Farm Barn And Fields Bundle

Part of Tribes and Patreon November 2025 release.
This set is a bundle that contains these sets:

- Barn Modular Structure

- Barn Objects and Props

- Farm Fields & Fences

- Modular Barn Structure. It is modular, highly detailed and it comes with a hay roof. As always the one in the render is just one of the possible build options. You can make it smaller (there is also a shorter roof for a one-level only barn), longer and/or larger (by using two side structures). You can even use the shorter roof and only pillars for its base to make a covered but open air storage for farm equipment, carts, and so on!

The whole thing is magnetized and/or it has channels for rods (more about this in the instructions). However, glue will be needed to assemble certain pieces, and can help to give the structure more stability, especially if you join together some blocks that you will use in any structure. I avoided the OpenLOCK system for this set because the structure of those tiles felt too chunky just to make a dirt/mud and hay straws floor. This also saves a lot of resin. To make the structure sturdier I suggest using it on a magnetized board/sheet/anything that can help keeping the beams upright. Alternatively, you can always glue things together or to a base. Compared to a regular OpenLOCK structure this requires a bit more hobby work, but I think that the resin saved and they easier storage makes it worth it. Last but not least, the front doors can slide inside their guides if you leave them free to move.

There are also different wall options so that you can choose between making a very well built barn or a more ramshackle one, with a lot of places where characters can peep in to stealthily investigate whatever you want to put in front of them. I can picture a recurring ritual taking place in the village, at night, in one of the more isolated barns. Red light shines through the planks as character witness sleepwalking villagers entering the structure, sitting around an otherworldly fire kept ablaze by one of the farmers - secretly a cultist of dark worship. Will the characters stop the ritual and risk the lives of the innocent - everything there is very flammable - or will wait the dawn, letting that evil grow stronger?

Also, if you have seen the movie Sinners - that's a great plot to rip off for a oneshot staged into this barn!

- Barn Objects and Props. Plows and yokes, vases, fence, hay feeders, carts for hay, wheelbarrows, a rocking chair, horseshoes, protected lanterns, all the tools a farmer may need as well as baskets and sieves. The renders should make justice to these more than any description can.

In this set I experimented with techniques to make hay, and I am pretty happy with the result. Those models, however, will require extra care in handling, since the straws are thin and, if your resin is not super flexible, they may break a bit. I found that making the single straws thicker would make them look too chunky, more like roots or weird sloppy appendages, and that's why I kept them as thick as I could, balancing that with their look. The supports look crazy (and they are), but if you gently pull the body of the hay itself rather than peeling the supports away, it should come out easily and complete. In my prints I didn't bother removing the microsupports that help the hay straws print: that would be almost impossible, but, luckily, they also blend really well with the straws themselves, and add to the chaotic look. You need to look for them explicitly to find them, especially when looking at a battlefield map from player distance at the table.

If you want to use as little resin as possible, you can even just make all the hay pieces with hobby materials and tools, such as twine, coconut fibers or other downscaled straw-like materials. I find this kind of hobby work to be very relaxing and also kind of easy to do. This also allows you to stuff your barn with loads of hay without worry about placement: unlike resin blocks, real world vegetable fibers bend and twist, and get into the space you push them in :)

- Field Crops and Fences. There are two kinds of crops: wheat and grass, as well as wheat plants that have just been harvested and soil ready to be sown. They can be very useful to make fights happening in the outskirts of villages and towns more interesting: they are great line of sight blockers for stealthier characters and rough terrain to run through. Also, I'm picturing four halflings running away from an angry scythe-armed farmer :D

I also love that you can paint these in any color to make them far more fantasy than they may appear! A small dark elf sown field of purple grass deep in the underdark can be the only place where to harvest the precious ingredients your wizard patron needs for her experiments, or the vivid red wheat that birdfolkd grow on the terraces of their mountain monastery could be a rare and precious spice traded for platinum in far away towns: an open air bank waving in the wind waiting to be robbed. Or maybe those pale white wheat stalks end up in light blue gemlike seeds that have strong psychotropic effects, and maybe a group of mercenaries has started growing them to sell the highly addictive flour obtained from those seeds, and maybe you get tasked of bruning their fields down with alchemist's fire flasks as your bard plays hard hitting bard-step music (I know, too on the nose... but I know I'd love that!).

If you find the scale of any of these to be too large (especially the wheat), you can always downscale them a bit - around 80% is still working - and the magnet sockets below will still be usable for 1mm deep magnets.

To complement all of that there is a set of fences that you can basically slap anywhere there is a farm, a road, a village, etc... They are a great blockers for movement, and to generate those low level 1's on acrobatic checks that always crack up new players and make for unerasable memories (The extremely complex political scheme you as a GM devised? Nothing to remember there. Those humiliating 1s? Forever etched in peoples' brains).

Each fence piece has two versions: one with a base, and one without. Both are magnetized, but the one without the base won't stand up unless you have a magnetized battlefield. Pick yours! :)