Clank!: Catacombs
165 questions players ask about Clank!: Catacombs. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-10-31.
Setup and Components
- Can I use Clank! Adventuring Party with Clank! Catacombs, and how does setup change?
- Which older Clank! expansions can be mixed into Catacombs?
- Can the Clank! Legacy character packs be combined with Adventuring Party characters in Catacombs?
- What does the Gem trait mean for cards like Expensive Taste?
- What does the white head-and-shoulders symbol on some cards mean?
- What does the plus sign on a card's skill number mean, such as 0+ on Flamboyance?
- How many of each prisoner token are in the Catacombs bank?
- What if the starting tile's one-way arrows lead away from the Crypt?
Taking Your Turn
- Do I have to carry out every effect on a card I play, or only the ones that say 'may'?
- Does the order I play my cards in change what their effects do?
- Can I discard a card I haven't played yet, such as Stumble, to avoid its effects?
- Can I trash a bad card from my play area before its effect happens?
- Can I use the Boot from a card that trashes itself, like Waystone or Swap Meet?
- Can I split a card's resources and use them at different times in my turn?
- Can I play a card or gain Swords later to cancel monster damage I already took this turn?
- If I have no Clank cubes left in my supply, do Bard or Lute still trigger?
- How does negative Clank work if I have fewer cubes in the Clank area than I need to remove?
Actions
- Can I buy more than one of the same Market item, such as two Backpacks?
- How many Artifacts can I carry?
- Can I walk through a tunnel whose one-way arrows point in opposite directions?
- How does Grand Theft's lockpick option work?
- What is a Prison Alcove on the solo app's tile list?
- Do I need to be in a Prison room to free a prisoner with Riot?
- Can I choose the same option twice on Black Market?
- Can Door to Before teleport me into the room I am already in?
- Can Blink Spell move another player?
Discovering a New Tile
- If the tunnel I'm moving through runs off the tile I just placed, do I place another tile?
- Do I choose which tunnel to leave by before I reveal the new tile?
- What if the new tile has a lock or extra Boot I can't pay for?
- Does a card that rotates square tiles also rotate the starting tile?
- When a card makes every player rotate tiles, who goes first?
- Can Sudden Movement rotate my tile by 180 or 270 degrees?
- Can a tile placement or rotation leave a player with no way out, and what then?
- Must a new tile line up with the existing grid?
- What do the purple and blue tiles mean?
Tile Features
- How often can I collect a room's reward (gold, minor secret, Monkey Idol, healing)?
- Are minor secrets and prisoners placed on tiles when they're discovered?
- Do I collect Wayshrine gold again if I step onto a Wayshrine that already has my cube?
- Can I use two Puzzle Boxes at the same Wayshrine?
- How do portals work, and what do they cost?
- Does 'teleport to an adjacent room' include Crystal Caves and Wayshrines?
- How do I tell a Market room from a plain room?
- Which Artifact goes in a room that shows plus symbols?
- When a haunted tile is placed, what happens to Ghost cubes?
Ending Your Turn and Dragon Attacks
- What is the end-of-turn order, and can I still use card effects once it starts?
- Does the dragon attack if nobody buys cards from the Dungeon Row?
- Do Dungeon Row cards slide over when it refills?
- Does a Danger card add a cube to every dragon attack while it stays in the row?
- When do Arrive and Acquire effects happen relative to a dragon attack?
- What happens to Ghost cubes after they're drawn?
- Do black cubes drawn from the bag go back into it?
- Is there a way to get the fifth Ghost cube into play in the base game?
- What do escaped or knocked-out players do on their turns, and is there a countdown?
Health and Damage
- When I heal a black cube off my Health Meter, where does it go?
- Can I take damage that would knock me out, such as crossing a monster tunnel?
- When can I discard a Black or White Tourmaline to block Ghost damage?
- How much do Bard cards heal, and does later Clank removal undo it?
- Does Souldrinker heal once or once per monster?
Game End and Scoring
- If I'm knocked out with an Artifact, do I still score?
- Can I escape the catacombs without an Artifact?
- Can I grab an Artifact and leave immediately?
- What ends the game besides everyone escaping or being knocked out?
- Does the game end if an escaped or knocked-out player's cube draw empties the bag?
- If everyone is knocked out in the Depths, does anyone win?
- After I escape, can I still play or buy cards?
- Do 'each player' effects affect escaped or knocked-out players, and does one count as 'not alone' on a tile?
- What counts toward my final score?
Token Reference Guide
- Do I have to use a secret or token the turn I get it?
- Must I trash a card with a Magic Spring?
- Does the Catacombs Map last all game?
- When can I buy the Blood Amulet?
- Is the Golden Monkey Bot a prisoner or a Monkey Idol?
- How many points do the Prince and Princess score?
- Does Puzzle Box let me choose which major secret I take?
Solo Campaign and App
- Is there an official solo mode without the Dire Wolf app?
- Can the Dire Wolf app's solo campaign use the expansions?
- In solo collapse instructions, does 'starter tile' mean the Double-Sided Starting Tile?
- What happens if a collapse traps me in solo mode?
- Does a Wayshrine marked on a collapsed tile still count for rewards?
- Does the solo campaign carry anything over between chapters?
- In solo scenario 1, how many purple tiles stay on top before the Depths?
- What do I enter in the app's score screen for Secret Tomes and Gems?
- Is the nearest tile for a Collapse only orthogonal?
Clank!: Catacombs – Lairs and Lost ChambersExpansion
- Can I enter Medusa's Lair, take the 2 damage and claim the artifact without fighting her?
- Do I have to fight the monster when I enter a lair by boots or teleport?
- After I defeat a Living Statue, do I have to teleport?
- If I'm knocked out with a Mechanical Donkey but no artifact, do I score?
- Does a card that ignores Crystal Caves apply to a Pit Trap?
- Should I discover tiles before playing cards when a Pit Trap is near?
- Do Entry Tunnel placement rules apply when a tile is revealed by teleport or a monster/card effect?
- If the only entry tunnel leads into a Pit Trap that knocks me out, am I knocked out?
- Can I place a new tile so my tunnel continues into another new tile?
Clank!: Catacombs – UnderworldExpansion
- Does the Underworld Guardian count as an artifact for leaving the catacombs and for artifact multipliers?
- When a fate room has a harpy and a minor secret, which resolves first?
- Do Undercoins count as gold for Hoard Keeper, Wheel of Fortune, Mechanical Donkey and so on?
- Can I use Magic Spring to trash a card right away?
- Can I swap my Fate card when I enter another Fate room?
- Does the Underworld count as the Depths for card effects?
- Where does Nether Titan go?
- Can I take an Artifact from the Underworld with Altar of the Haunted?
- Do the Justice fate card and a Backpack stack?
Clank!: Adventuring PartyExpansion
- When can I reveal a React card, and when does its effect resolve?
- Can I react to Whiskers' own dragon attack, and does he take Ghost damage?
- Does Monkeybot Prime remove one cog per dragon attack?
- When does D'allan's Find react trigger?
- Do Adventuring Party silver Artifacts advance the Rage Track?
- How many Artifacts do I use when combining with Catacombs?
- Where do Adventuring Party minor secrets go?
- Can I use the Cloak of Invisibility with 4 or fewer players?
- How do Agnet's conscription tokens, Defensive Position and Inspire work?
- How do Lenara's Channel and Levitate work?