Seej Bloxen - Inverted Basic Hexstone

Bloxen Boilerplate

The plural of block is bloxen. The singular of bloxen is bloxen.

This is an interlocking castle block. It's the fundamental defensive model for playing Seej.

(s33j.net link redacted due to bitrot - leave a comment if it's back!)

DISCLAIMER

These are not quite as easy to get up and running as other types of Bloxen! Instructions are included in the zip, but in a nutshell: you will need to import each of the models included (1x core bloxen shape, 1x long-face hex overlay, 1x short-face hex overlay, and 1x top-face hex overlay), move them all to the same location on the build plate, and let your slicer handle merging the end geometry. Double and triple check the slice preview before you actually print. The end result will not be perfect - walls will be thicker as it's literally printing walls for both the bloxen shape and the hex ones as opposed to cleanly picking out which areas can be reduced to infill, there will be hex patterning inside certain areas that could've just been left as open space for infill, etc - but it will print successfully without any bits missing, and that's the bit that matters even if it means you're waiting a little longer between prints and spending a bit more filament on them.

I've also included a "merged" stl file you can try made from a singular bloxen setup in Cura, but it's not really properly merged as would be the case with a Boolean modifier, so make sure to look over its setup in the slicer before printing!

About

This is a Bloxen for Zheng3's tabletop wargame Seej stylized after the official Hexstone bloxen, but using the size, shape, and square divots of a Basic Bloxen. I adore the look of the Hexstone, but their odd size, shape, and hexagonal divots makes them somewhat weaker as a sole fortress construction material when compared to regular-sized/shaped bloxen like the Masonry ones that I've been using for my personal set - in combat tests between it and the loaner one with hexstone I made, the hexstone fortifications consistently fared worse even against a singular penny ballista shot than basic masonry ones did.

These, as such, bear a similar honeycomb pattern in the walls to regular hexstone Bloxen, but use the standard Bloxen dimensions and divots for durability - they're the regular Basic bloxen (see the source Things) but with a honeycomb pattern of my creation boolean-ized in from Blender w/ a difference modifier; they still have the exact same bounding box as a regular one and so should work fine with all your other Bloxen.

Unlike the official Hexstone bloxen, as well as my Basic Hexstone which this is remixed from, the borders between hexagons are inset on this, as opposed to the hexagons themselves being inset, which gives them a sturdier, more typically-Bloxen-esque feel. Print in a metallic PLA and paint the insets with a glow-in-the-dark material or the likes for maximum edgy hexagonal futuristic coolness.

Postal note

More information on Seej can usually be found at zheng3.com or s33j.net, but the former has been returning a 503 for weeks, and the latter is either nonexistent, or redirects to some spam site, depending on the day. You can still find some info on the old zheng3.wordpress.com site, as well as zheng3's other Seej-related Things here on Thingiverse, or pop one of the two sites into archive.org's Wayback Machine and see what you can dredge up.