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How many settlements and cities can you have, and what happens at the limit?

The build section fixes the piece supply, and the posts agree that upgrading frees a settlement.

  • CATAN rulebook · Rulebook · Build (Building)
  • AlexYeager · Community · 2008-12-09
  • joeMLF · Community · 2014-10-25
  • Karlsen · Community · 2015-06-02

At most five settlements, four cities and fifteen roads, all from your supply. To place a sixth settlement, upgrade one of yours to a city, which returns its settlement piece to your supply.

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