Nusfjord FAQ
99 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup, components and variants
- How many A, B and C buildings are in each building deck?
- How do I know which Elder cards to use for my player count?
- How do you set up Elders 13 to 18 in a 5-player game?
- How do you tell which building deck a card belongs to?
- What do the coloured squares behind the letters on building cards mean?
- What are the Carver, Woodcarver and Boatcarver buildings?
- Are fish, wood, gold or Forests limited by the components?
- Can you mix building cards from the three decks in one game?
Course of play
Fishing phase
- Where do fish on shares go at the end of the Fishing Phase?
- In what order do you distribute fish in the Fishing Phase?
- If you run out of fish during the Fishing Phase, which Elders or shares get the last fish?
- What happens when an Elder collects a third fish during the Fishing Phase?
- What is haul size, and what does the maximum of 12 mean?
- Can a ship cover the last, darker 12 space at the end of the fishing track?
- Do you get fish from other players for shares of theirs that sit on your board?
- Does wood or gold in your Reserve count toward the 8-fish limit?
- How does Fisher's Cottage work when distributing fish?
Buildings and ships
- Do Joinery and Fisher's House trigger on the turn they are built?
- Does Fisher's House still give gold for the plate it serves?
- Can you pay either cost on a ship that lists two options, such as the Schooner?
- Do Wet Lodge and Dairy trigger if you build them while your reserve is already empty?
- If you build a Wet Storage when your reserve is already empty, do you still get its 3 wood?
- If two buildings both trigger when your reserve becomes empty, do you get both benefits?
- Can resources a building gives you before you build pay for the ship you are building?
- In what order do building effects resolve after you build, for example Joinery, Lighthouse and Dairy?
- Does the Catboat count toward the Boatcarver's six ships in a 1- or 2-player game?
- Can a building be placed over the reserve space or on the fishing track instead of a building space?
- Do buildings with a ship in the cost return that ship to the supply?
- Can you take Build a Ship without wood when an earlier building effect gives you wood to pay?
- Does the Wharf build a schooner when none are left in the supply?
- Does the Wharf's schooner trigger when your haul size reaches 10?
- With Supply Storage in play, what does the Fishhouse cost when it uses your haul size?
- Can you build C buildings from your hand, and are A and B buildings buildable all game?
- Can the Arboretum be used to take just one Reforest action instead of two?
- Does Forest Lake Hut trigger after each Reforest action taken through the Arboretum?
- Does the Dockhouse's empty-reserve condition refer to the Reserve on your Harbor board?
- How much gold does the Theater building cost?
Elders and serving fish
- When serving fish, does Fish Basin's bonus fish come before or after the gold for served plates?
- Can a plate hold more than one fish, and how many plates can one Serve Fish action fill?
- Do you need a fish from the Banquet Table to take or use an Elder?
- When a third fish lands on an Elder during a Work Phase, do you resolve the fish or the Elder's action first?
- Can you collect a building's once-only reward between taking an Elder and using it?
- What does the Sailor Elder give per plate served?
- When Village Center lets you take an Elder, do you place a fish to use it?
- Can you use the same Elder twice in one round?
- Do buildings still in your hand count toward Pond Builder's fish reward?
- Does the Builder Elder still give wood and let you build if you cannot remove a forest?
- When an Elder lets you build a ship or building, do you still pay its costs?
Shares and gold
- Can you issue a share that is already issued?
- Can players sell or trade shares to each other?
- Do Goldsmith and Office stack when you issue two shares?
- Does Laborer Square let you exchange gold more than once when one action issues several shares?
- Does the gold you pay when you buy shares from the bank go to the general supply?
- Can gold be used as a wild resource in place of wood or fish?
- Do you start the game with any gold?
Forests, wood and the reserve
- Can you place new forests on top of existing forests when you take a Reforest action?
- Do stacked forest tiles each count for Thin Out wood and per-forest points?
- When the Lighthouse empties your reserve, where do the goods go, and can you transfer right after building it?
- If fish from the Fishing Phase would overflow an 8-fish Reserve with Lighthouse in play, what happens?
- Does wood above 12 in your Personal Supply go into your Reserve, and where does Deforest's wood go?
- Which buildings can put wood or fish into your Reserve?
- Can you spend fish or wood in your Reserve to pay for buildings, ships or Serve Fish?
- Does Deforest remove a single tile even when it is stacked, and what does a lone forest mean?
- When a building gives a free Transfer Reserve at 8 fish in your reserve, does it trigger before or after the extra fish?
Game end and scoring
- Do shares sitting on the Action Board count toward the Manor's 7 VP?
- Does a Stilt House count as a building for Rich Forest's end-game scoring?
- Does Longhouse's end-game scoring affect other players' issued shares?
- Does the Hermitage's no-VP-for-gold effect apply to all players or only the one who built it?
- Does the Depot score 6 VP when you have both 12 wood and 15 gold?
- Is gold left in your Reserve scored at the end of the game?
Solo game
- How does the Manor score in a solo game?
- How do the buildings carry over across the three solo campaign games?
- What does the Fishhouse cost in a solo game?
- In the advanced solo game, which shares are used, and how do blue and yellow workers affect them?
- In solo, how are shares handled when you control the blue workers?
- How many C buildings are used in a solo game, and where do they go?
- Which side of the Imitation tile is used in a solo game?
- Can you use the Copy (Imitation) action in a solo game?
- In solo play, can a space that holds two or three workers take more than one of your workers?
- How many fish and ships do you set up for a solo game?
- In solo play, can you use an Elder that already has a worker of the other colour on it?
- In the solo Returning Home Phase, what happens to workers on Elder spaces?
- After a solo game, do you score one player board or two?
- In a solo game, do shares you issue stay in foreign possession until you buy them back?
Nusfjord: Expansion Pack #2 – Trout Deck and Besøkende DeckExpansion
- Does Senior Residence's +1 gold trigger when you take an Elder and use it with your first worker?
- How do you use Art Sculpture in a solo game?
- What happens to a guest on a ship when you exchange that ship for a Harbor Master?
- What happens to your worker on an Elder when that Elder is returned?
- Does spending a Guest to cut the wood cost of Queuing Barriers also reduce its gold cost?
- Which expansion deck uses the guest tokens?
- In what order does Fisherman's Cabin distribute your catch?
- In solo play, can you place a worker on Alderman's Office every round to take an Elder without fish?