Traders and Builders


Released in 2003.
  • Trade goods
  • What happens when several players share the majority in a city with trade goods?
    Each player earns all the points for the city, as usual.

    The trade goods are earned by the player who completed the city, irrespective of whether he or she has the majority; indeed, even when he or she has no followers in the city at all.
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  • If cities with trade goods are completed by placement of an abbey tile, are the goods tokens awarded as usual to the player placing the abbey tile?
    Yes, as the player completed the city.
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  • If a player completes a city that contains trade goods, but scores no points for the city, does the acquisition of resources count as (potential) scoring and forbid the player moving a meeple to the City of Carcassonne? What if the trade goods acquired secure a monopoly and therefore make later scoring certain?
    Only immediately scored points matter.
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  • Double-turns
  • How often does prisoner buy-back occur in a “double turn” (e.g. just once, like fairy scoring, or twice, as part of a repeated step)?
    It happens once per turn. The double-turn is still only one turn.
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  • If I have an abbey left and I pick the very last tile up and play it to an feature where I have a builder, then is the game over because the last tile (apart from abbeys) has been played? Or am I allowed to play my abbey on my extra turn from the builder?
    The abbey may still be played. The builder-turn is not an extra turn, but a part of the regular turn (the double-turn). Both parts of the double-turn are identical, although the fairy (3rd expansion), for example, only gives bonus points at the start of the player’s turn.
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  • If a player completes a feature with an Abbey tile and their builder is on the feature, does the feature get 'extended' by the abbey, and if so does the player get another tile?
    No, the abbey is a separate feature.
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  • Builders, pigs, fairies
  • Can you move the fairy if you have no followers, pigs or builders left, and are as such unable to deploy one?
    Yes.
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  • Builders, pigs, dragons
  • Is it really true that pigs and builders can be placed on the same tile as the dragon? The new rules seem to suggest this: when I place a volcano tile, I must move the dragon to that tile, but I can still deploy a builder or pig - to the same tile, surely. Don't they get eaten? Or does the dragon only eat them when it enters a tile?
    The dragon eats everything within its reach (on its tile), regardless of whether it moves, is deployed or simply stands there.
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  • Builders, wagons
  • Can I place a builder in a city in which the only other follower is a wagon?
    Yes. A little definition may help: we distinguished between ‘followers’ and ‘special figures’ in the Big Box.

    Followers are deployed according to the normal rules and score the normal points. At the moment, that’s the small and big followers, the mayor, and the wagon.

    Special figures are deployed differently and have a variable or even no score. At the moment, that’s the builder, the pig, and the barn.
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