Seafarers

Seafarers spreads the game across islands. You keep everything from the base game and add ships.

Try the guided lesson first: it puts you on a coast, has you launch two ships toward the next island and shows you how the pirate works.

Ships

A ship costs lumber + wool and sits on an edge next to water, the way a road sits on land. Ships must connect to your network, and a line of ships can carry on from a settlement on the coast. Roads and ships only join up through one of your settlements.

At the open end of a line, you can move one ship per turn to a new spot, as long as you didn't place it this turn.

Ships count toward the longest trade route along with your roads.

Step by step: sail to a new island

1. Build a settlement on a corner that touches the sea.
2. Tap Build ship and pick a glowing edge on the water next to it. Keep adding ships edge by edge toward the island you want.
3. Ship line ends far from where you need it? On a later turn, tap Move a ship to lift the last ship and set it down elsewhere at the open end.
4. When your line touches the new island's coast, build a settlement there. Your first one on each new island usually earns bonus points.

New tiles

• Gold fields pay any resource you choose.
• Sea and some islands may be hidden under fog in certain scenarios: reaching them reveals the tile, often with a reward.

The pirate

The pirate sits on a sea tile. When you roll a 7 (or play a knight) you may move the pirate instead of the robber. It blocks ships next to it from being moved or built, and you steal from a player whose ship is beside it.

Island bonuses

In most scenarios, your first settlement on each new island earns bonus points.

Scenarios

Scenario	Target	What's special
Heading for New Shores	13	A familiar island with small islands across the water
The Four Isles	12	Four equal islands; each one you reach pays bonus points
The Fog Isles	12	Half the map is hidden; discoveries pay out
Across the Desert	12	A desert belt splits the island
The Forgotten Tribe	13	Sail along the tribe's coasts for points, cards and harbors
Cloth for the Isles	14	Link ships to weaving villages; 2 cloth = 1 point
The Pirate Isles	10	One ship line to your pirate fortress; capture it to win
Wonders of the Isles	10	Claim a wonder and build it in four stages
A New World	12	A random archipelago every game

Tips

• Ships are cheaper than roads in the resources most players lack (no brick), so a ship line can be the fastest route to open land.
• Island bonus points are worth chasing early, before the good coastal spots are gone.