Buildings and St. Barbara

Kutná Hora guild buildings and production, the Miners' guild and mining technology, public buildings and the patrician pool, every building effect, and the 11 St. Barbara Cathedral tiles.

Guild buildings

There are 24 guild buildings, 4 for each of the 6 guilds. You can buy rights to and build only the guilds on your board.

Guild	Commodity	Price stand
Metallurgists	Silver	Ore
Miners	Ore	Ore
Builders	Wood	Population
Scribes	Permits	Ore
Grocers	Food	Population
Innkeepers	Beer	Population

Production

Building a guild building raises your production of its commodity by the number on the tile: move that guild’s production counter on your board. Most guild buildings also move their commodity’s arm one notch right, so the price falls for everyone. Production can go past 10: leave the counter on 10 and track the rest with a spare counter.

Every building tile shows, top left, its dots for final scoring; top centre its wood cost; top right the plot cost for squares beside it; then its effects.

Miners guild

A Miners’ guild building raises your ore production and advances the ore deck by the same amount — it never moves an arm. Your board has two ore tracks so you can keep ore from buildings and ore from mines apart; both count the same at Income.

Mining technology

Miners’ guild buildings such as the Pump and the Smithy show this symbol. Draw the top mining technology tile and play it at once as a free mine: any square a new mine could use, no wood, marked with a free miner from the reserve beside your pool (use a pool miner only if the reserve is empty). Taking it raises the mining technology level, so every later Mine action draws more tiles.

Public buildings

The 12 buildings with a patrician on them — 3 each of green, silver, yellow and red — are public: anyone may buy their rights and build them, but nobody owns them.

• No house, so no house effect.
• No production and no income.
• No points for their owner at the end — but your own buildings beside them can score more in green patrician scoring and in city dots.
• Strong immediate effects: reputation, pelicans, points.

Patrician pool

Every public building shows a patrician: take a token of that colour from the bank and put it on the rainbow space in the middle of the town hall board. In the pool it does nothing yet; anyone can seat it on the council during an Income action. Only 3 tokens of each colour exist; with none left in the bank, ignore that part.

Building effects

Symbol	Effect
	Raise your production of that commodity by the number
	Move that commodity’s arm one notch right
	Play the top mining technology tile as a free mine with a free miner
	Advance the ore deck by the number
	Advance the population deck by the number
	Score the points now
	Gain that much reputation
	Take that many pelican tokens, purple side up
	Raise the tax by the number
	Move that patrician from the bank to the pool
	Remove the leftmost house of any row of your board; ignore its effect
	Flip the current St. Barbara tile: nobody gets its benefit; add its tax

St. Barbara Cathedral

The 11 tiles of the cathedral stand outside the town. The lowest-numbered face-up tile is the current one. Two things flip it:

• the St. Barbara action: you get its benefit and ignore its tax;
• a guild building with : nobody gets its benefit and the tax rises by the number at the bottom of the tile.

With all 11 tiles flipped, the flip symbol does nothing. St. Barbara actions still flip a pelican and give 2 reputation; if a guild building flips tile 11, no one gets its 5 points and no tax is added. (FAQ, FAQ). One St. Barbara action uses only one pelican token (FAQ).

The eleven tiles

Picture	Benefit and flip tax
	Tile 1 — St. Barbara action: Gain 2 reputation; tax if a guild building flips it: 0.
	Tile 2 — St. Barbara action: Gain 1 reputation; Rights action with the tile free; tax if a guild building flips it: 1.
	Tile 3 — St. Barbara action: Lose 1 reputation; remove the leftmost house of one guild (no house effect) and raise that production by 2; tax if a guild building flips it: 1. FAQ
	Tile 4 — St. Barbara action: Gain 1 reputation; free Plot action, on any free square; tax if a guild building flips it: 1. FAQ
	Tile 5 — St. Barbara action: Lose 2 reputation; 2 Income actions (2 chances to seat a patrician); tax if a guild building flips it: 2. FAQ
	Tile 6 — St. Barbara action: Score 2; seat a patrician straight from the bank; tax if a guild building flips it: 3.
	Tile 7 — St. Barbara action: 1 reputation per public building beside each of your buildings; tax if a guild building flips it: 2.
	Tile 8 — St. Barbara action: Score 1; Building action with no wood to pay; tax if a guild building flips it: 1. FAQ FAQ
	Tile 9 — St. Barbara action: 2 Mine actions, no wood, free miners from outside your pool; tax if a guild building flips it: 1.
	Tile 10 — St. Barbara action: Score one of your buildings: gain 1 point for each matching dot against an adjacent building or board edge; tax if a guild building flips it: 1. FAQ
	Tile 11 — St. Barbara action: Score 5; from now on every St. Barbara action gives 2 reputation; tax if a guild building flips it: none. FAQ FAQ

You may skip the middle part of a tile and keep the rest — for example take tile 6’s 2 points without seating a patrician. Tile 3’s reputation loss is not optional, but removing the house is.