to be perfect for them to slide into and out of the slots, but they might need to be slid in and out a couple times to break them in and wear down little points of friction from the print.

I recommend printing the Presence tray and Adversary/Scenario cap piece upside down, and everything else right-side up.

Assembly

The included assembly guide shows how all the pieces fit together, and photos are available as well.

The Spirit Power card slots and the token trays were both intended to be long, continuous pieces, but my printer doesn't have a long enough bed for that. So I cut them both down for convenience. However, if you prefer they can be glued together (the Spirit Power card slots glued together, and the Element/Beast trays each glued to the larger token trays). If your printer supports it, you might even merge the STLs together and make them each a single piece again, but none of it is strictly necessary.

The small cap that goes on top of the Adversary/Scenario panels is optional, but locks the panels into place so they won't somehow slide up above the adjacent card slots when the game is transported or jostled.

Dividers

The included PDF can be printed on US Letter (8.5"x11") paper at 100% scale on regular card stock (anything too much thicker won't fit), and cut out using a guillotine cutter or other straight cutter.

To cut the piece out that leaves a tab, I use a guillotine cutter to start cutting across each divider, then come in with scissors to finish the cut across, registering the side of the scissors along the existing cut to ensure it's straight. Then I make the last small cut from above, leaving the tab.

In spite of the tabs, the cards will be tight enough that it will be difficult to pull out a single Spirit's Power cards at once, so when playing you'll likely need to pull out all of the Spirit cards in that slot, then use the divider to extract the ones you need, then put the remaining cards back in the slot.

To make them all fit, this is how I suggest ordering them:

• Left Slot: Player References, then Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine through Heart of the Wildfire
• Middle Slot: Hearth Vigil through Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves
• Right Slot: Shifting Memory of Ages through Wounded Waters Bleeding