Board Game Creature Comforts

A picturesque family game about preparing animals for winter.

Preparing for wintering in Maple Valley

The action of the game takes place in the village of Klenova Dolyna. This is truly a heavenly, fertile place... But winter is near, and it`s time for local animals to think about how to make wintering as comfortable as possible. Families of forest dwellers should work hard to prepare their dens for the cold, pack everything they need, buy a bunch of different things or make them yourself. Fortunately, both the market, the workshop, and the owl`s nest are still available.

Before the start of the game, a river disk and a backhoe tile are placed on the playing field. From the cards of the valley, 2 piles are formed - forest and meadow. Each stack will have spring cards on top, summer cards below, and fall cards at the bottom. The top 4 cards from the amenity deck are placed in the owl`s nest. The top cards from the improvement deck are placed on the cells of the ladder. Players receive home tablets, worker and cottage tokens, and family dice of their chosen color. Everyone takes 3 random cards from the convenience deck, keeps 2, and discards 1.

Game flow

The game lasts 8 rounds-months. Each round consists of the following phases:

1. New traveler

A new card opens from the traveler deck in the hotel.

2. Family dice

Each player rolls a pair of his family`s dice and places them in the house cells without changing the rolled values.

3. Accommodation

Players simultaneously place their workers in locations. Any number of workers from different players can be in one location. A player cannot place more than 1 worker in a location.

4. Dice of the village

The first player (early bird) rolls 4 village dice and places them on the mound without changing the rolled values.

5. Player moves

Players take turns, starting with the first player and going clockwise. The active player adds 2 of his family dice to the village dice on the hill. All these dice can be placed by the player in locations with his workers. By spending experience tokens, the player can modify the values ​​on the dice: +/- 1 for each such token (the values ​​on the dice do not change, the experience tokens are simply placed next to each other).

Then the player activates the locations with the placed dice. Once activated, it returns workers and family dice to its tablet. For each unactivated worker returned, the player receives 1 experience token.

A player can craft as many amenity cards as they want from their hand by spending the resources indicated on the cards. After that, he places the amenity cards next to his home tablet.

At the end of the turn, the player returns all the village dice to the hill without changing their values. If a player has more than 3 amenity cards in his hand, he must discard the extra cards.

6. End of the month

The traveler`s skills are activated in the hotel, after which his card is reset. The top cards from the forest and meadow piles are discarded. The river disc is rotated 1 section clockwise. Convenience cards in the owl`s nest and improvement cards on the ladder in the workshop are shifted, the outermost cards are discarded, new ones are added from the decks. The next player clockwise becomes the early bird.

Locations on the field

• Valley. By fulfilling the conditions for placing dice in forest and meadow locations, you can get a tree, fruit, mushrooms, grain, yarn, coins and/or fairy tales.
• River. By fulfilling the conditions of placement of dice on the sections of the disc, you can get stones and/or coins.
• Owl`s nest. Amenity cards are available.
• Workshop. The values ​​on the dice determine which upgrade on the ladder you can reach. You can build improvements in the workshop by spending the necessary resources. A cottage from the tablet is placed on the improvement card. Normal improvements are placed next to the tablet, and lawn improvements are placed above the playing field.
• Hotel. You can get traveler bonuses depending on the value on the dice.
• Market. You can exchange goods, goods for coins and vice versa.
• Grades. No workers are posted here. You can get rewards by placing family dice here. The owner of the improvement-lawn also receives some reward.

End of the game

The batch ends after the 8th month. Players get the opportunity to craft conveniences from the cards in their hand.

Participants receive points for:

• Amenity cards near the tablets. Amenity cards indicate points or how to earn additional points;
• Improvement cards. The upgrade cards indicate the points or the way to get additional points;
• Tablet cells without cottage chips;
• Residual resources. 2 points for each fairy token, 1 point for each coin, and 1 point for each three-item set.

The player with the most points wins.

Publisher: Geekach

Language: Ukrainian

Players: 1-5

Play time: 45-60 m

Age: 8+

• 1 playing field
• 15 traveler cards
• 16 valley cards
• 72 amenity cards 34 improvement cards
• 5 home tablets
• 20 wooden workers
• 20 wooden cottages
• 10 family dice
• 4 village dice
• 1 river disc
• 1 backlash tile
• 1 worm token
• 2 wheelbarrow tokens 2 calendar tokens
• 20 coin tokens
• 20 Fairy Tokens
• 21 Experience Tokens 20 Wood Tokens
• 20 Stone Tokens
• 20 Fruit Tokens
• 18 mushroom tokens
• 18 yarn tokens
• 18 grain tokens
• 12 multiplier tiles
• 1 rule book