Ora et Labora

Choose France or Ireland together, turn buildings to that side and remove buildings marked 4 or 3+ as required by player count. In the normal multiplayer setup, each player receives a prior, two lay brothers, a heartland with forests and moors, and one of each of six basic goods. Solo instead starts without goods.

In a normal three- or four-player round, first retrieve all three clergy if all have been placed, then rotate the wheel one space counterclockwise and resolve any settlement phase triggered. Each player takes one action clockwise, then the starting player takes another action before passing the start marker. One or two placed clergy cannot be retrieved.

An action can use a building with clergy, fell trees, cut peat or build a building. To use your own building, place an available clergyman in an unoccupied building; placement triggers its function. Clergy remaining on a building do not produce again each round.

To use an opponent's unoccupied building, pay a work contract first; the owner must have available clergy and chooses which one to place. The usual cost is one coin, rising to two for everyone when the Winery or Whiskey Distillery is built. Returning one wine or whiskey to the supply replaces the coin payment. Contracts cannot be refused.

Wheel production equals the value at the resource indicator; reset that indicator to zero afterward. You may instead use the joker, resetting only the joker. Felling trees or cutting peat removes one corresponding card from your own landscape and yields the wheel quantity without using clergy.

To build, pay for one available building and immediately place it on a legal empty landscape space. Cloister buildings must be orthogonally adjacent to another cloister building. If your prior is available, you may immediately place it in the new building and use its function.

Buying a landscape is an additional action, normally limited to one per personal turn and one per settlement phase. Buy a top tile from either pile and place it immediately. Districts extend above or below the heartland without horizontal offset; coastal plots extend left and mountain plots right, following their connection rules.

The wheel and building marker trigger settlement phases: each player may pay food and energy for at most one personal settlement, then the next lettered buildings and settlements enter play. An ordinary building action cannot directly build a settlement. Normal three- and four-player games have a special prior bonus round as round 25, then a fifth settlement phase and game end.

Final scoring adds goods points, the economic values of buildings and settlements, and each settlement's own dwelling value plus those of orthogonally adjacent cards. Adjacent water also contributes dwelling value, and negative values count. Highest score wins, with shared victories on a tie.

Normal two-player play uses the wheel side beginning 0, 1, 2, 2; each turn rotates the wheel before two consecutive actions. With D buildings in play and at most one building in the display, finish that turn, rotate the wheel and give the opponent one final action, without a bonus round or final settlement phase. Solo uses the 0, 2, 3, 4 side, two actions per rotation, paid contracts and neutral clergy for neutral buildings; it ends after the last settlement phase, targeting 500 points.