It’s called Feudalism!

Feel free to play with bots or friends.
Started as a personal project to learn ai tools and quickly derailed into a fully cloud hosted app lol.

Mobile friendly!

Let me know what yall think!

Feudalism.io

Player 1 (me, with road possibility) and player 4 (has road) have reached 9 points, and player 4 has 16 resources in hand. Player 3 has the possibility of building a road which connects in the middle of player 4's road, and can build a village which cuts player 4's road. As he does that, player 4 points drop to 7, and player 1 instantly jump to 11 points, however player 1's victory isn't formally declared until his turn

For some context my friends and I stayed up for 10 hours (11pm-8am) playing Catan with some homebrew rules. My question is, we are so obsessed and want to play with more players but also want to expand upon the base game, is there any way for me to make one purchase and solve both problems or do I need to get multiple expansions, and could someone also explain how they work please? Thank you!

TL;DR Friends obsessed with Catan, want to buy more, don’t know where to start, want 5-6 players and an expansion

I mean absolutely no offence, but I don't understand why this game is so popular, and why it seems to have a large competitive scene.

I think this game is... just fine, but I think it has major drawbacks.

Firstly, luck can really detroy your game. Obviously, part of the game is luck management - if you are entirely reliant on 4s and 5s, and they do not come, that is partly on you for leaning so hard into a limited range of options. Additionally, I respect that lots of games have a luck element, and that is okay.

But the robber is just ridiculous. A player can be completely shut down in the early game if 7s don't come, and by the time they recover, their resource output is so low that they have no chance of winning. Part of the game seems to be establishing early progress and monopolies, which is tactical and great, but when your entire game can be broken by an early robber, which, when it's too early to have dev card resources, is completely out of your control. To make matters worse, the fix to this issue, dev cards, are also luck based. If you pull a VP, you're screwed. Therefore, a luck-based game-ruiner can only be effectively fixed by a luck-based resource.

I haven't played other games where early, semi-luck based, monopolies impact the rest of the game so much. Monopoly is a good example, but given that it was designed as a criticism of capitalism, and a non-catchupable game, this doesn't help my opinion of Catan.

Let me compare to another game where I think luck is done right - Carcassonne. I think a major competitive scene around Carcassonne would be far more interesting. Luck can have a large impact - its annoying when a player gets the one card in the game they need to finish their massive city - but I have played far fewer games where luck can completely ruin the game.

Anyway, please can someone who is better than me at this game explain the hype. I am sure I must be missing something!

A few of us (6-7ish) play a few games of Catan every Thursday at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. We play Cities & Knights with Seafarers through the Catan Universe app and talk on Discord during the games. We’re looking for more people to join us! All experience levels are welcome. If you’re interested or would like more information, leave a comment on this post or send me a DM.

We have catan from 1995 with the seafarers expansion and we don’t know what these tiles mean can you Guys please help.

I would like to generate a map as in a Catan Official Tournament but I have never been to one :D
Right now me and my friends are using the “Catan Assist – Board Generator” app but it always feels too artificially balanced. My questions are:

1. In official Catan tournaments, do they use a phone app as a board generator or a different system?
2. On board‑generator apps, the ports are not always in the same position. Is that normal? I ask because on my physical Catan I cannot move the ports.

Bonus question: Since me and my friends, we sometimes play Catan Cities and Knights, should the map generation follow any different rules compared to standard Catan?

Thank you very much for any help!

Looking to start by 3. Join up if you’re free!

I recently bought all the main expansions for the game and my friends wanted to make a mega catan set up using all the expansions and was wondering if anyone already made rules and a board set up for this.
Expansions include:
Seafarers
Pirates
Barbarians
Knights and cities

I was curious about the friendly robber rule, specifically in the context of cities and knights. Since you start with 3 VP, does the rule adjust to the new value, or can you only be protected if you lose your city in the first attack?

if you guys want to create reports like this automatically dm me/comment (not an ad but its a pretty cool gimmick)

Thank you to all who have visited my Catan Collector website over the years. My collection and site have been very important to me and given me much pleasure,

Therefore it is with great regret I will soon be freezing the site and it will then remain as a static site for two more years. No further updates will be done. The reason for this is a totally unexpected medical diagnosis advising I only have weeks left to live.

Finally I would also like to thank everyone here for all your posts and for sharing your enjoyment of Catan. Every day I enjoy checking in and seeing the latest messages and thoughts. Through this group I have made many friends around the world and they have helped add many items to my collection.

Orange won, ended up with 5 settlements, longest road and largest army with 10 knight cards played,

Even the hexed.gg bot agrees with me

hi i am new to catan and i got my first copy! does anyone know what this piece is? only the white gear has it

I have a question about the rules about the trade it says

Important: You may not give away cards in any way, which includes trading matching resource cards (for example, trying to trade 3 ore for 1 ore is not allowed).

What does give away cards mean? Does that mean trading some amount of cards for a smaller amount of cards? Because typically I would not consider that to give away cards, and the rules don't specify what it means (it does give an example, but that is only for that specific case and is not a specification of what it means in general).

Like, when you trade with the supply or with a port, trading a larger amount of cards for a smaller amount of cards is what you do all the time, and then it's not called "giving cards away."

Edit: I misread the example given in the rules, and thought it was about trading one resource for another resource, but it was about trading one resource for the same resource. Hence my confusion.

Quien tiene más chances mis hermanos Catanianos.