How farmers work in Carcassonne

[@nikilong987]

You are an absolute SAINT!!!! I've been avoiding playing Carcassonne with farmers and fields for literally almost two years because I have never had it explained to me in a way that made sense. I understood your explanation immediately though! If people in the future read this comment, the key to teaching someone or learning about farmers and fields is that the Meeple stay there until the end of the game.

[@TheDarkImp]

Glad I could help!

[@nidp226]

This was so helpful, thank you!

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome. :)

[@viccazza]

Excellent video, we were stuck on the scoring part your explanation is perfect, we were using farmers but had no idea how to point them, we do now! Thanks

[@TheDarkImp]

Ah, terrific. Glad the video is helpful.

[@lauraillustration]

Looked everywhere for a clear explanation about the farmers. Thank you! 👍

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome :)

[@ksweet8994]

Best video explaining farmers! Helped us a lot. Thank you :)

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you. I think I may have found my calling. It's quite niche, but I'll take it. From now on I'm a professional Carcassonne Farmer Explainer.

[@StreetFightWCRS]

This was a perfect explanation and I love the style. You’re killing it.

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful.

[@luccamathias9942]

instablaster

[@MrTimstarling]

I finally understand how farmers score. Thank you

[@TheDarkImp]

Ah, that's great. Thanks.

[@ianw0ng]

thank you for the clear explanation. i have just started playing this with my kids.

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome. Enjoy the game :)

[@keithhainzl8813]

Very good explanation! Scoring farmers in Carcassonne is almost rocket science!! 🤯🤯

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you. I'll try explaining rocket science in the next video :D

[@keithhainzl8813]

@@TheDarkImp It will be far less complex, that's for certain! 👍

[@anila23]

I had some confusions regarding the farmer scoring but your tutorial helped a lot. Thanks!

[@TheDarkImp]

I'm so pleased it's helped. Thanks for commenting.

[@TheLooking4sunset]

Clear and excellent

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you :) So pleased it was helpful.

[@cipriancaraba9824]

The Best explanation about how farmers works!

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you! Glad to be of service.

[@cipriancaraba9824]

@@TheDarkImp i have The game from sometimes,and my family just prefered catan. After i saw your describing,i am ready and pleased to introduce this new game.I'm sure that is a great gameboard.

[@TheDarkImp]

@@cipriancaraba9824 Fabulous.

[@hardlum]

Thorough and helpful. Thank you!

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you. I'm glad it was useful.

[@rosevanhilst9866]

This was very clear so hoping you can help re the Abbott and the Garden. Two conflicting sets of official written Rules: one says any meeple can be played on a garden while the other says, quite specifically, that only the Abbott can be played on a garden. Would really love to get your view. Many thanks.

[@TheDarkImp]

Hi Rose, Thanks for your message. Always so helpful when rules contradict themselves in different versions! There are multiple versions of the Carcassonne rules which tend to confuse people and sometimes spark disagreements. I play that the abbot only can go in the gardens. The Carcassonne app also has this rule.

[@umyeahashleigh]

this was super helpful thanks, really struggled to get my head around this previously!

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome. So pleased it helped to clarify things.

[@xXReeseXx-fc2dj]

Incredible helpful! Thank you so much

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome. Glad it's useful.

[@MariusOlbert]

Thanks great explanation

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome.

[@I.PittyTheFool]

Thanks! Very helpful!

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.

[@alessiaruffini3692]

Thank you, I am new to the game and always ended up missing out on so many points for not using the farmers. Do you have a similar video on abbots?

[@TheDarkImp]

I'm afraid I don't have an abbots video. However, from memory, the Abbot works like a monk but you may remove it before it is completely surrounded. You can only place OR remove the abbot on a single turn, you can't score it then move it somewhere else on the same turn.

[@sherrioster7012]

Thank you so much! You made this very clear.

[@TheDarkImp]

You're very welcome!

[@mandosmo]

The was really bloody good thank you.

[@TheDarkImp]

Glad it was helpful :)

[@Physiology-E-Paathshala]

Well explained lady..

[@TheDarkImp]

Thank you :)

[@patrickraedler3656]

Thank you for this, it's really useful :)

[@TheDarkImp]

You're welcome. Glad it's useful.

[@TheGMEM]

I'm never gonna be able to explain this to my friends lol. At least I get it now, thanks

[@TheDarkImp]

Show them this video!

[@sauce773]

I learned how to play farmers by playing on pc and there's an option to turn on farmer territory and highlights your land with your color.

[@TheDarkImp]

Yes, the app does that too. It's sooooo handy!

[@marcosbaez4670]

What if you have two of your own farmers on the same field? Do you score once or twice?

[@TheDarkImp]

You are just trying to get a majority of your farmers in a field. Each field only scores once (though it is possible for multiple players to all score the field if they each have the same number of farmers). If you have two farmers in a field and that is more than all other players in the same field, only you score the field and you score it once.

[@jonathanfryer1319]

Fab. 👍

[@vegaa]

Farmers are too OP if you don't play with same one at exactly same level as you.

[@TheDarkImp]

They can be, for sure. But I've found that it's pretty easy to beat beginners just by conducting hostile takeovers of cities and roads anyway. So I guess the whole game favours those with experience. What do you think?