Harvester Actions

Forestry's harvester actions in the forest: movement and river crossings, harvesting, reforestation and the reforestation table, tending the forest with forester tokens, forest buildings and water structures.

Your harvester works in the forest area: 15 hex spaces (4 of them double spaces), split by rivers into three areas — light green, dark green and orange. Every action here, except movement, happens on or next to the harvester’s space.

Movement

For 1 action point your harvester moves up to 2 spaces.

• You may pass through a space with another harvester but never end there: one harvester per space. A double space counts as one space.
• Finish the move before any other action — no moving one space, acting, then moving on.
• Crossing a river costs 1 coin to the supply, each time — unless a reservoir with bridge spans it.
• Crossing a meander still costs 1 coin but gives 1 seedling — once per different meander in a move.

Harvest

You may harvest only where the harvest token shows its colourful side.

1. Pay 1 or 2 action points — the dots on the left of the harvest token.
2. Take the wood token(s) shown from the supply and put each on a free storage space.
3. If the token shows a star, gain that many stars.
4. Flip the harvest token to its dark side.

Each species — pine, birch, spruce, beech, oak — grows on three hexes, one of each kind.

Reforestation

You may reforest only where the harvest token shows its dark side.

1. Pay 1 or 2 action points (the dots).
2. If the token shows a star, gain those stars.
3. Pay 1 or 2 seedlings (as shown on the token) and put them on your reforestation table, then gain the stars printed on the spaces they cover.
4. Flip the harvest token to its colourful side.

Reforestation table

• Seedlings never go back to the supply. Put them in the column of the area you reforested (light green, dark green, orange), always from the top.
• Covered spaces give 2, 3 and 4 stars in the first, second and third rows.
• Filling a row gives its bonus: row 1 a technology upgrade, row 2 a step on the water structures track, row 3 6 VP.
• If that area’s column is already full, put the seedling below the table and gain 2 VP.

Tending the forest

There are three types of forester token: paint protection, den tree support and thinning. Usually three lie on the board.

1. With your harvester on the token’s space, pay 1 action point.
2. Put the token on your forestry table, in the topmost free space of a column. All tokens in a column must be the same type; two or three columns may hold the same type.
3. Gain the reward printed on the space you covered. Filling a row gives the bonus at its right: row 1 a technology upgrade, row 2 a step on the water structures track, row 3 6 VP.

If no column can take the token, put it below the reforestation table for 2 VP.

Replenishing forester tokens

At the start of each turn, check that the board has exactly 3 forester tokens. For each missing one, turn the top spawn card and put the missing type on the space with that number — several missing ones in the order on the card back: thinning, den tree, painting. If that space has a forester token or a harvester, try the next spaces in ascending order (after 15 comes 1). When the spawn deck runs out, shuffle all spawn cards into a new deck.

The most forester tokens score at the end (Final scoring).

Forest buildings

You have 6 building tokens, used for forest buildings and sawmill upgrades.

1. Pay 1 action point, 1 construction material and 1 temp worker.
2. Pick a clearing token next to your harvester’s space and replace it with your leftmost building token.
3. Gain the clearing’s reward, then put the clearing back in the box — clearings are never replaced.

Each building used raises your end-game score on the buildings track. Your fifth building moves the water structures track up one step. Clearing rewards: Cards & Components.

Water structures

You own two: a meander and a reservoir with bridge.

1. Pay 1 action point and 3 temp workers (meander) or 3 construction materials (reservoir with bridge), as shown on your board.
2. Replace a river token next to your harvester’s space with the structure. Keep the river token — it scores at the end.

Structure	Effect for every player
Reservoir with bridge	Crossing this river is free
Meander	Crossing still costs 1 coin, but gives 1 seedling (once per meander in a move)

Water structures track

Your river tokens score their symbol × your multiplier, from 1× up to 5×. Move the cube up a step for each of these: filling row 2 of the forestry table, filling row 2 of the reforestation table, opening the third storage extension, and your fifth building.