The Builder
The builder is a special figure that belongs to each player.
 Instead of placing a meeple, you may place your builder on the tile you just placed, but only on a road or city. Note that you must already have one meeple on the feature in order to place a builder there.
Your builder is always returned to your supply if you no longer have meeples on that feature. This typically occurs after the feature has been scored, but some expansions introduce other ways in which this can happen.
Later on in the game, the builder has the following effect:
If you place a tile that continues
the road or city that your builder occupies, you may immediately draw and place another tile. You must still follow all the normal rules while placing this tile.
- As long as the feature is incomplete, the builder will remain, allowing
you to get a double turn the first time you expand that feature
each turn.
- As long as there is one of your meeples on the feature, your builder will remain. When you have no meeples on the feature, return your builder to your supply.
- During a double turn, you may perform 1.
Place a tile, 2. Place a
meeple and 3. Score a
feature in its first part, and then perform these 3 steps
again in its second part.
- Multiple builders may occupy the same feature.
- There can be any number of tiles between your builder and your highwayman or knight.
- You may place your builder onto a road or city. You may never place your builder onto a monastery or field.
- Features may be scored after the placement of each tile of a double turn. Remember that you must score any features you completed during your turn, even if you don't want to.
The builder has no impact when scoring a feature. Builders are never counted when determining who has control of a feature. Your builder and your meeples are all returned to your supply (as well as any other players' builders or meeples) when the feature they occupy is scored.
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