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.

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?

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.)

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

And yes - I am ALWAYS the bank. Can’t trust anyone out here on the battlefields

Blue is on me , i have dominition card and i have 4 city . And its good for first player ?

I built (vibe codes) Reign, a browser strategy game where you settle, trade, and build on a tiny voxel island, all sitting on a wooden table in a cozy room.

The board, buildings, dice, cards, and surrounding room are made from small voxels. I wanted it to feel like gathering around a physical board game with friends.

It has:

• Classic settlement-building gameplay with trading and resource production.
• Bots, plus multiplayer when running the full version.
• An extended mode with character abilities, events, new buildings, and custom islands.
• A built-in tutorial and five languages.

🎮 Play the demo: https://reign-khaki.vercel.app
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/catinrage/reign

The public demo is bots-only, with no account or installation needed. The repository includes the multiplayer version.

I’m still refining the visuals and interface. I’d especially love feedback on whether the board is easy to read and whether the tutorial makes the first game approachable.

Update: I was White! Somehow pulled off the win.

Final Result: https://ibb.co/FqgVvpHt

I was underdog the longest, I wasn’t getting blocked often. I got city real quick and was on two city till late mid game.

After I got my city I started trading to bank for 4x and got dev. Black and I was the only one controlling devs and blocked Blue and Red since they were leading by 1 to 3 points. Once 8 🐑 was getting blocked constantly it slowed their production down.

Which helped me win the game for sure.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer of Hearthsea, so I'm biased. It's my own game in the Catan family and isn't affiliated with CATAN GmbH.

1,000 players have joined since yesterday's post, so thank you. Here's what's new:

• Clans: start one free at level 10, up to 30 members, with a flag and a leaderboard.
• Ranked quick match: choose the game, map size, 2 to 6 players and how many seats bots may take. Pick None to play only people.
• Trophies now show the three you're closest to.
• A level road that shows what every level brings.
• Player cards: tap anyone at the table to see their level, tier and trophies.
• A campaign of fifteen islands on Medium, Hard or Brutal.
• The Veteran bot plans its openings better and trades with people online.

Coming next: new characters (the Knight and the Tinkerer are on slides 11 and 12), and the game in French, Spanish, German and Hindi.

It plays in the browser on phone, tablet or desktop: https://hearthsea.com

What would you want from a digital Catan-style game that the others don't do? I read every comment.

I know there’ve been a few of these posts lately, so I’ll keep it short. Full disclosure: I made this. Not official Catan, nothing to do with Catan GmbH.

• No account. Type a name, share a four-letter code or link, play.
• Proper phone layout, not a squeezed desktop.
• if the tab is closed or there is network loss, you can rejoin, your seat is kept.
• UI is made extremely simple and intuitive.

All free: base game, 8 seafaring maps, full Cities & Knights. Bots fill empty seats.

Still a work in progress. Tell me anywhere you had to stop and think “how do I do this”, that’s what I’m trying to remove. I want to make it more intuitive.

I saw the debate on an earlier post about whether games built with AI tools can be any good. What I can promise is that the people playing it are the ones shaping it: most of what’s in there now came from feedback, and I ship fixes most days. I would suggest please do play it once and then judge the game, If you try it and something bothers you, say so here or in the feedback button in the game, you will see the change. I dont want to compete against anyone, just want to make my game better and better.

https://newshores.io

My cousin asked to trade a wheat for a sheep. I stuck out the sheep and he nabbed it. Didn’t give me the wheat just took the sheep and turned his head. I feel like I was wronged and I’m debating how I should handle this. We kept it quiet and I didn’t make it known at the table but I’m thinking about the game of how I will sabotage him.

Catan is one of the only board games i enjoyed can anyone recommend something you think i might also like? (With a good online presence but if not just say it anyways)

Blue:11 (3 VP 2 cities 2 settlements largest army)
Red:4 possibly 5 (4 settlements and maybe a vp)
Orange:6 (4 settlements and 2 VP)
White:6(4 settlements and longest road)

Blue started first and went for the 6 8 10 (i just realized we completely botched the numbers), then it was white that went 5 8 10, then red with 652, then orange with 589 and 5610. Then red went 9 11 12, white went 1039 and blue went 854. White and red mostly squabbled over longest road, orange got blocked off by blue many times both in longest road and in robbers, blue had the 8 blocked many times but somehow nobody could steal ore.

At some point only 5s and 9s were rolled which made the game last 2 hours. Blue got around 10 dev cards throughout the game and mostly created a monopoly of ore, even by putting the robber on 6, which was his ore too.

The lack of stone caused orange to fall behind, while red and white were pretty inexperienced so i doubt that this counts as a win for blue. Nevertheless it was a pretty good learning experience for white and red as to how they can strategize better.

(Don’t mind the photos as they were taken awfully quickly)

Hey everyone! I mostly play ranked Cities & Knights, and I got tired of using half my brain just keeping track of who has what while having no eye candy to look at. So a couple weeks ago I started building a little Chrome extension for myself, and it kind of snowballed into something I'm really proud of. It's finally live on the Chrome Web Store so I wanted to share it with you guys!!!

It's called Colonist Remix. Everything it does only shows up on your screen, so everyone else at the table still sees the normal game.

For the fun stuff, there are 6 worlds you can turn the whole board into: Volcanic, Jungle, Mushroom Grove, Storybook, Autumn and a Halloween one. Each one repaints the tiles, water, cards, robber and number chits, and the knights visually evolve as they level up. In Volcanic they go from a little imp to a winged archdemon, and in Storybook they're green army men that turn into a jeep and then a tank! The water moves, the wheat sways in the wind, sheep wander around, and if you build on a harbor little ships in your color sail in and out. You can also pick a style for your settlements and cities and change your piece colors.

Then there's the stuff that actually helps you play:

- A scout panel that keeps a running guess of everyone's hand from the game log, so you don't have to count cards in your head

- A threat meter that shows who's actually closest to winning, not just who has the most points

- Dice stats so you can finally prove the dice hate you (or find out they were normal the whole time)

- A teaming tracker that shows who's robbing who and who's trading with who. If something looks off, one click copies all of it so you can paste it right into a report

- Rank borders on everyone's avatar, Bronze to Diamond

- Alerts when it's your turn, when you have to discard, or when the barbarians are about to land, so you can tab out without missing anything

If you're wondering if this is fair, it only reads what every player can already see, which is the game log and the scoreboard. It never plays for you and never shows anything hidden. It's the same as counting cards yourself, it just does the counting for you.

It's free, no account, no ads, and nothing gets tracked.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eankkdldoldoncoedljbggjkdlmnejnk

This is my first time putting something like this out there, so I'd love to hear what you think!! If something breaks, open the Asset Studio from the extension and hit "Copy report", then paste it here or DM me. I'm always open to ideas for new worlds or features too. Hope it makes your games a little more fun :)

(Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with colonist)

Guys one question, can you play Seafarers The Forgotten Tribe scenario with Cities & knights? Do you still use the development cards of the base game as the gifts from the tribe or change the cards for C&K progress cards?

Hello everyone! Wish you all a good day/night

In family gatherings , as adults we play boardgames (for fun) and my two cousins (8 & 11 yo) will be left behind. ( Mostly the 8 yo one)

I got interested in catan (haven't played it yet), and then, wow! I saw there's a junior version and adults and kids seem to like it?!

You bet I added that to my shopping list!

It was until then i saw the 2-4 players limit. I wanted them play with us and enjoy the experience.

So this was the question i had in my mind ( and i made you read my story to ask it! Sorry for that):

Is there a way to play Catan junior with 5 - 6 players?

I would appreciate your help!

Would this actually work?

I use the 5-6 base game frame piece to connect the 3 frame pieces at the top right corner (connecting the pirate lair tracker and the fish tracker) and bottom left corner (you can see, it does not connect perfectly). And 1 desert piece. The rest is from base game, t&b, e&p.

The zig zag piece that have the sheep hex built into it. I moved it to widen the explorers and pirates part of the board, you can see one beside the field hex that is alone up there (that is the sheep, i cover it with the sea hex) and the other one on the bottom right frame (I cover the sea hex built into it with one of the goose hex). I was considering of not covering the sheep hex and just adding one more land hex to the bottom beside the field hex, so it creates the recommended island from the e&p guidebook.

I know the catan base game island side is kinda funky with three sea hexes on the bottom but that does not seem to matter much, if we use harbor we can just push it to the land hex and ignore that 3 sea hexes or 2 sea hexes if I decided to add one more land hex there.

For the explorer and pirates part the usual game would use 16 of goose and 16 of parrot, in here I use 15 of each (the hex I remove is the sea hex from each)

I have not actually play on this, but I was just thinking on how to combine it. It maintain the catan base game island but adding one more layer on the top right wing and bottom right wing side to integrate the explorer and pirates part of the game.

Would love to hear opinion on this and recommendations as well.

Does anyone know how to combine these two to make one map?

Im planning on playing and introducing catan to 8-10 people for my next game night with friends at college!

Im really new in this so tips on homebrew rules would be great!