The Fruit-Bearing Trees
General info and comments
Released in March 2018 by CundCo.
With this expansion, Carcassonne will be surrounded by various fruit-bearing trees. The larger the variety of fruits you offer is, the higher your income will be.
Contents
- 6 new Land tiles with 6 types of fruit-bearing trees (quince, apple, apricot, cherry, plum and elder)
- 24 fruit tokens (4 per fruit with the values 5, 4, 3, and 2 on the back)
Rules
Preparation
Shuffle the 6 Land tiles with fruit-bearing trees together with the Land tiles of the basic game. Arrange the 24 fruit tokens according to their colour/type. Then, shuffle each colour/type stack separately (the values face down). Place the 6 stacks next to the scoring track.
This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All of the rules remain the same.
Placing a tile
When you draw a Land tile with a fruit-bearing tree (Tree tile), you place it according to the normal rules. Then, you place a stack with 4 fruit tokens (of the same fruit type) on top of the Tree tile with the values still face down. You can choose the related type of fruit, however, it does not matter which type of fruit you put there, in terms of the game. Thus, any tree and any type of fruit may be combined!
Placing a meeple
You may place one of your meeples on the Tree tile according to the normal rules. Note that you are not allowed to place a meeple on the tree itself.
The main actions, associated with this expansion, and subsequent scoring, apply on later turns in the game and apply when any player places a tile next to one of the Tree tiles.
Carrying out a "fruit action"
If a player[1] places a Land tile next to[2] the Tree tile in a later turn (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) and places a meeple on any feature on this Land tile they may, as well, carry out one of the following actions
- Harvesting
- Selling
Harvesting
Take the top-most fruit token from the adjacent Tree tile (if available). Then, immediately score points according to the fruit token's value. The fruit token is then placed in front of them.
Selling
Instead of taking a new fruit token, you can choose to sell fruit tokens you have previously harvested. You may sell 1 to 4 tokens, but the more you sell, the more points you score. If you want to sell more than one token, they must (all) be of different types of fruit. You may only sell one set at a time. The value on the back does not matter when selling fruits. Sold fruit tokens are set aside and removed from the game.
Scoring a feature
When you complete one or more areas (e.g. a monastery, a road etc.) by placing a Tree tile, you score them according to the normal rules.
Final scoring
At the end of the game, each fruit token is worth 1 point.
Tile distribution
Footnotes
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