Creature Caravan
82 questions players ask about Creature Caravan. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-05.
Setup and Components
Turn Structure and Free Actions
- Do you place all dice first, or resolve each action before placing the next die?
- Can you add more than one creature to your caravan in one turn?
- Is there a limit on free actions such as discarding cards for food or coins?
- What is the caravan card limit, and do Wanderers items count?
- Can you discard a card from your caravan, and which cards allow it?
- What happens to the die and any fruit when you discard a card from your caravan?
Dice, Actions and Movement
- Must you take every benefit of an action, or can you do only part of it?
- On Birdfolk Orator, do you pay the bag to gain the 2 coins from the 6 die?
- Can an effect that adds to a die push it above 6?
- Can two different cards that each raise dice by one be used together?
- How does an empty die box on an attack action work?
- Can one movement take you two spaces or diagonally?
- What is the difference between the movement on Lizard Rider and Work Crew?
- Must Lizard Rider be resolved in printed order, and can it be used if one effect is impossible?
- Do a "+1" movement bonus and a terrain-icon movement bonus mean the same thing?
- What dice does the player board travel-to-any-terrain action need?
Attacking Zombies
- Can you attack a zombie after moving off the threat space, or from any space?
- Do you need a zombie token to attack a zombie?
- Can you attack more than one zombie in a turn, or fight and keep moving?
- When you attack several zombies, does each attack discard a zombie token?
- Can you combine dice from several attack actions against one zombie?
- Must you attack the strongest zombie your dice can beat?
- Can you stop mid-move to fight a zombie you pass?
Market and Zombie Boards
Map, Camps and Eastrey
- Does Stoic Sphynx's diagonal move need a die placed on the card?
- Do you take a zombie token passing through a threat space where you already have a camp?
- Can you leave a threat space and re-enter it for another zombie token?
- Does picking up a zombie token stop your movement?
- Is Eastrey a plains space?
- Can you collect a white tower, fruit or treasure reward again with a second camp there?
- Does Toadfolk Fisher pay each time you enter a lake, including the same space?
Cards, Fruit and Costs
- When a card gives you an extra die, can you roll and place it the same turn?
- Can a card hold more than one fruit?
- What does a fruit on a card do to its die requirement?
- Can you place fruit on a Machine card?
- Can you play Grasskin Queen with a full caravan?
- Does a cost discount like "0 if 3+ magic" also reduce coins and bags?
- Does a card count itself toward its own discount?
- Does a card's "each time you play" effect trigger on itself?
- Does placing a die on a card count as playing it?
- Does a +1 attack bonus on a creature apply if you place no die on it?
Scoring
Solo Mode
- When the solo bot picks the highest-VP card, how are modifiers handled?
- How do the solo bot's combat dice work, and what if it has none on the 4?
- How does the solo bot assign dice?
- Does the solo bot take zombie tokens?
- Which pair does the bot take if it rolls several?
- Does the bot's double-1 space need two dice showing 1?
- What does the solo bot do on a 3 if six drawn cards do not match?
- Does an open-ended bonus like "1 per folk" count as an incomplete set for the bot?
- Does the solo bot get fruit or treasure again for repeat camps on the same space?
- Where does the bot place its market cube?
Creature Caravan: WanderersExpansion
- How do you add the Wanderers expansion cards to the game?
- Does Oil Being copy the bonus of an item attached to a creature?
- Does moving a camp with Ether Ring trigger the new space's reward?
- If a fruit lowers a creature's die requirement, does an attached item bonus still need the real die value?
- If you discard a creature with an attached item, is the item discarded too?
- Can an item be attached to a creature that has no die space?
- Does Huge Mallet change other players' food costs?
- Which bot board is used with the Wanderers solo rules?