If you do not have the necessary resources, you can acquire them by trading with your opponents.Įach settlement is worth 1 victory point and each city is worth 2 victory points. For example, a road costs 1 brick and 1 lumber. You use these resources to expand across Catan: you build roads and new settlements or upgrade your existing settlements to cities.
Hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool. Each player who owns a settlement adjacent to a terrain hex marked with the number rolled receives a resource produced by this hex. An “11!” Each terrain hex is marked with a number. They are your starting settlements.Īnd so it begins. Catan is born - a beautiful island with mountains, pastures, hills, fields, and forests, surrounded by the sea.Įach of you places two small houses on spaces where three terrain hexes meet. To begin the game, you build the game board using hexagonal terrain tiles. The Settlers of Catan, Die Siedler von Catan, Les Colons de Cataneįirst published in Germany in 1995 as Die Siedler von CATAN, then in English as The Settlers of CATAN in 1996, CATAN celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2020.
