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The Settler (settler phase - place a new plantation on the island)

The player who chooses this role may take either a quarry tile as his privilege or one of the face-up plantation tiles and place it on any empty island space on his player board. Afterwards, each other player, in clockwise order, may take one of the face-up plantation tiles (not a quarry tile! - exception: construction hut) and place it on any empty island space on his player board.

Finally, the settler player puts the untaken plantation tiles face-up on a plantation discard stack and draws new plantation tiles from the face-down stacks, placing them face-up next to the quarry stack. He draws one more than the number of players.

Notes:

  • Remember the special functions of the hacienda, construction hut, and hospice.
  • If there are not enough plantation tiles left in the face-down stacks, the player first draws and places those. He shuffles the discarded plantation tiles face-down, creates a new face-down stack, and fills the face-up row. If there are insufficient tiles to refill the face-up row, players in following rounds may have to do without.
  • Where a player places quarry and plantation tiles on his island plays no role in the game.
  • The tiles may not be removed from the island.
The Settler

Action
Each player takes and places a plantation tile.
Privilege
The settler may take and place a quarry, instead.

At the end of the settler phase: new plantation tiles are drawn.

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Web Games

The Settler role appears as The Settler. When chosen, the role is moved to the player's area.
If the role has earned extra doubloons, this is shown as follows: The Settler with 1 doubloonThe Settler with 2 doubloons.
The Quarries section shows the number of quarries Quarry available.
The Plantations section shows the plantations on offer CornIndigoSugarTobaccoCoffee. If the number of plantations shown is less than the number of players plus 1, this will be because the draw piles have been exhausted. If all plantation tiles have been drawn and there are no discards to make a new draw pile, this section will say so.
When taken, the quarries and plantations appear in the player's area.
The query markers Empty field represent empty fields on a player's island.

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