The game features strategic use of workers, where players use them both for bidding for new village tiles and to use them.
It has received numerous honors, and is ranked as the 50th best game in BoardGameGeek as of 2019.
However, some tiles may not be used, instead they give some passive effects or victory points.
Then the player winning the highest turn order tile chooses a boat first, and then the winner of next highest turn order tile among the remaining players chooses second, and so on.
This expansion adds tiles that generates wheat and farm animals, where they can be kept in fields separated by roads.
It also adds some new ways to score points based on wheat, animals and village layout.
[3] This expansion adds contracts, extensions, and cabins along with some new tiles.
When players take the upgrade action, they can choose an available extension and pay the cost to place it on an upgraded tile, where the tile is worth double the fix point value but also restrict the use of worker by that color.