Lumber and Workshop

Woodcraft's free actions on dice: trees and lumber, tree growth, harvesting, sawing, splicing and gluing, tile-reuse tokens and once-per-turn helpers.

Trees and lumber

A die in a pot is a tree; your other dice are lumber. Sawing, splicing, gluing and helper abilities that change a die only work on lumber.

Tree growth

At the start of each of your turns, before anything else, every tree grows by 2 pips — a 5 grows to 6, nothing goes beyond 6. Turn the dice to their new values.

Harvesting a tree

As a free action, at any time on your turn, move a die from a pot to your lumber pile — even one you planted this turn. A tree that reaches 6 moves to your lumber pile at once.

Sawing lumber

Free action:

1. Flip one of your face-up sawing tiles to its side; it stays used until the next income phase.
2. Choose a die of any colour that is not a 1.
3. Take dice of the same colour from the bank: the first is the cut your sawing tile makes; each further die is an extra cut costing 1 sawblade token.
4. Set your die and the new ones to values that add up to the original value.

Splicing scrapwood

Free action:

1. Return a scrapwood token to the bank.
2. Flip one of your face-up splicing tiles to its side.
3. Raise one die by an amount that tile allows (1; 1–2; or 1–4), to at most 6.

Tile	Raise
	Splice by 1; a die still in a pot cannot be spliced (FAQ)
	Splice by 1 or 2; a die still in a pot cannot be spliced (FAQ)
	Splice by 1, 2, 3 or 4; a die still in a pot cannot be spliced (FAQ)
	Used until the next income phase

Gluing lumber

Free action, once you have the gluing tile:

1. Return a glue token to the bank.
2. Choose two of your dice that add up to 6 or less.
3. Set one to the sum and return the other. If the colours differ, you choose which colour to keep.
4. If the colours were different, score 4 points at once (on the scoreboard, not the income track).
5. Flip the gluing tile to its side.

Tile-reuse tokens

Some helpers, orders and wheel bonuses give a tile-reuse token. As a free action, return it to the bank to use one face-down sawing, splicing or gluing tile again.

Once-per-turn abilities

A helper ability marked can be used once on each of your turns, as a free action, including the turn you place the helper. Several different once-per-turn helpers can each be used.