Viticulture: Essential Edition Gameplay Overview
Actions
- Spring: Wake-up Chart — Each player chooses turn order for the year by placing their rooster on an unoccupied spot on the wake-up chart.
- Summer Actions — In turn order, place workers on yellow action spaces. Players may pass but then cannot take more summer actions.
- Draw Vine Card — Draw one vine card from the vine deck.
- Play Summer Visitor — Discard and take the action(s) on one summer visitor card in any order.
- Plant Vine — Plant one vine card from your hand in any field.
- Build One Structure — Build one vineyard structure by paying its lira cost and placing the corresponding token on your mat.
- Sell Grapes — Sell (and discard) any number of grapes for the prices indicated next to the grape value on the crush pad.
- Give a Vineyard Tour — Gain 2 lira by giving a tour of your vineyard.
- Fall: Draw Visitor Cards — Each player draws one summer or winter visitor card.
- Winter Actions — In turn order, place workers on blue action spaces. Players may pass but then cannot take more winter actions.
- Draw Wine Order Card — Draw one wine order card.
- Play Winter Visitor — Discard and take the action(s) on one winter visitor card.
- Harvest One Field — Place grape tokens on the crush pad from a single field.
- Make Wine — Convert grape tokens on the crush pad into up to two wine tokens.
- Fill One Wine Order — Discard one wine order card and the matching wines to gain VP and increase residual payments.
- Train a Worker — Pay 4 lira to add one worker from your reserve pool to this space.
- Gain 1 Lira (for Help) — Place a worker to gain 1 lira. Available in both summer and winter.
- Yoke Actions — Available only to a player who has built a Yoke. Take either Uproot or Harvest once per year.
- End of Year — After all players have passed their winter actions, complete the end-of-year maintenance steps.
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