Taluva FAQ
47 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Goal and early victory
- Does a player win immediately once they have built every piece of two building types?
- If the last volcano tile completes a player's second building type, does that player win?
- Do huts destroyed by a volcanic eruption still count toward a building-type win?
- If players tie on temples, towers and huts, do the tied players share the win?
Turn structure
Volcano tiles and eruptions
- How many tiles must a volcano tile cover, and may it cover other volcanoes?
- Can a volcano tile be placed on top of another volcano, and how must it be turned?
- Can a volcano tile be placed where no volcano lies beneath it, or over a gap in the tiles?
- Do the touching edges of a new tile have to show the same terrain?
- Must all three hexes of a placed tile be at the same level?
- Can a volcano tile be placed over a temple or a tower?
- Can a volcano tile wipe out a whole settlement, including one made of a single hut?
- Where do huts go when a new volcano tile covers them?
Building huts, towers and temples
- Can you build on lake hexes?
- Can two players each place a tower on the same tile?
- Can you build a single level-1 hut next to your own settlement without it counting as an expansion?
- How big must a settlement be before you can build a temple, and do towers and temples count toward that size?
- Can a new temple or tower join two settlements when the other one already has that building?
- Can a settlement that already has a tower take a second tower?
- Can a hut be built on a higher level, or can a new settlement start above level 1?
Settlements and levels
- Do adjacent settlements of your colour merge once a build is finished?
- Can a merged settlement end up with two towers, or two temples?
- Can you build next to another player's settlement, and do the two merge?
- Can a single tower or temple count as a settlement on its own?
- Can a tower be built next to a settlement made only of a temple?
- If an eruption cuts a tower or temple off from its huts, is it still a settlement?
- Can you split your own settlement so you can build another tower and temple?
- Are hexes on different levels adjacent to each other?
- Are building levels counted from the table, or relative to a hut?
- Can levels go above 3, and can towers or temples sit there?
Expanding a settlement
- Can you choose an expansion you lack the huts to complete, even to end the game?
- Do occupied hexes of the chosen terrain block an expansion?
- Can you expand onto a terrain type that touches only one hex of your settlement, or one that lies between two of your settlements?
- Can you choose a terrain type that has no hexes next to your settlement, so you place zero huts?
- When expanding, does every adjacent hex of the chosen terrain get huts, or can you expand partway?
- Can the same settlement expand onto a different terrain type on a later turn?
- Does an expansion reach hexes that the new huts touch?
- How many huts go on each hex when you expand onto a higher level?
- Can a settlement made of a single hut be expanded?