Grow your population, grow crops, keep animals, dig mines, go on expeditions: wealthiest people win.

Setup

• Randomly assign first player
• 1st and 2nd player get 1 food each
• 3rd player gets 2 food
• 4th onwards get 3 food each

Game

• Phase 1: Add new Action space
  • Reveal the next Action space card
  • Reveal the next Harvest token (from round 6)
    • There are 3 red tokens that go on the Harvest event card, top to bottom
• Phase 2: Replenish accumulating spaces
  • If there’s a bracket this is for non-empty spaces
• Phase 3: Work phase
  • In turn order, in ascending weapon level, each person takes an action
  • If you have fewer people than opponents you simply miss a turn
• Phase 4: Return home to their dwellings, don’t stack so they’re visible
• Phase 5: Harvest time
  • 5.1: harvest 1 token per sown field
  • 5.2: feed 2 meals per dwarf (1 per child)
    • conversions are free actions, conversion table reference on your player board
    • take 1 Begging Marker for each missing food (2 per dwarf), there is no way to remove these. -3 at the end of the game
  • 5.3: get 1 extra animal for each animal you have 2 or more of (not dogs)
    • parents may be in separate areas
    • There must be space to accommodate the babies, or they are not gained
    • breeding animal types may not be converted to food during this phase
    • (non-breeding animals can, however, be converted to food)
  • Red tokens
    • No harvest
    • 1 food per dwarf
    • skip field (5.1) or breeding (5.3) phase – chosen individually

During Play

• Action Spaces
  • Twin Tiles
    • Play adjacent to existing tiles
    • If covering an icon, gain the resource
    • Note the tile type being covered
    • If there’s not sufficient space you may not downgrade to a single tile
  • Sow: Grain, Veg, Gemfruit, Mushrooms; up to 2 times each (quantities as pictured on action tile and reference card)
  • Furnishing
    • Placed in caverns, not tunnels, mines or unexcavated
    • Furnish a cavern includes dwellings
    • Furnish a dwelling is only dwellings
  • Family Growth
    • Must have space to house new person
    • New person can’t take an action this round
    • Max of 5 people
      • Additional Dwelling allows a 6th, use an extra token of a different colour
      • Goblins can also extend to a max of 6 total (with fewer normal people used if using multiple Goblins)
  • Goods & Mines
    • Ore Mine goes on 2 ordinary tunnels (not deep)
    • Ruby Mine can go on ordinary or deep tunnels
  • Animals
    • Farming action spaces create Pastures (fenced areas)
    • 2 animals in a small Pasture
    • 4 animals in a large Pasture
    • Stables double the Pasture capacity (e.g. 2x stables in large pasture = 16 capacity)
    • Stable in a Meadow = 1 animal
    • Stable in a Forest = 1 Boar
    • Ore/Ruby mine = 1 Donkey
    • Entry cave = 2 animals
    • Dogs can go anywhere
    • Dogs in Meadow or Pasture (not fields or forest) can keep one more Sheep than there are Dogs
  • Weapons
    • Pay 1-8 ore to get a weapon
    • People must be played in ascending weapon order
    • People with weapons can go on Expeditions for loot
      • Loot as per reference card
      • Weapon level dictates max loot level
      • Expedition level dictates how many loot items obtained
      • Loot items must be different
      • At end of Expedition weapon level increases for the person that did it
  • Starting Player
  • Imitation
    • You can’t imitate a space occupied by your own people
• Rubies – free action to trade as per reference card
• Gemfruits – swap for Rubies as a free action
• Mushrooms – swap for Vegetables as a free action

Score Points From

• 1 per animal (farm/dog)
• -2 per missing farm animal type (4 types total: sheep, donkey, cattle, boar)
• ½ per Grain
• 1 per Veg
• 1 per Ruby
• 1 per Person
• -1 per unused space
• Tile Points
• Tile Bonuses
• 1 per Gold
• -3 per Begging Marker

Tips

• If only 1 player does expeditions they will probably win
• If only 1 player doesn’t do expeditions they will probably win