Above and Below

You must send at least two villagers to explore, but you may send any number more and you roll one die per villager sent (page 6).

Each villager’s die yields lanterns according to the thresholds on the cave card (low rolls give 1 lantern, high rolls give 2 — there is no zero), and you sum those lanterns to meet an explore number; you may then Exert villagers (move them to your injured area) to gain +1 lantern each (pages 6 and 8).

If you fail you gain no rewards, move any villagers remaining on the cave card to your exhausted area, and place the cave card on the bottom of the cave deck; apply any failure penalties printed in the encounter paragraph (page 8).

Free actions may be performed any time before you take a normal action on your turn, but once you perform a normal action you may not take any free actions until a later turn (page 9).

At round end you may first spend potions (move one injured→exhausted per potion) and ciders (move one exhausted→ready per cider); then each bed on your buildings lets you move one villager up one area (injured→exhausted or exhausted→ready); note some villagers (e.g., Metal Man) are exceptions (pages 10 and 12).

Place goods left-to-right on the advancement track; the rightmost filled slot determines your current per-round income (the number at the top right of that slot), while the left number above each slot is the endgame points per good in that slot, and goods placed there cannot be removed (pages 12 and 10).