#127248: "Only 4 settlements allowed instead of 5 after a barbican attack followed by city rebuilding"
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• Please copy/paste the error message you see on your screen, if applicable.
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
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Yes, move 323
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Safari v17.5
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In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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• Which part of the rules was not followed by the BGA adaptation?
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
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• Is the rules violation visible on game replay? If yes, at which move number?
Yes, move 323
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Safari v17.5
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• What was the game action you wanted to do?
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
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• What did you try to do to trigger this game action?
Yes, move 323
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• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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• At which step of the game did the problem occur? What was the current game instruction?
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
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• What happened when you tried to do this game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
Yes, move 323
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here. Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
In catan cities and knights, a maximum of 5 settlements and 4 cities are allowed. One player whose city was pillaged and reduced to a settlement had rebuilt the settlement to a city, so the cities built increased to 1 but available settlements remained 0 and the player now had only 4 settlements, 1 city but 0 settlements left to build
• Which browser are you using?
Safari v17.5
Report history
turn 467 for blue
refresh doesnt resolve issue, and it affects game play
i didnt realize i was down to 4 settlements (same circumstances, lost city, build 5 settlements, rebuild city but did not get a settlement back to my supply). It occurred again after i built 2nd city, so am now down to 3 settlements supply
imgur.com/a/zjaMQQR
than i built 5 villages
than a town
i dont get my village back
Table #571451209
Move #358
Microsoft Edge ver129.0.2792.79 (64bit)
Total number of cities was correct for all users. All 3 users in the game could see the same 0 remaining settlements for the affected user, even after an F5 refresh for all of us, and the user couldn't build their 5th settlement, so I'm guessing it's a server-side bug, but maybe triggered by the way the data was sent by the browser.
Table #579608263; current turn #495 issue probably occurred around #475 or before but couldn't go back that far in the history.
F5 did not solve the issue
Frequency Unknown but seems often given the response.
imgur.com/a/XfAXifU
F5 didn't solve the problem
imgur.com/a/Pia8u0z
Earlier i had lost my city due to barbarian attack. Now my total number of settlements is 4 instead of 5.
I got to know that when in the situation in the imgur URL above, i wanted to build a 5th settlement at the brick port: there was no option to do that, the game automatically placed a knight instead of a settlement.
I also just posted it at boardgamearena.com/bug?id=74816
Table #615897609
Move #241
Progression 55%
Please help as its a long turnbased game.
Same problem repeated itself a 2nd time in the same game (650369104). I now have 2 city's and 4 settlement on the field. The game does not give me the possibility to build a 5th settlement.
I noticed the log says:
"Animal Hunter has more then 5 settlements due to a previous barbaric attack" (I translated from German, original English text might sound different)
This log does not make any sense and it shows that something is wrong with the count of the settlements after a barbaric attack, loosing a city and then rebuilding it.
F5 didn't help. No matter at which position I tried to build my 2nd city.
Early in the game i lost my city. Later I rebuilt a city, I guess it was at the same position.
Later I had built all my 5 settlements + 1 city. Then I upgraded a settlement to city, but still had no settlements instead of 1. The log said (in my own, Dutch language):
SvenOver has more than 5 settlements due to a previous pillagement.
Followed by:
SvenOver upgrades a settlement to a city for 2 grain 2 ore.
So in my case, it seems to have to do with my city loss too.
imgur.com/a/XWJ69Zl
ADDITION to the previous message:
Later, move #444, I upgraded 1 of my then 4 settlements to a city, so then I had 3 settlements and 3 cities on the board. Here the number of settlements available DID change, from 0 to 1. So the increase by 1 DID work this time, although it should have been from 1 to 2 instead of from 0 to 1.
imgur.com/a/wih1Pbt (2 images)
F5 did not solve problem.
Problem appeared multiple times.
Lost city early in game. Had five and ONLY five settlements. After buidling city, my settlement was never put back into play. Four on board, none available.
Later, built second city, that settlement never put back into game. So now two cities, three settlements, none in reserve.
imgur.com/a/table-680116735-iG3P0c9
boardgamearena.com/14/catan?table=687879960
and here is a screenshot:
imgur.com/a/Ae07hHM
White should be able to place a fifth settlement, but that is not allowed as the stock is empty. A city was previously razed and then rebuilt.
boardgamearena.com/6/catan?table=697771010
In the move log for 8/10/2025, appears:
LxLumiere has more than 5 settlements on board due to a previous pillage
LxLumiere upgrades a settlement to a city for...
But that was the first city that LxLumiere built. Other players *had* built cities, and the barbarians *had* visited.
Move #316
Table #742096738
Coup #442
i lost a citie, i didnt rebuild it ever, just built others. i dont know how to check it, but i believe i did built 5 settlements, but after building my first or second city i couldnt build another settlements, ended up with 4 max settlements.
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