Woodcraft

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• Setup
  • • Place the action wheel board on the table.
    • Place the 7 action tiles in one quadrant of the wheel board.
    • Lay the arc tile over the rewards icons in the starting quadrant of the wheel board.
    • Set the circular saw so that the arrow points to the far end of the next quadrant of the wheel board..
    • Take 2 dice of each color, roll them, and place them on the 6 spaces of the wheel board.
    • Place the income board beside the action wheel board, placing it on the correct side based on player count.
    • Place the round counter on space 1 of the track at the top of the income board.
    • Each player places 1 counter on the hazelnut, blueberry, and reputation tracks.
    • Place 1 reputation track tile on the 2 paler spaces of the reputation track.
      • Note that there are different sides based on player count.
    • Create a supply of blueberry tokens, dice, scrapwood, glue, saw blades, lanterns, tools, and tile-reuse tokens near the board.
      • Items in the supply are not meant to be limited.
    • Place the scoreboard near the action wheel board.
    • Each player places their scoring counter (round 1) on the starting space of the scoring board.
    • Shuffle the following decks:
      • Early game orders: Deal 4 face up along the top of the score board and place the deck at the end of the row.
      • Late game orders: Place this deck next to the early game orders for later use.
      • Hazelnut orders: This is used during player setup (below).
      • Early game helpers: Deal 4 face up along the bottom of the score board and place the deck at the end of the row.
      • Late game helpers: Place the deck near the early game deck.
      • Public contracts: Deal these out face up, 1 more than the number of players and return the rest to the box.
    • Player setup:
      • Take a player board and counters in your color.
      • Place 1 counter on the starting space of your board's marketing track.
      • Take 1 die of each color.
        • Set the brown die to 1.
        • Set the yellow die to 2.
        • Set the green die to 3.
        • Place them on 3 of the spaces in the upper left corner of your board.
      • Take 1 lantern in a 2-3 player game, and 2 in a 4 player game.
      • Take 12 blueberries.
      • Take 1 sawing tile and place it face up in the 1st sawing space.
      • Take 1 splicing tile and place it face up in the top splicing space on the right side of your workshop.
      • You also take and place them near your player board:
        • 1 yellow pot
        • 1 brown pot
        • 2 more sawing tiles
        • 1 splicing tile with
        • 1 splicing tile with
        • 1 gluing tile
      • Draw 3 early game helper cards, keep 1, and discard the others.
      • Draw 5 early game order cards, keep 2, and discard the rest.
      • Draw 2 hazelnut order cards and keep both.
      • From the 4 order cards, choose 1 and place it beside your board.
        • It should go in the row matching the icon in the card's upper left corner.
    • Choose a starting player and give them the starting player card.
• Gameplay

  • The game is played in a number of rounds, with each turn consisting of the following:

    1. Grow your trees by increasing the dice by 2 (if you have any). Note that you won't do this on your 1st turn.
    2. Choose an action from the action wheel and execute it. You can also buy a bonus action and perform free actions. These can be done in any order.
    3. You can buy points via the track in the upper left of your player board..

    You have the option to buy 1 bonus action on your turn. Pay 3 lanterns and choose an action tile to perform the action, but do not move the tile and do not collect any bonuses for it (outer edge or central saw blade).

  • The Action Wheel
    • • You will always choose and move 1 action tile, regardless of whether you use the action printed on it.
      • Note that any tile on the board can be chosen unless it cannot be advanced (see the "lap" rule below).
      • On each turn, you choose 1 action tile and move it to from its current quadrant to the 1st open space (counter-clockwise order) in the next quadrant (in clockwise order).
        • NOTE: If there is a "gap" in the action tiles in the next quadrant, do not fill that in. Always place your action tile counter-clockwise to the action tile furthest counter-clockwise in that quadrant.
      • If you choose an action tile with a bonus beneath it, gain that bonus.
        • Note that the bonuses in the starting quadrant are covered by the arc tile. Once all action tiles have "left" the starting quadrant, remove the arc tile.
      • If you choose a tile in a quadrant showing a bonus(es) in the central saw blade, take that bonus.
      • If you move an action tile past the black arrow, rotate the saw blade 1 quadrant clockwise.
      • Action tiles are not allowed to enter a quadrant that is 1 lap ahead.
        • Another way of putting this: The action tile cannot cross the black arrow into a quadrant that is not empty.
      • Instead of taking the action printed on the tile, you may:
        • Gain 3 blueberries
        • Pay 1 lantern to perform the action on any other tile (instead of the chosen tile).
  • Actions

    • The following are all the available actions on the action wheel.

    • Buy Lumber

      • 

        • You may buy 1 or 2 dice from the corner of the action wheel board.
        • The cost for the die depends on the value and color of the die, so it is the number on the die plus the following additional costs:
          • Green die: +0 blueberries
          • Yellow die: +1 blueberry
          • Brown die: +2 blueberries
        • After taking dice, roll new dice to replace the one(s) you took. Place them on the matching spaces on the board.
        • Acquired dice are placed on the lumber spaces on your board.
          • If you exceed the number of spaces on your board, you must use them during your turn or lose them at the end of your turn.
    • Exchange Dice

      • 

        1. You may sell a die and collect 2x its value in blueberries + the additional value shown on the price list.
        2. You may also buy 6 value die, but it must be a different color than the die you sold in step #1 (if you sold a die).
           • The die is taken from the supply, not the action wheel board.
    • Buy Materials

      • 

        • You may make 1 or 2 buys of glue, saw blades, or scrapwood based on the chart on the action board.
          • 2 saw blades: 2 blueberries
          • 2 glue: 1 blueberry
          • 3 glue: 3 blueberries
          • 2 scrapwood: 1 blueberry
          • 3 scrapwood: 3 blueberries
        • If you make 2 buys, the materials must be different.
    • Choose Orders

      • 

        • You may choose 1 or 2 orders.
          1. After choosing 1 order, slide the remaining cards in the order of the arrows to fill any gap.
          2. Draw a new card to place at the end of the row.
          3. If you choose to take a 2nd card, pay 3 blueberries and repeat steps #1 and #2.
        • Orders you take must be placed next to your player board with the icon in upper left matching the icon on your board.
        • Orders near your board can be completed as a free action.
        • Orders in your hand cannot be placed or completed as part of this action.
    • Choose a Helper

      • 

        • You may take 1 of the available helpers next to the scoreboard.
        • If you take 1:
          • Slide the remaining helpers in the direction of the arrows.
          • Fill the empty space with a new helper.
        • Immediately pay for your helper given its cost (upper left).
        • Place the new helper in a space adjacent to an already placed helper.
        • Advance your counter on the blueberry or hazelnut track based on the icon (upper right) in the space that was covered.
        • If you cover a space with a icon, you immediately take the specified production bonuses.

        Abilities

        Symbol	Description
        	Immediate abilities are used as soon as the helper is placed. They are used once per game
        	This is a once per turn ability, including the turn it was acquired. This is a free action
        	These are permanent abilities that are triggered every time you use the depicted action.

    • Produce / Plant a Tree

      • 

        • You have a 2 choices:
          • Produce with 2 different helpers.
          • Produce with 1 helper and plant a tree.
        • To plant a tree, you can move a 1 or 2 pip die into its matching colored pot.
        • You may split a die for free when doing so to plant. This is like a free version of the sawing lumber action
        • You will grow each of your trees by a value of 2 at the start of each turn.
        • You may move a die from a pot to your lumber pile (free action) at any time during your turn.
        • If a die reaches 6, it must be moved to your lumber pile.
    • Improve Workshop

      • 

        You have the following choices for workshop improvements from the items set next to your player board during setup:

        Pots

        • You can add a pot by paying the blueberry cost and placing the pot.
        • Take the instant benefits depicted:
          • Take a 1 value die of the pot's matching color and place it in the pot.
          • Move up 1 space on the hazelnut income track.
        • You must place the yellow pot before the brown pot.
        • Once you have placed the brown pot, you can now plant 2 trees when taking the plant action

        Sawing Tiles

        • Add a saw tile in the next available open slot (right to left) by paying the blueberry cost.
        • The 1st slot unlocks the an ability: Whenever you buy a 6 die from either the lumber yard or the exchange dice action, you have a discount of 2 blueberries.

        Splicing Tiles

        • Pay the blueberry cost to place the next splicing tile.
        • Move up on the income track(s) that are covered.
        • You must place the value 2 splicing tile before the value 4 splicing tile (top to bottom).

        Gluing Tile

        • Play the blueberry cost to place the gluing tile.
        • Move up on the income track(s) that are covered.
  • Free Actions

    • These actions are always available for use. Note that you must have the appropriate workshop upgrades for some of these actions.

    • Helper Abilities

      • Helpers with the icon can be used once per turn.

    • Sawing Lumber
      • 1. Choose 1 of your workshop's available sawing tiles and flip it to the ❌ side. It is now unavailable until the next income phase.
        2. Choose one of your dice that is not a 1.
        3. You may make 1 free cut and take a die from the supply and set the values to a sum equaling the original die. e.g. if you have 5 die, you can change it to a 1 and take a 4 die of the same color from the supply.
           • You may use saw blade tokens for additional cuts, 1 saw token for each additional cut. e.g. If you have a 5 die, you could spend 2 saw blade tokens to split it to a 1, 1, 1, and 2 of the same color.
    • Splicing Scrapwood
      • 1. Return a scrapwood token to the supply.
        2. Flip one of your splicing tiles to the ❌ side. It is now unavailable until the next income phase.
        3. Choose 1 of your dice and increase it by the amount of pips shown on the tile.
    • Gluing Lumber
      • 1. Return a glue token to the supply.
        2. Choose 2 of your dice that add up to 6 or less.
        3. Set 1 die to the sum of the 2 values and return the other to the bank. If they are different colors, you choose the color to keep.
        4. If the dice were different color, score 4 points.
        5. Flip the gluing tile the ❌ side. It is now unavailable until the next income phase.
    • Harvesting a Tree
      • • You can move a die from your pot to your lumber yard.
        • If a die in a pot reaches 6, it must be moved to your lumber yard.
        • Note that you can not use any abilities to change the value of dice in your pots.
        • Each tree grows by a value of 2 at the beginning of each of your turns.
    • Completing Orders

      • General notes:

        • You have 1 order at the start of the game.
        • You will place orders from your hand next to your board during income phases.
        • You can have multiple orders in the same row.
        • If an order ever "drops off" the bottom row (or is not completed at the end of the game), you discard the order and move back 2 spaces on the reputation track.

        To complete an order:

        1. Return the required dice and tokens to the supply.
           • Dice must match colors and values exactly.
        2. Gain the reward shown on the left hand side of the order.
        3. Gain the reward or pay the penalty shown on your board for the current row.
        4. Place the order face down near your board for end of game scoring.

        Hazelnut Orders and Public Contracts

        • When a hazelnut order is completed, you have a choice of claiming a public contract or the depicted instant reward.
        • If you claim a public contract, place 1 of your counters on it.
          • Other players can also claim the same contract during the same round. The contract can no longer be claimed by anyone after the completion of the round it was claimed in.
          • Remove the claimed contract from the row of available contracts at the end of the round.
    • Tools in the Attic
      • • Whenever you get a tool, immediately place it in your attic on an empty space.
        • You can only place them in your bottom row until you can "support" the tool in the next row above it (2 adjacent tools in a row can support a tool in the row above it).
          • The 2 end spaces on the top row break this rule. You can place in these spaces once the adjacent tile has been placed.
        • When you place a tool, you collect the reward between it and any adjacent tools as long as the tools are different.
  • End of Turn
    • • You may "buy" points by moving up to the next space on the marketing track, paying the cost in blueberries, and receiving the depicted points.
        • This is not required.
        • If you reach the final space, you can still advance by paying 12 blueberries to get 11 points (as depicted on the final space).
      • You may only keep 6 dice in your lumber pile. You must discard down to 6 dice if you have more than that.
        • Reminder: If you have a 6 value die in a pot, it must be moved to your lumber pile.
  • End of Round

    • The round ends after everyone has taken 1 turn.

      • Move the round marker to the next space. Note that there may be an income phase between rounds.
  • Income Phase

    • Perform the following, in order:

      1. Players move orders down 1 row. If an order moves off the board, move back 2 spaces on the reputation track.
      2. Each player must play an order from the their hand. Note that your hand will be empty in the 4th income phase.
      3. Each player gains blueberries and points based on their levels on the blueberry and hazelnut tracks (respectively).
      4. Players reset their splicing, gluing, and saw tiles.
      5. After rounds 4 and 12, discard the helper and order from the slot marked with an "X", slide the cards and draw a new card for each.
      6. After round 8, replace the helper and order decks with their late game versions.
• End of Game

  • The game ends after the final income phase.

    Final Scoring

    In addition to the points scored during the game:

    • Score points as depicted on any public contracts you claimed.
    • Score points for "leftovers": Sum the value of the following items and divide by 10 (rounded down) and score that many points:
      • Values of unused dice (sum them)
      • Remaining blueberries
      • Remaining scrapwood
      • Glue
      • Saw blade tokens
    • For each uncompleted order, move back 2 spaces on the reputation track.
    • For each completed order, score points based on how far you have progressed on the reputation track.

    The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, the player who played later in every round wins.

• Other Rules

  • Tracks

    • Note that there are rewards (a tool and points) on the hazelnut and blueberry tracks that are taken when you advance past them on either/both tracks.
    • The reputation track has 2 reward tiles that can be claimed when you move to their slots.
      • 4 players: The 1st player here gets the top reward, the 2nd gets the middle reward, and the 3rd gets the bottom reward.
      • 2 players: The 1st player to reach tile takes the middle reward.
      • If 2 players reach the tile during the same round, they both receive the same reward.
        • For example, in a 4 player game, if 2 players reach the tile (1st and 2nd) in the same round, they both get the top reward. The next player to reach that tile gets the bottom reward.

    End of the Track

    • If you advance past the end of the hazelnut or blueberry income tracks, leave your counter on 10 and add another counter on the 1 space (or as far as you should advance) as well.
    • If you would go past the end of the reputation track, score 2 points for each space beyond it you would advance.
• Icons

  • Icon	Description
    	Gain 3 blueberries
    	A cost of 2 blueberries
    	A discount of 1 blueberry
    	Advance 2 spaces on the blueberry income track
    	Score 2 points
    	Lose 1 point (can't go below zero)
    	Advance 2 spaces on the hazelnut income track
    	Advance 1 space on the reputation track
    	1 saw blade token
    	1 glue token
    	1 scrapwood token
    	1 lantern token
    	A die of a particular value and color
    	A die of a particular value and either depicted color
    	A die of a particular value and any color
    	A die of any color with any value
    	Gain a tool of the indicated type
    	Gain a tool of any type
    	Gain a 1 tile-reuse token. It can be spent to reuse a sawing, splicing or gluing tile
    	Gain the production from up to 4 different helpers
    	Immediate effect
    	Once-per-turn effect
    	An effect that triggers every time a condition is met

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