Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a worker-placement board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg and published in 2013, in which players guide a family of dwarves developing a cave dwelling and the surrounding farmland into a productive settlement. Considered a successor to Rosenberg's earlier game Agricola, it expands the worker-placement formula with cave excavation, weapon crafting, and dwarven adventuring alongside traditional farming and livestock actions. The game supports a wide range of player counts and is noted for the depth of long-term strategic planning it demands from its many available actions.
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1. Caverna (board game) (Wikipedia)
Introduction
Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a 2013 board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a complex worker placement strategy game that shares similarities in gameplay and theme with his earlier board game, Agricola, The game's theme revolves around helping a small dwarf family to settle a cave and nearby woodlands and to develop the setting through furnishing caves as well as converting forests into meadows, fields and pastures.
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