Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Improvements
- Occupations
Improvements
(1VP. Cost 2C/3C.)
At any time, you may convert goods to food as follows: vegetable → 2 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 2 food; cattle → 3 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 2 food.
- You can own more than one Fireplace.
- With this card, you can convert several animals and vegetables to food at the same time. When you bake bread you can convert as many grain as you want. You may bake bread and convert other goods to food at the same time, in order to activate the Gypsy's Crock.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 4C/5C or fireplace.)
At any time, you may convert goods to food as follows: vegetable → 3 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 3 food; cattle → 4 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 3 food.
- If you upgrade the Fireplace major improvement, the card is returned to the major improvements board. If the minor improvement Simple Fireplace is upgraded, it is removed from the game.
- You can own more than one Cooking Hearth.
- With this card, you can convert several animals and vegetables to food at the same time. When you bake bread you can convert as many grain as you want. You may bake bread and convert other goods to food at the same time, in order to activate the Gypsy's Crock.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 3C 1S.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can turn exactly 1 grain into 5 food. When you take this card, you can also bake bread immediately.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- Is an oven.
(3VP. Cost 3S 1C.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can turn up to 2 grain into 4 food each. When you take this card, you can bake bread immediately.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- Is an oven.
(2VP. Cost 2W 2S.)
In each harvest, you can use the Joinery to convert exactly 1 wood to 2 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1/2/3 bonus points for 3/5/7 wood.
- At the end of the game, wood on the Copse and the Forester counts. Wood on the Basin Maker and Resource Seller does not count.
(2VP. Cost 2C 2S.)
In each harvest, you can use the Pottery to convert exactly 1 clay to 2 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1/2/3 bonus points for 3/5/7 clay.
(2VP. Cost 2R 2S.)
In each harvest, you can use the Basketmaker's Workshop to convert exactly 1 reed to 3 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1/2/3 bonus points for 2/4/5 reed.
(4VP. Cost 3S 1W.)
Place 1 food from the general supply on each of the next 5 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
(Cost 1F.)
When you play this card, immediately plough 1 field. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You may not use a plough or the Harrow when you play this card.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you receive 1 additional food. From round 8 onwards, you receive 2 additional food.
(Cost 1W 1S.)
Whenever you add a room to your wooden hut, you only pay 2 wood and 2 reed.
- If you build more than one room, you can use the Axe for each room. [ref]
- This card sets a new base cost for a room. If you also have another card that sets a new base cost (e.g. Carpenter), you may only use one such card at the same time. If you build more than one room, you can choose the same or a different card for each room.
- After you've used the Axe, you may then also use any card that changes the cost of a room (e.g. Clay Roof, Ladder, Stonecutter, and Wood Carver).
(3VP. Return 1 oven.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can use the Baker's Oven to convert up to 2 grain into 5 food each. When you play this card, you can also bake bread immediately.
- The old oven is returned: the Clay Oven and Stone Oven are returned to the major improvements, the Wood-fired Oven is removed from the game.
- Is both an oven and a baking improvement.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
The Clay Oven and Stone Oven are minor improvements for you. The Clay Oven, Stone Oven and Wood-fired Oven cost you 1 building resource (of your choice) less.
You receive either 1 wood or 1 clay when you play this card. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 3W 1S.)
At any time, you can convert grain to 2 food (without having to bake bread).
- Using the Windmill does not count as baking.
- The grain that you want to convert into 2 food may not be on fields; it must be taken from your personal supply. [ref]
(1VP. Req 2 occ.)
When you sow, you can plant vegetables on this card as though it were a field.
- Does not count as a field when scoring. Vegetables on this card do count for the score at the end of the game. [ref]
- When you sow on the Bean Field, you may use the Potato Dibber, Fieldsman, and Smallholder to plant extra vegetables.
- If you have vegetable markers on the Bean Field, it counts as a prerequisite for the Herb Garden and the Strawberry Patch.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow on the Bean Field. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2C.)
Whenever you convert any 2 goods to food at one time using a Fireplace, Cooking Hearth or Cooking Corner, you receive 1 additional food.
- If you convert 4 goods at once, you receive 2 additional food; for 6 goods, 3 additional food, etc.
- Goods includes animals. [ref]
- Baking bread counts as converting goods to food. [ref]
- Is also activated if you convert two different types of goods, or use two different improvements at the same time. You may bake 1 bread and convert 1 other good at the same time; this also activates the Gypsy's Crock.
(1VP. Cost 1C.)
At any time, you may convert goods to food as follows: vegetable → 2 food; sheep → 1 food; wild boar → 2 food; cattle → 3 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 2 food.
- The Simple Fireplace counts as a Fireplace; for example, it can be upgraded to a Cooking Hearth, and playing the Simple Fireplace activates the Charcoal Burner. [ref]
- Is removed from the game when upgraded to a Cooking Hearth.
- You can own more than one Fireplace.
- With this card, you can convert several animals and vegetables to food at the same time. When you bake bread you can convert as many grain as you want. You may bake bread and convert other goods to food at the same time, in order to activate the Gypsy's Crock.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
- (MOOR) This card never counts as a major improvement. [ref]
(Cost 1W 1C 1R 2S.)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each room in your stone house.
- In total, you receive 3 points instead of 2 per room.
- If you do not renovate to a stone house, or if you have also played the Mansion, there is no advantage.
- The Half-timbered House's bonus points are in addition to the extra points from the Chief
(1VP. Cost 2W.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you receive an additional 1 food or 1 reed.
(Cost 2W.)
At the end of the game, if your pastures occupy 6/7/8/9+ farmyard spaces, you receive 1/2/3/4 bonus points.
- The deciding factor is the number of fenced spaces in the farmyard. It is irrelevant how many pastures there are.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 4 occ.)
Place 2 food on each remaining round space. At the start of each round, you receive the food.
Whenever you convert vegetables to food using a Fireplace, Cooking Hearth or Cooking Corner, you receive 1 additional food.
- If you convert several vegetables to food at the same time, you receive 1 food for each vegetable.
- Is not activated when you use a Cookhouse, Open Grill, or any other improvement, or when you convert vegetables to 1 food without an improvement. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you turn 1 wood into food using the Joinery, Sawmill or Cabinetmaker, you receive 1 additional food. You can choose instead to turn a second wood into exactly 2 food.
(2VP. Cost 3W 1S.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can use the Wood-fired Oven to turn any number of grain into 3 food each. When you play this card, you can also bake bread immediately.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- Is an oven.
(Cost 1W.)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for a clay hut, or 2 bonus points for a stone house.
- This card is worth 2 points even if you receive bonus points for the Half-timbered House or the Mansion.
- If you have the Chief's Daughter as well, you get points for both cards.
(Req 1 sheep.)
You can hold up to 2 additional sheep in each of the pastures where you keep sheep. You can keep up to 2 sheep in each unfenced stable.
- If you also have the Stablemaster, the Shepherd's Pipe has no effect on the unfenced stable for which the Stablemaster is used, but it still affects your other unfenced stables.
- Also increases the capacity of the Animal Yard and the Wildlife Reserve.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you receive an additional 1 food and 1 reed.
(1VP. Req 2 impr 1 occ.)
Place 1 food on each remaining odd-numbered round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- Only improvements and occupations that are open in front of you count.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you sow fields with vegetables, place 1 additional vegetable from the general supply on each newly sown stack of vegetables.
- Additional vegetables are also placed on Bean Field, Turnip Field and Lettuce Patch.
(Cost 1C. Req 1 oven.)
When you play this card, you receive 2 food. From now, the Pottery is a minor improvement for you and costs you nothing.
- You still have to take a minor improvement action to take the Pottery. You cannot take the Pottery if another player already has taken it. [ref]
- The Pottery still counts as major improvement as well, e.g. for Nosebag or Administration. [ref]
(Cost 1R.)
Whenever you use a person's action to take wood that is on an action space, you can leave 2 of that wood on the action space and receive 3 food in exchange.
- If you also have the Mushroom Collector, you can use both cards to leave 3 wood to receive 5 food. [ref]
- You may use this card only once per action. [ref]
- You can use an action space with only 2 wood on it, and only take 3 food (and no wood). This still counts as taking wood, and activates e.g. the Berry Picker, Wood Cart, and Pieceworker. [ref]
- If there is less than 2 wood on the action space, for example because of the Wood Distributor, you may not use the Basket; not even if you receive additional wood from e.g. the Wood Cart.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Grain" action space, you receive 1 additional grain.
(1VP. Req 1 occ.)
You can replace 1 or 2 reed with the same amount of clay whenever you extend or renovate your home.
- When building a room, you may choose to use 1 reeds and 1 clay instead of the 2 reeds required.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Clay Roof for the same action. These cards may even affect the clay cost introduced by the Clay Roof; e.g. with Clay Roof and Frame Builder you can add a room to your wooden hut for 6 wood. [ref]
(Cost 2W.)
Whenever you add a room to your clay hut, you can pay 2 clay, 1 wood and 1 reed instead of 5 clay and 2 reed.
- If you build more than one room at the same time, you may use the Clay Supports for all of the rooms, or, alternatively, [ref] you may build some rooms for 5 clay & 2 reeds and other rooms for 2 clay, 1 wood, and 1 reeds.
- This card sets a new base cost for a room. If you also have another card that sets a new base cost (e.g. Clay Plasterer or Carpenter), you may only use one such card at the same time. If you build more than one room, you can choose the same or a different card for each room.
- After you've used the Carpenter, you may then also use any card that changes the cost of a room (e.g. Clay Roof, Ladder, and Bricklayer).
(2VP. Return 2 impr.)
The Madonna Statue has no effect.
- You must discard 2 improvements that are on the table in front of you. You may not discard cards from your hand.
- It is irrelevant whether you discard major or minor improvements.
- If a discarded improvement would have given you something (resources, food, etc.) in a later round, you lose that claim.
- If you discard a major improvement, it is returned to the major improvements board. If you discard a minor improvement, it is removed from the game.
(Cost 1 grain.)
When you play this card, you receive 1 vegetable. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The grain that you pay to play this card may not come from a field.
- Activates the Market Woman when played, but not the Pieceworker.
- You may not play this card without grain in your personal supply --- not even in combination with the Market Woman.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 2F.)
When you play this card, immediately fence one space in your farmyard. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You do not need to pay wood for the fences.
- Activates the Hedge Keeper, Farmer, Stablehand and Animal Breeder when played.
- The space must be unfenced before playing this card. It may contain a stable.
- You must follow the usual rules for building fences: if you already have pastures, the new pasture must border an existing one. If you build more fences this turn, e.g. with the Hedge Keeper, you only check at the end of your turn if the pastures are legal. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1S.)
Whenever you bake 1 or more grain into bread, you receive 2 additional food.
- With the Baker, you receive at most 2 additional food from the Millstone in each harvest.
- Is activated when you use a baking improvement (with the “baking” symbol) to convert grain to food.
- Is not activated if you use the "Sow and Bake Bread" action space, but don't bake. [ref]
- Bread is not baked if schnaps is distilled or beer is brewed, or when a Water Mill, Windmill or Hand Mill is used.
(Cost 1W or 1C.)
When you play this card, you receive either 1 stone or 1 reeds. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
Place 1 food on each remaining round space for rounds 8 to 14. At the start of these rounds, you receive food.
- You do not receive food for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(2VP. Cost 1W 1C.)
The Outhouse has no effect. You can only build it if at least one other player has fewer than 2 occupations.
- It is irrelevant how many occupations you have played yourself.
- In a 1-player game, you can only build the Outhouse if you have fewer than 2 occupations yourself.
- The Academic counts as 2 occupations. [ref]
(Cost 2F.)
Place 1 wood on each remaining even-numbered round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the wood.
(Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
Place 1 grain on each remaining space for rounds 5, 8, 11 and 14. At the start of these rounds, you receive the grain.
- You do not receive grain for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
On this card, you can plant vegetables as you would on a field. Vegetables on this field can be converted to 4 food when harvested.
- Does not count as a field when scoring. Vegetables on this card do count for the score at the end of the game. [ref]
- To receive the 4 food for the harvested vegetable, you have to convert the vegetable to food immediately after harvesting. You don't need a Fireplace or Cooking Hearth to do this. [ref]
- When you sow on the Lettuce Patch, you may use the Potato Dibber, Fieldsman, and Smallholder to plant extra vegetables.
- If you have vegetable markers on the Lettuce Patch, it counts as a prerequisite for the Herb Garden and the Strawberry Patch.
- Using the Lettuce Patch to convert a vegetable to food does not activate the Spices.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow on the Lettuce Patch. [ref]
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
Place 1 reed each on the next 3 remaining round spaces. At the start of each round, you receive the reed.
(1VP. Cost 1W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you take an “occupation” action on an action space, you may play 2 occupations one after another. The second occupation costs you 2 food.
- You pay the normal cost for the first occupation.
- If you also have the Bookshelf and/or the Patron, you receive food for both occupations that you play.
- Is not activated when you use the “1 occupation or family growth” action space in the 5-player game, and you choose the family growth.
- Is not activated when you don't use an action space to play an occupation (e.g. using the Scholar or Puppeteer). [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
You can renovate your wooden hut to a clay hut at any time without using a “Renovate” action.
- You must still pay for the renovation.
- You cannot renovate in the middle of an action, e.g. to use the clay received in an action to renovate to a clay hut, in order to profit from an improvement such as the Stump-Jump Plough in the same turn. [ref]
- You may not use both the Conservator and the Builder's Trowel to renovate your wooden hut to a stone house out of turn.
(Cost 1W.)
{In every field phase of a harvest, you may receive additional food if you have sheep: for 5 sheep or more, 2 food; for 3 or 4 sheep, 1 food.
(Cost 1W.)
When you play this card, immediately build 1 stable. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 2W.)
Whenever you have sheep during the field phase of a harvest, you receive 1 food for each third sheep. Whenever you have cattle during the field phase, you receive 1 food for each second cattle.
(2VP. Req 4 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you receive an additional 3 stone.
(Cost 1R 3S.)
When you play this card, immediately extend your stone house by 1 room. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The new room is free. You only have to pay the costs of this minor improvement. [ref]
- Cards that change the costs of minor improvements, such as Golden Hands, can be used to change the cost of the Stone House Extension. Cards that change the costs of a new room, such as Ladder or Frame Builder, cannot be used to change its cost. [ref]
- Playing the Stone House Extension counts as building a room, and activates e.g. the Wet Nurse. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you use one of the "1 Stone" action spaces that become available in rounds 5--7 and 10--11, you receive 1 additional stone.
(2VP. Cost 2S.)
Place 1 food on each remaining space for rounds 10 to 14. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- You do not receive food for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 1 occ.)
{This card can hold up to two animals of your choice. They need not be the same type of animal.
- Does not count as a pasture for scoring.
- You do not receive animals from the general supply when you play this card. [ref]
- The capacity of the Animal Yard is increased by the Drinking Trough.
- If you also have the Shepherd's Pipe, you can keep 4 sheep or up to 3 sheep and 1 other animal on the Animal Yard.
(1VP. Cost 2W.)
Each pasture (with or without a stable) can hold up to 2 more animals.
- Does not increase the capacity of an unfenced stable.
- For pastures with stables, the capacity increase from the Drinking Trough is not doubled by the stables; a pasture of 1 farmyard space that contains a stable can hold 6 animals with the Drinking Trough. [ref]
- Also increases the capacity of the Animal Yard and the Wildlife Reserve.
(Cost 1 sheep.)
When you play this card, you receive 1 cattle. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The cattle may be immediately converted to food with a cooking improvement, Butcher or Meat Seller.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 4W. Req 3 occ.)
Twice during the game, when you use either the "Plough 1 Field" or "Plough Field and Sow" action space, you can plough 3 fields instead of 1.
- You may choose to plough only 2 fields instead of 3 at once.
- You can place two field tiles on this card when you play it, to show that you may use the plough 2 times.
- This is a plough. Each time you use a ploughing action space, you may only use one card out of the ploughs and the Harrow.
(Cost 3W. Req 2 occ.)
Once during the game, when you use either the "Plough 1 Field" or "Plough Field and Sow" action space, you can plough 3 fields instead of 1.
- You may choose to plough only 2 fields instead of 3 at once.
- You can place 1 field tile on this card when you play it, to show that you may use the plough 1 more time.
- This is a plough. Each time you use a ploughing action space, you may only use one card out of the ploughs and the Harrow.
(Cost 2W. Req 1 occ.)
{Twice during the game, when you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you may plough 2 fields instead of 1.
- Is not activated when you use the "Plough Field and Sow" action space.
- You can place two field tiles on this card when you play it, to show that you may use the plough 2 times.
- This is a plough. Each time you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you may only use one card out of the ploughs and the Harrow.
(Req no occ.)
When you play this card, you receive 1 food for each completed round of the game. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The current round is not a “completed” round, not even if this card is played in the last action of the round.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(4VP. Cost 2S. Return oven.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can use the Baker's Kitchen to convert up to 2 grain into 5 food each. When you play this card, you can also bake bread immediately.
- Is a baking improvement, but not an oven. It may not be upgraded to a Bakehouse.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
(5VP. Return Well.)
Place 1 food each on the next 3 remaining round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- The Well major improvement is returned to the major improvements board and may be bought again --- even by the owner of the Village Well.
- The Well gives 1 food per round for 5 rounds. These food remain on the board even when the 3 additional food from the Village Well are distributed, and are distributed again if the Well is purchased a second time.
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Plough 1 Field" or "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces, you can additionally bake bread.
(Cost 2W.)
Once during the game, when you use either the "Plough 1 Field" or the "Plough Field and Sow" action space, you can plough 2 fields instead of 1. Each other player can also do this once during the game, but must pay you 2 food to do it.
- Other players that use the Harrow may only plough 2 fields at once if they use one of the ploughing action spaces.
- The Harrow may not be combined with any of the ploughs.
- You may not deny other players the right to use the Harrow.
(2VP. Req 2 veg fields.)
Place 1 food on each of the next 3 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- Vegetable fields are fields on which there is at least 1 vegetable marker. An empty, harvested field does not count as a vegetable field.
- The Bean Field, Lettuce Patch, and Turnip Field count as prerequisites for the Strawberry Patch, if there are vegetable markers on those cards.
- The Seed Trader, Grocer, Giant Pumpkin and Pumpkin Seed Oil do not count as prerequisites.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever another player uses the Harrow or a plough, you can immediately plough 1 field as well.
- If you use the Harrow or a plough yourself, you do not get any advantage.
- If the other player does not plough more than 1 field on his action, you do not receive a field.
(8VP. Cost 3W or 3C, 2R.)
In round 14, you cannot place any people. Play this card at the latest during round 13.
- The effects of this card are not optional! Prepare to play two harvests in a row.
- This costs either 3 wood & 2 reeds or 3 clay & 2 reeds.
- You may not use the Clay Roof, Brushwood Roof or Straw-thatched Roof when building the Holiday House.
- You do not participate in the work phase (phase 3) in round 14, but you still can profit from the start-of-round phase (phase 1).
- You may not place a guest in round 14 that you could otherwise have used.
- You do not get points for the Church Warden if you have built the Holiday House.
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
Place 1 food each on the next 4 remaining round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
(Cost 2F.)
When you play this card, you receive a guest token, which you may place once in the next round as you would a person. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- To represent the guest, you take a claim marker and turn it over to show the word “Guest”. The token is used as a family member disc.
- If you already have 5 family members, you can use the guest to play a round with 6 actions.
- A guest is not counted in checking whether there is enough room in the hut or house.
- The action performed by a guest counts for the Church Warden.
- The guest does not need to be fed during harvest time. [ref]
- A guest does not count as family member in the final scoring, even if you use the guest in the last round.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
- You can play this card in round 14, but you cannot use the guest marker you receive and it does not count in scoring.
(Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Grain" action space, you receive 2 additional grain.
(Cost 1S.)
During the feeding phase of the harvest, you can use the Hand Mill to turn either 1 grain into 2 food or 2 grain into 4 food.
- Using the Hand Mill does not count as baking.
- The grain that you want to convert into food may not be on fields; it must be taken from your personal supply. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
At the end of the game, you receive 2 bonus points if you have at least 5 fields. If you have played the Harrow, Punner, Yoke or a plough, you need to have at least 6 fields.
- Fields on cards, such as Bean Field and Forester, do not count. Fields with more than one stack of grain because of the Scarecrow count as only 1 field.
- If you also played a plough, Harrow, Punner, or Yoke, but you discarded it for the Madonna Statue, they do not count for the Rake.
- If you played more than one of the listed improvements, you still need only 6 fields.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you fence a new pasture that covers at least 4 farmyard spaces, you receive 2 sheep and place them in the new pasture.
- If you divide a pasture of more than 4 spaces into several smaller pastures, these do not count as a new pasture, unless the number of pastures of at least 4 spaces increases.
- If you fence 2 large pastures in one action, you receive 4 sheep. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 1 occ.)
When you sow, you can plant wood on this card. There can be up to 2 stacks of wood on this card, as shown. The wood is treated the same as sown grain and is harvested during the field phase.
- The Copse does not count as a field when scoring.
- If you receive for example 4 grain on your fields when sowing, you can also receive 4 wood once or twice on the Copse card.
- The Smallholder may not be used to plant extra wood.
- In each harvest, you take one wood from each of the stacks.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow wood on the Copse. [ref]
- Wood on this card does not count for the Storehouse Clerk. At the end of the game, it does count for the Joinery or the Sawmill.
- The Copse is not considered to be adjacent to any farmyard space or other card, regardless of its location, and does not benefit from the Planter Box. [ref]
(Cost 3W. Req 3 occ.)
Whenever you use a person to take wood that is on an action space, you receive 2 additional wood.
- Is not activated when you use the "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" action space in the 5-player game.
- If you use an action space that contains wood, and you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, you still receive the wood from the Wood Cart, but (if you have more than one of those cards) you cannot leave wood received from the Wood Cart on the action space to use another of those cards.
(1VP. Cost 1W. Req 3 occ.)
Whenever another player uses the "3 Wood" action space, they must give you one of the wood.
- Is not activated when someone uses the "4 Wood" action space in the 5-player game.
- When you demand the 1 wood from another player, the other player is entitled to change his mind and select a different action instead --- it is easy to overlook the Spinney.
- You only get 1 wood, regardless of the amount of wood currently on the action space. [ref]
- The Spinney is activated before the other player's Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, or any player's Wood Buyer.
(Cost 1R 5W.)
When you play this card, immediately extend your wooden hut by 1 room. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The new room is free. You only have to pay the costs of this minor improvement. [ref]
- Cards that change the costs of minor improvements, such as Golden Hands, can be used to change the cost of the Wooden Hut Extension. Cards that change the costs of a new room, such as Ladder or Frame Builder, cannot be used to change its cost. [ref]
- Playing the Wooden Hut Extension counts as building a room, and activates e.g. the Wet Nurse. [ref]
- When using the "Family Growth and Minor Improvement" action space, it is not possible to build this improvement first, and then use the new room to grow your family in.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 3W.)
Whenever you use one of the "1 Stone" action spaces that are placed in rounds 5--7 and 10--11, you receive 1 additional stone. If you pay 1 food, you can take 2 additional stone instead of 1.
- Is not activated when you use any other action space to take stone.
(Cost 1W.)
The player with the most valuable street receives 2 bonus points when scoring.
- The Paved Road is more valuable than the Clay Path, which is more valuable than this Wooden Path.
- Even if the other streets have also been played, only one bonus of 2 points is be awarded per game (not 2 bonus points per played street). [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W or 2C, 1R.)
Place 1 food each on the next 8 remaining round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- May be built with either 2 wood & 1 reeds or with 2 clay & 1 reeds.
(3VP. Return 1 cooking hearth.)
At any time, you may convert goods to food as follows: vegetables → 4 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 3 food; cattle → 4 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 3 food.
- If you upgrade the Cooking Hearth major improvement, the card is returned to the major improvements board. If the minor improvement CookingHearth is upgraded, it is removed from the game.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W or 2C, 2R.)
Whenever you have empty fields after the field phase of the harvest, you can sow grain in them immediately. Place 1 fewer grain from the supply on these fields.
- Is built with either 2 wood & 2 reeds or 2 clay & 2 reeds.
- Is used during the harvest at the same time as the Water Mill and before the Harvest Helper.
- Activates the Field Worker when used.
- The effect of the Corn Storehouse is optional. You may choose to sow fewer fields than you're able to sow.
- You may use the Corn Storehouse to sow on the Acreage, but not on fields for other goods than wood (e.g. Copse and Forester). [ref]
- Activates the Scarecrow when used, but not the Scythe. [ref]
(Cost 1C.)
Whenever the Well is built or upgraded to a Village Well, you receive 4 food, and the other players receive 1 food each. If the Well has already been built, everyone receives the food when the Flagon is played.
- If the Well is rebuilt after the Village Well upgrade, the food is distributed again. If the Village Well is already on the table when the Flagon is played, the food is not distributed in double quantities. If both the Village Well and the Well are on the table when the Flagon is played, the double amount of food is distributed immediately.
(Cost 1R.)
You can place exactly two people immediately after one another, if at least one of them uses the "1 Wild Boar", "1 Cattle" or "1 Sheep" action space.
- Is not activated when you use the "Sheep, Wild Boar, or Cattle" action space in the 5-player game.
- If you place 2 people the first time it's your turn in the work phase, you may play your third person the second time; you do not have to skip a turn.
- You cannot place more than two people immediately after one another turn with the Lasso.
- If you have 4 or more people, you may use the Lasso more than once in the same round.
- You can use the animal action space with your first or second family member.
- When you play this card, you can immediately use it to place another family member on one of the three animal action spaces. [ref]
- Using the Lasso counts as two turns.
(1VP. Cost 3 C.)
The player with the most valuable street receives 2 bonus points when scoring.
- The Paved Road is more valuable than this Clay Path, which is more valuable than the Wooden Path.
- Even if the other streets have also been played, only one bonus of 2 points is be awarded per game (not 2 bonus points per played street). [ref]
- The bonus points are in addition to the 1 normal point you get for playing this card. [ref]
(Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you sow, each of the fields you sow that is orthogonally adjacent to a room in your home gets additional goods from the general supply: 2 extra grain on grain fields, and 1 extra vegetable on vegetable fields.
- Not optional; you must plant the extra grain and vegetables.
- When a room is built next to a field that has already been sown, you do not get additional goods until the next time you sow the field.
- If a field contains 2 stacks because of the Scarecrow, both stacks get an extra grain.
- Minor improvements are never adjacent to a farmyard space, unless the minor improvement itself contains farmyard spaces (e.g. Moor Enclosures). Improvements such as Acreage and Copse do not benefit from the Planter Box, not even from an improvement that is used as a room (e.g. Reed Hut). [ref]
(Cost 2W.)
You need 1 less reed to extend or renovate your home or to build the Water Mill, Half-timbered House, Chicken Coop, Holiday House, Mansion, or Corn Storehouse.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Ladder for the same action.
- The Ladder has no effect if the number of reeds required is already lowered to 0, e.g. by using both Clay Roof and Frame Builder when building a new room. [ref]
(Req 2 animals.)
At the end of each round that does not end with a harvest, you can take 1 grain or vegetable from each of your fields and place it in your personal supply.
- The effect of the Manure is optional, but if you harvest, you must harvest all of your fields.
- You have a field phase (harvest phase 1) after each round, except that outside a regular harvest the Milking Shed, Spindle, Butter Churn, Milking Stool, Loom, and Milking Hand do not earn any additional food.
- Using the Manure activates the Corn Storehouse, Water Mill (only for you), and Gardener, but not the Cube Cutter. [ref]
- Improvements, such as the House Goat and Horse, do not count as animals for the requirement to play this card. [ref]
- You also harvest the Copse, Forester, and Vineyard. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 3S 2C.)
In each harvest, at the beginning of the field phase, count the total number of sheep and cattle in all the players' farms. You receive 1 food for each fifth sheep and for each third cattle.
- The total number of sheep and cattle is counted.
- Pets and live animals on improvement cards also counted. Animals on the Tanner and the Taxidermist do not count.
- At harvest time, the Milking Shed is processed before the Spindle, Butter Churn, Milking Stool and Loom.
(2VP. Cost 5S.)
The player with the most valuable street receives 2 Bonus points when scoring.
- This Paved Road is more valuable than the Clay Path, which is more valuable than the Wooden Path.
- This card always scores 2 bonus points. Even if the other streets have also been played, only one bonus of 2 points is be awarded per game (not 2 bonus points per played street). [ref]
- The bonus points are in addition to the 2 normal points you get for playing this card. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space or receive reed on an action space, you receive 1 additional food.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which reed is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no reed (e.g. when you have the Bureaucrat.)
- Is activated by the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take reed.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games.
- Is not activated when you play the Reed Exchange or Helpful Neighbours, or use the Reed Buyer, Reed Collector, or any other occupation or improvement to get reed.
- Is not activated when you use the Net Fisherman to collect the food from the "Fishing" action space.
(Cost 2W or 2C.)
When you play this card, you receive 2 reeds. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You may not exchange 1 wood or 1 clay for only 1 reed, or exchange 1 wood and 1 clay for 2 reeds.
- Playing the Reed Exchange does not activate the Net Fisherman. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 2S 2C.)
Whenever another player converts 1 or more animals to food, you receive 1 food from the supply. During the feeding phase of the harvest, you are the last player to take a turn.
- If you convert an animal yourself, you receive no advantage.
- If both the Slaughterhouse and the Slaughterman are on the table, the owners of these two cards feed their families in current turn order (which is the turn order of the next round). [ref]
(2VP. Cost 1 veg 2S.)
During the feeding phase of the harvest, you can use the Schnaps Distillery to convert at most 1 vegetable into 4 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point each for your 5th and 6th vegetables.
- The vegetable that is used to buy the Schnaps Distillery and vegetables that you want to convert into 4 food may not be on fields; they must be taken from your personal supply.
- Distilling schnaps does not count as baking and does not activate the Spices.
(1VP. Req 3 grain fields.)
You no longer need reed when you extend or renovate your home.
- Grain fields are fields or improvement cards on which there is at least 1 grain marker. An empty, harvested field does not count as a grain field.
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Straw-thatched Roof for the same action.
(2VP. Cost 2W 2S.)
The Tavern is an additional action space. Whenever another player uses it, they receive 3 food. Whenever you use it, you can choose either to take 3 food or to score 2 bonus points.
- If another player uses the Tavern, you yourself do not receive anything from it.
- As on every other action space, at most one person may use the Tavern in each round.
- If you take this action yourself and you choose the bonus points, write them on the scoring pad.
- The Tavern counts as played improvement, e.g. for the Village Elder or as prerequisite for the Carp Pond. [ref]
(Req 4 planted fields.)
Immediately before scoring, you receive 1 additional animal of each type that you already have.
- This does not apply to the House Goat and the Horse minor improvement.
- (MOOR) It does apply to horses (that are not minor improvements). [ref]
- For the prerequisites, it does not matter whether the fields are planted with grain or vegetables.
- The Bean Field, Lettuce Patch, and Turnip Field count as prerequisites for the Animal Feed, if there are vegetable markers on those cards. The Acreage counts for the number of fields planted on it.
- The Copse, Giant Pumpkin, and Forester do not count as prerequisites.
- You may return animals to the general supply in order to make room for the new arrivals.
- As the game is over at this point, you may not convert the new animal to food, for example to pay for the Hide Farmer. [ref]
- If you also have played the Tenant Farmer, Animal Feed is used before returning the borrowed animals.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
This card can hold up to 1 sheep, 1 wild boar and 1 cattle.
- Does not count as a pasture when scoring.
- The capacity of the Wildlife Reserve is increased by the Shepherd's Pipe and the Drinking Trough.
(2VP. Cost 1W 2C 1R 2S.)
After the field phase of a harvest, each player can use the Water Mill to convert up to 1 grain to 3 food. Each player that uses the Water Mill must give you 1 of the food.
- Using the Water Mill does not count as baking.
- You may use the Water Mill yourself for free.
- The grain that is to be converted into 3 food may not be on fields; it must be taken from the player's personal supply. [ref]
(Cost 3 grain.)
When you play this card, you receive 2 vegetables. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The grain that you pay for the vegetables may not come from a field.
- Activates the Market Woman when played, but not the Pieceworker.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Req 1 occ.)
When you sow, you can plant grain on this card. There can be up to 2 stacks of grain on this card, as shown.
- This card does not count as a field when scoring.
- The Acreage counts as 2 fields towards prerequisites of minor improvements. [ref]
- You may choose to only sow one grain field on this card. You may then in a later sowing action sow another grain here.
- In each harvest, you take one grain from each of the stacks.
- If you receive 4 grain on fields when sowing because of occupations such as Fieldsman and Smallholder, you also receive 4 grain in each stack on the Acreage.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow on the Acreage. [ref]
- The Acreage is not considered to be adjacent to any farmyard space or other card, regardless of its location, and does not benefit from the Planter Box. [ref]
(5VP. Cost 3S. Return 1 oven.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can use the Bakehouse to convert up to 2 grain into 5 food each. When you play this card, you can also bake bread immediately.
- The old oven is returned: the Clay Oven and Stone Oven are returned to the major improvements, the Wood-fired Oven and Baker's Oven are removed from the game. The Baker's Kitchen may not be upgraded to a Bakehouse.
- Is a baking improvement, but not an oven.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
(Cost 1S.)
When you play this card, you receive 3 wood. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Req 2 impr 3 occ.)
Place 2 food on each remaining even-numbered round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- Only the improvements and occupations that lie open in front of you count. Discarded improvements (because of upgrading or Madonna Statue) do not count.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you convert at least 1 animal to food during the feeding phase of the harvest, you receive 1 additional food.
- You get a maximum of 1 food per harvest.
(2VP. Costs 2 grain 2S.)
During the feeding phase of the harvest, you can use the Brewery to convert at most 1 grain to 3 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for your ninth grain.
- The grain that is used to buy the Brewery and grain that you want to convert into 3 food may not be on fields; they must be taken from your personal supply.
- Brewing beer does not count as baking.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you play an occupation, you may also bake bread.
- Is activated when you use the Puppeteer or Educator.
- When you play more than one occupation in one action, you can bake bread more than once too.
- You can also bake bread if you play an occupation during the turn of another player.
- You may not use the food from the baking to pay for the occupation. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1W. Req 3 occ.)
Whenever you play 1 occupation, you receive 3 food before you pay the costs of the occupation.
- If you also have the Patron, you can use both to receive 5 food for each occupation you play.
- When used with the Writing Desk to play two occupation cards, the additional 3 food is distributed twice.
(Cost 1W. Req 1 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Plough 1 Field" or "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces, you can additionally bake bread.
(1VP. Req 2 occ.)
Place 1 food on each of the next 3 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
(Cost 3W. Req 3 occ.)
Twice during the game, when you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you can plough 3 fields instead of 1.
- Is not activated when you use the "Plough Field and Sow" action space.
- You may choose to plough only 2 fields instead of 3 at once.
- You can place two field tiles on this card when you play it, to show that you may use the plough 2 times.
- This is a plough. Each time you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you may only use one card out of the ploughs and the Harrow.
(1VP. Cost 3W or 3C.)
Place 1 grain on each remaining space for rounds 8, 10 and 12. At the start of these rounds, you receive the grain.
- You may not build the Granary with 2 wood & 1 clay or with 1 wood & 2 clay.
- Taking the grain does not activate the Grain Cart, Corn Scoop, Pieceworker, Sycophant, Seed Seller, Greengrocer, Market Crier or Field Watchman.
- You do not receive grain for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 1 occ.)
Add 4 and 7 to the number of the current round and place 1 vegetable on each corresponding round space. At the start of these rounds, you can pay 1 food to take the vegetable.
- If you do not wish to pay the 1 food to buy the vegetables, the vegetable is returned to the general supply.
- Food that you receive at the start of a round (e.g. because of the Well) can be used to pay for the vegetable immediately.
- You must pay the food before you take the vegetable.
(Req 4 animals.)
Whenever you sow, place 1 additional grain or vegetable from the general supply on each new stack you sow.
- Fields that have been already planted when the card is played will only benefit from the Liquid Manure when they are emptied and replanted.
- You can only put an extra grain on grain fields, and an extra vegetable on vegetable fields. [ref]
- You also place extra grain or vegetables when using the Corn Storehouse.
- The additional grain or vegetable from the Liquid Manure is added to additional goods from the Potato Dibber, Planter Box, Fieldsman and Smallholder.
- You also place extra grain or vegetables on the Bean Field, Turnip Field and Lettuce Patch.
- If you plant wood on the Copse or Forester, you place 1 additional wood for each wood you plant. You also plant additional food on the Vineyard.
- Improvements, such as the House Goat and Horse, do not count as animals for the requirement to play this card. [ref]
(Cost 3W. Req 1 occ.)
Once during the game, when you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you can plough 3 fields instead of 1.
- Is not activated when you use the "Plough Field and Sow" action space.
- You may choose to plough only 2 fields instead of 3 at once.
- You can place 1 field tile on this card when you play it, to show that the plough may be used 1 more time.
- This is a plough. Each time you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you may only use one card out of the ploughs and the Harrow.
(1VP.)
In each feeding phase, you receive 1 food. Apart from the goat, you cannot hold any other animal in your home.
- If you have the House Goat, the Animal Tamer has no effect.
- The goat may not be discarded in order to make room for a different animal.
- You may place 1 food on this card for each remaining harvest, to ensure that you do not forget to take the food.
- The House Goat does not count as an animal, e.g. for prerequisites of minor improvements. [ref]
- If you already have played the Sheepdog, you cannot play the House Goat, and vice versa. [ref]
(Cost 2W.)
The next stable you place in your farmyard, as well as your 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and 15th fence, costs you nothing.
- If you build free fences in another way (e.g. with the Hedge Keeper) you may not save the free fences from the Sawhorse for another turn. Free fences from the Sawhorse are built before the free fences from the Hedge Keeper.
- Fences may only be built to form completed pastures.
(3VP. Return Joinery.)
Each harvest, you may convert up to 1 wood to 3 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1/2/3 bonus points for 2/4/5 wood.
- After the Joinery has been upgraded, it may be bought again by any player.
- If you have both the Sawmill and the Joinery at the end of the game, you do not get any bonus points for wood from the Joinery, even if you have more wood than you need to receive maximum bonus points for the Sawmill. You do get the regular points for both cards: 2 for the Joinery, 3 for the Sawmill. [ref]
- At the end of the game, wood on the Copse and the Forester counts. Wood on the Basin Maker and Resource Seller does not count.
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
At the end of the game, you get 2 bonus points if your home contains 5 rooms, or 4 bonus points if you have 6 or more rooms.
(Cost 1W. Req 1 cattle.)
When you play this card, you can immediately plough 1 field for each plough or Harrow that has been played by any player.
- You may choose to plough fewer fields.
- If a plough or Harrow has been discarded, e.g. for the Madonna Statue, it does not count. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Discard all the remaining minor improvements in your hand, and draw 7 new minor improvements. You can play 1 more minor improvement immediately.
- You must pay the costs of the new improvement and, where appropriate, meet the conditions for playing it.
- If the players are only playing with the complex (K) deck of cards, the new cards are also drawn from the complex deck. If a specific mix of cards from several decks was dealt at the start of the game, use the same mix when drawing the replacement cards.
- The improvements are drawn from the cards that were removed from the game at the start. This does not include cards that were discarded during the game, e.g. for upgrades or to play the Madonna Statue.
(Cost 1R.)
Whenever you receive reed on an action space, you receive an additional 2 food. This is reduced to 1 food if you receive other building resources as well as reed.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which reed is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no reed (e.g. when you have the Bureaucrat.)
- Is activated by the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take reed.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games, but you receive only 1 food.
- Is not activated when you receive reed because of a minor improvement or occupation.
- If the Wood Distributor placed wood on the "1 Reed" action space, that space only provides 1 additional food.
- Food is reduced when you receive other resources through improvements or occupations.
- Other building resources are wood, clay, and stone. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you use one of the family growth action spaces (or if you already have used one of these spaces in this round when you play the Clapper), place 1 additional grain on all of your fields that already contains at least 1 grain.
- Take the grain from the general supply.
- If there is more than one stack of grain on a field, on the Acreage or because of the Scarecrow, you place 1 grain on each of the stacks. [ref]
- Is not activated when you use the Wet Nurse, Village Beauty, or Lover.
- If you use the Mother of Twins for the same action, you still only get 1 additional grain per field.
- In the 5-player game, there is an action space that gives players a choice of actions, including family growth. From round 5 onwards, the Clapper is activated by using this space, even if you choose the other action.
- Also place additional wood on the Copse or the Forester, and additional food on the Vineyard.
- Using the Clapper does not count as sowing.
(1VP. Return 1 fireplace.)
At any time, you can convert goods to food as follows: vegetables → 3 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 3 food; cattle → 4 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 3 food.
- If you upgrade the Fireplace major improvement, the card is returned to the major improvements board. If the minor improvement Simple Fireplace is upgraded, it is removed from the game.
- You can own more than one Cooking Hearth.
- With this card, you can convert several animals and vegetables to food at the same time. When you bake bread you can convert as many grain as you want. You may bake bread and convert other goods to food at the same time, in order to activate the Gypsy's Crock.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
- Is identical in all respects to the major improvement Cooking Hearth, except that it can be played as a minor improvement, and that it cannot be paid for with clay. [ref]
- (MOOR) After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.) [ref]
When you play this card, you receive 1 grain. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Req 1 veg field.)
Place 1 food on each of the next 5 round spaces. At the start of each round, you receive the food.
- Vegetable fields are fields on which there is at least 1 vegetable marker. An empty, harvested field does not count as a vegetable field.
- The Bean Field, Lettuce Patch, and Turnip Field count as prerequisites for the Strawberry Patch, if there are vegetable markers on those cards.
- The Seed Trader, Grocer, Giant Pumpkin and Pumpkin Seed Oil do not count as prerequisites.
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you receive 3 additional clay.
(Cost 1R 4C.)
When you play this card, immediately extend your clay hut by 1 room. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The new room is free. You only have to pay the costs of this minor improvement. [ref]
- Cards that change the costs of minor improvements, such as Golden Hands, can be used to change the cost of the Clay Hut Extension. Cards that change the costs of a new room, such as Ladder or Frame Builder, cannot be used to change its cost. [ref]
- Playing the Clay Hut Extension counts as building a room, and activates e.g. the Wet Nurse. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you have cattle during the field phase of a harvest, you receive food: 1 food if you have 1 or 2 cattle; 2 food if you have 3 or 4 cattle; 3 food if you have 5 or more cattle. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for every 2 cattle.
(1VP. Cost 3W. Req 2 cattle.)
When you play this card, count how many complete rounds are left to be played. You can plough this many fields, up to a maximum of 3.
- You may choose to plough fewer fields.
You receive 2 bonus points for any one type of animal missing from your farm at the end of the game.
- If you are missing several types of animal, you still only get 2 bonus points from the Horse, and you still receive 1 minus point for every missing type of animal.
- The score for the missing type of animal still counts as negative for the Constable and Yeoman Farmer. [ref]
- The Horse does not need to be placed in the farmyard. [ref]
- The Horse does not count as an animal for prerequisites of minor improvements. [ref]
- (MOOR) The Horse does not count as a horse, but horses can be the type of animal for which the Horse gives you points.
(Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you extend or renovate your home, you can replace 1 or 2 reed with the same amount of wood.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- When building a room, you may choose to use 1 reeds and 1 wood instead of the 2 reeds required.
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Brushwood Roof for the same action. For example, if you also have the Clay Roof, you may use both to replace 2 reeds with 1 wood and 1 clay.
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
When you sow, you can plant vegetables on this card as you would on a field. When you play this card, you can also carry out a sowing action.
- You may use the sowing action for all of your empty fields.
- Does not count as a field when scoring. Vegetables on this card do count for the score at the end of the game. [ref]
- Whenever you sow on the Turnip Field, you may use the Potato Dibber, Fieldsman, and Smallholder to plant extra vegetables.
- If you have vegetable markers on the Turnip Field, it counts as a prerequisite for the Herb Garden and the Strawberry Patch.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow on the Turnip Field. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 4R 1W.)
Place one family member token that you have not yet brought into the game onto this card, where it will live for the rest of the game. It can take actions and must be fed, but it is not worth any points while living in the Reed Hut.
- The new person can be used in the current round, as it is put in “its own room” immediately when playing this card.
- The occupant of the Reed Hut is placed after your family members [ref] and the guest from the Guest minor improvement, but before the guest received from the Keg.
- Playing the Reed Hut does not count as a family growth action.
- The person in the Reed Hut is not counted when checking if family growth is allowed. They do not count as part of the family.
- You can move this person into your home with a family growth action later. That family growth action must be taken by another family member. [ref] The former occupant of the Reed Hut counts as newborn, and may not take an action that round, unless you use the Adoptive Parents. [ref]
- You can play this card even if you do not have a family member token left in your supply, but you don't get an extra person.
- If you discard the Reed Hut because of the Madonna Statue, you must discard the occupant of the Reed Hut immediately if you haven't yet placed it this round. If you've already placed the occupant of the Reed Hut, discard it in the return home phase of this round. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1W. Req 2 grain fields.)
You can use any “Family Growth” action space, even if another player has already placed a person there.
- This works for all spaces that include a family growth action.
- In the 5-player game, there is an action space that gives players a choice of actions, including family growth. From round 5 onwards, you may always use this space, even if you choose the other action.
- Grain fields are fields on which there is at least 1 grain marker. An empty, harvested field does not count as a grain field. Fields with other resources or food, such as Copse and Vineyard, do not count. [ref]
- The Acreage and fields on which a second grain has been planted using the Scarecrow count for the number of grain planted on them.
- You cannot use the action space if it is occupied by one of your own family members. [ref]
(2VP. Req 4 occ.)
Place 1 food each on the next 5 remaining round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
(Cost 1F.)
When you play this card, you receive 1 wild boar. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The wild boar may be immediately converted to food with a cooking improvement, Butcher or Meat Seller.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
Place 1 stone on each remaining even-numbered round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the stone.
(Cost 2W or 2C.)
When you play this card, you receive 2 stone. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You may not exchange 1 wood or 1 clay for only 1 stone, or exchange 1 wood and 1 clay for 2 stone.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 3W 3C 2R 3S.)
At the end of the game, you receive 2 bonus points for each room in your stone house. In total, you receive 4 points per room instead of the usual 2 points.
- If you also have the Half-timbered House, you only get the bonus points from the Mansion.
- If you also have the Chief, you get the bonus points for both cards.
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
This card can hold an unlimited number of wild boar.
- Does not count as a pasture when scoring.
- The wild boar on this card are included when scoring wild boar.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you have sheep during the field phase of a harvest, you receive food: 1 food if you have 1 to 3 sheep; 2 food for 4 to 6 sheep; or 3 food for 7 or more sheep. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for every 3 sheep.
(Req 3 occ.)
This card is an additional action space. A player who uses this action space must pay you 1 food and receives 5 clay. If you use the Clay Deposit yourself, you may choose to take 2 bonus points instead of the clay.
- If you use the Clay Deposit yourself, you do not need to have or to pay any food. [ref]
- The Clay Deposit counts as played improvement, e.g. for the Village Elder or as prerequisite for the Carp Pond. [ref]
During the feeding phase of each harvest, you may trade 1 vegetable for 1 of any type of animal that you already have in your farmyard.
- You may use this card only once per harvest. [ref]
(Req 3 occ.)
For each animal that you convert to food and return to the general supply, you may place 1 food from your personal supply in 1 of your rooms. You may have a maximum of 1 food in each room. You cannot use these food any more, but each is worth 1 bonus point at the end of the game.
- You can take the food from your supply after you've received the food from slaughtering the animal.
- If you also have the Tanner, Basin Maker, Taxidermist, and/or Brush Maker, you may use those cards as well as the Pelts for each converted animal.
(Cost 2W.)
Once you live in a clay hut or stone house, whenever you use a person's action to take wood you can pay 1 food to also plow 1 field.
- This is a plough.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which wood is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no wood (e.g. because of the Wood Distributor).
- Is activated even if you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher.
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games, and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take wood.
- Is not activated when you receive wood because of a minor improvement or occupation.
(Cost 1W.)
Once all the people have been placed in this round, you may place a guest marker to carry out an additional action. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The guest is played after all family members, other guests, and the occupant of the Reed Hut, but before moving a person (e.g. because of the Countryman or Acrobat).
- The action performed by a guest counts for the Church Warden.
- The guest does not need to be fed during harvest time. [ref]
- This card is passed to the left immediately when it has been played. The next player may use the Keg the same round. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1 grain 1S.)
During the feeding phase of each harvest, you can use the Brewer's Copper to convert at most 1 grain to 2 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point if you have at least 7 grain.
- Using the Brewer's Copper does not count as baking.
(2VP. Cost 1S.)
This card cannot be played once all other players have 2 or more occupations (3 occupations in a 3-player game, 4 occupations in a 2-player game).
- In a 1-player game, you can always play this card.
Pay 2 food for each of your family members, and receive a total of 4 bonus points. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Write the bonus points on the scoring pad.
- You do not have to pay for guests or the occupant of the Reed Hut.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
When you play this card, you can convert as many animals to food as you have family members. For each sheep, you receive 3 food; for each wild boar, 4; and for each cattle, 5. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You do not need a cooking improvement to convert the animals to food. [ref]
- Is not a cooking improvement. Does not activate the Schnitzel Mallet.
- Guests or the occupant of the Reed Hut do not count as family members.
- You may choose to convert fewer animals to food than you have family members. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Req 1 veg field.)
Three times during the game (but at most once per round), you can place 1 vegetable from your personal supply on this card and receive 3 food in exchange. The vegetables on this card are counted in the scoring at the end of the game.
- You do not need a cooking improvement to exchange the vegetable for food.
- A harvest counts as part of the preceding round. [ref]
- Placing a vegetable on this card does not count as sowing.
- The vegetables on this card are not considered to be in your personal supply. [ref]
- The Bean Field, Lettuce Patch, and Turnip Field count as prerequisites for the Pumpkin Seed Oil, if there are vegetable markers on those cards.
- The Giant Pumpkin, Seed Trader, and Grocer do not count as prerequisites.
- Placing a vegetable on this card does not activate the Spices.
(Cost 1W.)
Play this card before the end of round 4. When you play this card, place one of your unbuilt fences upright on an unused farmyard space. If you have not knocked it over by the end of the game, it is worth 2 bonus points.
- The farmyard space counts as used, even if the fence is knocked over, in which case, it remains on the farmyard space. You cannot reclaim it for use as a fence.
- The farmyard space cannot be used for anything else until the end of the game. In the scoring at the end of the game, the farmyard space counts as used, even if the fence has been knocked over.
- If another player knocks the fence over, you can re-place it.
- Placing the Maypole does not count as building fences.
- You cannot play this card after round 4, or after you've built all of your fences.
(Req no unused spaces.)
For each round that has not yet begun when you play this card, you receive 1 bonus point and 2 food.
- Write down the bonus point(s) on the scoring pad immediately.
As long as you have at least 1 cattle in your farm, you can knock down your fences and rebuild them at any time, for no cost.
- Your animals do not run away.
- Fences must always be placed according to the rules.
- Rebuilding fences does not activate the Animal Breeder, [ref] Hedge Keeper, Farmer, Stablehand, and Shepherd's Crook, or another player's Fencer.
- When you rebuild the fences, you must use the same number of fences. You may not remove fences from your farm.
- You can only rearrange those fences that have been placed as fences; not those used by the Wagenburg, Hop Field or Maypole.
Place 1 vegetable from your own supply on this card. At any time, you can harvest this vegetable and convert it to food. If it is still on the card at the end of the game, you receive 2 bonus points.
- You can count the vegetable in scoring at the end of the game.
- You have to place the vegetable immediately when you play the Giant Pumpkin; you cannot play this card if you do not have a vegetable.
- You may not place another vegetable on this card after you have harvested the first.
- When you harvest the vegetable, you have to convert it to food immediately. You may not add it to your supply or sow it.
- The Giant Pumpkin does not count as a field, and is not harvested during the field phase of a harvest. You cannot use the Gardener for the Giant Pumpkin. [ref]
(Req 2 empty fields.)
Whenever you sow, you can pay 1 wood and sow 2 grain instead of 1 on an empty field.
- You can use this card once for every sowing action.
- You may not sow an extra stack of grain on a field that is not empty.
- If you also have the Planter Box, Liquid Manure, Fieldsman, or Smallholder, you may add extra grain to both stacks when you sow. The field for which you use the Scarecrow counts as 2 fields for the Fieldsman and Smallholder.
- In each harvest, you take one grain from each of the stacks.
- The Bean Field, Lettuce Patch, and Turnip Field count as prerequisites for the Scarecrow, if there are no vegetables on them. The Acreage counts as two empty fields if there are no markers on it, and as one empty field if there is one field planted on it.
- The Copse, Forester, Vineyard, and Giant Pumpkin do not count as prerequisites.
- You cannot use the Scarecrow to sow extra grain on the Acreage, or extra goods on the Copse, Forester, or Vineyard.
- Fields that have two stacks of grain on them count as two fields for prerequisites. They count as 1 field during the final scoring.
- When both stacks of grain have been completely harvested, you can only sow 1 grain on the field with your next sowing action, unless you use the Scarecrow again for that field.
(2VP. Cost 1W 1C 1S.)
The Coffee House is an action space for all players. Whenever a player uses the Coffee House, that player and the card's owner each receive 1 food from the general supply. In the next round, the person from this space can be placed before the starting player places his first person.
- If you use this card yourself, you receive 2 food.
- The person from the Coffee House is placed before using the Taster. The taster still pays food to the original starting player.
- The Coffee House counts as played improvement, e.g. for the Village Elder or as prerequisite for the Carp Pond. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 2W 3F. Req 3 occ.)
The Spielefest is an action space for all players. Whenever a player visits the Spielefest, he pays the owner of this card 1 food and receives 2 bonus points.
- You can visit the Spielefest yourself. If you do, you do not need to have or to pay any food. [ref]
- The Spielefest counts as played improvement, e.g. for the Village Elder or as prerequisite for the Carp Pond. [ref]
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
When this card is played, each player who immediately pays 5 food into the general supply receives 3 bonus points.
- Before paying 5 food, each player has the chance to convert goods to food.
(Req 2 occ.)
In the next round, you can only place your people after the other players have placed all of theirs. For each person that you place late, you receive 1 bonus point.
- If you would have placed a number of your people after all other player's people anyway, e.g. because you are last in player order or because you have more family members than anyone else, you do not receive bonus points for them.
- You place your people after all guests of other players, including the one from the Keg, but before moving a person (e.g. because of the Countryman or Acrobat).
- You may not use the Taster next round. If you use the Coffee House this round, you may not place that person first.
(1VP. Req more rooms than people.)
Take a Guest marker. From the next round, you can place this as you would a family member. The guest worker can use the most recent round card even if it has already been taken. He occupies a room in your home and must be fed with 2 food during the feeding phase of each harvest.
- The most recent round card is always the one corresponding to the current round, even if the Chamberlain has been played.
- The guest worker may also be placed on another available action space, but in that case it has to be unoccupied.
- The guest worker does not count as a family member when scoring or for the Ratcatcher, Midwife, Barbecue, or Family Portrait, but its action does count for the Church Warden.
- Playing the Guest Worker is not a family growth action.
- The guest worker is placed as one of the ordinary family members, before the occupant of the Reed Hut and the guest received from the Keg.
- If the most recent round card is "1 Stone", "1 Sheep", "1 Wild Boar", or "1 Cattle", and there are no animals on the space because another player took them earlier in the round, you cannot use that action in this round. [ref]
(1S. Req 2 occ.)
For each cattle that you turn to food using a cooking improvement, you receive 1 additional food and 1 bonus point.
- A cooking improvement is an improvement with a “cooking” symbol.
- Is activated by using the Horse Butcher, but not by Barbecue, Meat Seller, or Butcher.
(Req 1 occ.)
Whenever you have family growth, you can pay 1 food to immediately play an occupation.
- If you can also play a minor improvement, you must first play the occupation.
- Is activated when you use the Wet Nurse, Lover, or Village Beauty.
(Cost 1W 1R. Req 1 stable.)
Select 1 of your built stables. It is now a room for one of your family members. The stable loses its original function, but it is still worth 1 additional point if fenced.
- You can still keep animals in the pasture, as if the stable did not exist. [ref]
- You may not build a second stable on that farmyard space.
- Playing the Emergency Housing does not count as building a room and, for example, does not activate the Wet Nurse.
- The stable only counts as a room when you have family growth (including when you use the Wet Nurse or Village Beauty) or when you play the Guest Worker. It does not count as a room when renovating, scoring, or for other improvements and occupations.
(1VP. Cost 1W 1S.)
Whenever you use the “Sow” action, you can plant up to 3 food on this card. Up to 3 stacks of food may be planted on it in total. These food are treated in the same way as sowed grain and are harvested during the harvest.
- You place up to 3 food from your personal supply next to each other on this card, and pile additional food from the general supply on your own 1--3 food markers.
- You may choose to only sow 1 or 2 food on this card. You may then in a later sowing action sow more food here. [ref]
- In each harvest, you take one food from each of the stacks.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow food on the Vineyard. [ref]
- This card does not count as a field when scoring.
- If you may place 4 grain on a field when sowing, e.g. with an occupation, you also receive 4 food on each stack on the Vineyard; if you would receive 5 grain, you receive 5 food. If you have the Fieldsman, you get a total of 5 food on the card if you only plant 1 food on this card (and nothing elsewhere); if you plant 2 food (and nothing else), you receive 4 food on each stack.
- The Smallholder may not be used to plant extra food.
- At the end of the game, the food is not counted as grain.
- The Vineyard is not considered to be adjacent to any farmyard space or other card, regardless of its location, and does not benefit from the Planter Box. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2C.)
Whenever you extend your home with 1 or more rooms, you receive 2 food for each new room.
(Req 3 occ.)
For each sheep that you convert to food, place 1 food from the general supply on this card. If, at the end of the game, you have at least as many food on the Lederhosen as you have family members, you receive 2 bonus points; if you have twice as many, you receive 3 bonus points.
- The food on the Lederhosen is not part of your supply. You cannot use it in any way.
(Req 1 occ.)
Place 5 food from the general supply on the Styrian Oak. At the start of each round, you can return 1 food to the general supply. Once during the game, at any time, you can pay the number of food (0 to 5) remaining on the Styrian Oak to receive 6 wood from the supply.
- The food on the Styrian Oak is not part of your supply. You cannot use it in any way.
(Cost 1F.)
Whenever you play a minor or major improvement, you can replace exactly 1 building resource with another.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref] You cannot replace anything else (food, grain, vegetables, animals, etc.).
(1VP. Cost 1W 1C.)
Whenever you can play 1 minor or major improvement, you can play 1 occupation instead. The price of the occupation is 1 food.
- You can also use the School for actions in which you can play only a minor improvement, such as the one on the "Family Growth and Minor Improvement" action space.
- In combination with one of Traveling Salesman, Businessman, or Merchant, you can use the School to play either two occupations, or one improvement and one occupation, in any order.
(Cost 1F. Req 3 persons.)
You can bake bread immediately when you play this card. At the end of the game, you get 1 bonus point for every 3 food you have left, with a maximum of 3 points.
You may place 1 fence on each of any number of your unused farmyard spaces. This costs 1 wood per fence. You may at any time return a fence from a farmyard space to your personal supply. Spaces with fences count as used at the end of the game.
- If you take fences back from your farm, you don't get your wood back.
- Farmyard spaces with fences also count as used during the game, e.g. for the Rancher.
- Placing the fences is not a fencing action, and does not activate the Hedge Keeper, Farmer, Stablehand, or another player's Fencer.
(1VP. Cost 2C.)
The Chapel is an additional action space. Whenever a player uses it, they can discard up to 2 begging cards. Every begging card is paid with 1 stone, which is placed on the Chapel. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each stone on this card.
- The stone on this card is not part of your personal supply.
- The Chapel counts as played improvement, e.g. for the Village Elder or as prerequisite for the Carp Pond. [ref]
(Req 1 empty field.)
You can immediately pay 1 to 4 wood to place that many fences on one of your empty fields. This field is no longer suitable for sowing, but will be scored as a field at the end of the game. For each fence on the field you receive 1 food immediately and 1 bonus point at the end of the game.
- You cannot return fences from the field to your supply.
- Placing the fences is not a fencing action, and does not activate the Hedge Keeper, Farmer, Stablehand, or another player's Fencer.
(1VP. Cost 2S. Req 1 unfenced stable.)
Immediately convert one of your unfenced stables to a wine cellar by turning it on its side. You can no longer keep animals in it. You receive 2 food from the general supply in the field phase of each harvest. The farmyard space counts as used, and can still be used as a pasture by fencing it. The wine cellar does not count as a stable.
(1VP. Cost 2C. Req oven or cooking hearth.)
Place the 2 clay that you paid on this card. At the start of each of the next 2 rounds, return 1 of the clay to the general supply. In these 2 rounds, you use the action space where you place your first person, twice in succession. For accumulating action spaces, this means that for the second action you receive the number of resources or food that is added at the start of each round.
- The clay on this card is not part of your personal supply.
- You use only one person to take the double action. [ref]
- The person counts only once for the Church Warden.
- Taking a double action is not optional. You may only use an action space that you are able to use twice. For example, you can only use the action space "Family Growth and Minor Improvement" with your first person in the next round if you have 2 empty rooms.
- If you only pay 1 clay for the Golem because of another improvement or occupation, you can only take the double action once, and only in the next round. If you pay no clay, you cannot take any double action. If you pay another type of resource, e.g. because of Golden Hands, you cannot use those resources to take a double action.
(Cost 2C.)
Whenever you use the action space "Family Growth and Minor Improvement", you may carry out the family growth action twice in the same turn, using only 1 person.
- This action space is revealed in round 5, 6, or 7.
- You may only play 1 minor improvement.
- Taking the family growth action twice activates the Clapper only once, but Midwife, Adoptive Parents, Child Prodigy, and Compulsory Education twice.
- You can only use the Farm Steward for the first family growth action.
- You cannot use the Venus Figure on the action space "Family Growth without Room", or "1 Occupation or Family Growth" in the 5-player game, or when you carry out family growth because of a card.
- The person that takes the family growth action counts only once for the Church Warden.
(1VP. Cost 1W. Req 1 occ.)
In the feeding phase of each harvest, each family member that has used one of the following action spaces in the preceding round consumes 1 fewer food: "Plough 1 Field", "Plough Field and Sow", "Take 1 Grain", "Take 1 Vegetable", and "Day Labourer",
- If you also have the Cook, it is possible that some of your family members do not consume food at all.
- You can use this card to pay less food for the occupant of the Reed Hut or the Guest Worker, but you do not receive food if you take any of the actions with another guest.
- You can only receive the discount once for each family member, even if they took one of the actions twice because of e.g. Countryman or Golem.
- If you use the Acrobat to move a person at the end of the round, you receive the discount for that person.
(Cost 3C.)
In the feeding phase of each harvest, each player can pay 1 clay instead of 2 food to feed exactly 1 family member. Each paid clay is placed on this card. You receive 1 bonus point for every 2 clay on this card at the end of the game.
- The clay on this card is not part of your personal supply.
- If a player has the Bible, and all their family members need only 1 food, they can still use the Hunger Wall, but only to replace just 1 food with 1 clay.
- In the solo game, you can replace 3 food with 1 clay.
(Req 2 occ, 1 empty field.)
Place a claim marker on an empty field. You cannot sow again on this field. It no longer counts as a field, but only as a used farmyard space. You may immediately sow on all of your other empty fields. Put 2 extra grain or vegetables on each stack that you plant.
- You put extra grain on grain fields, and extra vegetables on vegetable fields. [ref]
- The field with the claim marker does not count as a field during scoring.
(Cost 1W 1S.)
When you play this card, immediately take the field and breeding phases of a harvest on your farmyard. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Activates all your cards that can be used during the field and breeding phases of a harvest.
- Activates the Water Mill (only for you), also if owned by another player.
- Does not activate the Layabout.
(Cost 1W. Req 2 animal types.)
Once per round, you may return 1 of your animals to the supply for a guest token, which you place this round as you would a family member. (The guest represents the animal.)
- You can use the Animal Farm at the latest when it's your next turn after the one in which you placed your last family member (including the occupant of the Reed Hut and other guests except for the one from the Keg).
- If another player has the Robber, Animal Farm does not count as a person left to place, unless you already took the guest token.
- You can exchange an animal that comes directly from an action space or from an improvement or occupation, without having to make room for it in your farmyard.
- If you discard the Animal Farm with the Madonna Statue before you've used the guest marker, you have to discard that guest marker without using it. If you've already placed the guest marker, it is discarded in the return home phase as usual. [ref]
(Req 2 occ & 1 baking imp)
When you sow, you can plant grain on this card as you would on a field. When harvesting, you must immediately bake this field's harvested grain.
- You receive a baking action that you can and must use for this grain only.
- The grain still counts as harvested, e.g. for Bountiful Harvest and Grain Market.
- Every grain that is moved from this field to your personal supply has to be baked, including when Manure, Almanac, Harvest Feast, or Fish Farm are used.
- Grain moved elsewhere (e.g. to another player's supply by Harvest Helper) cannot be baked immediately.
- When you harvest more than 1 grain at the same time, e.g. with the Harvest Feast, you must bake all grain in 1 baking action.
- If you cannot bake a grain, e.g. because you discarded your baking implement for the Madonna Statue, you must convert it to 1 food.
- If you also have the Baker, you get two separate baking actions during the harvest; you may use the same baking implement for both.
- This card does not count as a field when scoring.
- It counts as a field towards prerequisites of minor improvements. [ref]
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow on the Baking Field. [ref]
- The Baking Field is not considered to be adjacent to any farmyard space or other card, regardless of its location, and does not benefit from the Planter Box. [ref]
When you play this card, immediately buy up to 2 animals from the general supply. Pay any 2 building resources for each sheep, any 3 for each wild boar, and any 4 for each cattle. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The animals can be the same or different.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animals to food with an appropriate improvement without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2S.)
Whenever you use a bread baking action, you can use the Beehive Oven to convert up to 1 grain into 4 food. Whenever you bake 1 or more grain into bread without using the Beehive Oven, you receive 1 additional food. When you play this card, you can also bake bread immediately.
- Is both an oven and a baking improvement.
- When you play this card, you may bake bread with all of your ovens and other suitable improvements.
- Bread is not baked if schnaps is distilled or beer is brewed, or when a Water Mill, Windmill or Hand Mill is used.
Whenever you grow your family, you may pay 1 stone for 1 bonus point. When you play Birthstone, you may immediately do this for any new family member that you already received this round.
- If you receive 2 new family members at once with Mother of Twins, you may pay 2 stone for 2 bonus points.
(Req 2 occ.)
If you harvest at least 2 resources and breed at least 1 animal during a harvest, place 1 food from the general supply on this card. You may use this food at any time. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each food on this card.
- Food on this card is part of your personal supply, and counts for e.g. Pilgrim.
- Is activated by Almanac.
- If you also have Harvest Helper, grain harvested from another player's field counts for this card.
(Cost 2W or 2C. Req 1 occ.)
Place 1 food on each remaining major improvement on the major improvements board. When these improvements are acquired, you receive the food.
- (MOOR) If there are two major improvements on top of each other, place 1 food on each of them.
(Cost 1W. Req 1 occ.)
Whenever you plough 1 or more fields, you receive 1 wood from the general supply for each field you just ploughed.
- (MOOR) Is not activated when you place a field without ploughing, e.g. using the "Slash and Burn" special action, Cattle Collar, or Peat Burn-off.
(Cost 3W. Req 1 occ.)
You may keep up to 2 animals of the same type on each unsowed field orthogonally adjacent to your home. Different corrals may hold different types of animals. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each of these fields that holds at least 1 animal.
- The fields do not count as pastures.
(Cost 1C.)
You may keep up to 2 cattle on each unused space on your farmyard, to a maximum of 4 cattle.
- The spaces still count as unused.
(Cost 1W. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever you have 2/3 different types of animals at the beginning of the field phase, you may add 1 more resource on 1/2 of your planted fields (or planted cards).
- Animal cards like House Goat do not count, but animals kept on cards do.
When you play this card, immediately take a bread baking action. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Is an oven, but not a baking improvement.
(Cost 1F.)
When you play this card, immediately build a major improvement. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Pay the costs for the improvement normally.
(Cost 2F.)
When you play this card, you receive 1 vegetable. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
(Cost 2W.)
Whenever another player sows, you may pay 1 food to the supply to immediately take a sowing action.
(1VP. Cost 1W 1C.)
Pay 1 less wood/clay/stone for each wood/clay/stone room. Each round you build stables, pay 1 less wood for up to 2 stables.
(1VP. Req 3 grain fields.)
Whenever you harvest at least 1 grain, you may immediately afterward exchange 1 grain from your personal supply for 1 vegetable.
When you play this card, immediately take a fencing action. Pay 1 wood to every other player who has at least 1 fence.
(1VP. Req 3 occ.)
When you play this card, each player may immediately move any amount of their planted resources to their personal supply.
- This does not count as a harvest.
(Cost 1W.)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point if you have 3 stables, or 2 bonus points if you have 4 stables.
- A stable used by Emergency Housing counts as a stable for the Hayloft.
(Cost 1F.)
Each round, you may place 1 guest token as you would a family member. If you do this, you must place 1 fewer person next round. You can not use this ability in consecutive rounds nor in round 14.
- You can decide to use the Hired Helpers at the start of any of your turns, and at the latest when it's your next turn after the one in which you placed your last family member (including the occupant of the Reed Hut and other guests except for the one from the Keg). [ref]
- You have to place the guest token in the same turn that you receive it, unless you skip that turn (e.g. because of the Robber or (MOOR) because of a special action). If another player has the Robber, Hired Helpers does not count as a person left to place, unless you skipped a turn. [ref]
- If you have a card that is activated by placing your last person or taking your last action, e.g. Magician or Opportunist, and you use that card when you place your last family member, you can no longer use the Hired Helpers that turn. You may choose not to use that card when you place your last family member, but then you have to use the Hired Helpers next turn (and it counts as a person left to place until then). [ref]
(Cost 1W or 1C.)
When you play this card, immediately either discard 1 begging card or take 1 animal (of your choice) from the supply. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- If you take an animal, you may immediately convert it to food with an appropriate improvement without having to make room for it in your farmyard.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Req 1 occ.)
Whenever you sow, each field you sow that is orthogonally adjacent to exactly 1 stable gets an additional 1 grain or 1 vegetable. Each field that is orthogonally adjacent to 2 or more stables, gets an additional 2 grain or 2 vegetables.
- It does not matter if a stable is fenced.
- You can only put extra grain on grain fields, and extra vegetables on vegetable fields. [ref]
- Cards such as Acreage and Bean Field do not benefit from the Horse Barn. [ref]
- If you also have the Winter Garden, grain or vegetable fields inside your home do not benefit from the Horse Barn. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1W 1S.)
Whenever you plow a field that is orthogonally adjacent to a planted field, you may take 1 grain or vegetable from that field and sow it immediately on the newly plowed field. Place 1 fewer grain or vegetable from the supply on the newly planted field.
- If you use the "Plough Field and Sow" action space, you may sow before you plough. [ref]
- If you plow more than 1 field at the same time (e.g. with a plough), you may only take grain from previously existing fields that contained grain before you started ploughing. [ref]
- You get a single sowing action that you can only use for one grain or vegetable per ploughed field. This activates e.g. the Smallholder and the Liquid Manure, but not the Scarecrow.
- Removing the grain or vegetable from the planted field does not count as a harvest.
(Cost 1F.)
When you play this card, immediately take a sowing action. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1 cattle.)
When you play this card, you receive 2 vegetables. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2F or 1 animal.)
Whenever you bake 1 or more grain into bread, you may pay 1 additional
- grain and 1 animal for 3 Bonus points. When you play this card, you may
- also take a bread baking action.
- Is activated when you use a baking improvement (with the “baking” symbol) to convert grain to food.
- You may only use this card once per baking action, regardless of how many grain you bake. [ref]
- Bread is not baked if schnaps is distilled or beer is brewed, or when a Water Mill, Windmill or Hand Mill is used.
(Cost 2W. Req 1 Occ.)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you may immediately afterward pay 1 food to plow 1 field.
- You can use the food from "Day Labourer" to pay for the field. [ref]
(Req 1 pasture & 1 occ.)
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You may not use the Paddocks to fence unfenced farmyard spaces.
- This is a fence building action, and activates Farmer, Hedge Keeper, and Stablehand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Req 2 occ.)
For each wild boar, cattle, or 2 sheep you convert into food, you may place 1 reed from the general supply on this card. You may use this reed to extend or renovate your home.
- If you convert a single sheep into food, you don't receive any reed, not even if you already converted a single sheep earlier. [ref]
- Reed on this card is not part of your personal supply. It does not count for Basketmaker's Workshop or Storehouse Clerk. [ref]
- You may not use the reed on this card to pay for the Wooden Hut Extension, Clay Hut Extension, or Stone House Extension. [ref]
- If you also have the Pelts, Tanner, Basin Maker, Taxidermist, and/or Brush Maker, you may use those cards as well as the Pelt Roof for each converted animal. [ref]
At the start of each round, you may place 1 wood on this card if you have zero wood in your supply. When this card has 5 wood, move the wood from this card to your personal supply.
- You may not give wood to the general supply for nothing, unless you also have the Pilgrim. [ref]
- If you receive wood at the start of the round, e.g. because of Rancher or Private Forest, you may use the Pine Forest before you receive that wood.
- You must take the wood as soon as there are 5 wood on the card; you may not wait until there is 6 or more wood on the card. [ref]
When you play this card, you receive 1 food for each planted plowed field in your farmyard. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You do not receive any food for improvements with planted resources, such as Bean Field and Forester. [ref]
- You receive only 1 food for a field with 2 stacks of grain because of the Scarecrow. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you convert 1 clay into food using the Pottery or Potter, you receive 1 additional food. The Pottery is now a minor improvement for you.
- The Pottery still counts as major improvement as well, e.g. for Nosebag or Administration. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1W 1C.)
Once per round, you may exchange 2 food for a building resource of your choice.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 3W or 3C. Req 1 occ.)
This card is an additional action space for all players. Any player who uses the Private School must pay you 1 food to play an occupation. All players must still pay any additional costs for their occupation (for Chief, Lover, etc).
- If you use the Private School yourself, you do not need to have or to pay any food. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W.)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space you may immediately afterward build one room.
- Pay costs for the room normally. You can use discounts from e.g. Axe and Thatcher.
- If you receive building resources for the "Day Labourer" action, e.g. because of Quarry or Clay Pit, you can use these to pay for the room.
- Activates Wet Nurse, Building Tycoon, and Unusual Architecture.
- If you also have the Oldest Occupation, you may first use the Pulley to build a new room and then the Oldest Occupation to grow a family member there. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2 grain or 1 veg.)
Whenever you bake 1 or more grain into bread, you may pay 1 additional grain and 1 vegetable for 3 bonus points. When you play this card, you can also take a bread baking action.
- Is activated when you use a baking improvement (with the “baking” symbol) to convert grain to food.
- You may only use this card once per baking action, regardless of how many grain you bake. [ref]
- Bread is not baked if schnaps is distilled or beer is brewed, or when a Water Mill, Windmill or Hand Mill is used.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 1 occ.)
Whenever you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you receive 1 reed.
(Cost 1R.)
When you play this card, you receive 3 food. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W 1R. Req 1 stable)
When you play this card, immediately return a stable from your farmyard to your supply and extend your wooden hut by 1 room. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The room does not cost anything, but you must pay the cost shown on this card.
- You can not use discounts on room building costs, e.g. from Ladder and Thatcher, when paying for this card.
- You cannot remove a stable that is used for Emergency Housing.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2S.)
Whenever you convert animals into food, you receive 1 additional food for each animal.
(1VP. Cost 1W 1S. Req 1 occ.)
You may sow fields even if they already contain resources. Place the new resources on top of the existing ones. You cannot sow different resources on a single field.
- If you receive extra resources when sowing, e.g. because of Smallholder or Liquid Manure, you also receive them when you use the Scythe.
- Is activated by any sowing action, including those from Hobby Farmer and Five-year Plan, except sowing actions on empty fields only (e.g. Corn Storehouse.
- You may also use the Scythe on improvements like the Acreage, Bean Field, and Copse, and on the indoors field of Winter Garden, and on the farmyard spaces used by No-Till Farming.
- If you sow an empty field, you cannot use the Scythe on that same field in the same sowing action. [ref]
- You cannot use the Scythe twice on the same field in the same sowing action. [ref]
(Req 1 occ.)
Whenever you sow during an even-numbered round, add 1 additional resource of the appropriate type to 1 field you just sowed.
- You may choose to sow an extra resource on cards like Forester and Bean Field. [ref]
(Cost 1W 1C.)
Whenever you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you may immediately afterward sow 1 grain or 1 vegetable.
- You get a single sowing action that you can only use for one grain or vegetable from your personal supply. This activates e.g. the Smallholder and the Liquid Manure, but not the Scarecrow.
(Cost 1S. Req 2 occ.)
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Areas of one or more unused farmyard spaces that are completely surrounded by fences or rooms are now automatically pastures. You may not use them any longer for any other purpose. [
ref]
- If you want, you can add fences of another colour where these pastures border your home, for clarity.
- If a farmyard space is entirely surrounded by your home, it becomes a pasture as well, even though it is not connected to your other pastures. You may not create an unconnected pasture in any other way with this card.
- The sides of your home do not count as fences (even when they help surround one of your pastures). If you create a pasture by placing a new room, this does not count as building fences, e.g. for Hedge Keeper. It does count as fencing a new pasture for Shepherd's Crook and Animal Breeder. [ref]
- If Shared Wall is discarded with the Madonna Statue, incompletely fenced spaces are no longer pastures. Leave the fences on your farmyard; they have no effect. [ref]
(Cost 1W. Req 1 occ.)
At the beginning of each harvest, you may exchange 1 grain or vegetable for 1 sheep. Alternatively, you may exchange 1 sheep for 1 grain or vegetable.
- Is activated before the field phase of the harvest.
- If you take a sheep, you may immediately convert it to food with an appropriate improvement without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
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You may keep up to 2 sheep on each unused space in your farmyard. You may not keep any animal other than sheep in your home. The Sheepdog must be fed 1 food each harvest.
- The farmyard spaces where you keep the sheep still count as unused.
- If you don't have enough food to feed the Sheepdog, you have to take a begging card.
- The food for the dog must be paid during the feeding phase of the harvest. [ref]
- If you already have played the House Goat, you cannot play the Sheepdog, and vice versa. [ref]
- The Sheepdog does not count as an animal, e.g. for prerequisites of minor improvements. [ref]
(Cost 1 sheep.)
At the end of the game, if you own a Fireplace, you receive 2 bonus points.
- A Simple Fireplace counts as a fireplace; a Cooking Hearth doesn't.
- You only receive the bonus once, even if you have 2 fireplaces.
(Cost 1W 1C.)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you may immediately afterward take a sowing action.
- If you receive resources on the "Day Labourer" action space, e.g. because of Seasonal Worker or Undergardener, you may use these in the sowing action. [ref]
(Cost 1W.)
At the end of the game, you receive 3 bonus points if you have at least 5 plowed fields, 8 grain and 4 vegetables.
- Planted grain and vegetables count.
- Improvements such as Acreage and Bean Field do not count as fields for this card.
(1VP. Cost 1W 1S. Req 2 occ.)
Whenever another player builds a room or renovates, you may immediately perform this action yourself (without placing a family member). Pay the costs using 1 less building resource of your choice.
- You cannot build a room when another player renovates, or vice versa.
- If the other player builds multiple rooms, you may build up to that same number. The Stone Crane gives a discount on all of those rooms. [ref]
- You can use cards like Axe or Renovator to reduce the costs of the new room(s) or the renovation.
- Is also activated when another player builds a room or renovates because of an improvement or occupation, such as Wooden Hut Extension, Master Builder, or Builder's Trowel.
- If the other player does an additional action, e.g. builds a stable as well as a room, or plays an improvement as well as renovates, you cannot do that action as well. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 3S.)
At any time, you may convert goods to food as follows: vegetables → 4 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 3 food; cattle → 4 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 3 food.
- With this card, you can convert several animals and vegetables to food at the same time. When you bake bread you can convert as many grain as you want. You may bake bread and convert other goods to food at the same time, in order to activate the Gypsy's Crock.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 2S 3W or 2S 3C or 2S 3R.)
In each harvest, you can use the Stonecutter's Hall to convert exactly 1 stone to 3 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1/2/3 bonus points for 2/4/5 stone.
(Req 1 planted field & 1 occ.)
Whenever another player takes the "Fishing" action, you can take 1 grain or vegetable from each of your planted fields and place it in your personal supply.
- This also applies to field cards such as Acreage and Bean Field.
- You cannot take other resources, such as wood from Copse or Forester.
- Using the Fish Farm does not count as harvesting.
- Activates Sower (English) or Sower (German) when used, but not e.g. Corn Storehouse or Gardener. [ref]
(Cost 2W 1R. Req 3 occ.)
Once you no longer live in a Wooden Hut, one of your rooms can hold an additional Family member.
- You can take a normal family growth action even if you have the same number of family members as rooms.
(Cost 2W.)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Vegetable" action space, you receive 1 additional vegetable.
You may sow 1 of your rooms as if it were 1 field. Whenever you have an animal in your home (including House Goat), move all resources planted in this room to the general supply. Harvest resources from your room as normal and additionally at the end of rounds 6, 8, 10 and 12.
- The Sheepdog does not count as an animal for this card.
- You are allowed to sow in a room when you have an animal in your home, e.g. to use the Serf, but you lose the grain or vegetables immediately.
- You cannot use the Scarecrow when you sow in a room.
- The field in your home does not count as a field for prerequisites of minor improvements or in scoring at the end of the game.
(1VP. 3W.)
Whenever you use the "1 Reed" action space, you receive 1 additional food. Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you receive 1 additional Reed.
(1VP. Cost 1S.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, you receive 1 additional fuel. If you have at least one horse at the time, you receive another 1 fuel. In the final harvest, you can exchange 3 fuel for 1 bonus point, or 5 fuel for 2 bonus points.
- Note the bonus points on the scoring sheet.
- You cannot get more than 2 bonus points from this card.
(1VP. Cost 1W 2C.)
Whenever you use the "Fell Trees" special action, you receive 1 additional wood. If you have at least one horse at the time, you receive another 1 wood. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each forest in your farmyard.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(3VP. Cost 2W 1C 1R.)
Place 1 food on the round space for each remaining round. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food, as long as you have at least 2 horses.
- Otherwise, the food is returned to the supply.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Forester's Lodge.
(2 VP. Cost 1C 1S.)
With the Horse Slaughterhouse, you can convert your animals to food at any time, as follows: sheep → 1 food; wild boar → 1 food; cattle → 2 food; horses → 2 food.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Fireplace.
- Is a cooking improvement.
- You can own more than one Horse Slaughterhouse.
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
(3VP. Cost 1C 1R 1S.)
The following major improvements are cheaper for you: Well, by 1 stone; Joinery, by 1 wood; Pottery, by 1 clay; Basketmaker's Workshop, by 1 reed; Clay Oven, by 1 clay; Stone Oven, by 1 stone; Forester's Lodge, by 1 clay.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Peat-charcoal Kiln.
(1VP. Cost 1C 1S.)
You immediately receive 2 fuel. When heating, you heat one room fewer than you have.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Clay Oven.
(1VP. Cost 2C 1S.)
Regardless of its size, you need at most 1 fuel to heat your entire home.
- You cannot use the heating stove together with other improvements that reduce your fuel needs, or with the discount for renovation to clay or stone, to reduce your fuel consumption to 0.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Stone Oven.
- Is not an oven.
(4VP. Cost 2W 4S.)
You immediately receive 2 food. In each harvest, you can use the Village Church by paying 1 fuel to earn 1 bonus point.
- You cannot get more than 1 bonus point per harvest.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Well.
(2VP. Cost 1W 1S.)
At any time, you can exchange wood for clay. Return the wood to the supply and take the same number of clay.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Joinery.
(2VP. Cost 1C 1S.)
At any time, you can exchange clay for wood. Return the clay to the supply and take the same number of wood.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Pottery.
(2VP. Cost 1R 1S.)
At any time, you can exchange reed for other building resources. Return the reed to the supply and take the same number of other building resources of your choice.
- The resources that you receive need not all be the same type.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref]
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Basketmaker's Workshop.
(2VP. Cost 6C or return FP/CH.)
You can exchange goods for food at any time, as follows: vegetables → 3 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 3 food; cattle → 4 food; horses → 2 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 3 food.
- Cannot be bought as long as it is covered by the Cooking Hearth.
- If you upgrade a Fireplace or Cooking Hearth major improvement, the card is returned to the major improvements board, on the space from which it originally came, and on top of any card lying there. If the minor improvement Simple Fireplace or CookingHearth is upgraded, it is removed from the game.
- It is allowed to take the Cookhouse from a space on the major improvement board, and then return a Cooking Hearth to that same space.
- You can own more than one Cookhouse.
- When you bake bread you can convert as many grain with the Cookhouse as you want.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
Place 2 food from the general supply on each of up to 3 empty fields. You cannot harvest the food. You receive it when you sow in the fields.
You immediately receive 1 fuel. In addition you can (optionally) immediately exchange 1 moor tile for a field tile. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- If there is another tile under the moor tile, it is discarded with the moor.
- Does not count as a ploughing action.
- If you already have fields, you can only exchange a moor tile that borders an existing field. [ref]
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1W. Not before round 8.)
Whenever you use the ”Plough Field” action or the "Slash and Burn" special action, you can immediately place 1 additional field tile on an empty farmyard space. To do this, you must have at least 1 cattle in your farm.
- Is activated on both the "Plough 1 Field" and the "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces, and when you plough a field using a card.
- Is not activated by Peat Burn-off or Surveyor's Map.
- You can only use this card once per turn to place 1 extra field, even if you plough several fields at once.
- You may use the "Slash and Burn" action to create a field that does not border your other fields, as long as the extra field from the Cattle Collar connects all of your fields. [ref]
- Placing the additional field does not count as ploughing.
(Cost 3F. Not after round 2.)
Place a field tile on the space for round 11, a moor tile on round 12, and a forest tile on round 13. At the start of the rounds, you must either place the tile on an empty space in your farm or return it to the supply.
- Placing the field tile does not count as a ploughing action.
- If you already have fields, you must place the field tile adjacent to an existing field. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 3W. Req 1 horse.)
Whenever you use a special action, you may immediately take a “Sow” action as long as you have at least 2 horses.
- The sowing action follows the special action. If you use the special action to play an improvement that gives you benefits when sowing (e.g. Fallow Fields), you receive those benefits when you sow after that special action. [ref]
(Req 2 fields.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, you can immediately take a “Sow” action.
- You do not place a family member to perform the sowing action. [ref]
(Cost 1F.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, you can place 1 additional grain on all fields and farmyard spaces where grain is growing. In addition, you can place 1 additional vegetable on all fields and farmyard spaces where vegetables are planted.
- You receive nothing for empty fields.
- Does not count as a sowing action.
- Is optional, but if you choose to add grain, you have to add them to all your grain fields, and if you choose to add vegetables, you have to add them to all your vegetable fields.
(Cost 1F. Req 1 major imp.)
Whenever you use the “Take 1 Grain” action, you also receive 1 horse.
- Is only activated by taking the "Take 1 Grain" action space.
(1VP. Cost 1C. Req 1 major imp.)
Whenever you use a person to take a “Plough fields” action, you can buy 1 horse for 1 food immediately afterwards.
- This does not include the "Slash and Burn" special action, but only the two action spaces "Plough 1 Field" and "Plough Field and Sow".
(Cost 1F.)
You can immediately exchange 2 sheep for 1 cattle and 1 horse. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You cannot exchange only 1 sheep for 1 other animal.
- You cannot return 1 cattle and 1 horse to the supply to receive 2 sheep.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 2W. Req 1 pasture.)
Immediately fence 1 empty farmyard space (or a farmyard space with a stable) with 4 fences. You need not pay wood for these. The fenced space may not border your existing pastures.
- You may connect your pastures later.
- All future pastures must border at least one existing pasture.
- If you build extra fences this turn, e.g. with the Hedge Keeper, you may not use these to connect the special pasture to the existing pastures: they should remain unconnected until the end of the turn.
(Req 3 imp.)
With this improvement, you can keep 1 animal (except a sheep) on each of your forest tiles.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
- The forest tiles do not count as pastures.
(Cost 1S.)
You can keep up to 2 horses in an unused farmyard space adjacent to your home.
- The space does not count as used.
- You may change which space you keep the horses in.
- The farmyard space does not count as a pasture.
(2VP. Return fireplace.)
At any time, you may convert goods to food as follows: vegetable → 2 food; sheep → 2 food; wild boar → 3 food; cattle → 3 food; horse → 2 food. Whenever you use a bread baking action, you may convert: grain → 2 food.
- When you bake bread you can convert as many grain with the Open Grill as you want.
- Is a cooking improvement and a baking improvement, but not an oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
- After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.)
(Req 2 horses.)
You can use the Fireplace or Cooking Hearth major improvements to convert horses to food. You receive 2 food for each horse.
- You can also use this card with the CookingHearth minor improvement (because it counts as a major improvement), but not with the Simple Fireplace. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2S 1 grain.)
In the feeding phase of each harvest, you can convert exactly 1 fuel and 1 grain to 5 food. In the final harvest, you can convert any number of pairs of 1 fuel and 1 grain from your supply to 1 bonus point per pair.
(1VP. Cost 1W 2S. Req max 3 forests.)
Whenever you take any “family growth” action, you receive 1 food for each of your farmyard spaces that contains a forest tile.
- This includes improvements and occupations that allow family growth.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(Req max 2 imp.)
You immediately receive 1 food. In addition, each player who has at least one stable or pasture receives 2 food.
(1VP. Cost 2C.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, you can also convert 1 grain to 4 food.
(Cost 1C.)
You immediately receive as much food as you would receive from one of your baking improvements if you baked 1 grain into bread. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You do not lose the grain.
- Using the Chimney Hood does not count as baking bread.
- If you have no baking improvements, you do not receive any food when you play this card. Baking improvements are improvements with a “baking” symbol.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W 2C.)
In each round where you finish the work phase without a special action card in front of you, you receive 1 food during the returning home phase,
- You also receive the food if you took a special action card which another player then took from you.
- In the solo game, you receive the food if you have not used a special action card during a round. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1C.)
You immediately receive 1 food. Whenever you take the "Infirmary" action with a person who is marked with a bed token, you receive 1 additional food.
(Req 3 imp.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, place 1 fuel and 1 food from the general supply on the emptied farmyard space. You receive the token once the space is no longer empty.
- A space with fuel and food counts as unused.
(2VP. Cost 2C 1S.)
Whenever you use any “family growth” action, you receive 1 bonus point as well as 1 fuel and 1 food.
- This includes improvements and occupations that allow family growth.
(1VP. Cost 3W. Req 2 imp.)
Place, alternately, 1 fuel or 1 food on each remaining round space, beginning with 1 fuel. At the start of each round, you receive the token.
(1VP. Cost 2W.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action, you also receive 2 fuel.
(Cost 1W.)
Add your choice of 2, 4, 7, or 10 to the current round number. On the corresponding round space, place 3, 4, 5, or 6 fuel (depending on which number you added). At the start of that round, you receive the fuel.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you have at least 2 moor tiles in your farmyard at the start of a harvest, you receive 1 fuel.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(2VP. Cost 2W 2C. Req 1 sheep.)
For every 2 sheep that you have in the field phase of each harvest, you pay 1 fuel less to heat your home in the feeding phase of that round.
- You can never pay fewer than 0 fuel.
(Return Furnace. -1VP.)
You no longer need to pay any heating costs.
- The Furnace is found under the Clay Oven.
- Is not an oven.
- The point from this card counts as negative for the Constable, but can be compensated with Yeoman Farmer. [ref]
- After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.)
(1VP. Cost 1W 1C.)
You immediately receive 1 fuel. Whenever you use the "Hiring Fair" special action or the "Day Labourer" action space, you also receive 1 fuel.
(Cost 2S.)
You immediately receive 3 fuel. The Clay Oven, Stone Oven, Furnace and Heating Stove major improvements and the Built-in Oven minor improvement are each worth 1 additional bonus point to you.
- Is not an oven.
Whenever you take exactly 3 wood from an action space, you can pay 1 food to receive 1 additional wood. Whenever you take 4 or more wood from an action space, you can pay 1 food to receive 2 additional wood. To do either of these, you must have at least 1 horse.
- Only wood that is taken directly from an action space is counted. Wood received from other cards is not.
- Wood placed on an action space by the Wood Distributor is also counted.
- Wood from the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games is also counted, and may activate the Draughthorses if there is additional wood on the space.
- If you also have the Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, the wood that you leave on the action space also counts for the Draughthorses.
(Cost 1C. Req 1 forest.)
You immediately receive 3 wood. Once this card has been passed, the player who has it at the end of the game receives -1 point. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Use a green arrow to show who currently has the card.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2F. Req 3 rooms.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, you also receive 2 wood.
(Req 1 major imp.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you also receive 2 clay.
(Req 1 major imp.)
Whenever you use the "Fell Trees" special action, you also receive 1 reed.
(1VP. Cost 3F.)
Place 5 stone on this card. Whenever you use the "Hiring Fair" special action, you also receive 1 stone from this card.
(Cost 2C 1R. Req 2 imp.)
Place 3 usage counters on this card. At any time, you can return one usage counter to the supply and take 1 of each building resource that you have none of.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref]
(Cost 1 veg.)
Immediately take goods and tokens from the general supply until you have at least 1 fuel, 1 food, 1 wood, 1 clay, 1 reed, 1 stone, and 1 grain in your personal supply. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Wood does not count as fuel and grain does not count as food.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(-4VP.)
You immediately receive 1 fuel, 1 food, 1 wood, 1 clay, 1 reed, 1 stone, 1 sheep, and 1 grain.
- The points from this card count as negative for the Constable, but can be compensated with Yeoman Farmer. [ref]
(Req exactly 1 moor.)
You require 2 less wood and 1 less reed to build wooden hut rooms.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(Cost 1W 1R.)
Whenever you acquire a major improvement, you can save 1 building resource of your choice by paying 1 fuel instead. Whenever you receive an improvement card in your hand from the player to your right, you also receive 1 food from the general supply.
- Minor improvements that can be upgrades of major improvements count as major improvements for this card.
(4VP. Return Museum o/t Moors. Req clay hut.)
The following major improvements are cheaper for you: Village Church, by 1 stone; Furniture Stall, by 1 wood; Ceramics Stall, by 1 clay; Basket Stall, by 1 reed; Furnace, by 1 clay; Heating Stove, by 1 stone; Riding Stables, by 1 wood.
- The Museum of the Moors is under the Peat-charcoal Kiln.
- After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.)
(Req 2 major imp.)
Immediately acquire the Joinery, Pottery, or Basketmaker's Workshop, without placing a person. You pay 1 stone less for it. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1F. Req 3 major imp.)
If you have at least one of the Joinery, Pottery, or Basketmaker's Workshop major improvements, you immediately receive 1 wood, 1 clay, 1 reed, and 1 stone. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 2W. Req max 4 imp.)
You receive 3 wood, 2 clay, and 1 reed in the field phase of each of the last 2 harvests.
- You can use these, for example, to earn bonus points from the Joinery, Pottery, or Basketmaker's Workshop.
(Req 2 imp.)
You can take an available special action card even after you have already placed all your person markers, when it would be your turn again. Then the work phase is over for you.
- You cannot use this card twice in one round.
- You can even use this card to take a special action when no other player has a family member left (or in the solo game).
(1VP. Cost 1W 1C. Req 2 imp.)
Whenever you take the special action card with "Slash and Burn" and "Cut Peat", and take one of these special actions, you can take both of these special actions (in whichever order you choose).
(1VP. Cost 1C.)
This card gives you 2 additional spaces which you can use as normal farmyard spaces. Place it beside your farmyard. Each of the new spaces must border an existing farmyard space. This expands your famyard by 2 spaces.
- If the new farmyard spaces are not used at the end of the game, they each score -1 point.
- This card still counts as a minor improvement.
- You may place this card anywhere around your farmyard. You may not move it later. The farmyard spaces are considered to be adjacent to the existing farmyard spaces, so you can e.g. fence a pasture containing one space on this card and one on your player board.
(Req 4 forests.)
Choose up to 2 forest tiles, and place 1 additional forest tile on top of each of them. You can remove 1 tile with the "Fell Trees" special action---you cannot use the "Slash and Burn" action on spaces with 2 forest tiles.
- When counting forests, e.g. for requirements, only the top tile on a space is counted.
- You may add a tile to a farmyard space already containing 2 or more tiles, as long as the top one is a forest.
(Not after round 4.)
Place 1 moor tile on the space for round 12. At the start of this round, you can take the tile and place it on an empty space in your farmyard.
- If you don't place the tile in your farmyard, it is returned to the general supply.
(Req max 3 forests.)
You immediately receive 2 wood. You can immediately turn over up to 2 forest tiles to show the moor side, as long as there is nothing except the forest tile on those spaces. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(Req 3 major imp.)
Immediately place 1 forest tile on an empty space in your farmyard. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Forest tiles need not be adjacent to one another.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Req 1 moor.)
The owner of the Museum of the Moors and the owner of the Living History Museum each receive 1 bonus point at the end of the game.
- The Museum of the Moors is a major improvement and is under the Peat-charcoal Kiln. The Living History Museum is a hand card and is an upgrade of the Museum of the Moors.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(Cost 1W 2C. Req max 4 cards in hand.)
You immediately receive 2 food. In the last harvest, for each major improvement that you have, you can exchange 1 food for 1 bonus point.
- This card itself counts as a card in hand for its own requirement.
- Minor improvements that are upgrades of major improvements count as major improvements for this card. Major improvements that are minor improvements to you, e.g. because of Manufacturer or Well Builder, also count as major improvements. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1F. Req 2 horses.)
Whenever you have at least 3 horses, you receive 1 bonus point for each cattle that you convert to food.
(Cost 1W 1 veg. Req 4 horses.)
You can immediately carry out a “family growth even without space in your home” action, but you do not place a person to take this action. Place the offspring on this card until the returning home phase.
- You cannot use the newborn to take an action in this round, unless you use the Adoptive Parents.
(1VP. Cost 2W.)
Immediately place 1 guest marker on one of your forest tiles. You will receive the guest marker when you use a special action to clear that forest tile. Then, in that same round, you can place the guest marker as you would a person. At the end of that round, return the guest marker to the supply.
- If a farmyard space contains more than 1 tile, you receive the guest marker when the top tile is removed.
(Cost 3W. Req 2 horses.)
Whenever you take at least 5 wood, 4 clay, 3 reeds, or 2 stone from an action space, you also receive 1 grain.
- Only building resources that are taken directly from an action space are counted. Building resources received from other cards are not.
- Wood placed on an action space by the Wood Distributor is also counted.
- Resources from the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games are also counted, and may activate the Farm Cart if there are additional resources on the space (e.g. due to the Wood Distributor).
- If you also have the Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, the wood that you leave on the action space also counts for the Farm Cart.
(Req 2 moors.)
Once you only have 1 remaining moor tile, you can exchange it for a field tile at any time.
- If there is another tile underneath it, you must also return it.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
- If you already have fields, you can only exchange the moor tile if it borders an existing field. [ref]
(2VP. Cost 3W. Req 2 imp.)
Immediately place 1 moor tile on an empty space in your farmyard. Whenever you use a person to take the “Plough fields” action, you can also exchange one moor tile for 1 field tile.
- This does not include the "Slash and Burn" special action, but only the two action spaces "Plough 1 Field" and "Plough Field and Sow".
- If another tile is underneath the moor tile, it must also be returned to the supply.
- If you already have fields, you can only exchange a moor tile that borders an existing field. [ref]
- This is a plough. Each time you use a ploughing action space, you may only use one card out of the ploughs and the Harrow.
(2F. Req 2 fields.)
You can immediately place up to 2 field tiles on empty spaces in your farmyard---on the condition that neither tile borders any other field at the time when it is placed.
- The two new fields may not border each other either.
- Later, they may be connected.
- All later fields should be adjacent to at least one existing field.
- Does not count as a ploughing action.
(Req 2 fields.)
You can plant grain or vegetables on up to 2 empty farmyard spaces. These spaces do not count as fields when scoring, but as empty spaces.
- You determine the 2 farmyard spaces immediately when you play this card (and cannot change this choice later), but you have to take a sowing action to actually plant the grain or vegetables.
- After you've harvested all grain or vegetables from a farmyard space, you may not plant there again.
- You can destroy the plants at any time, by returning the resources to the supply.
- The grain and vegetables count towards those totals when scoring.
(Cost 2F. Req 1 major imp.)
Whenever you use the "Slash and Burn" special action, you immediately receive a “Sow” action for that field only. This also applies if you turn 1 moor tile into a field using the Moor Fire or Peat Burn-off minor improvement.
(1VP. Cost 5 fuel 2R.)
This card serves as a room for one of your people. It must be heated with 1 fuel during the feeding phase of each harvest. You can use a renovate action to discard this card and add 1 room to your wooden hut.
- You can no longer exchange this card for a room after renovating to a clay hut or stone house.
- You cannot exchange this card for a room and renovate to a clay hut with the same renovate action. [ref]
- You can use the Hay Wagon, but not the Builder's Trowel to exchange the Peat Hut for a room.
(Cost 4W.)
Place, alternately, 1 fuel or 1 horse on each of the next 7 remaining round spaces, beginning with 1 fuel. At the start of each round, you receive the fuel or the horse.
(Req 5 animals.)
You can immediately exchange up to 3 animals for the next most valuable animal. You must swap them al at the same time, and you can only take the new animals if you have room for all of them on your farm. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- The order (from least to most valuable) is: sheep, wild boar, cattle, horse.
- The 3 animals need not be the same type.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2W 2C.)
Add 2, 4, 6, 8 to the current round. Place 1 animal on each corresponding round space. You choose which animal goes on which space, but all the animals must be different. At the start of these rounds, you can buy the animal for 1 food.
- If you don't buy the animal, it is returned to the supply.
(Cost 2C.)
You can keep 3 animals of your choice on this card, and other players can keep 1. All the animals on this card count as yours when animals breed. You are always the last to play during the breeding phase.
(Cost 1F. Req 1 pasture.)
Immediately fence 1 farmyard space which contains a forest or moor tile. You do not pay any wood for these fences. Once there are no tiles left on the space, it becomes a pasture.
- You can also fence a space which contains 2 tiles.
- The fenced space must be adjacent to your pastures when you play this card.
- The space does not count as a pasture while there is still a tile in it. When you fence a new pasture, it may not border only this fenced space, but it has to border at least one real pasture.
(Cost 1F.)
Whenever you build 2 rooms at once with the “Build rooms” action, you can immediately build 2 stables from your personal supply.
- Instead of 2 stables, you can choose to only build 1.
- You don't pay wood for these stables.
- You also receive the free stables if you build more than 2 rooms. You cannot receive more than 2 stables from the Building Plan in one turn.
(3VP. Return Horse Slaughterhouse.)
At any time, you may convert animals to food as follows: sheep → 1 food; wild boar → 2 food; cattle → 3 food; horse → 2 food; 2 horses → 5 food.
- There is a Horse Slaughterhouse under each Fireplace.
- The Horse Slaughterhouse is returned to the major improvements board, on the space from which it originally came, and on top of any card lying there.
- Is a cooking improvement.
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all. [ref]
- After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.)
(1VP. Cost 1W.)
This card cannot be played in a round that is followed by a harvest. All other players must and you may immediately convert one animal of their (your) choice to food. Sheep provide 1 food, wild boar 2 food, cattle 3 food.
- Players may not convert more than 1 animal and do not need to have a cooking improvement.
- Is not a cooking improvement. Does not activate the Schnitzel Mallet.
(Cost 1C 1S. Req 4F 4 fuel.)
You immediately receive 2 food. If you still have forest tiles on at least 2 farm yard spaces, you get bonus points: 1 fewer point than you have forests, with a maximum of 4 points.
- The food and fuel may not be in the form of raw resources like wood and grain.
- You receive the bonus points immediately when you play this card; write them done on the scoring pad. [ref]
You immediately receive 1 food. At the start of each harvest, shuffle all the start cards and draw 1. The start cards are numbered from 1 to 9. If the number on the card is equal to or less than the number of forest tiles in your farmyard, you receive 1 food.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(2VP. Cost 1W 2C.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you can pay 1 fuel to receive an additional 3 food.
(1VP. Cost 2F.)
At the start of each harvest, shuffle all the start cards and draw 1. The start cards are numbered from 1 to 9. If the number on the card is equal to or less than the amount of clay you have in your supply, the 2 food that you paid are returned to you with interest: you receive 6 food but must pass this improvement to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after the loan has been repaid. [ref]
(Req 2 imp.)
Whenever you use the "Fell Trees" or "Cut Peat" special actions to clear a space in your farmyard, place 1 Food on the space. You receive the food when the space is no longer empty.
- A farmyard space with food counts as unused.
(1VP. Cost 2W. Req 2 horses.)
Immediately after you take 3 wood, 3 clay, 2 reed, or 2 stone from an action space, you can take a “Build room(s)” or “Renovate” action without placing a person.
- Is also activated if you take more resources. Is only activated once per action space. [ref]
- Only building resources that are taken directly from an action space are counted. Building resources received from other cards are not.
- Wood placed on an action space by the Wood Distributor is also counted.
- Resources from the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games are also counted, and may activate the Hay Wagon if there are additional resources on the space (e.g. due to the Wood Distributor).
- If you also have the Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, the wood that you leave on the action space also counts for the Hay Wagon.
(1 VP. Cost 1W 1C.)
Whenever you use the "Infirmary" action space with a person, count how many moor tiles are in your farmyard. Place 1 food on the next remaining round space(s) up to that number. At the beginning of those rounds, you receive the food.
- It is irrelevant whether the person has a bed marker or not.
- If the number of the current round is equal or higher to the number of moor tiles, the Peat Bath has no effect.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(Req 3 imp.)
For each border between a forest tile and a field in your farmyard, you receive 1 food. For each border between a forest tile and a moor tile in your farmyard, you receive 1 fuel. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Borders are the spaces where you could place a fence.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
{If there is at least one type of animal that only you own, you receive 2 food. If you are the only player who has planted grain, you receive 1 food. If you are the only player who has planted vegetables, you receive 1 food. You receive 1 fuel is you have more forest tiles than any other player and 1 fuel if you have more moor tiles than any other player. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- When checking for grain and vegetables, you only take into account grain and vegetables that are currently on your (and other players') fields; not resources that were harvested earlier.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(Cost 1W 2C.)
Place 3 usage counters on this card. At any time (even while you are taking an action) you can return 1 usage counter and take fuel and food from the supply until you have at least 2 fuel and 2 food.
- Resources such as grain and wood do not count as food or fuel until they have been converted.
(Req 4 imp.)
{If you have at least 3 unused spaces on your farmyard, you immediately receive 1 fuel for each unused space except the first 2, up to a maximum of 5 fuel. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Spaces with forest or moor tiles do not count as unused spaces.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W. Req 1 major imp.)
You immediately receive 1 fuel. Whenever you convert at least 1 wood to fuel during a harvest to heat your home, you need a total of 1 fuel fewer.
- Can only be used once per harvest.
(Req 1 major imp.)
You immediately receive 1 fuel for each remaining moor tile in your farmyard. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(1VP. Cost 1C 1R.)
Add 1, 5, and 9 to the current round. Place 1 wood on each corresponding round space. Add 3, 7, and 11 to the current round. Place 1 fuel on each corresponding round space. At the start of each round, you receive the wood or fuel.
(Req 1 major imp.)
At any time, you can lie one of your horses that is standing up on its side and take 2 fuel. This horse does not count during the breeding phase of the harvest. At the end of the game, it is worth only half a point, but it can (like other horses) be converted into food with an appropriate improvement.
- Outside of the breeding phase, a pony counts as a horse. You get the full amount of food when you cook a pony.
- You can have as many ponies as you want. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2F.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, add 3 to the current round. Place 2 fuel on the corresponding round space. At the start of the round, you receive the fuel.
(Cost 4F.)
Immediately take as many moor tiles from your farmyard as you wish. For each moor tile that you remove, you receive 1 bonus point and 2 fuel. If you have at least 2 horses, you receive 1 additional fuel for each horse except the first one, up to a maximum of 4 additional fuel. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- You cannot remove covered moor tiles.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Req 3 major imp.)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you receive 1 additional wood for each of your farmyard spaces with a forest tile, up to a maximum of 3 wood.
- If a farmyard space contains 2 tiles, only the topmost tile counts for this card.
(3VP. Cost 3C 2S.)
Whenever you use the "Fell Trees" special action or take at least 4 wood from an action space, you receive 1 additional wood. If you pay 1 fuel, you receive 1 more additional wood.
- Only wood that is taken directly from an action space is counted. Wood received from other cards is not.
- Wood placed on an action space by the Wood Distributor is also counted.
- Wood from the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games is also counted, and may activate the Timber Mill if there is additional wood on the space.
- If you also have the Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, the wood that you leave on the action space also counts for the Timber Mill.
(Cost 1F. Req 2 major imp.)
You immediately receive 2 wood. Whenever you convert cattle, wild boar, or horses to food, you receive 1 additional wood for each of these animals that you convert.
(Req 1 imp.)
Whenever you have placed all except one of your people during the work phase and you use the "Hiring Fair" special action, you receive 1 additional clay.
(1VP. Cost 2F. Req 2 imp.)
Whenever you use a "Fell Trees" special action, you also receive your choice of 1 reed or 1 wood.
(Cost 2W.)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action, you also receive 1 stone.
(Cost 2W. Req 1 major imp.)
Whenever you take at least 4 of the same building resources from an action space, you also receive 1 fuel. Whenever you "Cut Peat", you also receive 1 building resource of your choice.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref]
- Only building resources that are taken directly from an action space are counted. Building resources received from other cards are not.
- Wood placed on an action space by the Wood Distributor is also counted.
- Resources from the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games are also counted, and may activate the Wheelbarrow if there are additional resources on the space (e.g. due to the Wood Distributor).
- If you also have the Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, the wood that you leave on the action space also counts for the Wheelbarrow.
(3VP. Cost 3W 2R.)
At any time, you can exchange fuel for goods as follows: 3 fuel → 2 wood or 2 clay; 4 fuel → 2 reed or 2 stone; 2 fuel → 1 grain; 3 fuel → 1 vegetable.
(Cost 1F. Req 1 field, pasture, or stable.)
If you have 5/6/7/8/9/10 empty farmyard spaces, you receive the first 1/2/3/4/5/6 goods from the following list (in order): 1 reed, 1 grain, 1 cattle, 1 stone, 1 vegetable, 1 horse. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- Moor and forest tiles do not count as empty spaces.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(Cost 1W 1R. Not after round 4.)
Place 3 usage counters on this card. At any time, you can remove them to receive 1 other good or marker. The offer changes each round: 2: food, 3: grain, 4: fuel, 5: wood, 6: clay, 7: sheep, 8: reed, 9: wild boar, 10: stone, 11: cattle, 12: horse, 13: vegetable, 14: guest marker.
- The guest marker allows you to take one additional action.
- A harvest counts as part of the preceding round. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animals that you receive into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
- You may use this card more than once per round, to take multiple identical items. [ref]
(Cost 1R.)
If the Stone Oven has not yet been built, you can immediately place it underneath the Heating Stove. From next round, whenever you use a person to take an action, you can build the Heating Stove immediately afterwards by paying the required resources. The Heating Stove is worth 1 additional bonus point for you.
- The Stone Oven and the Heating Stove swap places. The Stone Oven cannot be acquired while it is covered by the Heating Stove.
(Req 2 major imp.)
If the Well has not yet been built, you can immediately place it under the Village Church. From next round, whenever you use a person to take an action, you can build the Village Church immediately afterwards by paying the required resources. The Village Church and the Church are each worth 1 additional bonus point for you.
- The Well and the Village Church swap places. The Well cannot be acquired while it is covered by the Village Church.
(1VP. Cost 2W 1C.)
Place 4 usage counters on this card. At any time, you can remove 1 of them to exchange any 1 building resource for any other building resource except stone.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref]
- You are allowed to pay stone for any other building resource.
You receive goods if you own craftman's buildings. Joinery: 3 wood; Pottery: 3 clay; Basketmaker's Workshop: 2 reeds. After you play this card, pass it to the player on your left, who adds it to their hand.
- In a solo game, this card is removed from the game after you play it. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 2C 1S.)
You immediately receive 1 wood and 1 reed. At the end of the game, each of these major improvements: Joinery, Pottery and Basketmaker's Workshop is worth 1 additional bonus point to you.
(Cost 1F. Req no imp.)
Whenever you choose not to use a craftman's building to convert building resources to food during the harvest, you receive your choice of 1 food or 1 fuel instead.
- You can use this card on up to 3 buildings: the Joinery, the Pottery, and the Basketmaker's Workshop.
- You can only get food or fuel for buildings that you own.
(Req 1 horse.)
Add 4 and 7 to the current round. Place 1 moor tile on each of the corresponding rounds. These tiles show that you can use the special action "Cut Peat" at the start of the round.
- Take the appropriate special action card whenever you use the Peat-Cutting Rights. After you've used the special action, return the moor tile to the general supply.
(Cost 1W.)
Whenever you use a person to take the “Plough fields” action, you can take a special action card immediately afterwards, as long as it has not already been used twice.
- The special action card costs 0 or 2 food, as usual.
- Is only activated on both the "Plough 1 Field" and the "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces, but not by the "Slash and Burn" special action or cards that allow you to plough.
- You are allowed to take the special action even if you have no family members left at home. [ref]
(1VP. Cost 1S. Req clay hut.)
Place 2 Moor tiles on this card. The card represents 2 additional, normal farmyard spaces. Place it beside your farmyard. Each of the new spaces must border an existing farmyard space. This expands your farm by 2 spaces.
- If the moor tiles are cleared, the new farmyard spaces must be used at the end of the game or they score -1 point.
- You may place this card anywhere around your farmyard. You may not move it later. The farmyard spaces are considered to be adjacent to the existing farmyard spaces, so you can e.g. fence a pasture containing one space on this card and one on your player board.
(Cost 1F. Req 3 imp.)
Immediately place 1 forest tile on as many of your own moor tiles as you wish. You can only use the covered moor tiles once you have removed the forest tiles with the "Fell Trees" special action. You cannot use "Slash and Burn" on forest tiles that are on top of moor tiles.
- When counting moors, e.g. for requirements, only the top tile on a space is counted. [ref]
(Req 2 major imp.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, turn over the moor tile that you remove. Add 4 to the current round and place the tile on the corresponding round space. At the start of the round, you can place the forest tile on an empty space in your farmyard.
(Cost 1W. Req no imp.)
Place 1 forest tile on the spaces for rounds 12 and 13. At the start of these rounds, you can take the tile and place it on an empty space in your farmyard.
- If you choose not to place the tile in your farmyard, the tile is returned to the general supply.
(Req max 2 imp.)
When you play this card, you receive 1 forest tile that you must immediately place on an empty space in your farmyard. At the end of the game, you receive 2 bonus point if you have 1 unused farmyard space, you receive -1 bonus point if you have 2 unused spaces, and you receive -3 bonus point if you have 3 or more unused spaces.
- You may not play this card if you have no unused farmyard spaces.
- Negative points from this card count as negative for the Constable and Yeoman Farmer.
(Cost 1 grain. Req no unused spaces.)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each other player in the game, as long as you have at least 1 animal of each of the 4 types. These points are doubled or tripled if you have 2 or 3 of each type of animal.
- For the requirement, farmyard spaces on improvement cards such as Moor Enclosures are also counted.
- For example, in a 5-player game, you receive 4 bonus points if you have 1 of each animal.
(1VP. Cost 1S. Req stone house.)
Immediately place the tombstone on an unused space in your farmyard. That space cannot be used to hold anything now, but is counted as used, and is worth 1 additional bonus point at the end of the game.
- The bonus point is in addition to the 1 regular point of this card.
- You may not play this card if you have no unused farmyard spaces.
(1VP. Req clay hut.)
Whenever you use the "Cut Peat" special action, you can place 1 fence from your supply on the emptied farmyard space. You cannot use this farmyard space to hold anything, but it is counted as used, and is worth 1 additional bonus point at the end of the game.
(5VP. Discard Village Church.)
For upgrading the Village Church to the Church, you receive 2 food. At the end of each round, you can tithe up to 1 fuel to earn 1 bonus point.
- The Village Church is under the Well.
- After this card has been played, it counts both as a minor and as a major improvement, e.g. for the requirements of other cards. (Of course, it still counts as a single improvement.)
- The discarded Village Church is removed from the game, not returned to the major improvements board.
Occupations
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Vegetable" action space, you also receive 1 grain. When you play this card, you receive 1 vegetable from the general supply.
(3--5 players)
This card counts as 2 occupations for minor improvements and when scoring the Reeve or Tutor occupation card.
- Playing the Academic counts as 1 occupation for the Bread Paddle and Bookshelf. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player bakes bread, you can bake bread if you have a baking improvement with the “baking” symbol. If you take a bake action yourself, you receive 1 additional food.
- Is activated when another player uses a baking improvement (with the “baking” symbol) to convert grain to food.
- Is not activated if another player uses the "Sow and Bake Bread" action space, but does not bake. [ref]
- Bread is not baked if schnaps is distilled or beer is brewed, or when a Water Mill, Windmill or Hand Mill is used.
- You do not receive the additional food if you bake bread because of the Master Baker itself.
(1--5 players)
During each harvest, you may bake bread at the start of the feeding phase if you have an appropriate improvement. When you play this card, you may bake bread as an additional action.
- You may only use the Baker to bake bread just once each harvest, but you may use all of your ovens and other improvements to bake as much bread as you can. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Once during the game, at any time after your home reaches at least 5 rooms, you may extend it by 1 room at no cost.
- You may place a room tile on this card to show that you have not yet taken the extension action.
- You do not have to use an action space to build a room with the Master Builder. [ref]
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use a person's action to take wood, you receive an additional 1 food.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which wood is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no wood (e.g. because of the Wood Distributor).
- Is activated even if you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher.
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games, and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take wood.
- Is activated when you play Building Material. Is not activated when you receive wood because of any other minor improvement or an occupation.
(1--5 players)
At the end of the game, you can discard up to 2 begging cards without losing points for them.
(1--5 players)
In the feeding phase of each harvest, the Master Brewer can convert up to 1 grain to 3 food.
- Brewing beer does not count as baking.
- The grain that you want to convert into 3 food may not be on fields; it must be taken from your personal supply. [ref]
(3--5 players)
You receive 1 food from the general supply for each grain that is baked whenever any player (including yourself) bakes bread.
- Bread is not baked if schnaps is distilled or beer is brewed, or when a Water Mill, Windmill or Hand Mill is used.
- Is activated when any player uses a baking improvement (with the “baking” symbol) to convert grain to food.
- Is not activated if anybody uses the "Sow and Bake Bread" action space, but does not bake. [ref]
(3--5 players)
Whenever you convert wild boar to food, you place the boar on this card. At the end of the game, you receive bonus points if you have wild boar markers on this card: {4 or more markers, 3 points; 3 markers, 2 points; 2 markers, 1 point}.
- A converted wild boar may either be placed on the Tanner, Taxidermist, or Brush Maker; you cannot use two of these cards for the same animal.
- If you also have the Basin Maker and/or the Pelts, you may use those cards as well as the Brush Maker for each converted wild boar.
- Wild boar markers on this card do not count in the scoring at the end of the game.
(3--5 players)
Pay 1 reed less to build each room, for each renovation, and for each of the Water Mill, Half-timbered House, Chicken Coop, Holiday House, Mansion and Corn Storehouse.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- If you also have other cards that reduce costs for building rooms, e.g. the Ladder, you may use all of these cards for the same action.
- The Thatcher has no effect if the number of reeds required is already lowered to 0, e.g. by using both Clay Roof and Frame Builder when building a new room. [ref]
(3--5 players)
At any time, you can use the Turner to convert any number of wood to 1 food each.
(4--5 players)
You can use any room building or family growth action space, even if another player has already placed a person on it.
- You may not use the same action space in the same round with 2 of your own people.
- If the action space provides a choice of actions, you may choose either. For example, you may take the “Traveling Players” action on the "Build 1 Room or Traveling Players" action space in the 5-player game, or play an occupation on the "1 Occupation or Family Growth" action space.
- It is not allowed to use an empty accumulating action such as “Traveling Players”, not even if it activates other improvements or occupations. [ref]
(4--5 players)
The next time you build fences, you receive 1 wild boar. Each time you build at least 1 fence after that, you receive 1 cattle.
- You only receive 1 new animal per turn, even if several pastures are created with the same action.
- Is activated when you use the Fence Overseer, or when you play the Mini Pasture.
- You may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you can choose to take twice as many food as is on the space. If you do this, you must give 1 food each to the owners of the Fishing Rod, Raft, Canoe, Fish Trap, and Landing Net.
- Only the food that is lying on the action space is doubled. Take the food from the action space, and the same amount from the general supply. [ref]
- You only give food to another player if he has the improvement in front of him on the table.
- If a player has played more than one of these improvements, you give him more than one food.
- You do not have to pay anything for an item if you own it yourself.
- It is possible that you have to pay more food than you receive. If you won't have enough food to pay the owners of the improvements after using the Fisherman, you are not allowed to use it.
- The effect of the Fisherman is optional. If you do not take the double amount of food, you do not have to pay anything to the other players.
- Is not activated by using the Net Fisherman.
(1--5 players)
If you have an oven, you can convert your animals into food at any time. Take 2 food for each sheep, 3 for each wild boar and 4 for each cattle.
- The Meat Seller may not be used after upgrading an oven to a Baker's Kitchen or Bakehouse, unless you have another oven. [ref]
- You can cook animals that come directly from an action space, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all.
- Ovens are not a cooking improvement, even if you have the Meat Seller. Using the Meat Seller does not activate the Schnitzel Mallet.
(4--5 players)
You can use the "Take 1 Vegetable", "Plough 1 Field" and "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces even if another player has already placed a person on the space.
- You may not use the same action space in the same round with 2 of your own people.
- You can use the Field Warden when you move a family member to the "Plough Field and Sow" space because of the Countryman. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Include the "2 Wood" action card from the 3-player game as an additional forest. At the start of each round, place 2 wood on the card. Any player who uses this action space must pay you 2 food.
- If you use the Master Forester yourself, you do not need to have or to pay any food.
- The food must be paid before the wood is collected. If the player who wants the wood gets food for this action, for example because of the Berry Picker, he may not use this food to pay for the Master Forester. [ref]
(3--5 players)
At the end of the game, you only lose points for unused farmyard spaces and begging cards.
- Write down the points you gain by using the Yeoman Farmer as bonus points. The number of bonus points you get is equal to the number of scoring categories for which you would otherwise have scored negative points.
- Negative points that are compensated by the Yeoman Farmer are not counted as negative for the Constable.
- If you use the Horse to compensate for a missing type of animals, you still receive a bonus point for that animal from the Yeoman Farmer (and 2 bonus points from the Horse).
- The Yeoman Farmer also compensates negative (bonus) points for Forest Path, Built-in Oven, etc. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you also receive 1 vegetable.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the “Traveling Players” action on an action space, you receive 1 additional grain.
- If another player uses the Juggler with a “Traveling Players” action, he pays you 1 food.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Grain" action space, you also receive 1 vegetable.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the “Traveling Players” action on an action space, you can leave 1 food on the space and receive 1 vegetable instead.
- If another player uses the Juggler with a “Traveling Players” action, he pays you 1 food.
- If you have the Dancer as well, you receive at least 4 food and 1 vegetable when you leave one food on the action space. [ref]
(3--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive bonus points, if for none of the three animal species, any other player has more animals than you: in a 3 player game, 2 points; in a 4 player game, 3 points; in a 5 player game, 4 points.
- If a player has the Horse, it does not count as 1 animal of a missing type of his choice when counting animals for the Estate Manager. The House Goat does not count as an animal. [ref]
(1--5 players)
At any time, you can use the Dock Worker to convert 3 wood to either 1 clay, 1 reed or 1 stone, or to convert 2 clay, 2 reed or 2 stone to 1 other building resource.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
(1--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each room in your stone house. Playing this card costs an additional 2 food.
- If you have the Half-timbered House as well, you use both to get 4 points per room; if you have the Mansion as well, or all three of Chief, Mansion and Half-timbered House, you use them all to get 5 points per room.
(1--5 players)
If another player plays the Chief card, you can play this card immediately at no cost. At the end of the game, you receive 3 bonus points if you have a stone house, 1 if you have a clay hut.
- You can also play this card using an action space in the usual way.
- If you play the Chief yourself, you may not play the Chief's Daughter at the same time. [ref]
- In a solo game, you can only play this card using an action space.
- If you have the Clogs as well, you get points for both cards.
- If you play the Chief's Daughter because the Chief is played, this activates the Bread Paddle, Bookshelf, Patron, and Educator, but not the Writing Desk, Perpetual Student, or Therapist.
(1--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each occupation that you play after this one.
- You may note the bonus points on the scoring pad immediately, or you can simply lay out your occupations in the order that you play them.
- The Academic counts as two occupations.
- If you keep this card after playing a round in a series of solo games, you also receive bonus points for permanent occupation cards kept in play after subsequent games.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you build at least 1 fence, you can build 3 additional fences without paying any additional wood.
- Is activated when you use the Fence Overseer, Fence Builder or Fence Deliveryman, or when you play the Mini Pasture.
- If you also have the Farmer, Stablehand, Wood Carver or Sawhorse, you may use all of those cards during the same fence building action.
- The free fences from the Hedge Keeper are built in the same fence building action as all other fences, but in an order of your choosing. However, you may not use the Hedge Keeper for the first fence you build in a turn. [ref]
- Can only be used once per turn. [ref]
- Only after building the extra fences, you need to follow the conditions for building fences (i.e. no open pastures).
- You may choose to build fewer than 3 fences, for example, if you do not have 3 unbuilt fences left. [ref]
- If you build no free fences, or fewer than 3, you cannot save the other free fences for later rounds. [ref]
(1--5 players)
You receive 1 additional wood whenever you use a person's action to take wood.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which wood is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no wood (e.g. because of the Wood Distributor).
- Is activated even if you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher.
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games, and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take wood.
- Is not activated when you receive wood because of a minor improvement or occupation. [ref]
(3--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each room in your wooden hut.
(4--5 players)
Play this card during round 1--4. At the start of round 11, you can extend your hut by 1 room at no cost, as long as you have not yet renovated to a stone house.
- When the card is played, put a room tile on the round 11 action space as a reminder.
- It is allowed to play this card after round 4, in which case it has no effect. It still counts as a played occupation, e.g. for the prerequisite of an improvement. [ref]
- If you choose not to build a free room at the start of round 11, you cannot build it later in the game.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use a “minor improvement” or “minor or major improvement” action, you can pay 1 food to use the action a second time.
- If you use a “major or minor improvement” action, you can either play 2 major or 2 minor improvements, or 1 major and 1 minor improvement.
- Is activated by every improvement you play, even if you play several in a single turn. [ref]
- Using both Merchant and Traveling Salesman, you can play up to 4 minor improvements for 1 food on a “major or minor improvement” action space, or you can acquire 2 major improvements for 1 food on a “minor improvement” action space.
- Using both Merchant and Businessman, you can first play 1 minor improvement and 1 major or minor improvement, and then additionally for 1 food, either 2 minor improvements or 1 major and 1 minor improvement when you use the "Starting Player" action space.
- If you receive goods or food from the first improvement, you may use them to pay for the use of the merchant, or for buying the second improvement. [ref]
- Is activated when you use the Scholar to play an improvement.
(4--5 players)
When you play this card, you receive 1 vegetable that you may sow immediately if you have an empty plowed field.
- You perform a sowing action, which you can only use for this vegetable.
- Sowing the vegetable activates the Fieldsman, Smallholder, Potato Dibber, Liquid Manure, Planter Box and another player's Field Worker.
- Sowing the vegetable is optional. You may not sow anything else, including wood on Forester and Copse, or food on Vineyard.
- You may sow the vegetable on the Bean Field, Lettuce Patch, or Turnip Field. [ref]
(4--5 players)
In the feeding phase of each harvest, only 2 of your people eat 2 food each; all others are satisfied with only 1 food each.
- You still need to feed newborns with 1 food. [ref]
(3--5 players)
You receive 1 food and 1 wood whenever any player (including you) builds a baking improvement with a “baking” symbol.
- You can place 1 food and 1 wood on the affected unbuilt major improvements to remind you to take the tokens.
- You also receive the food and wood when an improvement is upgraded to a baking improvement. [ref]
(4--5 players)
In each harvest, the Basketmaker can convert up to 1 reed to 3 food.
(1--5 players)
Pile (from bottom to top) 1 vegetable, reed, clay, wood, vegetable, stone, grain, reed on this card. At any time, you may buy the top item for 1 food.
- The resources come from the general supply, and are not part of your personal supply until you buy them. [ref]
(4--5 players)
You can use the Clay Firer at any time to convert 2 clay to 1 stone or 3 clay to 2 stone.
(4--5 players)
You can use the Clay Seller at any time to convert 2 clay to 1 sheep or 1 reed, 3 clay to 1 wild boar or 1 stone, and/or 4 clay to 1 cattle.
- If you receive animals from the Clay Seller, you may convert them to food with an appropriate improvement without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
(1--5 players)
Place 1 clay on each remaining space for rounds 6 to 14. At the start of these rounds, you receive the clay.
- You do not receive clay for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you take only clay with one of your people's actions, you receive 2 additional clay.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which clay is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no clay (e.g. when you have the Bureaucrat).
- Is also activated by the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take clay.
- Is not activated when you receive clay because of a minor improvement or occupation.
- Is activated when you take clay from an action space, and at the same time receive other goods because of a minor improvement or occupation.
(1--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each scoring category where you have scored the maximum 4 points.
- The bonus point is also awarded for 4 fenced stables.
- Bonus points from other cards, such as the Brewery or the Schnaps Distillery, are not taken into account when scoring the Lord of the Manor. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Once you have built a clay hut, place 1 food on each remaining round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- If you already have a clay hut or a stone house when you play this card, place the food immediately.
(1--5 players)
Once during the game, at any time after your stone house reaches at least 4 rooms, you may extend it by 1 room at no cost.
- You may place a room tile on this card to show that you have not yet taken the extension action.
- You do not have to use an action space to build a room with the Mason. [ref]
(4--5 players)
In future, whenever you play an occupation, you receive 2 food before you pay the costs of the occupation.
- If you use the Writing Desk, you receive food for both occupations you play. [ref]
- If you also have the Bookshelf, you can use both to receive 5 food for each occupation you play.
(4--5 players)
If, when you play this card or later in the game, you are the last player to have only 2 rooms in your home, you receive 3 wood, 2 clay, 1 reed and 1 stone.
- You choose the moment at which you're paid, but it has to be after the last player (other than you) build his third room and before you build your third room yourself.
(1--5 players)
Once you have a stone house, you can pay 1 food at the start of each round to plough (at most) 1 field.
- When you use the Plough Driver, you may not use a plough or the Harrow to plough multiple fields.
- Food that you receive at the start of a round (e.g. because of the Well) can be used to pay for the field immediately.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use either of the "Plough 1 Field" or "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces, you can pay 1 food to plough 1 additional field.
- You may use one of the ploughs or the Harrow at the same time as the Plough Maker (unlike the Plough Driver); in that case, you pay 1 food to plough 1 field more than the plough or Harrow allows.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use a person's action to take wood that is lying on an action space, you can leave 1 of that wood on the space and receive 2 food in exchange.
- If you also have the Basket, you can use both cards to leave 3 wood to receive 5 food.
- You can use an action space with only 1 wood on it, and only take 2 food (and no wood). This still counts as taking wood, and activates e.g. the Berry Picker, Wood Cart, and Pieceworker. [ref]
- If there is no wood on the action space, for example because of the Wood Distributor, you may not use the Mushroom Collector.
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- Is not activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games. [ref]
(3--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive bonus points for the number of improvements in front of you: for 9 or more improvements, 9 points; for 8 improvements, 7 points; for 7 improvements, 5 points; for 6 improvements, 3 points; for 5 improvements, 1 point.
- Both major and minor improvements count. Discarded improvements do not.
(3--5 players)
In rounds 10 and 12, all other players may not place 1 of their family's offspring (if they have any). This card may only be played until the end of Round 9.
- The idle family members do count towards the question whether there is space in the hut or house for family growth.
- You yourself may place all your family members.
- All family members except for the first two are offspring; not only newborns. [ref]
- Guests and the occupant of the Reed Hut are not offspring and may always be played.
- You are allowed to play this card after round 9, but it has no effect. Remove it from the game immediately after you've played it.
(1--5 players)
Pay 2 less clay to renovate to a clay hut, and pay 2 less stone to renovate to a stone house.
(1--5 players)
You can renovate your wooden hut to a stone house without first needing to renovate it to a clay hut.
- You may not use both the Conservator and the Stone Breaker or the Conservator and the Builder's Trowel to renovate your wooden hut to a stone house out of turn.
- The renovation is paid, as usual, with 1 stone per room plus 1 reed, and you still have to take a “Renovate” action to use the Conservator. [ref]
- Activates the Clay Hut Builder when used.
(4--5 players)
Add 5 and 9 to the number of the current round. Place 1 cattle on each corresponding round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the cattle.
- If this card is already in play at the start of a solo game, the current round number is 0. You receive the cattle on rounds 5 and 9. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you receive 1 additional grain. From round 6 onwards, you can choose to receive 1 vegetable instead.
(4--5 players)
During each harvest, if you have at least 4 sheep during the breeding phase, you receive 2 lambs instead of 1 as long as you have room for them.
(4--5 players)
Place 1 sheep on each of the next 3 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the sheep.
- You may immediately convert the animal into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for it in your farmyard.
(3--5 players)
Place 1 reed on the next 4 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the reed.
(4--5 players)
{Whenever you use the "1 Wild Boar" action space, you receive 1 additional wild boar from the general supply.
- The "1 Wild Boar" action space is added in round 8 or 9.
- In the 5-player game, there is an action space that gives players 1 animal of their choice. The Swineherd is not activated by using this space.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you build at least 1 fence, you also receive 1 stable which you must build immediately.
- The stable may be built inside or outside the fenced area.
- You do not need to pay any wood for the stable.
- Is activated when you play the Mini Pasture.
- Only 1 free stable is awarded in each turn. [ref]
- Is activated when you use the Fence Overseer: when you build a stable, you may fence it, after which you have to build another stable. You may not then fence that second stable.
- Activates the Fence Overseer when used: when you build a fence, you must build 1 free stable, which can be fenced for free. You may not use the Stablehand again to receive a second free stable.
- If you have no unbuilt stables left, or if there is no place in your farmyard where it can be placed, the Stablehand has no effect.
- If you use the Hedge Keeper, the additional 3 fences do not activate the Stablehand a second time. [ref]
(1--5 players)
One (and only one) of your unfenced stables may hold up to 3 animals of the same type.
- If you also have the Shepherd's Pipe, that card has no effect on the unfenced stable for which the Stablemaster is used.
(3--5 players)
You can use the Quarryman at any time to convert stone to food. For each stone you convert, you receive 2 food.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you take stone with an action of a person, you can also take 1 additional stone. If you also receive other building resources, this costs you 1 food.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which stone is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no stone (e.g. when you have the Bureaucrat.)
- Is activated by the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take stone.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games and the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games, if you pay 1 food.
- You also pay 1 food to use this card if you receive other building resources at the same time from occupations and minor improvements.
- Is not activated when you receive stone because of a minor improvement or occupation.
- Other building resources are wood, clay, and reed. [ref]
(3--5 players)
All improvements, rooms and renovations cost you 1 stone less.
- For example, you do not have to pay any stone if you play Lumber.
- If you buy more than one room, you receive the discount for all rooms. If you renovate, you only get a discount of 1 stone, no matter how many rooms your house has. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of an improvement, room or renovation together with the Stonecutter for the same action.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the “Traveling Players” action on an action space, you receive at least 4 food, even if only 1 to 3 food are on the space.
- If another player uses the Juggler with a “Traveling Players” action, he pays you 1 food.
- If you have the Storyteller as well, you receive at least 4 food and 1 vegetable when you leave one food on the action space.
- You cannot use both the Juggler and the Dancer for the same action.
(4--5 players)
You receive 1 cattle when you build your second stable, 1 wild boar when you build your third and 1 sheep when you build your fourth.
- If you build several stables at once, you may receive more than one animal.
- You do not get animals for stables that have already been built when you play the Stockman. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animal into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
(3--5 players)
In each harvest, the Potter can convert up to 1 clay to 2 food.
(4--5 players)
You immediately receive a loan of one of each type of animal. Before scoring, return the 3 animals. For each animal that you cannot or do not want to return, you lose 1 point.
- You may immediately convert the animals to food with an appropriate improvement without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
- If you also have the Yeoman Farmer, you do not deduct points if you do not return an animal. [ref]
- If you deduct points for not returning an animal, you do not get the bonus points from the Constable.
- If you also have the Animal Feed, you may use the animals from the Animal Feed to repay your loan, even if you have no space in your farm to keep them.
- You may repay the loan at any time before the scoring, including during the game. If you repay part of the loan during the game, you may no longer repay the rest of the loan later in the game or before scoring. [ref]
(4--5 players)
You can keep sheep, wild boar and cattle in the same pasture.
- This applies to all your pastures except the Forest Pasture.
(3--5 players)
{You receive wood immediately when you play this card: if played in round 12 or 13, take 1 wood; if played in round 9, 10, or 11, take 2 wood; if played in round 6, 7, or 8, take 3 wood; if played before round 6, take 4 wood. At the end of the game, all players with the most occupation cards in front of them receive 3 bonus points each.
- The Academic counts as two occupations.
(1--5 players)
To extend your home, you need only 3 of the appropriate resource and 2 reed for each new room.
- For example, if you live in a wooden hut, you need 3 wood and 2 reed.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- This card sets a new base cost for a room. If you also have another card that sets a new base cost (e.g. Clay Supports, Axe, or Clay Plasterer), you may only use one such card at the same time. If you build more than one room, you can choose the same or a different card for each room.
- After you've used the Carpenter, you may then also use any card that changes the cost of a room (e.g. Clay Roof, Ladder, Stonecutter, and Bricklayer).
- For example, if you also have the Bricklayer, you may use both cards to build rooms for 1 clay and 2 reed. [ref]
- You may not use this card to change the costs of the Wooden Hut Extension and Clay Hut Extension. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you sow 1 field, place 2 additional goods of the same type from the general supply on the stack. Whenever you sow 2 fields, place 1 extra good on each.
- If you sow three or more fields, you do not get any additional goods.
- You also get the extra goods if planting on the Forester, Copse, Lettuce Patch, Bean Field, Turnip Field, Acreage, and Vineyard.
- The Acreage counts as two fields if both fields of the Acreage are planted. The Forester counts as up to three fields. If you use the Scarecrow to sow a field twice, it counts as two fields.
- Is activated when you use the Hobby Farmer or the Corn Storehouse.
(1--5 players)
For you, the Well is now a minor improvement and costs only 1 stone and 1 wood to build.
- After the upgrade to the Village Well, the Well may be built a second time. The benefits of the Well Builder apply both times.
- The Well still counts as major improvement as well, e.g. for Nosebag or Administration. [ref]
(3--5 players)
{You receive wood immediately when you play this card: if played in round 12 or 13, take 1 wood; if played in round 9, 10, or 11, take 2 wood; if played in round 6, 7, or 8, take 3 wood; if played before round 6, take 4 wood. At the end of the game, all players with the most improvements in front of them receive 3 bonus points each.
- Both major and minor improvements count. Discarded improvements do not.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you are the first player to renovate to a clay hut or a stone house, you receive 3 stone. If you are the second, you receive 2 stone; the third, you receive 1 stone.
- Rewards are not given for renovations performed before you played this card.
- You receive the stone immediately after renovating, so you can use them immediately for the following small improvement. You cannot use the stone for the renovation itself.
- If you use the Conservator to renovate directly to stone, you do not receive stone for the renovation to a clay hut. If you renovate to a clay hut after another player has used the Conservator, he does not count as having renovated to clay before you. [ref]
(3--5 players)
At the start of the feeding phase in each harvest, you can take 1 grain from 1 field belonging to another player. That player receives 2 food from the general supply.
- You may not take an additional grain from one of your own fields.
- You may take the grain from another player's Acreage minor improvement.
- The Harvest Helper is used after the Corn Storehouse.
- You decide which of the opponents' fields to take the grain from, including Acreage, the opponent's home (if he has Winter Garden, and his farmyard (if he has No-Till Farming).
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player sows one or more fields, you receive 1 grain in a 3-player game or 1 food in a 4 or 5 player game.
- If you sow, you do not get anything from the Field Worker.
- Is activated when another player uses the Hobby Farmer or the Corn Storehouse.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use the action space "Take 1 Grain", you can also plough up to 1 field.
- You cannot use ploughs or the Harrow when this card is used.
(1--5 players)
Take vegetables from the general supply and not from your vegetable field whenever you harvest them --- you keep the vegetables on the fields.
- All your vegetable fields remain untouched until the end of the game. This also applies to the Bean Field, Turnip Field and Lettuce Patch.
- The effect of the Gardener is not optional.
(1--5 players)
{You receive wood immediately when you play this card: if played in round 12 or 13, take 1 wood; if played in round 9, 10, or 11, take 2 wood; if played in round 6, 7, or 8, take 3 wood; if played before round 6, take 4 wood. At the end of the game, any player who performed actions with at least 5 people in round 14 receives 3 bonus points.
- An action by a guest is counted. An additional action because of moving an already placed person, e.g. because of the Countryman or Acrobat, is not.
- A player who only gets a 5th family member in round 14 does not receive the bonus points, unless the new family member takes an action that round because of the Adoptive Parents.
- A player who has built the Holiday House does not receive bonus points for the Church Warden.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Starting Player" action space, you can play an additional minor or major improvement after you play the minor improvement.
- Optional; can only be used once per turn.
- Using both Businessman and Traveling Salesman, you can play up to 3 minor improvements one after another when you use the "Starting Player" action space.
- Using both Businessman and Merchant, you can first play 1 minor improvement and 1 major or minor improvement, and then additionally for 1 food, either 2 minor improvements or 1 major and 1 minor improvement when you use the "Starting Player" action space.
- You may not play a major improvement without playing a minor improvement. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Any other player that uses the "Take 1 Grain" action space must first pay you 1 food. In addition, you receive 1 food from the general supply. You receive that food even when you take the grain yourself.
- Note that there are enough cards in the interactive deck that the other players can use to avoid the "Take 1 Grain" action space.
- The food has to be paid before using the action space; if a player has no food to pay before taking the grain, he cannot use the action space. He cannot take a begging card to get 1 food. [ref]
- You do not have to pay anything if you use the action space yourself.
(4--5 players)
Include the "1 Clay" action card from the 3-player game as an additional clay pit. Immediately place 3 clay on the card and add 1 clay at the start of each round. Any player who uses this action must pay you 3 food.
- If you use the Clay Digger yourself, you do not need to have or to pay any food.
(1--5 players)
When you build a stone house, place 3 food on each remaining round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the food.
- If you already have a stone house when you play this card, place the food immediately.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player has offspring and then has a larger family than you, you receive 1 food. If they have at least 2 more family members than you, you receive 2 food.
- The food is taken from the general supply, not from the other player.
- Is activated when another player uses the Wet Nurse, Lover, or Village Beauty.
- This card is not activated when another player gets a guest or plays the Reed Hut.
- Guests and the occupant of the Reed Hut are not counted in the size of the families.
(1--5 players)
Once you live in a clay hut or stone house, play your next family growth action as a “family growth even without room”.
- The next family growth is performed as if the round card from stage 5 was used. All future family growth is carried out as normal.
- Allows at most 1 family growth without space in the hut.
- If a room is built later, the offspring occupies it immediately.
- If you already live in a clay hut or stone house, you use the Farm Steward for the first family growth action after you've played it.
- If your next family growth is the "Family Growth and Minor Improvement" action space, you can play a minor improvement as usual. [ref]
- If your next family growth action is "Family Growth without Room", or when playing the Lover, this card has no effect.
- Using the Wet Nurse or Village Beauty counts as a family growth action.
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player receives wood from an action, you can buy 1 wood from them for 1 food (even without their agreement).
- You may buy only 1 wood each turn, but you can use this card multiple times per round. [ref]
- The other player cannot refuse this exchange.
- If the other player leaves all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, you cannot buy wood from him.
- Is activated when a player uses an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games, and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if the other player takes wood.
- Is not activated when another player receives wood because of a special action (MOOR), [ref] minor improvement or occupation.
- The wood still counts as “taken” for the other player; they can still use their Berry Picker, Woodcutter, Pieceworker, etc., even if you buy the only wood that they take this turn. However, they cannot use their Resource Seller, because they do not “receive” the wood. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Place 1 wood on each of the next 5 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the wood.
(3--5 players)
At the end of the game, you can pay 1 food each for any number of unused farmyard spaces. These do not lose you points in the scoring.
- Negative points that are compensated by the Hide Farmer are not counted as negative for the Constable.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the “Traveling Players” action on an action space, you can choose to receive twice as much food as is on the card. If you do this, you must give one food each to the owners of the Magician, Conjurer, Street Musician, Puppeteer, Acrobat, Dancer, Animal Trainer and Storyteller.
- You cannot use both the Juggler and the Dancer for the same action. [ref]
- Only the food that is lying on the action space is doubled. Take the food from the action space, and the same amount from the general supply. [ref]
- You only give food to another player if he has the occupation in front of him on the table.
- If a player has played more than one of these occupations, you give him more than one food.
- You do not have to pay anything for an occupation if you own it yourself.
- It is possible that you have to pay more food than you receive.
- The effect of the Juggler is optional. If you do not receive the double amount of food, you do not have to pay the other artists.
- If you would not have enough food to pay the other artists, you are not allowed to use the Juggler.
(1--5 players)
At the start of round 11 (or immediately, if you play this card after the start of Round 11), turn over the round cards for the remaining rounds. You (and only you) can use these actions immediately; the other players must wait until the appropriate round.
- The order in which the "Plough Field and Sow" and "Family Growth without Room" action spaces enter the game is determined by the Chamberlain immediately when they are turned over.
(4--5 players)
You can convert 1 grain to 3 food at any time. Any other player can prevent this by buying the grain from you for 2 food. If more than one player wants to buy, you choose one of them.
- Using the Corn Profiteer does not count as baking bread.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "1 Cattle" action space, you receive 1 additional cattle from the general supply.
- The "1 Cattle" action space is added in round 10 or 11.
- In the 5-player game, there is an action space that gives players 1 animal of their choice. The Cowherd is not activated by using this space.
(1--5 players)
Renovating your wooden hut to a clay hut costs you only 1 clay and 1 reeds. Each room of your clay hut costs you 3 clay and 2 reeds.
- This card sets a new base cost for a room. If you also have another card that sets a new base cost (e.g. Clay Supports, and/or Carpenter), you may only use one such card at the same time. If you build more than one room, you can choose the same or a different card for each room.
- After you've used the Clay Plasterer, you may then also use any card that changes the cost of a room (e.g. Clay Roof, Ladder, and Bricklayer).
- You may not use this card to change the costs of the Clay Hut Extension. [ref]
- For example, if you have the Bricklayer as well, you can use both to renovate to a clay hut for 1 reed and to build new clay rooms for 1 clay and 2 reeds. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Once you live in a clay hut, place 2 clay on each of the next 5 round spaces. At the start of these rounds, you receive the clay.
- If you already live in a clay hut or a stone house when you play this card, place the clay on the round spaces immediately.
- Is activated when you use the Conservator to renovate to a stone house.
(1--5 players)
Pay 1 less clay for each improvement and renovation. Pay 2 less clay for each room.
- With e.g. Helpful Neighbours the player receives 1 stone or 1 reed for free. [ref]
- If you also have the Clay Plasterer, you can use both to renovate to a clay hut for 1 reed and to build new clay rooms for 1 clay and 2 reed; [ref] you can use both the Carpenter and the Bricklayer to build rooms for 1 clay and 2 reed; [ref] or you can use both the Clay Supports and the Bricklayer to build rooms for 1 wood and 1 reed.
- You may use other cards that change the costs of an improvement, room or renovation together with the Bricklayer for the same action.
- If a new room costs only 1 clay, e.g. after using the Clay Plasterer and the Frame Builder, the Bricklayer reduces the cost to 0.
- The cost of the Clay Hut Extension is lowered by only 1 clay. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Once you have played this card, you may not take part in the next harvest.
- You do not perform the actions of either the field phase or the breeding phase of the next harvest. Neither may you use cards that have effects at harvest time.
- On the other hand, you do not need to feed your family during that harvest.
- Although you do not take part in the harvest, other players may still use your cards or interact with your farm, if you or they have a card that allows this, such as Water Mill and Harvest Helper. However, you may not use the Harvest Helper or another player's Water Mill yourself. [ref]
- You can still receive food from the Slaughterman or Slaughterhouse.
- Using the Manure or the Almanac does not count as a harvest.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Grain" action space, you can take an additional 1 grain and 1 vegetable. If you do this, the other players each receive 1 grain from the general supply.
- Is not activated by Corn Sheaf or any other improvement or occupation. [ref]
(4--5 players)
In the field phase of the harvest, you receive food if you have cattle, without having to give up the cattle: for 5 or more cattle, 3 food; for 3 or 4 cattle, 2 food; for 1 cattle, 1 food. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for every 2 cattle.
(1--5 players)
You can convert your animals into food at any time. You receive 1 food for each sheep, 2 for each wild boar and 3 for each cattle.
- You do not need a cooking improvement to use the Butcher.
- Using the Butcher does not activate the Schnitzel Mallet.
- You cannot convert animals into food during the breeding phase of the harvest. After the breeding phase of the last harvest, the game ends immediately; you can not convert the animals received in the last harvest to food at all.
(1--5 players)
If one of your people uses an action space that directly provides reeds, you can take all food from the "Fishing" action space in the returning home phase (phase 4).
- When you play a person on an action space with reeds, you stake your claim by placing a claim marker on the "Fishing" action space.
- If someone takes the food from "Fishing" before the end of the round, you receive nothing. [ref]
- Is not activated when you play the Reed Exchange [ref] or Helpful Neighbours, or use any other improvement to receive reeds, or when you use an occupation to get reeds.
- Collecting the food does not count as taking the "Fishing" action, and does not activate the Fisherman, Fishing Rod, Fish Trap, Raft, or Canoe.
- You can not take other resources that may be on the "Fishing" action space, e.g. because of the Wood Distributor.
- In the round in which you play this card, you may only claim the food on "Fishing" if you take reed after you play the Net Fisherman. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player chooses the “Traveling players” action on an action space, you can pay 1 food to play an occupation.
- You pay the 1 food to the general supply.
- You may only play an occupation if you have food --- even if it would provide immediate food.
- If the player who takes the “Traveling players” action uses the Juggler, he pays you 1 food. You receive this food before you use the Puppeteer.
- Activates the Bread Paddle when used.
(4--5 players)
Add 4, 7, 9 and 11 to the number of the current round and place 1 sheep on each corresponding round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the sheep.
- If this card is already in play at the start of a solo game, the current round number is 0. You receive the sheep in rounds 4, 7, 9, and 11. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animal into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for it in your farmyard.
(4--5 players)
Whenever reed is taken for the first time in a round, you may give the player who takes it 1 food in exchange for 1 of the reed. The other player receives an additional 1 food from the general supply as compensation.
- The other player cannot refuse this exchange.
- If you are the first person to take reed in a round, you do not get any advantage from the Reed Buyer.
- The Reed Buyer cannot interfere when reed is taken for the second time in a round, not even when you took the first reed yourself.
- Is activated when a player uses an action space on which reed is placed each round, the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games.
- Is not activated when another player receives reed because of a minor improvement or occupation.
- The reed still counts as “taken” for the other player; they can still use their Landing Net, Pieceworker, Fish Trap, etc., even if you buy the only reed that they take this turn. However, they cannot use their Resource Seller, because they do not “receive” the reed. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Your wild boar breed at the end of round 12, if there is room for the piglet. When you play this card, you receive 1 wild boar.
- The wild boar you receive when you play this card may immediately be converted into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for it in your farmyard.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use a person to take wood that is on an action space, you can leave 2 of that wood on the space and receive a wild boar instead.
- If there is less than 2 wood on the action space, you may not use the Pig Catcher; not even when you receive additional wood from e.g. the Wood Cart. [ref]
- You can use an action space with only 2 wood on it, and only take the wild boar (and no wood). This still counts as taking wood, and activates e.g. the Berry Picker, Wood Cart, and Pieceworker. [ref]
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- You may immediately convert the wild boar into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
(4--5 players)
Once you have a stone house, you can build 1 stable at the beginning of each round at a cost of 1 wood. You do not need to place a family member on an action space to do this.
- Wood that you receive at the same time through a Private Forest, Wood Collector or Wood Deliveryman may be used immediately to build 1 stable.
- Activates the Fence Overseer when used.
(4--5 players)
Whenever stone is taken for the first time in a round, you may give the player who takes it 1 food in exchange for 1 of the stone. The other player receives an additional 1 food from the general supply.
- The other player cannot refuse this exchange.
- If you are the first player to take stone in a round, you do not get any advantage from the Stone Buyer.
- The Stone Buyer cannot interfere when stone is taken for the second or third time in a round, not even when you took the first reeds yourself.
- Is activated when a player uses an action space on which stone is placed each round, the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games, the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games.
- Is not activated when another player receives stone because of a minor improvement or occupation.
- The stone still counts as “taken” for the other player; they can still use their Stone Carrier, Storehouse Keeper, Pieceworker, etc., even if you buy the only stone that they take this turn. However, they cannot use their Resource Seller, because they do not “receive” the stone. [ref]
(1--5 players)
In each harvest, the Stone Carver can convert up to 1 stone to 3 food.
(4--5 players)
You receive 1 grain whenever another player takes the “Traveling Players” action on an action space.
- If the player who takes the “Traveling players” action uses the Juggler, he pays you 1 food.
(3--5 players)
In each harvest, the Cabinetmaker can convert up to 1 wood to 2 food.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use one of the "1 Sheep", "1 Wild Boar" or "1 Cattle" action spaces, you can pay 1 food to take 1 additional animal of that type.
- The "1 Sheep", "1 Wild Boar" and "1 Cattle" cards are added in Rounds 1--4, 8--9 and 10--11.
- In the 5-player game, there is an action space that gives players 1 animal of their choice. The Animal Dealer is not activated by using this space.
- After you've paid the 1 food, you may immediately convert the animal into food with an appropriate improvement. However, you must pay the 1 food beforehand; you may not subtract it from the proceeds.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player is the starting player, you can pay them 1 food at the start of the round and be the first to place a family member. After that, play starts with the starting player as usual.
- For example, if your right-hand neighbour is the starting player, you may pay him 1 food and place the first person. The starting player then places the second person, and the third person is then played by you due to the normal flow of the game.
- If you are the starting player yourself, yo do not get any advantage.
- The Wood Distributor, Foreman and Taster may react to each other. A player who decides to use his occupation cannot take back their decision. A player who does not wish to use the occupation has until the start of the work phase (phase 3) to reconsider.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the most recent round card with one of your people, you receive 1 additional grain.
- You receive the grain before you've taken the action. For example, if you use a sowing action, you can immediately sow the grain from the Outrider. [ref]
- The most recent round card is always the one corresponding to the current round, even if the Chamberlain has been played.
(1--5 players)
Once any player has built the Well, place 1 food on the remaining round spaces. At the start of these Rounds, you receive the food.
- If the well has already been built, place the food immediately.
- Food is not distributed a second time when the Well is upgraded to the Village Well. It is distributed again if the Well is built for a second time. If the Well has already been upgraded to the Village Well and returned to the major improvements board, the food is nevertheless distributed. [ref]
(1--5 players)
When you play this card, place one of your fences on an action space of your choice. If you use an action on this action space, you can also build fences as an additional action.
- From now on, you have only 14 fences available for building.
- You have to perform a regular action on the action space; fence building is optional, and follows all other actions on the action space.
- You may place the fence on any action space, including minor improvements that are action spaces (such as Clay Deposit), action spaces that have been introduced to the game by other cards (such as Master Forester), and "Infirmary".
- If you use an occupation action space to play the Fence Builder, and you place the fence on that occupation action space, you cannot use Fence Builder this turn to immediately build fences. [ref]
- You may not place the fence on a round space of a future round, unless the action card has already been revealed by the Chamberlain.
- Pastures may only be built if they are completed --- you may not leave a pasture open.
- If you use the action space containing your fence, and you build fences, this activates the Hedge Keeper, Farmer, Stablehand and Animal Breeder.
- If the action space with your fence is a space on which goods are placed at the start of each round, and it is empty (e.g. because of the Wood Distributor), you may not use the action space just to build fences. [ref]
- If you put the fence on an action space that already allows the buiding of fences, you can take 2 fence building actions in 1 turn. This activates the Hedge Keeper, Farmer, Stablehand, or another player's Fencer twice, as if the 2 fencing actions were taken in separate turns. The conditions for fence buildings (e.g. no open pastures) should be observed after each fencing action.
- If you already have built all your fences when you play this card, it has no effect.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player builds 1 to 4 fences, you receive 1 wood from the general supply. Whenever another player builds 5 or more fences, you receive 2 wood.
- If you build fences yourself, you receive no benefit.
- If another player builds fences twice with the same action, e.g. because of the Hedge Keeper, you get wood only once, based on the total number of fences built.
(1--5 players)
Add 6 and 10 to the number of the current round. Place 4 of your fences on each corresponding round space. At the start of these rounds, you can pay 2 food to build all 4 fences immediately.
- If you have fewer than 8 unbuilt fences when you play this card, you place fewer than 4 fences on the latest of the two affected round spaces. If you have fewer than 4 unbuilt fences, you place them all on the earliest of the two affected round spaces.
- Fences may not be removed from the round space to build them in the usual way.
- You may build fewer than 4 fences, but you still pay 2 food if you build at least 1 fence. If you choose to build fewer than 4 fences, you return the leftover fences to your personal supply of unbuilt fences.
- You do not need to pay wood to build the fences.
- You may not leave a pasture open.
- Building the fences activates the Hedge Keeper.
- Food that you receive at the start of a round can be used to pay for the fences immediately.
- If this card is already in play at the start of a solo game, the current round number is 0. You can build the fences in round 6 and 10. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Sow and Bake Bread" action space, you receive 1 grain before taking the action(s). Alternatively, you can exchange 1 grain for 1 vegetable.
(1--5 players)
When you take a family growth action, you can pay 1 food to immediately place the offspring in your home. This allows you to take an action with it this round. If you do this, the offspring does not count as “newborn”.
- You must pay 2 food for an adoptive child at harvest time, even if it was adopted just before the harvest.
- Is activated when you use the Wet Nurse, Lover, or Village Beauty.
- If you use the Mother of Twins for the same family growth action, you may use the Adoptive Parents for one or both of the new family members. This costs 1 food per family member.
- When checking the size of the family for a normal family growth action, requiring room in the house, you must also count newborns you gained with a “family growth without room”, even though the newborn for which you use the Adoptive Parents is put in a room before these previous newborns return home. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you receive wood, clay, reed, stone or grain on an action space, you can buy one more of the same good for 1 food. Whenever you receive vegetable(s) on an action space, you can buy one more for 2 food.
- You can only buy goods in the work phase (phase 3) --- not at the start of a round.
- Only affects goods that are earned directly through an action space, not through improvements and occupations.
- If you get more than one type of goods, you can buy 1 of each type for 1 food each. All extra goods must be payed at the same time. [ref]
- You may first convert the goods received directly from the action space to food to pay for the Pieceworker. The Pieceworker is used before other cards, so you cannot convert goods that you receive from an occupation or improvement.
- You must pay for the Pieceworker before you receive the extra good(s). You may not convert the goods that you receive from the Pieceworker to food to pay for this card.
- Is also activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- If you use an action space that contains wood, and you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, you still can buy 1 wood with the Pieceworker. You cannot use the food received from those cards to pay the cost of the Pieceworker.
- When you sow by taking grain or vegetables from the general supply and putting them on your fields, this does not count as receiving resources, and does not activate the Pieceworker. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the “Traveling players” action on an action space, after all of the players have finished their turns you may move that person to one of the "Take 1 Grain", "Plough 1 Field" and "Plough Field and Sow" action spaces, if it's free, and take the action.
- If you use the “Traveling Players” action, you should place claim markers on the three action spaces "Take 1 Grain", "Plough 1 Field" and "Plough Field and Sow", as a reminder that these may be claimed later.
- If another player uses the Juggler with a “Traveling Players” action, he pays you 1 food.
- If the Countryman or Pond Watchman also have been played, the family members are moved in player order, starting with the player left of the one who placed the last regular person. If you can move more than one person, you move them consecutively in an order of your choice. You cannot move the same person twice (e.g. by moving it to "Take 1 Grain" with Acrobat, and then using Countryman). You cannot move to an action space that was occupied after the last regular person placement. [ref]
- In the round in which you play this card, you may only move the family member from the “Traveling Players” action space if it was placed after you played the Acrobat. [ref]
- Moving a person with the Acrobat counts as taking an action, e.g. for the Opportunist, but not as placing your last person, e.g. for the Magician, because this person has already been placed previously.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you build room(s), you may grow your family by up to the number of rooms that you build, if you have the room to house the new family members. This costs 1 food per person.
- You may build several rooms at once with a building action. For 2 food, the Wet Nurse allows an immediate family growth of 2 people; for 3 food, 3 people.
- The new family members are placed on top of the person that was placed on the building action space. They are only available as people in the next round.
- You may use the Wet Nurse more than once in the game. [ref]
- Is activated when you use the Hut Builder or Mason, or when you play the Wooden Hut Extension, Clay Hut Extension, or Stone House Extension.
- Using the Wet Nurse counts as a family growth action. If you use the Farm Steward for this family growth action, you do not need an empty room for one of the new family members.
- Does not activate the Clapper.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player plays an occupation card, you can pay 3 food to play one yourself. From your 4th occupation, this only costs 2 food.
- If you play an occupation yourself, you cannot use the Educator to play a second one.
- Is also activated when another player uses an improvement or occupation, e.g. Puppeteer, to play an occupation. [ref]
- Activates the Bread Paddle when used.
- If more than one occupation is played in one action (e.g. because of Writing Desk or Chief's Daughter), you can use the Educator more than once too.
(1--5 players)
In each renovation, you may replace exactly 1 clay or 1 stone with 1 wood. In each extension, you may replace exactly 2 clay or 2 stone with 1 wood.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Frame Builder for the same action.
- If a room costs only 1 clay and/or 1 stone, e.g. after using the Clay Plasterer and Bricklayer, you cannot use the Frame Builder. [ref]
(4--5 players)
For each wild boar that you convert into food, you can place up to 2 wood from your personal supply on this card. At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each wood on this card except the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th.
- Converted wild boar may either be placed on the Tanner, Taxidermist, or used for the Basin Maker; you cannot use two of these cards for the same animal.
- If you also have the Pelts and/or the Brush Maker, you may use those cards as well as the Basin Maker cards for the same wild boar. [ref]
- You may not remove wood from this card, or use it again in any way. Wood on this card is not part of your personal supply, and does not count for the Joinery, Storehouse Clerk, or Sawmill.
(1--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each of your pastures [ref] that contains at least 1 animal, but could contain at least 3 more animals than it does.
- You also get a bonus point for the Forest Pasture if you have at least one animal on it.
- You may also receive a bonus point for the Animal Yard, for example if you also have the Drinking Trough.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you can play an occupation card, you can ask another player to randomly draw one of your occupation cards instead of choosing one yourself. If you do this, you receive 3 food before you pay the costs of the card, but you must play the card that the other player draws.
- If an occupation card is drawn that you cannot afford, for example Lover or Chief, you have to take begging cards to make up the difference.
- Can also be used if you have only 1 occupation card left.
(3--5 players)
You receive wood immediately when you play this card: if played in round 12 or 13, take 1 wood; if played in round 9, 10, or 11, take 2 wood; if played in round 6, 7, or 8, take 3 wood; if played before round 6, take 4 wood. At the end of the game, any player who has no negative points receives 5 bonus points.
- You lose the bonus points from this card if you score negative points in any scoring category, if you have begging cards or unused farmyard tiles, or if you have any card in front of you that has a negative value or gives negative bonus points. [ref]
- Positive (bonus) points on some cards do not compensate for negative (bonus) points on other cards. [ref]
- Negative points that are compensated by Yeoman Farmer or Hide Farmer are not counted as negative for the Constable.
(3--5 players)
Once you have a clay hut or a stone house, the Joinery, Pottery and Basketmaker's Workshop are minor improvements for you and their cost is reduced by 2 building resources of your choice.
- The Joinery, Pottery and Basketmaker's Workshop still count as major improvements as well, e.g. for Nosebag or Administration. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use a sowing action, you can plant wood on this card. There can be up to 3 stacks of wood on this card, as shown. The wood is treated the same as sown grain and is harvested during the Field phase.
- You place up to 3 wood from your personal supply next to each other on this card, and pile additional wood from the general supply on your own 1--3 wood markers.
- You may choose to only sow 1 or 2 wood on this card. You may then in a later sowing action sow more wood here. [ref]
- In each harvest, you take one wood from each of the stacks.
- If you may place 4 grain on a field when sowing, e.g. with an occupation, you also receive 4 wood on each stack on the Forester; if you would receive 5 grain, you receive 5 wood. If you have the Fieldsman, you get a total of 5 wood on the card if you only plant 1 wood on this card (and nothing elsewhere); if you plant 2 wood (and nothing else), you receive 4 wood on each stack.
- The Smallholder may not be used to plant extra wood.
- It is allowed to choose an action space with a sowing action, only to sow wood on the Forester. [ref]
- Wood on this card is not in your personal supply, and does not count for the Storehouse Clerk or Pilgrim. At the end of the game, it does count for the Joinery or the Sawmill.
- At the end of the game, the wood is not counted as grain, of course.
(1--5 players)
Once you have a stone house, at the start of a round you can always either pay 1 food to play an occupation card or play an improvement card by paying its costs.
- Activates the Bookshelf, Perpetual Student, and Patron when used to play an occupation card.
- Each round, the Scholar allows you to play up to 1 additional card.
- You may play major improvements with the Scholar. [ref]
- Activates the Merchant when used to play an improvement.
- Food that you receive at the start of a round can be used to pay for an occupation, and food or goods received at the start of a round may be used to pay for an improvement.
- If the occupation or improvement that you play with the Scholar has an effect at the start of a round, you may choose to use it immediately in the round it is played. [ref]
- If you play an occupation or improvement to place goods or food on remaining round spaces (e.g. Swan Lake, Sack Cart or Wood Deliveryman), you do not place any on the current round space, as the round has already started. The current round also does not count for Ranch etc. [ref]
(3--5 players)
When you convert wild boar or cattle to food, place them on this card. At the end of the game, you receive bonus points if you have animal markers on this card. For the wild boar on this card, you receive: 6 or more wild boar, 3 points; 4 or 5 wild boar, 2 points; 2 or 3 wild boar, 1 point. For the cattle on this card, you receive: 4 or more cattle, 3 points; 3 cattle, 2 points; 2 cattle, 1 point.
- If you place a converted wild boar on the Tanner, you may not use the Basin Maker, Taxidermist , or Brush Maker for the same animal.
- If you also have the Pelts, you may use that card as well as the Tanner for each converted animal. [ref]
- Animals on this card do not count in the scoring at the end of the game.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you select a “minor improvement” action on an action space, you can play a major instead of a minor improvement. If you select a “major or minor improvement” action on an action space, you can play 2 minor improvements.
- Optional; can only be used once per turn.
- Using both Traveling Salesman and Merchant, you can play up to 4 minor improvements for 1 food on a “major or minor improvement” action space, or you can acquire 2 major improvements for 1 food on a “minor improvement” action space.
- Using both Traveling Salesman and Businessman, you can play up to 3 minor improvements one after another when you use the "Starting Player" action space.
- Is not activated when you use the Scholar.
(3--5 players)
You receive wood immediately when you play this card: if played in round 12 or 13, take 1 wood; if played in round 9, 10, or 11, take 2 wood; if played in round 6, 7, or 8, take 3 wood; if played before round 6, take 4 wood. At the end of the game, the player(s) with the most rooms in their home receive 3 bonus points each.
(1--5 players)
Place 1 wood on each remaining space for rounds 8 to 14. At the start of these rounds, you receive the wood.
- You do not receive wood for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(1--5 players)
At the start of the work phase of each round, you can distribute the wood from the "3 Wood" action space as evenly as possible onto the neighbouring "1 Clay", "1 Reed" and "Fishing" spaces. When you play this card, you receive 2 wood.
- Because of occupations like the Pig Catcher and the Mushroom Collector, or in the solo game, there may be wood on the wood space that cannot be distributed evenly --- in this case, 1 or 2 wood are left on the action space.
- The Wood Distributor, Foreman and Taster may react to each other. A player who decides to use his occupation cannot take back their decision. A player who does not wish to use the occupation has until the start of the work phase (phase 3) to reconsider.
- It is not allowed to use the "3 Wood" action space if it is empty, not even if that would activate other improvements or occupations. [ref]
(3--5 players)
You can convert clay into food at any time. You receive 1 food per clay. If any player has built a Well, you receive 3 food for each 2 clay instead.
- The bonus for the Well is also awarded if it has been upgraded to the Village Well.
(1--5 players)
{Your pastures that can hold 2 animals can hold 3 animals. While you have at most 2 fields, add 1 extra grain or vegetable from the general supply to each field you sow.
- If you have the Drinking Trough and/or the Shepherd's Pipe as well, the bonuses from those cards are added to the one of the Smallholder. If you have all three cards, you can have up to 7 sheep on a 2 animal pasture.
- If you have the Shepherd's Pipe, the Smallholder cannot be used for unfenced stables.
- Acreage, Bean Field, Lettuce Patch and Turnip Field count towards the indicated maximum of 2 fields, and you receive extra grain or vegetables on them because of the Smallholder. The Acreage counts as two fields.
- Copse, Forester and Vineyard do not count towards the indicated maximum of 2 fields, and the Smallholder may not be used when you plant on those cards.
- Does not increase the capacity of the Animal Yard.
- You can only put an extra grain on grain fields, and an extra vegetable on vegetable fields. [ref]
- The effect of the Smallholder is optional, but if you use it in an action, you must use it for all fields you sow in that action.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you have at least 5 stone at the start of a round, you receive 1 extra stone. If you have at least 6 reed, you receive 1 reed. If you have at least 7 clay, you receive 1 clay. If you have at least 8 wood, you receive 1 wood.
- Only resources in your personal supply count. Resources on cards in front of you, such as the Copse or the Resource Seller, do not count.
- If you receive resources at the start of the round because of occupations or minor improvements, you may take them before you use the Storehouse Clerk.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use a person's action to take reed and stone at the same time, you also receive your choice of 1 clay or 1 grain.
- Is only activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games, and the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games.
- Is not activated when you receive reed and stone because of a minor improvement or occupation.
(4--5 players)
After all players have placed their people, you may move one of your people from a "Take 1 Grain" or "Take 1 Vegetable" action space to a free action space with a “sow” action.
- If you choose one of these action spaces, you place claim markers on the empty “Sowing” spaces to show that you have a claim.
- There are 2 “Sowing” action spaces. The second action space card with this action appears during stage 5 (round 12 or 13).
- Both “Sowing” action spaces provide a choice of actions. You may also do the other action on this action space when you move your family member, even if you do not do the sowing action.
- If you use both the "Take 1 Grain" and "Take 1 Vegetable" action spaces in the same round, you may move only one of the two family members.
- If you have the Field Warden, you may also move a family member to the "Plough Field and Sow" space if it's occupied. [ref]
- If the Acrobat or Pond Watchman also have been played, the family members are moved in player order, starting with the player left of the one who placed the last regular person. If you can move more than one person, you move them consecutively in an order of your choice. You cannot move the same person twice (e.g. by moving it to "Take 1 Grain" with Acrobat, and then using Countryman). You cannot move to an action space that was occupied after the last regular person placement. [ref]
- If you have already used a family member on one of the two action spaces before you play this card, you may move this family member at the end of the round.
- Moving a person with the Countryman counts as taking an action, e.g. for the Opportunist, but not as placing your last person, e.g. for the Magician, because this person has already been placed previously.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use an action of a person to take wood or clay, you also receive 1 additional clay.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which wood or clay is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no wood or clay (e.g. because of the Wood Distributor).
- Is activated even if you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher.
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor.
- Is also activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games, and the action space "Take 1 Building Resource" in 3-player games if you take wood or clay.
- Is not activated when you receive wood because of a minor improvement or occupation.
- You get a maximum of 1 clay from the Clay Worker per action.
(3--5 players)
When you play this card, immediately carry out a “Family growth even without room” action (similar to the round card from stage 5). Playing this card costs you an additional 4 food.
- If you build a room after the Lover has had offspring, the offspring occupies the new room. It is better to build the room first, then take a normal family growth action, and only then play the Lover.
- Does not activate the Clapper.
- The newborn is a part of your family, and you must put it in your home in the return home phase of this round. Until then, you can put the newborn on this occupation card. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you receive vegetables through a person's action or through a minor improvement, you receive an additional 2 grain.
- Is not activated when you use an occupation to get vegetables.
- Is activated when you play the Market Stall or Weekly Market; however, you must first pay the grain for the improvement card in order to get grain back.
- Is also activated when you take a vegetable at the start of the round because of the Greenhouse.
- When you sow by taking vegetables from the general supply and putting them on your fields, this does not count as receiving vegetables, and does not activate the Market Woman. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Add 4, 7 and 10 to the number of the current round and place 1 field on each corresponding round space. At the start of these rounds, you can plough that field by paying 1 food.
- If you choose not to lay down a field, the tile is returned to the general supply.
- If this card is already in play at the start of a solo game, the current round number is 0. You can plough the fields in rounds 4, 7, and 10. [ref]
- You may use food received at the start of the round, for example from the Well, to pay for the field. [ref]
(3--5 players)
You may replace the required reed with a total of 1 wood for any renovation or for each new room. (You use brushwood to make the roof.)
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Brushwood Collector for the same action.
(4--5 players)
Your cattle breed at the end of round 12, if there is space for the calf. When you play this card, you receive 1 cattle.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Take 1 Grain" action space, you receive 1 additional grain. When you play this card, you receive 1 grain.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you take sheep with one of your people, you receive an additional sheep from the general supply. You can exchange 3 sheep for 1 cattle and 1 wild boar at any time (except during the breeding phase).
- Is activated by the "1 Sheep" action space (round 1--4), and by the "Sheep, Wild Boar, or Cattle" action space in the 5-player game.
- Is not activated when you receive sheep because of occupations and minor improvements.
- You may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
- You may immediately use the Sheep Farmer to exchange animals you receive, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. [ref]
- As the game ends directly after the last breeding phase, you cannot convert sheep received in the breeding phase of the harvest after round 14 to other animals. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Once you live in a stone house, place 1 sheep on each remaining round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the sheep.
- If you already live in a stone house, place the sheep immediately.
- You do not receive a free sheep for the current round.
- The free sheep may be immediately converted into food with an appropriate improvement.
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player converts 1 or more animals into food, you receive 1 food from the general supply. In the feeding phase of the harvest, you are the last player to feed your family (so you can benefit if other players slaughter).
- If you convert an animal yourself, you receive no additional food.
- If both the Slaughterman and the Slaughterhouse are on the table, the owners of these two cards feed their families in current turn order (which is the turn order of the next round). [ref]
(1--5 players)
In the feeding phase of each harvest, you can convert up to 1 vegetable to 5 food.
- You do not need a Fireplace, Cooking Hearth or oven to convert the vegetable.
- Distilling schnaps does not count as baking.
- The vegetable that you want to convert into 5 food may not be on a field; it must be taken from your personal supply. [ref]
(1--5 players)
In each round, you pay 1 wood less for one of the following: an improvement, a room of a wooden hut, a stable or a fence.
- May only be used once in each round. You can place your personal wood supply on this card to remind you of the benefits of this occupation.
- If you build several rooms in one action, you can only use the Wood Carver for one of them. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Wood Carver for the same action.
- May not be used when you build a new room for a clay hut or a stone house, not even if you have the Clay Supports, Brushwood Roof, Frame Builder, or Brushwood Collector.
(4--5 players)
Add 4, 7 and 10 to the number of the current round and place 1 wild boar on each corresponding round space. At the start of these rounds, you receive the wild boar.
- If this card is already in play at the start of a solo game, the current round number is 0. You receive the wild boars in rounds 4, 7, and 10. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard.
(4--5 players)
At any time, you can renovate your clay hut to a stone house without using a “Renovation” action space.
- You must still pay the costs of the renovation.
- You may not use both the Conservator and the Stone Breaker to renovate your wooden hut to a stone house out of turn.
(4--5 players)
When you play this card, place 4 sheep cubes, 3 wild boar cubes and 2 cattle cubes in a container. At the start of each round, draw two animals. If they are the same, keep one. Return the 1 or 2 animals to the container.
- If you draw 2 different animals, both are returned to the container.
- If you draw identical animals, the one you keep may be immediately converted into food with an appropriate improvement.
(4--5 players)
Place 1 sheep on the space for round 7, 1 wild boar on round 10 and 1 cattle on round 14. At the start of these rounds, you can buy the animal for 1 food.
- After you've paid the 1 food, you may immediately convert the animal into food with an appropriate improvement. However, you must pay the 1 food beforehand; you may not subtract it from the proceeds.
- Food that you receive at the start of a round can be used to pay for the animal immediately.
- You do not receive animals for the current round, or any of the earlier rounds.
(1--5 players)
You can keep 1 animal in each room of your home. You may keep more than 1 type of animal in your home.
- Has no effect after you have bought a House Goat.
- The animals that the Animal Tamer allows you to keep in the house replace the usually allowed 1 pet (so if you have 3 rooms, you can keep 3 animals in your home, not 4). [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you fence unused spaces to create at least one new pasture, you can buy a pair of animals: 2 sheep for 1 food, 2 wild boar for 2 food, or 2 cattle for 3 food.
- At least one space must be newly used, and may not contain stables. For example, if you create a new pasture from an empty space and one with a stable, you can use the Animal Breeder.
- Is not activated when you use the Fence Overseer. [ref]
- You can only buy at most 1 pair of animals per turn, even if you create more than 1 new pasture, or if you build fences again in the same turn, e.g. with the Hedge Keeper. [ref]
- After you've paid the food, you may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement. However, you must pay the food beforehand; you may not subtract it from the proceeds.
- If you also receive other animals from the fence building, e.g. because of Farmer or Shepherd's Crook, you may convert those animals to food first to pay for the animals from the Farm Breeder. [ref]
(4--5 players)
At the start of the work phase of each round, you can place 1 food from the general supply on an action space of your choice.
- The Wood Distributor, Foreman and Taster may react to each other. A player who decides to use his occupation cannot take back their decision. A player who does not wish to use the occupation has until the start of the work phase (phase 3) to reconsider.
- You may place the food on any action space, including minor improvements that are action spaces (such as Clay Deposit), action spaces that have been introduced to the game by other cards (such as Master Forester), and "Infirmary".
- You may not place the food on a round space of a future round, unless the action card has already been revealed by the Chamberlain.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you have at least 2 sheep at the start of the work phase of a round, you receive 1 food.
- Sheep that are on the board because of the Shepherd Boy, Sheep Whisperer, Master Shepherd, or Animal Handler, and sheep from the Veterinarian, are taken before the start of the work phase, and may count towards the 2 sheep requisite to use the Weaver.
(1--5 players)
Pile (from bottom to top) 1 stone, clay, stone, clay, reed, clay, wood on this card. You receive the top marker when you receive that type of building resource.
- Resources may be obtained at the start of the round (phase 1) as well as in the work phase (phase 3).
- Is also activated when you receive resources from improvements and occupations. But if you do not receive certain resources because of other cards (Basket, Wood Buyer, etc.), you cannot use the Resource Seller for those resources.
- It is possible to receive more than 1 resource from the Resource Seller by using occupations such as Wood Distributor, Storehouse Keeper or Clay Worker.
- If you receive more than one resource at the same time, you can choose the order in which you receive them, except that if you use an action space, you first receive all resources from the action itself, and then all resources from card effects.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use your last person to choose the “Traveling Players” action on an action space, you receive an additional 1 grain and 1 food.
- If another player uses the Juggler with a “Traveling Players” action, he pays you 1 food.
- If you play the Keg, that guest counts as your last person placed in the round.
- If you move a person at the end of a round, e.g. because of the Countryman or Acrobat, that does not count as your last person placed.
(1--5 players)
{Once each round, for a cost of 1 food, you can immediately fence a pasture of 1 farmyard space around a stable that you have just built. You do not need to pay wood for the fences.
- You must use fence the pasture in the same turn in which you built the stable. [ref]
- Is activated when you use the Groom to build a stable.
- Is activated when you use the Stablehand: when you build a fence, you must build 1 free stable, which can be fenced for free. You may not use the Stablehand again to receive a second free stable. The fences built in the original action (before using Stablehand and Fence Overseer) must follow the rules for fence building: complete pastures only. [ref]
- Activates the Hedge Keeper and Farmer when used.
- Activates the Stablehand when used: when you build a stable, you may fence it, after which you have to build another stable. You may not then fence that second stable.
- You must follow the rules for fence building. If you already have pastures, only a stable that is adjacent to one of them may be fenced in. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever, at the start of a round, you are using more farmyard spaces than every other player, you receive 1 wood.
- If there is a tie, you get nothing.
- The number of used spaces is counted before using the Ploughman or Fence Deliveryman.
(3--5 players)
You receive 4 wood when you acquire the Joinery or play the Cabinetmaker. When you acquire the Pottery or play the Potter, you receive 4 clay. When you acquire the Basketmaker's Workshop or play the Basketmaker, you receive 3 reed. If you have already played any of these cards when you play the Guildmaster, you receive 2 building resources of the appropriate type for each existing card.
- If you have already upgraded the Joinery to the Sawmill before you play the Guildmaster, you also get 2 wood.
- You receive the building resources after acquiring or playing each card; you cannot use these resources to pay for the cards.
- If you e.g. obtain both the Joinery and the Cabinetmaker, you get 4 wood twice. If you play an improvement for a second time (e.g. the Joinery after upgrading it to a Sawmill), you receive the wood again. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you take food from a “Traveling players” space, you may immediately use it to buy animals: Pay 2 food for each sheep or wild boar and 3 food for each cattle.
- Only the food that was lying on the action space can be used to buy animals. If you use e.g. the Juggler or Dancer, the additional food cannot be used. [ref]
- Juggler and Dancer are used before you use the Animal Trainer to buy animals. [ref]
- If another player uses the Juggler with a “Traveling Players” action, he pays you 1 food. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. However, you may not use that food to buy more animals with the Animal Trainer.
(1--5 players)
At any time, you can pay 3 food to take a family growth action without placing one of your people. You must have room in your home. You can use the newborn to take actions from the following round.
- Activates the Farm Steward, Mother of Twins, and Adoptive Parents when used.
- Does not activate the Clapper.
- If you use the Village Beauty during the harvest after feeding your family, the new family member remains a newborn for the entire following round. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you manage to be the very last player to place a person in any round, you receive 1 food after you take the final action. If you play this occupation with the last person to be placed during the current round, you receive 2 food.
- If a player plays the Keg, that guest counts as the last person placed in the round.
- If a player moves a person at the end of a round, e.g. because of the Countryman or Acrobat, that does not count as the last person placed.
(3--5 players)
At any time, you may look at all the remaining unplaced round cards and re-sort them. When you play this card, you receive 2 wood.
- When re-sorting, the round cards must remain in the appropriate game stage.
- If round cards are outside their appropriate game stage because of the Fortune Teller, you have to correct this when you use the Herald.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you or another player receives 3 food or more on an action space, you receive 1 food from the general supply.
- The amount of food is counted without taking any improvements or occupations into account. The Cooper can only be activated by an action space that has at least 3 food on it: only the action space "Fishing", an action space with “Traveling players”, or an action on which the Foreman has placed enough food.
- Is not activated by using the Net Fisherman.
(3--5 players)
From now until the end of the game, the other players do not receive goods and food during the work phase, but only when they return their people to their home.
- “Goods” includes wood, clay, reed, stone, vegetables, grain, and animals.
- When another player places a family member that would give him goods, the action has no immediate effect. Improvements and occupations that are activated by choosing an action are activated at this time; improvements and occupations activated by the receipt of goods are activated when the family members return home.
- If you perform an action that would give another player goods or food, e.g. because of the Fencer or the Spinney, he only receives them in the returning home phase. If you give goods or food to another player, e.g. because of the Juggler or the Harrow, you lose them immediately, but the other player receives them later.
- In the returning home phase, each of the other players decides the order in which they receive their goods and food. Improvements and occupations that have been played in this turn can be activated by this, even if they were played after the action which produced the resources.
(3--5 players)
From now until the end of the game, the other players only receive goods from action spaces when they return their people to their home.
- This card applies to goods that are on action spaces as well as goods that are taken from the supply, but not to goods that are received from cards.
- “Goods” includes wood, clay, reed, stone, vegetables, grain, and animals.
(4--5 players)
When you convert animals to food, you can place some or all of them on this card instead of returning them to the general supply. The card can hold a maximum of 1 sheep, 1 wild boar and 1 cattle. These animals are counted in scoring.
- If you place a converted animal on the Taxidermist, you may not use the Basin Maker, Tanner, or Brush Maker for the same animal.
- If you also have the Pelts, you may use that card as well as the Taxidermist for each converted animal.
- Animals on this card count for the Loom, Milking Stool, Estate Manager and Milking Hand.
(1--5 players)
You may immediately sow each grain that you receive outside the field phase of a harvest and would otherwise place in your supply.
- Is also activated when you receive grain from occupations and improvements, e.g. Corn Sheaf, Conjurer, Grocer, and Harvest Helper.
- Is not activated in an extra field phase because of the Manure.
- Activates the Fieldsman when used. If you get several grain at once, and you want to sow more than 1, you have to sow them at the same time.
- Activates the Smallholder, Liquid Manure, Planter Box and another player's Field Worker when used to sow the vegetable.
(1--5 players)
You may immediately sow each vegetable that you receive outside the harvest phase and would otherwise place in your supply.
- Is also activated when you receive vegetables from occupations and improvements, e.g. Weekly Market, Undergardener, and Seed Trader.
- Activates the Fieldsman when used. If you get several vegetable at once, and you want to sow more than 1, you have to sow them at the same time.
- Activates the Smallholder, Liquid Manure, Planter Box, Potato Dibber, and another player's Field Worker when used to sow the vegetable.
(1--5 players)
Place 2 grain and 2 vegetables on this card. You may buy them at any time. Each grain costs 2 food, each vegetable costs 3 food.
- Pay the food before receiving the grain or vegetable.
(1--5 players)
You can exchange 1 wood, 1 clay, 1 reed and 1 stone for 2 food and 1 bonus point at any time and as often as you like.
- Write down the bonus points on the scoring pad immediately.
- You cannot use the Wood Carver, Stonecutter, or Bricklayer to reduce the costs.
(3--5 players)
You receive 4 food before you pay the costs of playing this occupation. You may immediately return this card to your hand after you have played it.
- When you play this card, you have to decide immediately if you want to take it back. If you leave it on the table, you may not change your mind later.
- If you return this card to your hand, it does not count as a played occupation, e.g. for minor improvements, when scoring the Reeve or Tutor, or when determining the costs of playing a subsequent occupation.
- If you return this card to your hand, you may play it again later. If you also have the Writing Desk, you may play the Dance Instructor two times in the same action. [ref]
(1--5 players)
During the field phase of each harvest, you can exchange 1 wood and 1 food for 1 bonus point.
- Write down the bonus points on the scoring pad immediately.
- You can only use this card once per harvest.
(1--5 players)
When you have family growth, you can pay 3 food to bring 2 new family members instead of 1 into the game. You do not need to have space in your home for the second new family member.
- Using the Wet Nurse, Lover or Village Beauty activates the Mother of Twins.
- Receiving 2 family members with one family growth action activates the Clapper, Midwife, Child Prodigy, and Compulsory Education only once, but Adoptive Parents twice.
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player receives 2 or more animals of one type, you can buy one from him. A sheep costs 2 food, a wild boar 3 food, a cattle 4 food.
- The other player cannot refuse to sell the animal. [ref]
- Is not activated when another player uses the Clay Seller or Sheep Farmer (to get cattle and wild boar), not even if he uses the card multiple times in succession.
- Is activated when another player receives multiple animals at one time because of the Swineherd, Stockman, Animal Dealer, Sheep Farmer (only sheep), Animal Trainer, Animal Breeder, Shepherd, Cowherd, or Shepherd's Crook.
- Is activated when another player receives multiple animals at the start of a round, including those from the Veterinarian.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use the “Traveling Players” action on an action space, you can return 1 animal of your choice to the general supply and receive 4 food in exchange.
- You do not need a cooking improvement.
(3--5 players)
When you play this card, you can pay 2 food to immediately play 1 further occupation. Whenever another player plays an occupation, you can pay him 1 food. He must then, if possible, play a different occupation card instead.
- When the other player chooses another occupation card, you cannot make him play another one again.
- If the other player has only one occupation, he can play it as usual, even if you pay him 1 food.
- If the other player cannot afford to play his other occupation cards (for example Lover or Chief), he has to take begging cards to make up the difference.
- If you force another player to play a different occupation card, that does not count as playing a second occupation, so e.g. it does not activate the Educator twice.
- If the other player has the Perpetual Student, he may use that card for his second occupation as well; the occupation that was initially played (or drawn from his hand) cannot be drawn again.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player has family growth, he must pay you 1 food (or beg the food, if necessary). You must immediately turn the Ski Instructor face-down when you grow your family. You no longer receive its benefits, but it still counts as a played occupation.
- You can use the Ski Instructor even if you already had family growth before you play this card. You receive the benefits of the Ski Instructor until your next family growth. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you have no more food during the feeding phase of a harvest and should take one or more begging cards, you receive one fewer begging card.
(3--5 players)
At the start of each round, you can mark one action space of your choice with an arrow (claim) marker. Each player can use this action space during this round. (This cannot be used on action spaces on which goods are placed). Remove the arrow marker at the end of each round.
- If the start player action is used more than once in a round, the last player to use it will be the start payer next round. [ref]
- It is not allowed to use an empty accumulating action space such as "3 Wood", not even if it activates other improvements or occupations. It is allowed to use an empty accumulating action space that produces other resources directly, such as "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games. [ref]
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player builds at least one room, you can give him 1 food and immediately build exactly one room yourself.
- You must pay the building costs for the room.
- You may use your improvements and occupations to lower the cost of the new room.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you play or buy an improvement, you can replace 1 building resource of your choice with 1 wood.
- You can replace either 1 clay, 1 reed, or 1 stone.
- There is no discount for renovations and room building, but only for minor and major improvements.
- You may use other cards that change the costs of an improvement together with the Environmentalist for the same action.
(1--5 players)
During the action phase, you can place any number of people on the family singers space instead of on an action space. For each person you place on the space, you receive 1 bonus point.
- This is not an action space.
- Family members placed on this card in round 14 do not count for the Church Warden.
(3--5 players)
You can place 2 people one after another, as long as both action spaces are on the same board and adjoin one another (not diagonally).
- Action spaces on minor improvements, or introduced into the game by the Clay Digger or Master Forester, are never adjacent to any other action space.
- Using the Waltzer counts as two turns.
- The cards with action spaces on the leftmost game board should be placed randomly at the start of the game. If they weren't, shuffle them when Waltzer is played. In a 3 player game, the cards fill the top 2 rows on the board. [ref]
(3--5 players)
When you play this card, you immediately receive 2 stone. At the end of the game, the player(s) with the most building resources receive(s) 3 bonus points.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you have family growth, you can immediately pay 1 wood for 1 bonus point, or 2 wood for 2 bonus points.
(1--5 players)
Immediately take the top 4 occupations from the face-down deck, and choose 2 of them. You may play one of them immediately (taking into account the requirements on the card) without cost, and add the other one to your hand. If you don't want to play any, add both occupations to your hand.
- If you play one of the cards you drew, that again activates the Bread Paddle, Bookshelf, Patron, and another player's Educator, but not the Perpetual Student.
- If another player has the Therapist, he can use that to force you to play the other card that you selected to keep, even if he already used it to force you to play the Governor.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you renovate your home, you may at the same time build 1 room. This costs you 1 reed, 1 of the old construction material of your home before renovating (wood or clay), and 2 of the new construction material (clay or stone).
- You may use cards such as the Ladder, Straw-thatched Roof, and Frame Builder to change the cost of the new room.
(4--5 players)
Immediately discard all the occupations that you have played. In every round, you can pay 1 food to use an occupation played by another player. You receive all benefits, except for those for playing the card and those at the end of the game. Discard the Jack-of-all-trades when you play another occupation.
- You lose all effects of your old occupations when you play this card.
- Discarded occupations are removed from the game and do not count for determining future occupation costs or for requirements of improvements.
- You pay the food to the general supply. [ref]
- If you use the Jack-of-all-trades during your own or another player's turn, the effect of the occupation you choose lasts from the moment you pay the food until the end of that turn.
- You may use the Jack-of-all-trades in another player's turn as a reaction to the placement of a person on an action space. For example, when someone places a person on the "3 Wood" action space, you may use another player's Wood Buyer to buy wood from him. If the current player takes an action space with 2 actions, you have to activate the Jack-of-all-trades before he chooses which actions to perform. For example, when he uses the "Sow and Bake Bread" action space, you have to choose to use the Field Worker or Master Baker before he chooses if he wants to sow or bake.
- If the owner of an occupation and you both want to use the same occupation at the same time, the owner is the first to benefit. For example, if someone takes 1 stone, and you use another player's Stone Buyer, that player may buy the stone first; and if you use another player's Taster, your first turn is after the Taster's owner's first turn.
- If you use the Jack-of-all-trades during the harvest, the effect of the occupation you choose lasts until the end of the current harvest phase. A harvest counts as part of the preceding round. [ref]
- You may use another player's Pig Breeder, Cattle Breeder, Acrobat, or Countryman at the end of a round.
- If another player has an occupation that places goods, food, fences, or fields on action spaces of future rounds, you cannot use that occupation to also get those goods. However, you can use all other occupations at the start of a round, including another player's Hut Builder.
- If another player has an occupation that can be used only once, e.g. the Farm Steward, you don't receive the benefits of this occupation when you use it for the second time either. Also, if you use another player's Farmer and build fences for the second time, you receive 1 cattle. Your use of the occupation does not affect the original owner in any way: he can still use a one-use occupation even after you have used it. [ref]
- If you place goods on the Jack-of-all-trades, e.g. if you use another player's Brush Maker or Forester, they are discarded when the effect of that occupation ends.
- You may use another player's Herald to look at the round card deck at all times. You may also use it to change the order of the deck, but the original owner of the Herald finally decides the order.
- You cannot use another player's Ratcatcher, Layabout, Net Fisherman, Grocer, Seed Trader, Opinion Leader, Bureaucrat.
- You may use another player's Family Singers for 1 bonus point.
- You cannot use another player's Chamberlain to reveal cards at the start of round 11; however, you can use it to use an action space of a later round.
- When a player uses the Juggler, you may use the Jack-of-all-trades to use another player's artist to receive 1 food from the owner of the Juggler.
(4--5 players)
All players can pay 1 food less whenever they play an occupation. Whenever one of the other players uses this discount, you receive 1 food from the general supply.
- Does not lower the extra food cost of the Lover and Chief.
(1--5 players)
You receive 3 food immediately. Once during the game, you can pay 1 wild boar to carry out a family growth action without placing one of your people. You must have room in your home. The newborn can start taking actions in the next round.
- Activates the Farm Steward, Mother of Twins, and Adoptive Parents when used.
- Does not activate the Clapper.
- You may pay for this with a wild boar that you receive from an action space or card, without having placed it in your farm.
- If you use the Hero during the harvest after feeding your family, the new family member remains a newborn for the entire following round. [ref]
(1--5 players)
You immediately receive 1 stone from the general supply. Immediately look at the top 3 cards of the round card deck, and return them face down to the top of the deck, in any order you choose. You may look at the action card of the next round at any time in the game.
- When returning the cards to the deck, you need not return the cards to their own stage.
(4--5 players)
Place up to 3 food from your personal supply on this card. Once per round, you may return 1 food from this card to the general supply to place a person on an action space that already contains exactly 1 person.
- You can use an action space containing your own or another player's person.
- You cannot use an action space already containing 2 persons, for example a family growth space containing a parent and child, or because of the Field Warden.
- You may return food from this card to your personal supply at any time. Until you do, it is not part of your personal supply, and does not count for e.g. Pilgrim.
- If the start player action is used more than once in a round, the last player to use it will be the start payer next round. [ref]
- It is not allowed to use an empty accumulating action space such as "3 Wood", not even if it activates other improvements or occupations. It is allowed to use an empty accumulating action space that produces other resources directly, such as "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games. [ref]
(3--5 players)
You receive 2 food immediately. The person who took the occupation action immediately returns home, as if he has not been used this round. The action space “Occupation” is now unoccupied, and can be used again.
- Use the returned family member again as soon as it's your turn again.
- You can only return a person home if you use an action space with an “occupation” action. If you play the Bagpiper in another way, e.g. by using the Puppeteer or the School, you cannot return your family member home, but you do receive 2 food.
- The person counts only once for the Church Warden.
(3--5 players)
You receive wood immediately when you play this card: if played in round 9, 10, or 11, take 1 wood; if played in round 6, 7, or 8, take 2 wood; if played before round 6, take 3 wood. At the end of the game, you receive 3 bonus points if you have exactly 3 family members.
- Guests or the occupant of the Reed Hut do not count as family member.
(1--5 players)
Immediately turn 1 of your occupations before you face down. You receive your choice of 5 food or 1 cattle from the general supply. You lose all effects of the face down occupation.
- The face down card still counts as played for determining future occupation costs and for requirements of improvements.
- You cannot choose to turn the Informer itself face down. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Once per round, you can skip placing a family member when it's your turn. Instead, you take your choice of 1 food or 1 wood from the general supply. You can only skip your turn if at least one other player still has at least one person left to place.
- Later in this round, you can still place the person that you would have placed this turn.
(3--5 players)
Immediately take 1 food from the general supply for each family member that has been born during the game so far, but no more than 6 food. All players with the least number of offspring (possibly including you) get 1 vegetable each.
- Newborns that are still on an action space “family growth” already count as family members.
- Guests and the occupant of the Reed Hut are not offspring and do not count.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you build stables or fences, you may replace wood with the same amount of clay or stone. Whenever you build rooms, you may replace wood with the same amount of clay or stone, to a maximum of 2 clay and 2 stone.
- Can be used for every room you build, if you build more than 1 room; e.g. you can build 2 rooms for 2 wood, 4 reed, 4 clay, and 4 stone. [ref]
- You may use other cards that change the costs of a room or a renovation together with the Alternative Designer for the same action, in any order.
- You may also use this card for clay or stone rooms, e.g. if you also have Brushwood Roof or Clay Supports.
- If you also have Frame Builder, you may use the cards in any order, e.g. to build wooden rooms for 3 wood and 2 reed, or clay rooms for 4 clay and 2 reed.
(1--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 1 bonus point for each of your pastures that cannot contain any more animals than it does. If all of your pastures qualify, you receive 1 additional bonus point.
- To receive the additional point, you need to have at least 1 pasture.
- When calculating the capacity of your pastures, you have to take into account fenced stables and the Drinking Trough and Shepherd's Pipe.
- You can also get points for Animal Yard and Wildlife Reserve. [ref]
- You can only receive a point for Night Pasture if all other players have 1 animal on this card (and you 3).
- If you have Forest Pasture, you never receive a point for that card or the additional bonus point. [ref]
(3--5 players)
If there are still 1/3/6/9 rounds to play, you immediately receive 1/2/3/4 wood. At the end of the game, each player who has the most animals receives 3 bonus points.
- Minor improvements such as House Goat and Horse do not count.
(3--5 players)
At the beginning of every harvest, you receive 1 food for every major improvement you own worth at least 2 points without counting bonus points.
- If you have purchased a major improvement as a minor improvement, e.g. with Ceramics or Well Builder, that improvement still counts for this card.
- Upgrades of major improvements (e.g. Baker's Oven and Village Well) also count, even if they are minor improvements as well. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you extend your home, you receive 2 food for each new room. Whenever you build stables, you receive 1 food for each new stable.
(1--5 players)
At most once per harvest, when you use an improvement to convert a building resource to food, you receive 2 additional food.
- Is not activated by occupations, such as Turner and Potter.
(3--5 players)
When you play this card, you receive 2 food. Whenever 3/4/5 of your family members (or guests) use 3/4/5 adjacent action spaces (forming a vertical or horizontal line), you receive 1/3/5 bonus points. The action spaces must have the same size.
- Bonus points from the Astronomer are counted at the end of the turn when all persons has been placed, and before they return home. [ref]
- If you move persons ar the end of the turn, e.g. because of the Countryman or Pond Watchman, only their new location counts. [ref]
- Action spaces on minor improvements, or introduced into the game by the Clay Digger or Master Forester, never count for the Astronomer. [ref]
- The cards with action spaces on the leftmost game board should be placed randomly at the start of the game. If they weren't, shuffle them when Astronomer is played. In a 3 player game, the cards fill the top 2 rows on the board. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Place 2 reed, 3 wood, 3 clay, and 2 stone on rounds 7, 9, 11 and 13, respectively. At the start of these rounds, all players simultaneously bid food for the resources. The highest bidder gets the resources and you get the food. If you win, pay your food to the general supply. Ties are broken by this round's player order.
- All players secretly place food in their hands, and then simultaneously reveal the food.
- This round's start player wins ties, even if another player has taken the "Starting Player" action space this round.
(3--5 players)
If another player plays the Baker or Master Baker, you may play this card immediately at no cost. You can use the "Take 1 Grain" and "Sow and Bake Bread" action spaces even if another player has placed a person on the space. When you play this card, you can immediately take a bread baking action.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player uses the “Traveling players” action on an action space, you receive 1 food and 1 wood from the general supply.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you convert vegetables into food, you may additionally take a bread baking action. The Carrot Cake Baker can also convert 1 vegetable into 2 food at any time.
(1--5 players)
Place 3 vegetables from the general supply on this card. Whenever you use the "Plough 1 Field" action space, you may pay 1 food for one of the vegetables.
- The vegetables are not part of your personal supply until you buy them.
(1--5 players)
When you play this card, if you only have 2 rooms in your wooden hut, immediately pay 1 food to renovate it to clay for free.
- Has no effect if you have more than 2 rooms or live in a clay hut or stone house when you play this card.
(1--5 players)
When you play this card, you receive 1 sheep. For you, the breeding phase of the harvest precedes the field and feeding phases. You may immediately cook baby animals if you do not have room to keep them.
(1--5 players)
Whenever at the end of a work phase all of your adult family members were placed on the same game board, you receive 1 food/1 grain/1 vegetable if it were 2/3/4+ adults.
- Newborns do not count, unless they took an action because of Adoptive Parents.
- Guests count as family members for this card. [ref]
- If you move a person, e.g. because of Countryman or Pond Watchman, the location of your family members after you've moved them counts.
- Action spaces on minor improvements, or introduced into the game by the Clay Digger or Master Forester, are not on any game board. [ref]
- (MOOR) The "Infirmary" is a separate game board; if all of your family members take that action, you receive the bonus from the Family Counselor.
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player takes a fence building action, you may pay that player 1 food to immediately take a fence building action too.
- Pay costs normally.
- Is activated whenever another player builds fences, including e.g. when someone uses the Fence Overseer, or plays the Mini Pasture. [ref]
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action, you may use food that you take from that action space to buy up to 2 items. One building resource costs 1 food. One grain, sheep or wild boar costs 2 food. One vegetable or cattle costs 3 food.
- The items can be the same or different.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
- Only the food that was lying on the action space can be used to buy animals. If you use e.g. the Fishing Rod or Fisherman, the additional food cannot be used. [ref]
- You may immediately convert the animals into food with an appropriate improvement, without having to make room for them in your farmyard. However, you may not use that food to buy more animals with the Fish Seller.
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player uses the "Fishing" action, you may pay that player 1 food to play an occupation.
(1--5 players)
The next time you use the "Fishing" action, place 1 food from the general supply on this card. Whenever you convert animals, vegetables, grain, or building resources to food, you may place that good on this card. At the end of the game, you receive 1/2/4/6 bonus points for 4/5/6/7+ different items on this card.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
- The markers on this card are not part of your personal supply. They do not count for Storehouse Clerk, Joinery, etc.
- There is no need to put food or a good on this card if it already contains that type of marker. The second marker of the same type has no effect.
(3--5 players)
Each round, your first family member may use an occupied action space. Your first family member can never take the "Starting Player" action space.
- You can't even take "Starting Player" if it is unoccupied.
- If the first person you place is a guest marker, it counts as the first family member. [ref]
- It is not allowed to use an empty accumulating action space such as "3 Wood", not even if it activates other improvements or occupations. It is allowed to use an empty accumulating action space that produces other resources directly, such as "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games. [ref]
(4--5 players)
At the end of the game, you receive 6 bonus points if this is the only occupation you have played.
- If you have played Dance Instructor and returned it to your hand, it does not count as played, and you may still score points for the Hermit.
(3--5 players)
If you have an oven, the Glassblower may convert 1/2 clay to 3/5 food in each harvest.
- The clay is converted into food by this occupation, not by the oven. This does not activate the Artisan. [ref]
(1--5 players)
In the feeding phase of the last harvest after feeding your family normally, you may pay 3 additional food for 1 bonus point, up to a maximum of 6 bonus points.
(1--5 players)
During the breeding phase of harvest, if you have 2 or more grain in your personal supply, you receive 1 grain from the general supply. If you have 2 or more vegetables, you receive 1 vegetable from the general supply.
- Vegetables and grains that are planted are not counted.
(1--5 players)
When you play this card, immediately play up to 2 improvements (any combination of major and minor) by paying their costs.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you have at least 1/4/7/10 planted grain at the beginning of the field phase of a harvest, you receive 1/2/3/4 food.
- The total number of grain on your fields (including Acreage) is counted, not the number of grain fields. [ref]
(3--5 players)
If there are still 7 full rounds to play, you may plow 1 field, which you may immediately sow with 1 grain from your personal supply. At the end of the game, all players with the most total grain receive 2 bonus points each.
- You may plough a field and not sow it.
- Sowing the grain counts as a sowing action, and activates e.g. the Smallholder, Seasonal Plants, and another player's Field Worker.
(3--5 players)
If there are still 1/3/6/9 rounds to play, you immediately receive 1/2/3/4 wood. At the end of the game, all players with the fewest family members receive 2 binus points each.
- Guests and the occupant of the Reed Hut do not count as family members.
(3--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space, you receive 1 additional reed. Whenever another player uses the "Fishing" action space, you receive 1 reed and 1 food from the general supply.
(4--5 players)
Whenever another player plays an occupation, place 1 food from the supply on this card. Whenever you play an occupation, you may pay any costs using food from this card. At the end of a 4/5 player game, you receive 1 bonus point for every 3/4 food on this card.
- You may first receive the food from the Headmaster before using the Educator. The cost of using the Educator may also be paid with food from the Headmaster.
- The food on this card is not part of your personal supply. It cannot be used for anything else than paying for occupations.
(3--5 players)
You can use any “Renovate”, “Build room(s)” or “Major Improvement” action space, even if another player has already placed a person on it.
- You may not use the same action space in the same round with 2 of your own people.
- If the action space provides a choice of actions, you may choose either. For example, you may take the “Traveling Players” action on the "Build 1 Room or Traveling Players" action space in the 5-player game, or play a minor improvement on the "Major/Minor Improvement" action space. [ref]
- If the action space allows two actions, you may take both. For example, you may use the "Build Rooms and Stables" action space to build both a room and a stable. [ref]
- It is not allowed to use an empty accumulating action such as “Traveling Players”, not even if it activates other improvements or occupations. [ref]
- You cannot use the Helper to take a “minor improvement only” action space, such as "Starting Player", even if you have the Traveling Salesman. Similarly, the Pulley does not make "Day Labourer" a “Build room(s)” action space, etc. [ref]
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player plays an occupation, you may pay 1 food to the general supply to play 1 minor improvement, or 2 food to build 1 major improvement.
- Pay costs for the improvements normally.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you build at least 1 fence, you may also pay 1 food to plough 1 field.
- Is activated by any fence building action, including e.g. Mini Pasture, Fence Overseer, and Paddocks. [ref]
(1--5 players)
All improvements with a printed cost of 4 or more resources cost you 1 less resource of your choice.
- You may use other cards that change the costs of an improvement, e.g. Stonecutter, together with the Inventor for the same action. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Once in play, this card does not count as an occupation for any purpose. Whenever, at the start of a round, you have fewer occupations than any 2 other players, you may pay 1 food to immediately play an occupation.
- Occupations played this way, e.g. the Dance Instructor, may not be returned to the player's hand.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you have fewer family members than all of the other players and you have room in your home, you may immediately take a “family growth” action. You need room in your home for the offspring. Place the offspring in an empty room. This family member is not considered a newborn and may take an action the same round.
- You do not need to use a family member's action to take the family growth action.
- Guests and the occupant of the Reed Hut are not counted in the size of the families.
- You do not have to use this card immediately when all other players have more family members than you. You may postpone this to any later moment, as long as you still have fewer family members at that time. [ref]
(4--5 players)
At the start of each round, announce whether or not you will sleep late. If you sleep late, you place all of your people after everyone else has placed all of theirs, but you may also place a guest token.
- If you choose not to sleep late, you place your people normally.
- You must choose whether to sleep late before the start of the work phase.
- If you sleep late, you place your people after all guests of other players, including the one from the Keg, but before moving a person (e.g. because of the Countryman or Pond Watchman).
- If you play Neutrality and choose to sleep late the next round, Neutrality has no effect, and you do not receive bonus points. [ref]
- If you sleep late and another player played Neutrality the previous round, both of you take alternating turns placing your people, in player order.
- If you sleep late, you may not use the Taster. If you used the Coffee House last round, it has no effect: you may not place that person first. [ref]
- The guest does not need to be fed. [ref]
(1--5 players)
When you play this card, mark a revealed action space with an arrow marker. This action space now has the added text “and/or bake bread”. Whenever another player bakes bread using this space, you receive 1 food from the general supply. When you play this card, you may also take a bread baking action.
- If you put the marker on "Sow and Bake Bread", anyone may now take two consecutive baking actions on that space (using all of their ovens both times). If another player does that, you receive 2 food. [ref]
- If the Chamberlain has been played, and you play the Master Baker's Apprentice in round 11 or later, you may also put the marker on the round card of rounds 12 to 14.
(4--5 players)
From round 6 on, if there are wood spaces with the same amount of wood after refilling each round (at the end of phase 2), you can take 1 wood from one of those spaces. This also applies to clay action spaces. In 5 player games, this also applies to stone action spaces. You can take only 1 resource per round.
- Is activated before the Wood Distributor can distribute wood. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Day Labourer" action space, you can take all the stone markers from one of the "1 Stone" action spaces (stage 2 or stage 4) in the returning home phase (phase 4).
- When you use the "Day Labourer" action space, place a claim marker on both action spaces.
(3--5 players)
When you play this card, choose another player. Until the end of the next harvest, you may convert animals, vegetables, grain, and building resources to food as if you owned the chosen player's improvements in addition to yours.
- The chosen player may use their improvements normally.
- You may use the other player's baking improvements whenever you take a bread baking action.
- When the other player plays an oven or another improvement that gives them a bread baking action, you may not bake bread at the same time. When they play Barbecue, you may not use it at the same time.
- You may not use the other player's Grain Distillery, because you cannot use the Mooch to convert fuel to food.
- You may not use the other player's occupations, e.g. Turner or Butcher.
- You may use your own Meat Seller if you don't have an oven but the other player does.
- In the harvest, you can use the other player's Windmill without paying for it.
(4--5 players)
From round 5 on, whenever any player uses the "Day Labourer" action space, they may pay you 2 food to immediately take a “family growth” action.
- They must have room in their house.
- If you use "Day Labourer", you may grow for free.
- Other players may use the food from the "Day Labourer" action to pay you.
- Place the newborn on the person that used the Day Labourer action space. The action space cannot be used again with Understudy. [ref]
- Although one can now take a family growth action when using Day Labourer, that does not make Day Labourer a “family growth action space”, e.g. for Head of the Family or Clapper.
- If you also have the Pulley, you may first use it to build a new room and then the Oldest Occupation to grow a family member there. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use your last action in a round to take one or more types of building resources that have not yet been taken this work phase, you receive 1 additional resource of one of those types.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref]
- Only building resources that are taken directly from an action space are counted. Building resources received from other cards are not.
- If you move a person at the end of a round, e.g. because of the Countryman or Pond Watchman, that counts as your last action.
(1--5 players)
Whenever you use the "Fishing" action space you receive 1 additional stone. Also, you can use food that you take from that action space to buy more stone. Each stone costs 2 food.
- Only the food that was lying on the action space can be used to buy stone. If you use e.g. the Fishing Rod or Fisherman, the additional food cannot be used. [ref]
(1--5 players)
You receive 2 food before you pay the costs of playing this occupation. At the start of a round, if you have no building resources, you may take 1 building resource from the general supply; if you have no food, you may take 1 food from the general supply.
- Only resources and food in your personal supply count. Wood or food planted on Forester, Copse or Vineyard do not count. [ref]
- At any time, you may move resources from your personal supply to the general supply.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reeds, and stone. [ref]
- If you receive food or building resources at the start of the round, e.g. because of Rancher or Duck Pond, you may use the Pilgrim before you receive those food or resources. You can also use cards like Greengrocer to spend food on resources, and then use the Pilgrim to get the food back. However, if you use e.g. the Grocer to buy a building resource for a food, you may only activate the Pilgrim once; either before the Grocer (to get a building resource) or after the Grocer (to get a food), not both. If you want to receive both food and a building resource, you have to receive them at the same time.
(4--5 players)
At the end of a work phase, after all other players have taken their actions, you may pay 1 food to move one of your people that used the "Fishing" action this round to an unoccupied wood accumulating action space and take that action.
- You may not move your person to the "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" action space, or to an action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor. [ref]
- You may move your person to the action space introduced by the Master Forester. [ref]
- If you have already used a family member on the "Fishing" action space before you play this card, you may move this family member at the end of the round. [ref]
- Moving a person with the Pond Watchman counts as taking an action, e.g. for the Opportunist, but not as placing your last person, e.g. for the Magician, because this person has already been placed previously.
- If the Acrobat or Countryman also have been played, the family members are moved in player order, starting with the player left of the one who placed the last regular person. If you can move more than one person, you move them consecutively in an order of your choice. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Place 1 wood, 1 clay, 1 reed, and 1 stone on the next 4 round spaces in any order you choose. At the start of those rounds, you receive the resource.
(4--5 players)
When you use the “Traveling Players” action, you may either play a minor improvement or you may pay 1 grain to build a major improvement immediately afterward.
- Pay costs for the improvement normally.
- If you receive grain because of Conjurer or Magician, or if you use the food from "Traveling Players" to buy grain from the Grocer, you may immediately use that grain to pay for a major improvement. [ref]
(1--5 players)
At any time, you may pay 1 food to convert 1 grain in your personal supply to 1 vegetable. At any time, you may convert 1 vegetable in your personal supply to 1 grain.
(1--5 players)
When you play this card, you receive 2 building resources of your choice.
- The building resources can be the same or different.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
(3--5 players)
Place 1 stone on each of the spaces for rounds 8, 10, 12, and 14. At the start of these rounds, you receive the stone.
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use an action to take stone, you may immediately afterward pay 1 food to play an improvement that has a printed stone cost.
- Pay costs for the improvement normally.
- You can play either a minor or a major improvement.
- Is activated when you use an action space on which stone is placed each round. You cannot use such an action space just to use this card if the action space contains no stone (e.g. when you have the Bureaucrat.)
- Is activated by the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Food" in 4-player games and the action space "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games.
- Is not activated when you receive stone because of a minor improvement or occupation. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you build fences or stables, you may pay some or all of the cost in stone with each stone worth 2 wood.
- If you have to pay an odd number of wood, you can round up the number of stone you pay, e.g. pay 2 stone for 3 fences.
(3--5 players)
Whenever another player pays building recources to build a major improvement, you receive 1 resource of those paid (of your choice). You may pay 1 food to the general supply to receive another of the resources paid.
- Building resources are wood, clay, reed, and stone. [ref]
(4--5 players)
Whenever you use a family member's action to take wood that is on an accumulating action space and you have 1/2/3 wild boar, you receive 1/2/3 additional food.
- Is not activated when you use the "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" action space in the 5-player game.
- Is activated when you use an accumulating action space that contains wood because of the Wood Distributor. [ref]
- If you use an action space that contains wood, and you leave all the wood on the action space because of Basket, Mushroom Collector, or Pig Catcher, you still receive the food from the Truffle Digger.
- You may first take a wild boar with Pig Catcher before you use the Truffle Digger. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever an action space is occupied by exactly one of your family members, you may use that action space again with a second family member.
- Newborns count as family members, so you cannot use this card for a family growth action space.
- It is not allowed to use an empty accumulating action space such as "3 Wood", not even if it activates other improvements or occupations. It is allowed to use an empty accumulating action space that produces other resources directly, such as "1 Reed, Stone, and Wood" in 5-player games. [ref]
(1--5 players)
For each grain or vegetable you convert to food (in any manner), you receive 1 additional food. You may not convert animals to food for the rest of the game.
- You may no longer use a cooking improvement, the Barbecue, Meat Seller, Butcher, Action Artist, or Butcher's Block to convert animals to food. You may still receive food from the Slaughterman, Slaughterhouse, Milking Stool, etc. [ref]
(3--5 players)
If there are still 1/3/6/9 rounds to play, you immediately receive 1/2/3/4 wood. At the end of the game, all players who have the most plowed fields receive 3 bonus points each.
- Fields on cards, such as Bean Field and Forester, do not count. Fields with more than one stack of grain because of the Scarecrow count as only 1 field. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Whenever you receive food from an action space, you receive 1 additional food. This benefit does not apply to food gained due to an improvement or occupation.
- Is activated when you use a minor improvement that is an action space, e.g. the Tavern or Spielefest. [ref]
- Is activated when you use an action space that contains food because of the Foreman. [ref]
- Is not activated when you use the Net Fisherman. [ref]
(1--5 players)
Between the field and feeding phases of each harvest, you may play a minor improvement or pay 2 food to build a major improvement.
- Pay the costs of the improvement normally.
- A harvest counts as part of the preceding round. If you also have the Wood Carver, you may use it if you didn't already in the round that preceded the harvest. [ref]
This document contains text from the Agricola rulebook,
©2007--2009 Lookout Games, and from the English translations of the
cards, ©2007--2009 Lookout Games and Melissa Rogerson, used with kind permission. Additional text by Eugène van der Pijll.