Step by Step Catan Set Up Guide

Set up larger hexagon blue sea tiles and the island with terrain tiles.
Place the 19 hexagon terrain tiles randomly in the larger hexagon.

Place robber piece on Desert Tile.
Randomly placing the harbour pieces on top of each harbour on the sea frame.

Sort tokens letter side up. Starting at the corner of the island, place 1 token on each terrain hex in alphabetical order (printed on the other side), proceeding counter-clockwise toward the center. Skip the desert.

Shuffle each type of resource cards and place each stack next to the board
Place development cards next to stack of resource cards
Place special cards “Longest Road” and “Largest Army” beside gameboard.

Each player will select a colour and take corresponding building cost card and 5 Settlements, 4 Cities, 15 roads.

The player with highest dice roll starts the round. The player builds a settlement by placing the piece on empty intersection on terrain tiles and builds a road by placing piece adjacent to the settlement. Next player sitting clockwise starts to build. The distance rule applies where you can only build on an open intersection and none of the 3 adjacent intersections contains a settlement or city.

Player who went last in 1st round begins round 2 by building 2nd settlement and adjacent road. Next player counter clockwise does the same till everyone has built their 2nd set.

Each player collects the relevant resource cards for each terrain hex tile surrounding a player’s settlement on the game board.
Hills Terrain = Brick Resource Card
Pasture Terrain = Wool Resource Card
Mountains Terrain = Coal Resource Card
Fields Terrain = Grain Resource Card
Forest Terrain = Lumber Resource Card
Desert Terrain = no resource card