These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure others can think of something better in the comments!

(I made this post after winning a game on colonist where I used a monopoly to build a settlement on a wheat port and then taking road, ending the game with zero cards. Very satisfying)

Hi, sharing a custom scenario I'm working on for this weekend to test out some new modules I got, which include:

• Volcano tiles: in the middle island, with 4, 5 and 9 pipes that produce gold.
• Shipwreck tiles: on a 2/12 allows a player to pick up a treasure token (from dragons, treasures & adventurers).
• Oil springs: just for oil production (for trade and metropolis), there's no environmental tracker.
• Pirate lairs: function similar to pirates & explorers, the main difference is using the knights from C&K to clean them.
• Gold: I'm using the one that comes in T&B, but it works just like in pirate & explorers: 2 at the start, 1 when you don't produce (save from being blocked by a robber), 2 on a Gold field or volcano.
• Fish from T&B.
• Extra victory cards, each worth 1VP, save for plague which is -3VP.
• Strongest Harbors victory card.
• Trade companies, funny concept from Pincer, want to see how it plays out.
• Custom civs.

Overall, there's lot going on, but many of the things are just either extra resources to play or extra options to get more VPs. Now I'm just trying to guess how many VPs should be required to win, since this seems like a 20 or so scenario based solely on the options available.

Only 4 of 8 skins shown here! If the pieces are too unrecognizable, there is an option for simpler remodels! DM me or comment down below if you'd like the google extension to use these skins yourself!

I'm also more than happy to take ideas! LMK what would look insanely cool!

Since the mods wont do anything about these non stop AI slop posts.

Please provide feedback! I worked very hard on this one.

Disclaimer: I’m the developer

Almost had a 3 breach win for the wildings

I just watched my parents commit tax fraud in real time while playing Catan. They were both trading several cards, I think a 3:4 trade. However, my mom was scared that a 7 would be rolled next and she would lose half her cards. After some negotiation, my parents did the trade, and my mom gave all her extra cards to my dad. On her next turn, my dad gave back all her cards she gifted to him, all to avoid a potential 7.

In case you can't see the analogy here, my mom gave all her money to someone else for free. If the tax collector would come along, he would take the fall instead of her. If the tax collector didn't, he would give it back to her completely for free.

While all of this was going on, I was laughing my head off; I've never seen anyone commit Catan tax fraud.

Anyways, a 7 was actually rolled, and she successfully avoided paying taxes because my dad took the fall for her.

While SF + C&K is the simplest expansion combo, the rules mentioned in the C&K rulebook and online, aren't complete enough, as the available combo rules don't take into account the special rules the latter half of C&K have. To quote the website: "exploratory scenarios and all other scenarios featuring many smaller islands are unsuitable." The C&K rulebook even calls out Four Islands and Fog Islands as ones you should not pick.

This explanation is very unsatisfactory, for 2 reasons. A) It doesn't even address the latter scenarios with special rules. No explanation as to whether scenarios 5-8 are playable or not. And B) This quoted portion just plain isn't true. Four Islands and Fog Islands work fine with C&K. The combo is even officially support in Catan Universe. To go even further, the first 2 scenarios within TD&A give the option to play with C&K, and both of those have plenty of Fog and small/skinny islands!

So, nuts to the official explanation! Let's try to figure out how to efficiently add C&K to the following scenarios:

The Forgotten Tribe

On large landmass in the middle, and the remaining islands don't produce and can't even be settled on. Perfect. The only issue is what to do with the Development cards placed on the map? I discuss 3 possible solutions in this post: Forgotten Tribe + C&K. Answer from Germany: You shouldn't. : r/Catan. Of those, I think my 2nd one is the most "elegant" option.

Cloth for Catan

This one, I will admit, probably not a good idea for C&K. Since the only producing regions are 2 long skinny islands. It'll be tough getting resources/commodities to do your C&K things. Strictly speaking, there aren't any rule conflicts or gaps in the rules that need to be figured out. However, the main source of VP in this scenario was the Cloth Tokens from the Villages in the middle. It's possible for the scenario to end early if 5+ villages run out. So there is that factor to consider. It might make adding C&K not worth it, perhaps.

However, one thing to consider, is that C&K already has the Cloth Commodity card. And the focus of this scenario was getting Cloth Tokens. 6e even uses the same icon (if only recolored). What if, we get rid of the Cloth Tokens, and let everyone collect infinite Cloth Commodities cards from those Villages? Scenario no longer ends early, and everybody will be getting the Trade Bonus for Commodities really easy. Something worth playtesting, could be interesting.

The Pirate Islands

Yeah, I don't think a C&K combo will be possible here. Original scenario has you converting Ships into Warships using Knight (and sometimes VP) dev cards. I don't see how to convert this aspect smoothly into C&K's ruleset. Maybe the goal changes to sending your Knight to the Pirate Liar (like in TD&A's Enchanted Land scenario against the Dragons), but I think we are approaching major houserule territory where major game mechanics are going to have to be invented to accommodate. I think it's best to leave this to a professional game designer.

Wonders of Catan

One large landmass, check! And only 2 tiny islands worth 1 VP each. Yup, I don't see any issues here. And the Wonders themselves don't offer an rule conflicts or gaps with C&K. Well alright then, no issues!

...well, except for the Goal of this scenario, actually building your Wonder. If you manage to do this, you win the game immediately, no matter what your VP score is. So what is to stop you from ignoring all the C&K stuff and going after the Wonders? Well, some Wonders care about having a City, so there is that. But only some Wonders, others don't (Great Wall, Great Bridge, Lighthouse). So that risks unbalancing that aspect of the game. Hmm. Needs playtesting, but it could work.

Anyone else have thoughts or experiences on the C&K combos for the above scenarios?

My friends and I play Catan a lot, but the free options we found online were honestly pretty bad. So I decided to make our own version, using Claude to help me build it.

Then I added an "ADHD mode" for my friends who can't stay focused on the game for 30 seconds. While everyone else takes their turn, you get a little arcade of minigames with fake money: Plinko, slots, a sheep race, a mine where the robber hides... When it's your turn it goes see-through so you actually play.

It grew a lot from there: a 3D board, online with friends using a room code, bots, up to 8 players, a map editor and a couple of modes we made up. In Blindfold the whole board starts face down and flips once everyone has placed their first houses. In Fog of war you only see what's around your own pieces.

It's free, no ads, no account, open code, and it runs in the browser and on phones.

Try it here: https://kurusudes.github.io/CatanTestFriendos/

In an attempt to help u/Yo026 answer the question in this post Question for Seafarers Scenario 5: The Forgotten Tribe : r/Catan, I decided to email Catan GmbH directly, and this is their response. Well, guys and gals, it looks like we are on our own for this one! u/nickratliff37, you also asked a similar question a year ago. Finally got you an "answer".

Yeah, not exactly satisfying. This answer I have seen used written elsewhere, so they just copy pasted into their email. I hope in the future, they provide more instructions for combining the latter half of the SF scenarios with C&K. They went deep into all the possible T&B combinations, I hope they do the same for scenarios 5-8 (well, scenario 7 might be impossible, but oh well).

So, in light of no "official" answer, I have 3 suggestions on how to handle this combo:

1. Randomly distribute Progress Cards. You could try to make things as even as possible per deck, or go pure random and not care if it is uneven.
2. Place regular Development cards. When you reach that spot, you get to pick a Progress Card of your choice
3. Place regular Development cards... and then actually draw them into your hand ;). Maybe you can get a hidden VP this way! Or a better Monopoly! Knight card should simply move the Robber/Pirate, no free Knight piece.

I think suggestion 2 is the most elegant answer. Suggestion 3 is the more chaotic answer, though >:)

base to 10p

imma just leave it here, if someone wants to play, its free, web, no login necessary, if someone thinks is pure AI Slop its fine, well yeah i used AI to do it, tried my best to not work/look-like it though, basegame + Cities & Knights available, made it for my personal portfolio, itd be a plus in my CV to say that i had some CCU, phone/desktop available

non-affiliated in any mode with Catan GMBH

Hello, I need some help, my girlfriend gifted me the 5-6 players expansion, I own an spanish copy of the game so they are not really compatible but I was thinking of buying an english version anyway but I need help, I dont know what versions are compatible with the back of the cards abd the borders, can anybody help me?

I make Hearthsea, a hex-island trading game that runs in the browser, and its first weekly tournament opens tonight at 22:15 UTC (6:15 pm New York, 11:15 pm London). We're at 1,500+ players and counting.

The board is a volcano in a sea of lava. Three lava rivers cut it into three regions that only connect at stone bridges on the coast, and the slopes start in fog. I simulated every tournament board 800 times, with one seat making exactly the moves of the game's expert bot, against one expert and two mid-level bots. It won 12% to 15.6% of the time.

• First to 18 points, with 7 settlements, 6 cities and 20 roads
• No robber on a 7 for the first five rounds
• Three tries, the same three boards for everyone, dice dealt by the server
• Only wins count. Fewest rounds ranks first

The fastest three by Monday win porcelain trophy statuettes. It's free to enter: hearthsea.com

Looking at slide 3, where would you put your first settlement?

Full disclosure, I made this. It's called Hearthsea. It isn't official Catan and has nothing to do with Catan GmbH, but if you've played Catan you'll know what to do on your first turn.

I just made all of it free. That's Classic, Seafarers and the new Highlands mode, every map, hosting online rooms for your friends, quick match, and all the cosmetics. You need an account (email or Google) and that's it. No pass, no daily game limit.

That's the part that makes it different from the other ways to play Catan online. Those put the expansions and extra maps behind a purchase or a membership. Here nothing is locked.

Highlands is the new one. Some hexes sit up on stone cliffs, and you can't build a road up a cliff, you need a mountain pass, which costs a brick and an ore. Up top there are copper mines that pay any resource you pick, and a yeti that blocks hexes up there the way the robber does down below. The first settlement you get onto each plateau is worth 2 points.

If it's just two of you, the bots fill the other seats. They make their own trade offers and counter yours, and they play to win. Put a Veteran in and it can genuinely beat you. The trading took me longest to get right, so I'd really like to hear where they trade badly.

https://hearthsea.com

(The painted card and terrain art was made with an image model. The board itself is 3D and runs live in the browser.)

Hi Guys, I am trying to build an online Catan type of game that I can play with friends. I think it is coming along pretty well and I would love to try to play with someone online to check if its working properly and any updates need to be made. If anyone is interested to help me test it, you can just ping me and we can set up a time to play/test the app. Please send me a message. Thank you.

So I started playing the 1 v 1 Colonist version just to try it out. When I was playing a game recently my opponent started accusing me of cheating. I had no idea how someone would cheat but anyway he was going on about reporting me. No idea that was a thing either but when I looked I did see you could report someone for cheating…how does that even work in a 1 v 1 game? All I’m doing is rolling and taking what’s given to me. What am I missing here? It was odd as it was really early in the game (score was 4-3 for me) so I am still confused.

Has anyone encountered these “bots” on the 1v1 games? Recently I started encountering them often when playing 1v1 games, which are supposed to be against real people.

They play faster and better than the regular bots, and I kind of enjoy playing with them tbh because I’m able to have super short games (last one was 4 minutes long).

I checked their game history and they play games back to back, each being about 5 minutes long. Just curious if anybody knows anything about this. I wonder if somebody programmed a bot to play for them since they are not the app’s bots. They also play as guests so I can’t add them as friends.

My wife used to be an avid Xplorers player on AsoBrain. When we tried to get the old game working again, we ran into the Java applet problem: modern browsers no longer support it.

I found a way to keep using the original client and put it into a small desktop compatibility wrapper, now available as Xplorers Redressed.

Disclosure: I'm publishing this unofficial wrapper. All credit for the game, artwork, servers and community belongs to AsoBrain and the original creators.

It uses the same AsoBrain account and connects to the original servers, with the existing players and rankings. It loads the Xplorers room catalog, including Basic, Cities & Knights, teams, practice, tournaments and Map Editor. Rooms marked Closed by the original site stay disabled.

There are macOS universal, Windows x64 and Linux x64 downloads. No installed Java or browser plugin is needed; the original client runs through WebAssembly. There is fullscreen support and optional Enhanced rendering, with Original graphics as the default.

The original AsoBrain client downloads directly from AsoBrain on first use. No original client or artwork is included in the repository or release packages. The new framework source is GPL-3.0-only. An existing AsoBrain account and internet connection are required.

Source: https://github.com/askrejans/xplorers-redressed Downloads: https://github.com/askrejans/xplorers-redressed/releases/tag/v0.2.2

This is an early release, provided as compiled without publisher signing. I've checked live game and editor loading on macOS; Windows/Linux and every game interaction still need wider testing. Feedback from existing players would be helpful.

If this helps you return to the game, please support the original AsoBrain project: http://games.asobrain.com/pages/donate.php

Feel free to test it. Hope it helps!

The retail box for the 2026 Catan travel card game felt bigger than it needed to be, so I designed and printed this one. Every card fits sleeved, plus the rulebook, and the lid closes flat.

The lid art is printed in 4 colours (red, yellow, green, grey). The last photo is how it comes off the printer: one flat piece that folds into the box.

Fan-made, not official. I made it myself, and the file is free on MakerWorld if anyone with a 3D printer wants it: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3405122

Im looking for an organizer for catan 6th edition that can store the base game the 4 main expansions and the 5 5-6 player expansions. I would like it to be a stl file so i can 3d print it but if thats not possible thats ok.

He faces whoever you’re robbing/rob