pass tileleech amount from factiondecline amount from factionaction labeldig amountbuild locationupgrade location to buildingsend P to cult for amounttransform location to colorconvert amount resource to amount resourceburn amountbridge location:locationadvance trackwaitdoneresignsetup faction for player#Do you have questions that this document doesn't answer? A good place to ask is the PBF moderator help / questions thread on BGG. There are a lot people who know how to use the moderator, so there's a good chance you'll get an answer faster than by contacting me directly.
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The game page consists of several sections, from top to bottom:
Most of these sections should be self-explanatary. The less obvious parts are explained in more detail below.
The game uses the following abbreviations for resources, building types and iconography. The capitalization doesn't matter, and is simply a matter of convention:
c: Coinw: Workerpw: Powerp: Priestvp: Victory pointD: DwellingTP: Trading HouseTE: TempleSH: StrongholdSA: Sanctuarypass-vp: Victory points gained when passing>>: Victory points gained during the roundspd, spade: A spade+: Gained during the income phasecult: A step on any cult trackThe entry section contains 4 tabs:
For entering your moves. On the left-hand side is a text-box into which you can enter the commands corresponding to your moves. On the right is a UI for entering commands more conveniently than by typing them.
After you've entered your moves, click on Preview to see the effect of the commands. If the moves were valid and you're happy with then, click Save to advance the game to the next player.
Note that you can't Save if you still need to enter more moves. If you want to wait for a reaction from some other player, use the wait command.
For leaving notes for yourself, or to plan your coming moves using the
same input format as for normal play. View the effects of the plan
with Show result or save the plan / notes for later with Save plan.
Shows a summary of what happened since your last move.
The in-game chat.
The faction information section shows the following information for each faction. On the left:
7/5/0 as 7 power in bowl I, 5 power in bowl II, and none in bowl III). You can click on the vp resource to see a breakdown of where that factions victory points have come from.+ icon to show build / upgrade costs for each building type, as well as the income that the new building generates. (Note, the income lost due to the upgrade is not shown).+ to see a breakdown of where the income comes from.+ to see a breakdown of where the additional VPs are coming from.On the right:
The ledger shows a detailed full history of the game. There are two kinds of rows in the table. Comments are shown in a bold font. The other rows correspond to individual player turns. These rows have the following elements in this order:
Click on show history to switch the game view to what it was during
that point in the game.
The following commands are available during gameplay. They can be entered either one per line, or on the same line separated by dots.
When entering the through the admin interface, prefix the command with the name of the faction doing the command.
pass tile
Example: pass bon2
Pass, return current bonus tile, and replace it with Bon2. When passing on the last turn, leave out the bonus tile name.
leech amount from faction
Example: Leech 2.
Trade 1 vp for 2 power
Example: Leech 1 from fakirs
Trade no vps for 1 power, using the opportunity provided by the Fakirs rather than some other faction (in case there are multiple opportunities available).
decline amount from faction
Example: decline.
Decline all outstanding trades of vp to power
Example: decline 1 from cultists
Decline just the offer of 1 power from the cultists.
action label
Example: action act5
Take the power action 5 (or stronghold, bonus tile, or favor special action).
dig amount
Example: dig 1.
Trade workers / priests to shovels at the appropriate exchange rate. The shovels need to be spent by commands later on the same line.
build location
Example: build F5
Terraform the hex F5 into the correct terrain type, and build a dwelling there.
upgrade location to building
Example: upgrade F5 to TP
Replace the dwelling in F5 with a trading post (TE for temples, SH for strongholds, SA for sanctuaries).
send P to cult for amount
Example: Send P to Fire
Send a priest to the first free spot on the fire cult track.
By default the best available slot on the track is used. The optional "for X" part of the command can be used to use a different slot, or no slot at all.
Example: Send P to Water for 1
Send a priest to the water cult, taking just one level of advancement (even if 2 or 3 slots are still remaining).
transform location to color
Example: transform F5 to black
Terraform F5 to black, but don't build anything there. The color to transform to is optional, you can also do just:
Example: transform F5
In this case the hex is transformed either to your home color, or as close to it as possible given the available spades.
convert amount resource to amount resource
Example: convert 3pw to 1w
Convert between resources.
burn amount
Example: burn 2
Remove 2 power from bowl 2, and move 2 power from bowl 2 to 3.
Example: +FAV11
Take the Favor tile #11. (TW3 for Town tile 3, you shouldn't take Bonus tiles with +, but use the Pass command).
Example: -4w
Return 4 workers from the treasury to the pool.
bridge location:location
Example: Bridge E9:D6
Build a bridge from E9 to D6.
advance track
Example: advance ship
Advance 1 step on the shipping track. "Advance dig" for improving the shovel track.
waitExample:
Wait
Wait for other players to react. Useful for example if you're the last player who hasn't passed, and want to see whether another player accepts power between two of your moves.
doneExample:
Done
Finish your turn. Useful mostly when you're the only player who hasn't passed, and want to break the chain of actions at a specific place. For example when using Dwarves or Fakirs to first tunnel to a space to terraform it, and right afterwards tunnel to the same space to build a dwelling.
resignExample:
resign
Immediately drop out from the game. Please see the section on dropping out from a game for the exact effects. You can't currently resign during faction selection.
setup faction for playerExample:
setup Nomads for Alice
Add this faction to the game. The player name is optional, you also do just
setup Nomads.
Planning commands are used to control the behavior of the planning tool.
They always start with an exclamation mark (!), and must be the only
command on that row.
!plan faction
Switch to another faction. All later commands in the plan will be
executed by this faction, until the next !plan is encountered and
switches the faction again.
!if value, !elsif value, !endif
Selectively execute the commands between the !if and the matching
!endif, depending on whether value is true or false. The
contents of a !elsif or !else will not be executed if one of
the earlier sibling !if or !elsif commands was true.
Example:
!if false this will not be executed (value was false) !elsif true this will be executed (value was true) !else this will not be executed (already executed an earlier block). !endif
!if blocks can also be nested:
!if true
this will be executed
!if false
this will not be executed
!else
this will be executed
!endif
this will be executed
!else
this will not be executed
!endif
To create a new game, you'll need to be logged in. After that, you'll be able to create a game from the New Game page. The system supports two types of games, public and private. Additionally you can select which 4.3 to include in the game.
The creator of the game has administrator rights to the game, and can edit the history arbitrarily. You can find the admin view of the games you run under the "Games you Administrate" section on the home page.
The admin view is useful for example in the following circumstances:
Note that the administrator rights only apply to the game itself. Most importantly the admin can't read the planning notes of other players.
option optionExample:
option errata-cultist-power
Set a game variant or option. Should be done before randomization or faction selection. The following options are available:
mini-expansion-1: First mini-expansion, 4 town tilesshipping-bonus: Additional bonus tile from Spielbox 6/2013, http://boardgamegeek.com/image/1843355/terra-mystica-navigation-round-bonus-tiletemple-scoring-tile: Additional round scoring tile, producing points for building temples.variable-turn-order: The order in which players pass determines the turn order for the next round.fire-and-ice-final-scoring: One more final scoring category will be randomly selected from the 4 alternatives included in the Fire & Ice expansion.fire-and-ice-faction/xxx: Where xxx is one of "ice", "variable" or "volcano". Makes the two factions of that type from the Fire & Ice expansion availablein the game.
email-notify: Automatically send email notifications after moves (players can configure exactly which emails they want to see). Can't be used in games with unregistered players.maintain-player-order: Don't randomize the player order, but use the order in which players were added to the game. Can only be used for private games.All games will be automatically aborted after 2 weeks of inactivity. Changes made in the admin view don't extend the lifespan of the game, only moves made directly by players.
Players who become inactive are dropped from the game after a timeout specified during game creation (from 12 hours to two weeks). They can also drop out voluntarily using the "resign" command. Dropping out has the following effects on the faction:
The mermaid special town founding ability can't be used automatically,
but must be triggered manually. Use the connect command to mark
hexes that should be considered adjacent for this purpose. For example
if the mermaids declare the river hex between F2 and E4 as the one
they want to skip, use the command connect F2:E4). If there are multiple
valid river hexes, the tracker will pick an arbitrary one. If you
want to specify the river hex exactly, specify 3 land hexes:
connect G2:H4:I6.
To use the power of the Darkling Stronghold, use a command like
convert 3w to 3p. Note that this special exchange rate is only valid
for the duration of the turn.
The system will automatically detect if the Dwarves / Fakirs may use their special tunneling or carpet flight, and handles the resource costs and VP gains without any additional input.
See the done command for splitting up transforming and building into
separate actions.
It's possible for Giants to receive a single spade from a cult scoring
bonus, and be unable to spend it (due to always needing exactly
two spades for any transforming). To advance, throw away the spade with
-SPADE.
Problem: When taking the TW5 tile, a player who is on the 9 spot on multiple tracks can't choose which cult track to advance to 10 on. Instead the game will advance him to 10 on an arbitrary track.
Solution: Before taking the town tile, move the player down a step on
the cult tracks he doesn't want to advance to 10 on (for example
-WATER). Note that you should do this adjustment first, doing it
after taking the town tile will unjustly award 3 power to the player.
The planning tool mostly enforces the rules as the normal game. There are two major exceptions:
The application has a small number of keyboard shortcuts defined for navigating the interface. To trigger the shortcut, you need to combine it with a browser-dependent modifier key, for example "Alt" on Chrome or "Alt-Shift" on Firefox. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_key for information on which modifier key is used by your browser and operating system.
The following shortcuts are defined on most views, such as the game view and the game list:
h (home): Return to the home page / list of games.n (next game): Refresh game information. Go to next game where it's your turn to move.The following additional keyboard shortcuts are defined only in the game view:
m (moves): Switch to the moves tabp (planning): Switch to the planning / notes tabr (recent): Switch to the recent moves tabc (chat): Switch to the chat tabPlease don't use any kind of automated process to fetch the data of each game one by one. It's possible that doing this will trigger an automatic IP ban. Instead use one of the following sources for game or result information:
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