Sawmill Manager Actions

Forestry's sawmill manager on the outer ring: moving between HQ tiles and their rewards, the nine sawmill buildings, and upgrading a sawmill building.

The outer ring of the board is the sawmill area: three complexes — light green, dark green and orange — each with an HQ tile and three sawmill buildings. Your sawmill manager always stands on one of the three HQ tiles and never enters a building.

Moving the sawmill manager

For 1 action point, move your manager to a different HQ tile. You may then take one reward from that tile, chosen by how many managers stand there after you arrive:

• In a 2-player game each HQ tile has one reward; with 3–4 players, two.
• Take the reward for that number of managers (the 1st reward if you are alone, the 2nd if you are the second manager, and so on). More managers than rewards: nothing.
• Alone on a tile, you may take its second reward instead of the first. FAQ

The first reward on the HQ tiles lets you buy a wood adjustment, a task card or any resource for 1 coin. Pictures: Cards & Components.

Sawmill buildings

For 1 action point, use a building in the complex where your manager stands. Use several buildings, or the same one again, as long as you have action points — no need to move.

Some rewards let you use a building in any complex ; then your manager stays put.

Each complex has one building of each type:

• Contracts — take a contract or a task card, or trade wood for coins.
• Resources — 1 coin and a resource.
• Wood adjustment — put that complex’s adjustment token under a wood in your storage. A wood takes at most 2 adjustments.

Building (basic side)	Effect
	Take a contract from this area, or a task card (face-up or top of the deck) FAQ FAQ FAQ
	1 coin and 1 seedling
	1 planing (pink) adjustment on a wood in your storage
	Take a contract from this area, or exchange 1 wood for any other (its adjustments are discarded) and gain 1 coin FAQ FAQ
	1 coin and 1 construction material
	1 drying (yellow) adjustment on a wood in your storage
	Take a contract from this area, or pay 4 coins for 1 wood of any type FAQ FAQ
	1 coin and 1 temp worker
	1 pickling (blue) adjustment on a wood in your storage

Upgrading a sawmill building

You may upgrade a building in the complex where your manager stands. Upgraded buildings are stronger, and every player may use them.

1. Pay 1 action point and the upgrade cost at the bottom left of the tile.
2. Flip the tile and put your leftmost building token on its bottom-left corner. Your fifth building token also moves the water structures track up one step.
3. Use the upgraded building at once, free.

Income: with 3–4 players you take 1 coin from the supply each time an opponent uses your upgraded building (also when they trigger it with ). With 2 players you take the coin whenever either player uses it — you included. FAQ

Rulings that apply to every row below: Who pays the coin when someone uses an upgraded sawmill building?.

Building (upgraded side)	Effect
	A contract from this area and 1 coin, or a task card and 1 coin FAQ FAQ FAQ
	2 seedlings
	Two in any mix of: 1 planing adjustment, 1 star
	A contract from this area and 1 coin, or exchange 1 wood (adjustments discarded) and gain 2 coins FAQ FAQ
	2 construction materials
	Two in any mix of: 1 drying adjustment, 1 star
	A contract from this area and 1 coin, or pay 3 coins for 1 wood of any type FAQ FAQ
	2 temp workers
	Two in any mix of: 1 pickling adjustment, 1 star