- Publisher : Intrafin Games
- Designer(s) : Ross Arnold, Vladimír Suchý
- Artist(s) : Michal Peichl
- Players : 1–4
- Playing time : 60–120 Min
- Weight BGG : 3.84
What's this?
Welcome to Woodcraft, where you can create furniture, musical instruments and other practical and aesthetic objects from simple pieces of wood.
How do you play?
Your turn:
– If you have planted trees in pots, they grow.
-Players select an action tile and have the possibility of receiving bonuses on the dice wheel. main board action.
– You can acquire victory points.
Player actions include:
➡️ Collect dice. : These dice are mainly used to complete orders and obtain victory points.
➡️ Buy tools: You have the possibility to buy tools to improve your workshop and facilitate the collection of resources.
➡️ Get new orders.
➡️ Sell dice.
➡️ Recruit new assistants, with permanent or immediate powers.
➡️ Plant trees in pots and put your assistants to work.
➡️ Improve your workshop by making various improvements.
In addition to their main action, players can perform free actions, and these can be completed in any order.
Collected resources can be used to complete orders and obtain points. Additionally, players can earn points when the income phase, which occurs every four turns.
During this phase, players obtain additional resources and points based on their position on the income board.
Is it good?
Woodcraft is another excellent game from the famous Vladimír Suchý. In Woodcraft we find interesting elements, such as the wheel action system, which greatly reminds us of his other game, Praga caput regni.
There are many things to take into account in the game: all the mechanics of planting dice to grow and cut, hiring assistants, collecting new orders to fill, improving your workshop, filling the attic, and above all, don’t forget to get on the reputation track.
The problem is that we don’t have many turns to do everything, the game is tense, which requires constant anticipation and optimize your actions to accomplish as much as possible in a few turns.
Woodcraft offers great depth of play with its theme and some original mechanics. I recommend it.
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Review Woodcraft
Positives
- An original theme
- Mechanics that work well
- Some combos
- A nice depth
Negatives
- A tense and laborious game which may discourage some
Breakdown
- Components and illustrations 7.5
- Mechanics 8.5
- Theme 7.5
- Replayability 8.0
- Handling 8.0
- Interaction 8.0
- Originality 8.5
