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Caverna: The Cave Farmers

Following along the same lines as its predecessor (Agricola), Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a worker-placement game at heart, with a focus on farming. In the game, you are the bearded leader of a small dwarf family that lives in a little cave in the mountains. You begin the game with a farmer and his spouse, and each member of the farming family represents an action that the player can take each turn. Together, you cultivate the forest in front of your cave and dig deeper into the mountain. You furnish the caves as dwellings for your offspring as well as working spaces for small enterprises.

It's up to you how much ore you want to mine. You will need it to forge weapons that allow you to go on expeditions to gain bonus items and actions. While digging through the mountain, you may come across water sources and find ore and ruby mines that help you increase your wealth. Right in front of your cave, you can increase your wealth even further with agriculture: You can cut down the forest to sow fields and fence in pastures to hold your animals. You can also expand your family while running your ever-growing farm. In the end, the player with the most efficiently developed home board wins.

You can also play the solo variant of this game to familiarize yourself with the 48 different furnishing tiles for your cave.

Caverna: The Cave Farmers, which has a playing time of roughly 30 minutes per player, is a complete redesign of Agricola that substitutes the card decks from the former game with a set of buildings while adding the ability to purchase weapons and send your farmers on quests to gain further resources. Designer Uwe Rosenberg says that the game includes parts of Agricola, but also has new ideas, especially the cave part of your game board, where you can build mines and search for rubies. The game also includes two new animals: dogs and donkeys. (BGG)



BGG Rank: 4
Designer: Uwe Rosenberg
Artist: Klemens Franz
Year Published: 2013
Playing Time: 30-210 minutes
For Ages: 12+
Category:

• Animals
  
• Economic
  
• Farming

Mechanic: Tile Placement & Worker Placement
Best played with 4 Players
Recommended with 1,2,3,4,5,6 players
Honors:

• 2013 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee
  
• 2013 Meeples' Choice Nominee
  
• 2014 Guldbrikken Best Adult Game Nominee
  
• 2014 Guldbrikken Best Adult Game Winner
  
• 2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee
  
• 2014 Spiel der Spiele Hit mit Freunden Recommended

PDF Rule Book (English): http://www.grabaty.pl/uploads/files/Instrukcja_Caverna_The_Cave_Farmers_EN.pdf
BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102794/caverna-cave-farmers

• 20 light brown Dog tokens
  
• 35 white Sheep tokens
  
• 30 grey Donkey tokens
  
• 30 black Wild boar tokens
  
• 30 brown Cattle tokens
  
• 45 brown Wood tokens
  
• 25 grey Stone tokens
  
• 45 black Ore gems
  
• 20 red Ruby gems
  
• 40 yellow Grain tokens
  
• 35 orange Vegetable tokens
  
• 1 yellow Starting player token
  
• 7x3 Stables in different colors
  
• 7x5 Dwarf discs in different colors
  
  
• 1 & 2 Players Game Board
  
• 3 Players Game Board
  
• 4 Players Game Board
  
• 5 Players Game Board
  
• 6 Players Game Board
  
• 7 Players Game Board
  
  
• 20 Gold coins labeled “1”
  
• 24 Gold coins labeled “2”
  
• 5 Gold coins labeled “10”
  
• 1 “Additional dwarf” marker
  
• 88 “1 Food” markers
  
• 7 round Harvest markers
  
• 52 Weapon strength markers
  
• 8 Multiplication markers “4x” (on the other side: Begging markers “-3 Gold”)
  
• 8 Goods markers
  
• 2 “8 Animals” markers
  
  
• 17 identical “Dwelling” Furnishing tiles
  
• 47 other unique Furnishing tiles
  
• 8 single tiles “Tunnel” (on the other side: “Cavern”)
  
• 16 single tiles “Ruby mine” (on the other side: “Field”)
  
• 16 single tiles “Meadow” (on the other side: “Small pasture”)
  
• 24 twin tiles “Ore mine/Deep tunnel” (on the other side: “Large pasture”)
  
• 40 twin tiles “Cavern/Tunnel” (on the other side: “Cavern/Cavern”)
  
• 40 twin tiles “Meadow/Field” (on the other side: Small pasture/Field)
  
  
• 29 Playing cards
  
• 1 “Harvest events” card
  
• 12 Action space cards
  
• 7 Overview cards “Rubies, Harvest time”
  
• 7 Overview cards “Expedition loot”
  
• 2 Dwarf cards for the solo and 2-player game

Thank you Mucya for making the Ruby and Ore model
Thank you NETes for his Wood Tokens mod which I used the Grain and First Player tokens in this mod


The board game Caverna: The Cave Farmers is designed by Uwe Rosenberg and owned by Mayfair Games.
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