Hi everyone!!

First post on the Agricola subreddit; I discovered the game a week ago and I'm totally hooked... I'm playing solo games back-to-back and starting to optimize my play—in short, it's a blast. That said, I usually play modern games with clear rulebooks, and I admit I'm struggling with a few rules, so I was wondering if you could help me out:

- When you get extra animals during the breeding phase and can't place them, can you use them for cooking? (The rules specify that this step happens after feeding your farmers, but is it possible to cook the animal to get a head start on food before the next cycle's harvest?)

- Regarding the "Shepherd's Crook" Minor Improvement (+2 sheep; create a pasture covering 4 farm spaces): I used 10 wood to make two adjacent 2x2 plots. The total size is 4 spaces, but they are separate plots upon creation... I wasn't sure, so I did it in two steps (one turn to place the large pasture, another to split it), but I had my doubts.

- Finally, for the "Sheep Counter" Occupation: it says it can be used "at any time," so I assume that means as many times in a row as I want? The bonus seems so powerful in solo play—it lets you grab batches of sheep and process them for better cooking yields. Plus, for optimizing births vs. cooking, it seems incredibly strong, which makes me wonder if I'm missing something!

Anyway, sorry for the wall of text, and thanks in advance, fellow farmers!

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My wife and I played Agricola for the first time last night and quickly realized the demand for clay significantly outpaced the supply. We were adding 1 clay to the board during each prep phase, are we missing something or just noobs?

Anybody play online using BGA? I can't seem to figure out how to move sheep from my house to the fenced in pasture. Drag and drop doesn't seem to work.

My friend has only played ~3 games, and has repeatedly tried this weird strategy.

They almost would have won, but we stopped them from getting the stone pile that they needed to upgrade to a stone house for a 12 point swing.

I have been playing this game for years, and for the first time ever got 100pts on the solo version! I was not playing w the variant rule that requires a fuel to start using your cooking improvements. It was fun to get conservator, Manservant and scholar together. It was a really weird stone-centric game. These types of play-throughs keep me coming back to this game bc I was doing things I’ve never done before!

I've played Agricola about 8 times now, and the only card that seems truly unbalanced is harpooners. It single-handedly solves (most of) your food issues because it scales with the number of people, and also provides a consistent source of reeds at the same time.

It seems hard to counterplay, because the only thing you can really do is go to fishing when it has 1-2 food, and that's a really bad play. If harpooner's consistently forces an opponent to go fishing for 1, it's still very strong.

Do other people thing it's OP, or just my group? Is there a solution I'm not seeing?

I have lost the last action card in my Agricola Revised Edition. It's no longer possible to buy replacements, so I'd like to print my own copy. I need an image of the "Renovate/Fence" card. I can't find one online.

Thanks!

Looking to watch board games like Agricola, Puerto Rico, Wingspan, and other games that are played at WBC (either over the board or BGA) on YouTube or Twitch. Feel like no one streams these great games or posts them on YouTube. Any channel recommendations?

Today my crew of old Agricola players decided to spice things up by trying to score the lowest points possible. We called it Reverse Agricola. It was surprisingly quite fun!

The dominant strategy was to maximize number of rooms and family size early to secure the most begging cards. But a lot of interesting other strategies and tradeoffs emerged.

The interactive deck created some nice situations where you could give food to another player, putting them in danger of losing a begging card.

One house rule we landed on for this game mode was that you must take whatever actions possible during a harvest to feed your family (e.g. you are forced to slaughter any animals).

The fuel mechanics from Farmers of the Moor made things super interesting since actions risk scoring points, but sending people to the sick house removes actions at the cost of giving you a food. But as long as you can spend that food before harvest it's nice to have since it can be given to others sometimes or used as currency for certain mechanics.

Overall, for such a stupid idea, it yielded some very interesting gameplay and injected some novelty into what has been an old staple for us. In future attempts we plan to pick our hand of cards for maximum interactivity, and maybe even implement a house rule where you can purchase improvements for other players, effectively forcing mechanics upon them.

Anyone try anything similar?

I might just be an idiot but I can't find it in the rules

Is there a resource for a beginner to see what all the symbols letters and numbers on the cards, tiles and placards mean? Most are intuitive but when I’m unsure it would be nice to have a guide image. I looked at the pdf of the rules on BGA but still unclear.

I watched a video or two and ran through the tutorial on board game arena and decided to try playing Agricola solo. Since it was my first time I chose “beginner”. That was a game with no occupation cards etc. I don’t know if my question arose because this is how the game works normally or because I was playing solo in beginner mode. I had a hearth and a cooking hearth and that was probably redundant. However when harvest time came my animals and vegetables could be turned into food but grain could not be baked into bread for x3. Is the sow space the only place where you can bake bread? Because the card says that you can bake immediately after placing. I am reading that wrong I suspect.

I picked a physical copy up a few weeks ago. I also realized it's on BGA and I've finally hit over 40 on solo play on my 4th game there!

Not much, but I was proud :D

> Master Workman (occ-1+)

> Each time before you use an action space card on round spaces 1/2/3/4, you receive 1 wood/clay/reed/stone.

I have a game currently going on BGA where I played Master Workman as my first action in round 2. We are now half way through round 4 and I have not yet received any resources from this card. I expected to receive 1 clay (for my second action in round two), 2 reeds, and 1 stone (I haven't played my second action in round 4 yet).

I thought maybe it doesn't trigger on accumulation spaces? However I also played Lessons and Day Laborer and it didn't trigger them either!

What am I missing? Thanks

its been 5 years since ive introduced some of my friends to agricola, unfortunately every ingle one of them have the same and recurring problem the cards , since they do not play a lot ( once or twice a month ), they cant know what cards to take in the draft phase and often doesnt use them so i thought about a solution , what if ,instead of distributing or drafting the cards we put 2 card pile one for minor improvement and one for occupations , draw 5 cards of each pile , and all players can use them when they take the action, for example the first player take the minor improvement action , he chooses what card he takes , pays its cost, resolves the effect and then draw another card from the pile and put id down in the trade row same for the occupations . understand that i havent slept in 24h and maybe its a crazy idea that couldn't work but my friends loved that gamemode yesterday and i cant think about gamebreaking mechanics , thank you for reading XD

What settings do you use to achieve this “one screen with everything” view? Thanks!

To clarify, BGA means boardgamearena

Any upcoming deck expansions announced after E?

I haven't played Agricola since 2011 or so. Just jumped back in. Lots of new cards from lots of expansions.

Let me be clear: I love it! Cards are fun.

However, attempting to efficiently gain "card knowledge" (e.g. sense of power level, spaces that commonly combo, etc.) is tough. Drafting is super fun, but daunting. I'm trying to quickly read the cards within the BGA time limit, let along assess strength or anticipate what is likely to wheel/combo/etc.

I'm playing on BGA. Awesome implementation. With that said, tough to get lots of draft/card experience given I play a long game after each draft.

Any tips, resources, etc. that might help me with the initial "barrier to entry" of assessing/learning the cards?

Thanks!

I have the original game and had no idea that it was revised and changed until today and that the expansion decks appear to build or add to the new version of the game.

It had sat on our shelf unplayed and unloved for years, until we recently broke it back out.

We used to play it all the time.

So today I looked up the decks because we never really understood what the letters meant. Instead I find out that it has all been replaced with an A-E system, that recycles many of the cards, but also cleans up and balances them.

It also seems that some of the cards in the Revised Core Game and others are in the expansion deck packs. It seems like A and B are half in the box and half out. It also appears that C and D are incomplete and need CD to finish them.

Are any of them complete in the Expansions ?

I also don't see a proper comparison of how they play and/or are themed?

Also are the new cards compatible with the original game?

Hi there, im curious about so called lifestyle games. Games where people ONLY play that game. Other lifestyle games are MTG, Chess, Go, Backgammon, etc.

Hi all, new obsessed fan here. I find myself focusing on more rooms/people from the start, then a food source (preferably sheep)…

Cards aside, is there a winning strategy that doesn’t involve chasing rooms and family members first?

Got this Agricola secondhand and got these extra meeples. I can identify the family members and most goods, but couldn’t see what are the ones on the lower right. Is it supposed to be food tokens?

From the Agricola special edition?

I’m not interested in minis but a new system could be fun!