Agricola (Revised Edition)

Set up your farm: use the board appropriate to the player count. Each player starts with two people, two wooden rooms, seven occupations, and seven minor improvements; filter occupations by player count. The starting player receives two food and everyone else three.

Work for fourteen rounds: reveal a new action card and replenish accumulation spaces each round. Starting with the starting player, place one person at a time clockwise on an empty space and immediately take at least one offered action. Take all goods from an accumulation space; everyone returns home after placement finishes.

Build and grow: new rooms must connect to the house and cost five of its current building material plus two reed each. Ordinary family growth requires spare room; newborns act starting next round. A later action allows growth without room, up to five people. Renovate the entire house from wood to clay, then stone.

Plow and sow: place the first field on an empty space and later fields adjacent to existing fields. Sow one grain and add two grain, or sow one vegetable and add one vegetable, per empty field. One action can sow several fields; planted crops remain inaccessible until harvested.

House livestock: each fully fenced pasture holds one animal type, initially two animals per space. Each stable inside doubles that pasture’s capacity. An unfenced stable holds one animal and the whole house can keep one pet; animals without accommodation must be legally cooked or discarded.

Harvest six times: after rounds 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14, take one crop from each planted field, feed the family, then breed animals. In multiplayer, each adult needs two food and a newborn from this round one. Take a permanent begging marker worth minus three points for each missing food.

Use cards and breed: play occupations and improvements through suitable actions, paying their costs; cards in hand do nothing. Cooking animals needs a suitable improvement, and baking grain also needs a Bake Bread action. During breeding, at least two animals of a type produce exactly one offspring if it fits; neither parents nor newborns may be cooked during that phase.

Score after the final harvest: use the scoring table for fields, pastures, crops, animals, rooms, people, improvements, and bonuses. Each unused space loses one point, missing categories can also lose points, and food itself scores nothing. Highest score wins; ties favor more building resources remaining in personal supply, then share the rank.