The Watchtowers

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The Fruit-Bearing Trees expansions was released by Hans I'm Glück in 2018.

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.

This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All of the rules remain the same. You can combine it with other expansions - but at your own risk – i.e. there will be no official rules for these combinations.

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.

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. 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 deploy one of your meeples on the tree tile according to the normal rules. Note that you are not allowed to deploy a meeple on the tree itself.

Carrying out a "fruit action"

When you have deployed a meeple, you may carry out one of the two actions explained below. If a player places a land tile next to the tree tile in another turn (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) and deploys a meeple on this land tile, he may, as well, carry out one of the following actions.

Harvesting: You take the top-most fruit token from the tree tile. Then, you immediately get points according to the fruit token’s value. The fruit token has to be placed in front of you.

OR

Selling: You don’t take a new fruit token but you sell fruit tokens you have harvested previously. You may sell 1 to 4 tokens. If you want to sell more than one token, there must be different types of fruit in one set. You may only sell one set at a time. The value on the back does not matter when selling fruits. Sold fruit tokens have to be put away.

Points for fruit selling
	1 token = 3 points
	2 tokens = 6 points
	3 tokens = 10 points
	4 tokens = 15 points

The following examples show harvesting and selling actions:

Example: Harvesting
You place a land tile next to the apple tree and you deploy a meeple. You want to harvest. Therefore, you take the top-most apple token and look for its value. You get 3 points and place the token in front of you, next to the other tokens.

Example: Selling
Later, you place a land tile next to the apple tree again and you deploy a meeple. Now, you want to sell. Up to now, you have harvested 2 apple tokens, 1 apricot and one cherry token. You sell three different tokens for 10 points.
As you are only allowed to sell one set at a time you keep one apple token.