Alien Expansion Artifact

Very nice insert! 4 stars because there was quite a lot of splintering...

Very nice insert, I needed only to glue a few pieces, all the rest is fitting tight. Also the quality of the wood is great, not too thick, not too small.
It's great to have 3 expansions (2 boxes) in 1 box.

I give a 4* rating due to the following 2 remarks:
I do have some questions about the card tray, since I have a lot of cards that don't fit in and I store them in the box from the queen.
Also do I have a boxlift of 4cm instead of 1.5cm, but still 3 expansions (2 boxes) fitting in 1 with this lift is still sparing over 5cm of storage room!

A wooden crate to fit the base game + all expansions + all books (and even extra space for 3d-printed stuff) would be great!

Quality wise this feels good.

Usability wise I feel that it will hurt a bit having everything in the same container. To make everything fit, everything is intermingled so if you wanna play vanilla rules but with only one of the expansion characters for example, you need to unpack everything more or less. All these extra boxes will take up a lot of surface space.

The boxes for the minis is a lot better than the insert for vanilla nemesis tho and they swallow a lot of them in a condensed area.

I do not like the card trays, so much space wasted with these thick wooden spacers and even tho it is awesome that they are marked with what category of card they contain I feel that the cards are hard to get (stubby fingers I guess).

I would've preferred this to be sorted differently to make setup easier.

And the box-rise is crazy ;p

This insert took a while to assemble because I stained it and applied a polyurethane clear coat to mine... but the result is fantastic. It is amazing that we are able to fit three expansions (Aftermath, Voidseekers, Carnomorphs) in there. I was not able to fit the solo scenarios in the insert because I also bought some token shields (https://www.etsy.com/listing/787030151/deluxe-nemesis-token-shields) for my game, but had I not protected the tokens then everything would have probably fit the box.

The only reason I am not giving this insert the full five star rating is because of the box lift. Given that there are three expansions stored in this insert, I am willing to live with some box lift, but 1.5 cm is a rather large amount of lift.

I, too, hope that laserox will be able to put together a crate for this game, similar in principle to their work with Eldritch Horror (https://laserox.net/products/board-game-inserts/eldritch-horror-crate). The crate would get rid of the box lift problem. Hopefully their crate can accommodate: (1) the base game insert and (2) this insert, (3) have an area to store the terrain expansion (for which there is no insert yet) with perhaps an extra box to store odds and ends, and (4) an opening spanning the entire length and width of the crate and perhaps 3 or 4 cm tall that can accommodate all of the rulebooks and the game boards, and possibly extra components. Many people buy extra props for their game like 3D printed engines or accessories... while I have not, having extra space in the crate for such things is a huge plus.

But back to this insert: It is a good, well-designed insert that can store all your expansion components but the box lift here is significant.

I really like this product, the engravings are pretty and the assembly quite easy. It's a bit of a shame that the box doesn't close completely, but that's the price to pay to be able to put the three extensions together in one box. Which is appreciable despite everything, especially since the content remains in place despite that. I would have nevertheless appreciated to be able to put the figurines of doors, eggs and corpses of characters that I have but already given the size of the insert it would probably be too greedy. Perhaps providing a complete insert with a wooden chest including all the equipment like Terra Mystica, Battlestar or Orléans would be an excellent idea because the game is really worth the effort.