Cacao FAQ
25 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Set Up
Course of the Game
- Can you choose the order of actions for workers on a newly placed worker tile and on earlier worker tiles?
- Do you still carry out jungle tile actions when no jungle space was filled that turn?
- Can you store and harvest more than 5 cacao fruits in one action if you could sell some in the same turn?
- Can you use fewer workers than are adjacent to a tile when activating them?
- Can you build over one of your own worker tiles once the jungle pile is empty, and is that an official rule?
- Does a sun token only allow overbuilding after the jungle tile stack and display run out?
- Can a worker tile be overbuilt more than once with sun tokens?
- If you overbuild next to a sun-worshiping site, do you get a sun token back?
- Can a sun token go unused if the game has few overbuilding rounds?
- Does overbuilding a worker tile next to a water tile move my water carrier backward?
- When do you place a jungle tile, and must you place one every turn?
- Does a newly placed jungle tile activate workers on worker tiles beside it?
Scoring
Cacao: ChocolatlExpansion
- Can you skip some of the workers when the watering module moves the water carrier?
- Do the Chocolatl chocolate and irrigation module tiles replace original jungle tiles?
- Is the Chocolatl Shaman hut (overbuild without returning a sun token) permanent, and does it need sun tokens?
- Does chocolate count toward the tiebreaker in Cacao: Chocolatl?
- Do you give up cacao beans to use a hut that pays gold for leftover beans, and can you own two huts with the same function?
- Does an overplayed worker tile count as two tiles for the Road Worker hut?
- Can a Chocolatl maps-module turn place more than two jungle tiles, and where do the extra ones come from?
- Is the Big Market promo tile swapped for a 3-coin or a 2-coin bean market when you play with Chocolatl?
- How is the two-player setup done when playing with Cacao: Chocolatl?