Each player may build each building only once. When at least one colonist is in the building, it is considered occupied. Only occupied buildings have any value.

A building is placed on an empty city space. A large building requires two adjacent empty city spaces. Where a building is placed in the city has no bearing on the game.

A building may be moved within the city to make room for a large building. However, as with the plantation and quarry tiles on the island, a player may not remove a building from his city.

The red-brown number in the upper right corner of each building indicates how many victory points the building is worth (occupied or unoccupied) at the end of the game. The number in the first circle is the cost to build the building. Once built, the building cost has no further role in the game.

The production buildings

(blue, white, light and dark brown cards)

The production buildings are required, together with the plantations, for the production of certain goods:

• In the indigo processing plants, the indigo plants are processed to produce indigo dye (blue goods barrels).
• In the sugar mills, the sugar canes are processed into sugar (white goods barrels).
• In the tobacco storage, the tobacco leaves are shredded into tobacco (light brown barrels).
• In the coffee roasters, the coffee beans are roasted into coffee (dark brown barrels).

Note: there is no production facility needed for the corn. Corn (yellow barrels) come directly from the plantation without any need for processing. That means that, in the craftsman phase, occupied corn plantations produce corn (yellow barrels) directly.

The number of circles on the production buildings indicates the maximum number of goods the building can produce when the circles have colonists on them. Of course, the player must also have sufficient occupied plantations of the appropriate kind to produce the raw materials needed to produce the goods in the production buildings.

The violet or beige buildings

There are 17 different violet buildings: two each of the 12 small buildings and one each of the 5 large buildings.

The special functions of the violet buildings tend to allow players to break the normal game rules. So, for example, the owner of an occupied office may sell a kind of goods to the trading house that is already there.

A player is not required to use the special function of an occupied violet building if he does not want to (important with the wharf, see below).

Small market

When the owner of an occupied small market sells a good in the trader phase, he gets an extra doubloon from the bank for it.

Example: Anna sells a corn and receives 1 doubloon.

Hacienda

On his turn in the settler phase, the owner of an occupied hacienda may, before he takes a face-up plantation tile, take an additional tile from the face-down stack (the top-most) and place it on an empty space on his island. He may then take his normal turn in the phase.

Note: if a player chooses to take a face-down tile, he must immediately place it on an empty space on his island. He may not discard it. If the player also owns an occupied construction hut, he may not take a quarry instead of the face-down tile. Thus, if the settler owns a hacienda, he may only take one quarry.

Construction hut

In the settler phase, the owner of an occupied construction hut, can place a quarry on his island instead of one of the face-up plantation tiles.

Note: if the settler owns a construction hut, he may only take one quarry.

Small warehouse

As described under the captain, players must store their unloaded goods at the end of the captain phase. If a player does not have sufficient storage space, he must return the goods to the goods supplies. The owner of an occupied small warehouse may store, at the end of the captain phase, in addition to the single goods barrel he is allowed to store on his windrose, all the barrels of one kind of goods that he chooses.

The warehouse protects the player from returning goods to the supply. It does not protect the player from being required to load the goods onto the cargo ships.

Note: the goods chosen are not actually stored on the small warehouse tile, but onthe player's windrose.

Hospice

During the settler phase, when the owner of an occupied hospice places a plantation or quarry tile on his island, he may take a colonist from the colonist supply and place it on this tile.

Note: if the player also owns an occupied hacienda and chooses to take the additional face-down or quarry tile, he does not get a colonist for the extra tile. If there are no more colonists in the colonist supply, he may take one from the colonist ship. If there are also none there, he goes without.

Office

When the owner of an occupied office sells a good to the trading house in the trader phase, it need not be different than the goods already there. If the trading house is full, the player cannot sell a good there.

Example: the trading house already has a barrel of tobacco. Bob owns an occupied office and, on his turn, sells a tobacco to the trading house. Chris owns the other office.

On her turn it is occupied, so she too can sell a tobacco to the trading house.

Large market

When the owner of an occupied large market sells a good in the trader phase, he gets an extra 2 doubloons from the bank for it.

Note: if a player owns both a small and large market, he takes an extra 3 doubloons when he sells a good to the trading house.

Large warehouse

The owner of an occupied large warehouse may store, at the end of the captain phase, in addition to the single goods barrel he is allowed to store on his windrose, all the barrels of two kinds of goods that he chooses.

Note: if a player owns both a small and large warehouse, he may store all the barrels of 3 kinds of goods that he chooses.

Factory

If the owner of an occupied factory produces goods of more than one kind in the craftsman phase, he earns money from the bank: for two kinds of goods, he earns 1 doubloon, for three kinds of goods, he earns 2 doubloons, for four kinds of goods, he earns 3 doubloons, and for all five kinds of goods, he earns 5 doubloons. The number of barrels produced plays no role.

Example: David owns an occupied factory, 3 occupied corn plantations, 3 occupied sugar plantations, 1 occupied tobacco plantation, and the associated production buildings with the necessary number of colonists. He produces only 2 sugar barrels and 1 tobacco barrel as there is no corn and only 2 sugar barrels in the supply. He earns 1 doubloon from the bank for producing 2 kinds of goods.

University

During the builder phase, when the owner of an occupied university builds a building in his city, he may take a colonist from the colonist supply and place it on this tile.

Note: if he builds a production building with more than one circle, he gets only one colonist. If there are no more colonists in the colonist supply, he may take one from the colonist ship.

If there are also none there, he goes without.

Harbor

Each time, during the captain phase, the owner of an occupied harbor loads goods on a cargo ship, he earns one extra victory point.

Example: the owner of an occupied harbor (and an occupied wharf) can only load 3 of his 5 tobacco on the "tobacco ship" as those 3 fill it up: he earns 3+1 VP. In his next loading turn, he loads both his 2 sugar on the "sugar ship": he earns 2+1 VP. In his next loading turn, he uses his wharf to put his remaining 2 tobacco in the supply: he earns 2+1 VP. Thus, in this captain phase he has earned an additional 3 VP with the use of his harbor (and 2 VP extra with his wharf).

Wharf

During the captain phase, when a player with an occupied wharf must load goods, instead of loading them on a cargo ship, he may place all goods of one kind in the goods supply and score the appropriate victory points as though he had loaded them on a cargo ship. It is as though the player has an imaginary ship with unlimited capacity at his disposal.

The player must load goods on a cargo ship whenever he can on his turn during the captain phase, except when he chooses to use his wharf and "load" them on his imaginary ship.

The wharf can only be used once per captain phase by its owner, but he may choose when to use it, if at all. This imaginary ship can take any one good, but it may be of a kind on one of the three cargo ships or the other imaginary wharf ship.

Note: when a player uses his wharf, he must load all the goods barrels of the kind he chooses that he has. He is not required, however, to choose the good he has the most of. An imaginary wharf ship has the capacity for 11 barrels.

The large buildings

The following five large buildings occur just once each in the game. Each needs two adjacent city spaces to be built, but it counts as one building.

Note: when, in these rules, "large building" is mentioned, it is the following five buildings that are described.

Guild hall

The owner of the occupied guild hall earns, at game end, an additional 1 VP for each small production building (occupied or unoccupied) in his city (=small indigo plant and small sugar mill), and an additional 2 VP for each large production building (occupied or unoccupied) in his city (= indigo plant, sugar mill, tobacco storage, and coffee roaster).

Example: at game end, the owner of the occupied guild hall also has a small and large sugar mill, a small indigo plant, and a coffee roaster in his city: he earns an additional 6 VP.

Residence

The owner of the occupied residence earns, at game end, additional victory points for the plantations and quarries he has placed on his island. For up to nine filled island spaces, he earns 4 VP, for ten filled island spaces, he earns 5 VP, for eleven filled island spaces, he earns 6 VP, and for all twelve spaces filled, he earns 7 VP.

Example: at game end, the owner of the occupied residence has filled 10 of his 12 island spaces with plantations and quarries: he earns an additional 5 VP.

Fortress

The owner of the occupied fortress earns, at game end, one additional victory point for every three colonists on his player board.

Example: at game end, the owner of the occupied fortress has a total of 20 colonists on his plantations, quarries, buildings, and in San Juan: he earns an additional 6 VP.

Customs house

The owner of the occupied customs house earns, at game end, one additional victory point for every four victory points he acquired during the game. The player should count only his victory point chips (and any extra victory points recorded on paper after the chip supply was exhausted, but before game end).

He does not use victory points earned for his buildings at game end.

Example: at game end, the owner of the occupied customs house has accumulated 23 victory points in VP chips: he earns an additional 5 VP.

City hall

The owner of the occupied city hall earns, at game end, one additional victory point for each violet building (occupied or unoccupied) in his city (city hall counts).

Example: at game end, the owner of the occupied city hall also has: hacienda, harbor, office, construction hut, large warehouse, and residence: he earns an additional 7 VP.

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