The Caravanserai Bundle
Part of Tribes and Patreon August 2026 release.
This set is a bundle that contains:
- The Caravanserai Modular OpenLOCK Structure
- The Caravanserai Objects
- The Caravanserai Fountain, Domes and Columns
All the models are test printed in resin and presupported when needed.
- Caravanserai OpenLOCK Structure. Completely modular on all dimensions, with lower and upper walls, borders, bases and domes. This is meant for a Caravanserai, of course, but that's not the only use of the set. In fact, the full structure shown in the render is gargantuan, and mainly meant to show the potential of the release in a render. If you decide not to embark on printing the whole thing, this release still has a lot to offer: from fantasy Persia style dungeons (with the interior walls) to small buildings, shrines, towers (with the a combination of interior and exterior ones) as well as shrines, temples, sections of palaces, decorated gardens, baths, even a town wall. With the domes you can also make arcs of triumph, bridges and ancient aqueducts; with the bases - perhaps the most versatile parts of the release - you can make channels, barriers, any stone layer for building, statues and columns - anything large that can use a base, really! I arranged them to make a small ritual pyramid and four huge columns in the renders above, just to show some extra uses for the set.
Most of these walls come in two visual versions a "plain" one with bricks and a highly decorated one. I added both because, depending on the location - or the part of a single location - one may be preferable to the other. A warehouse room may be less rich and decorated, for example, that the room of rich travelers.
As always, these tiles come with a playability split option for the walls, which you can use to make taller and weirder structures too. All of them are magnetizable and come in a hollowed (for resin) and unhollowed (for FDM) version. I decided to hollow the resin tiles because I wanted to have thick walls for this release, and they would suck so much material for a relatively unnecessary thickness. Plus, by being hollow they weigh way less and make magnetizing way more effective. That said, if you don't like that version but still want to print them in resin, you can always import the unhollowed files in the .lys ones and use the existing resin supports too. The instructions and list give more info on all of this.
- Caravanserai Objects and Props. This is a set of extremely detailed objects meant to represent the standing furniture of a Caravanserai. Wardrobes and chests for travelers, braziers, beds and chairs as well as tables, boxes and - my favorite - vases! I just love filling rooms and, well, most terrain, really, with vases that characters can break (willingly or not) during combat for extra effect. Paint a few red, or black, and see what crazy ideas come out of that simple object placed on the map!
By painting the furniture with wood colors you can make decorated but cheap furniture, while if you go for precious metal for the trim, these could very well be part of villas, palaces, temples, exotic rooms in mansions, shops and museums, and so on. As for the walls of this release, there is a more sober version of most of these (without the decorative patterns) so that you can choose which fits best your location needs. I can see the most decorated chests being used as the resting place of long desired precious items :)
I didn't manage to fit a large array of props in, because of time constraints, but that was intentional: I focused the time on the structure and on these objects since we already have a wide array of props for caravans and bazaar style shop from the oasis (and the bazaar) release. With them you can furnish this location to the brim with goods to be traded and crazy magical wares!
- Caravanserai Dome and Fountains. Decorative columns that can also function as vents, a shade casting dome and a modular fountain (or decorated planter!). The idea with this set was to make scatter terrain bits to enrich the main structure of the Caravanserai, with the fountain being there to serve as a well, as an enriching element to the environment or - potentially - as a trough for the caravans' animals. While the columns and dome are modular in height, the fountain is modular on the x and y axis: you can make it as long or short as your battlefield needs, and you can fill it with resin or other hobby materials to show water (just make sure to glue them so that they are watertight!). If you pour water in the main fountain structure and you have glued the layer with "faucet" (I am not sure what's the right word for those!) bits on top, it will drop down to the lower layer in a realistic way. To complement it, there is also a plinth and fountain "mouths", which are, of course optional. All these models have space for magnets in them and could be magnetized (check instructions for more info).
In this modular "fountain" you can also fit the plants from the previous release, to give them a more decorated stone base. I can see some of the pointy cabbage or rosemary as a decorative, desert adapted (but curated for, and thus flourishing) plant. The patterns on the bottom could also be adapted to other cultures - they look dwarven enough to me!
I can see this set used on a road side, to mark a path, to show small shrines to some deity in the wilderness, to mark the door to a dungeon, to add detail to roofs from this set or the Bazaar, and more! If you don't want to embark in printing a full Caravanserai, these should be more approachable to add interest to a fantasy middle eastern battlefield!
Managing this set was challenging - it is huge after all - but I am very happy the result. I can picture characters stopping at this Caravanserai after a long day of travel in the desert - and a few tiring encounters - just to pay the fee and lay down to be suddenly awakened by some commotion in one of the rooms: a demon being freed from a relic unknowingly carried by merchants. Or perhaps someone notices these very tired and presumably loot-loaded adventurers resting after a long day of tomb robbing and decides to try their luck while they sleep. Or maybe the characters are awakened by the trumpets of an alarm, resounding because the hordes of the dead crossed the sand, and this caravanserai is on their path. Everybody should join the defenses or they will pass right through it, forcing all to join their dead march. Considering the dozens of other options you have with these structure parts, I think the idea for adventures, combats and table moments are endless!
As a last note, I believe these walls beg to be drybrushed, whether it is rich terra di siena and sand colors or gold over a lapis lazuli blue base - that will make it look ostentatious for sure! - I can't wait to start painting them (If I find the time, of course...)
Well, thanks fore reading through the whole thing, and if you didn't: I don't blame you, these always end up being walls of text :') Let me know what you think!
