Agricola (Revised Edition)
180 questions players ask about Agricola (Revised Edition). Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-03.
Setup and Components
- Is there a limit to the number of fences you can build?
- Are rooms, fields or pastures on diagonal spaces adjacent?
- Is there a limit to how many goods or crops you can keep in your supply?
- Can I discard goods at any time?
- Do the A, B, C and D deck letters matter, and can the decks be mixed?
- What does the number in the square on an occupation card mean, and which occupations do I use at each player count?
- Can original first-edition cards or boards be used with the Revised Edition?
- Does the 15th Anniversary box contain the same A and B cards as the Revised base box?
- How can I tell base-game cards from Artifex cards in a mixed deck?
Action Spaces and Turn Order
- Must I take the starting player token when I use Meeting Place?
- Can a card let me use Meeting Place while another player occupies it?
- Can the person on Meeting Place be moved or sent home during the round, and can the starting player token be taken from me?
- What counts as one turn in the Work Phase, and does a turn end after one placement?
- Do "start of the round" effects resolve before the starting player's first turn?
- On an "and afterward" action space such as House Redevelopment or Farm Redevelopment, must I take the second action?
- Can I bake bread before sowing on Grain Utilization?
- What does the Lessons action space cost in each player count?
- Can I use Urgent Wish for Children instead of Basic Wish for Children, and what is the difference?
House Building and Family Planning
- Can I build several rooms and stables in one Farm Expansion action?
- Can a house contain wood, clay and stone rooms at the same time?
- What does renovation cost?
- Is there a limit to how many rooms I can build?
- Where does a newborn go after Urgent Wish for Children when I have no free room, and can the newborn act this round?
- Is Family Growth useful or allowed in the last round?
Animal Breeding
- How many animals can my pastures, stables and house hold?
- Can a room's wall or a field edge count as a fence for a pasture?
- Can I build fences without fully enclosing a pasture?
- Can I fence in a stable later?
- How many animals breed each harvest, and what if I have no room?
- Can I turn a newborn animal into food right after breeding?
- During breeding, can I convert a third animal (not a parent) to food to make room for the newborn?
- Can I turn animals from an accumulation space straight into food, and what happens to the rest?
- Can I cook the sheep in a pasture and then place a different animal type there in the same action?
Cultivation and Harvest
- Can one Sow action plant several fields, and can it mix grain and vegetables?
- Do I have to take a crop from every field in the field phase, and when can a field be sown again?
- In the feeding phase, must I spend my grain, vegetables or animals, and can I convert them to food any time?
- How many begging markers do I take when I can't feed my family, and can I take one voluntarily?
- Does a card that gives only part of a harvest count as a "Harvest"?
- Can I cook animals or convert goods after the final breeding phase, before scoring?
Major Improvements
- Do I have to spend resources to score Joinery, Pottery and Basketmaker's Workshop, and do they count for the tiebreaker?
- Can I exchange a Fireplace for a Cooking Hearth, and what does it trigger?
- How does Bake Bread work with several baking improvements, ovens and the Clay Oven's free bake?
- What does the Well cost, and why are there two Wells in some boxes?
- Which animals can I cook with a Fireplace or Cooking Hearth?
Terms and Phrases
- What is the difference between using an action space and taking an action?
- What exactly counts as a "turn" for card effects?
- Can I decline an action to take a replacement action, even if I couldn't do the original?
- Is playing an improvement the same as taking a minor or major improvement action?
- What is the difference between a farm, a farmyard space and "on your farm"?
- Does "action space" in card text include action space cards and spaces printed on cards?
- Can I split a resource grab into parts?
- Does an additional resource from a card count as a separate gain for cards like Shaving Horse or Hayloft Barn?
- Does a prerequisite like "1 Pasture" mean exactly one?
Scoring and Game End
- What breaks a tie in the Revised Edition?
- How many points do fields, grain, vegetables and animals score at the end?
- Do field cards like Beanfield or Field Caretaker count for field scoring?
- Which farmyard spaces count as used for scoring?
- Do animals and crops on cards count for end-game scoring?
- Is a bonus-point value fixed at the moment I play a card that scores per round left?
- Do craft buildings use resources before cards like Drudgery Reeve count what is left?
- How are bonus points counted for Museum of the Moors with Living History Museum, and Cow Prince?
Solo and Campaign Play
- How does the solo game differ from the 2-player game?
- In a solo campaign, how many occupations are dealt when I keep permanent occupations?
- Do permanent occupations from earlier solo games give their effects again, such as start-of-game bonuses?
- In the solo campaign, is the first occupation of game 2 free if I carried one over?
- In a multiplayer campaign, can I keep an occupation between games and pay nothing for it?
Card Rulings: Improvements and Baking
- Does the Corn Scoop card have a requirement to be played?
- How does Small Potter's Oven work with Bake Bread and cards that ask for an Oven?
- Can Oriental Fireplace satisfy Oven Site's Fireplace prerequisite?
- Can a card played with Scholar trigger its start-of-round effect in the same round?
- Can Child Ombudsman, Work Certificate or Animal Teacher trigger on the turn they are played?
- Can a traveling card be played again when it passes back to me?
- On a card with slash-separated rewards like 2/3/4 grain, do I get only the one for my player count?
- How are the colored preview card decks meant to be used?
- Does Lazy Sowman work if I decline a Sow action I could not use?
Card Rulings: Fields, Crops and Harvest
- How does the Wood Field card work with Joinery, Scythe and field counts?
- Does Garden Designer work with Bean Field, and is a pasture sown by a card still a field?
- Does Tinsmith Master give an extra crop to every field I sow?
- In Revised Agricola, does an effect that happens "once" trigger repeatedly?
- Does playing a card that is itself a field (e.g. Beanfield) count as plowing a field?
- Does a sow action need to plant something to count?
- Can crops on a space stay there when I build a stable or pasture on it (No-Till Farming)?
Card Rulings: Building, Family and Animals
Card Rulings: Action Spaces and Timing
- If Merchant gives a second improvement action after House Redevelopment, does Hunting Trophy's discount still apply?
- Do exchanges like Forest Inn count as gaining goods for Claypipe?
- Can I use the improvement space just to get Field Merchant's vegetable when I can't build anything?
- How do Archway, Porter, Lassie, Oyster Eater and Junior Artist work?
- Does Clutterer count cards other players have played?
Card Rulings: Triggers and Timing
- Do Equipper, Furnisher, Wooden Shed or Small Trader work when a card only lets me play or build an improvement?
- Do "immediately before" cards like Paper Maker, Potter Ceramics and Hedge Keeper apply before the cost is paid?
- If I take 4+ clay and 4+ reed from one accumulation space, does Porter trigger twice?
- Does Scales trigger when I play a traveling card or exchange a Fireplace for a Hearth?
- Can Puppeteer trigger right away and play Culinary Artist to swap grain for food?
- Can I decline Stone Company's improvement action to gain Field Merchant's substitute?
- Does Clay Puncher give 2 clay when I play it on a Lessons space?
- How do Roof Ballaster, Bottles and Claypipe count goods?
Card Rulings: Rooms and Family
Card Rulings: Goods, Animals and Special Cards
- What does Consultant give in a 5-6 player game?
- Which cards count for Clutterer when they mention accumulation spaces?
- Do Wood Palisades count against the 15-fence limit?
- How do Large Greenhouse, Telegram and Confidant place goods or people on round spaces?
- How do Fish Farmer, Middleman and Eternal Rye Cultivation pay out?
- How do Chapel, Reclamation Plow, Swagman and Millwright work?
- How do Recruitment, Overhaul, Market Master and Hoof Caretaker work?
- Can Lumber Mill be played with no occupations?
Agricola: Artifex DeckExpansion
- Can Bassinet be used to take Meeting Place after the starting player token already changed hands this round?
- What counts as an unconditional Sow on an Artifex card, and does "turn" mean only my turn?
- Can I play a minor improvement whose benefit I can't get, like Shelter with no pasture, or Paper Knife with 1-2 occupations in hand?
- Does Storage Barn count cards like Sheep Well, and what if I own two Wells?
- Does any card ending in Fireplace count as a Fireplace, and is Oriental Fireplace a minor or major?
- How do Heresy Teacher and Calcium Fertilizers count crops in a field?
- When Minstrel lets me use an action space, do Claw Knife, Seed Pellets or Master Workman trigger?
- How does Freshman work with Bread Paddle and Baking Course?
Agricola: Bubulcus DeckExpansion
Agricola: Farmers of the MoorExpansion
- In Farmers of the Moor solo, what happens to the last special action card, and when do I decide to keep it?
- Can I take a special action card in place of a card-required extra placement, or when I skip a person's action?
- Can wood be used as fuel for the Black Market action?
- If a person is cold and sent to bed, do I still have to feed them?
- Must a field created by exchanging a moor tile go next to existing fields?
- Does Peat Boat require taking both building resources in one conversion?
- Does Farmers of the Moor include occupations, and how do its majors work?
- Do Peat Moss and Carpenter stack for wood rooms?
- Are horses goods, so can Collector give a horse?
Agricola: Corbarius DeckExpansion
- Do I need the WizKids miniature expansions to complete the Corbarius deck?
- Can Corbarius cards be used with the original printing of Agricola?
- Can I use the newborn from Heart of Stone in the round I receive it?
- Can Small Potter's Oven chain oven builds so I bake three times in one Grain Utilization?
- How do Ranch Provost, Second Spouse and Bed in the Grain resolve?
- Which negative points does Writing Chamber negate?
- Does Agricultural Laborer give clay for sown grain or harvested grain?
- How do Blade Shears, Den Builder and Mud Wallower work?
Agricola: Dulcinaria DeckExpansion
- What is Witches' Dance Floor, and what can it count as?
- What happens with stone on Witches' Dance Floor, Scales, and a Cooking Hearth upgrade?
- Do Hardworking Man with Day Laborer and Oyster Eater's bonus work?
- Can a Dulcinaria card return a person from Meeting Place or place a second person there?
- Does drafting 7 of 10 dealt occupations count as draft mode for Reader?
- How do Godly Spouse and Canal Boatman work?
Agricola: Ephipparius DeckExpansion
- In a 3-player game, what does Market Master's Traveling Players reference apply to?
- Is stone on Rock Garden a crop, and does Rock Garden count as three fields?
- Does Sour Dough's skipped placement cost me that family member's placement?
- Can a person placed from my supply use an action space another player occupies?
- How do Muddy Waters, Pen Builder, Margrave, Upholstery and Overachiever count?
- Can the Ephipparius (E) deck be used in a 5-6 player game?