Independent setup utility

Catan Cities & Knights board generator

Choose one of three supported Cities & Knights combinations and open a fresh starting board for 3 or 4 players. Each page states the required games, target, source pages, and setup limits.

Players: 3–4
Setup mode: Randomized / variable only
Required games: CATAN + Cities & Knights, plus Seafarers for two boards

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Three supported combinations

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Randomized starting setup

Standard Catan

4-player Variable board with Cities & Knights

Generate a fresh board from the authored variable setup.

3–4 players · CATAN + Cities & Knights

Standard Catan + Cities & Knights

The authored Standard Catan board combined with the verified Cities & Knights setup.

Variable board · Target 13 VP

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Randomized starting setup

Heading for New Shores

4-player Variable board with Cities & Knights

Generate a fresh board from the authored variable setup.

3–4 players · CATAN + Seafarers + Cities & Knights

Heading for New Shores + Cities & Knights

The Heading for New Shores board combined with the verified Cities & Knights setup.

Variable board · Target 16 VP

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Randomized starting setup

Through the Desert

4-player Variable board with Cities & Knights

Generate a fresh board from the authored variable setup.

3–4 players · CATAN + Seafarers + Cities & Knights

Through the Desert + Cities & Knights

The Through the Desert board combined with the verified Cities & Knights setup.

Variable board · Target 16 VP

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Questions about this generator

Which Cities & Knights combinations are supported?

The supported combinations are Standard Catan + Cities & Knights, Heading for New Shores + Cities & Knights, and Through the Desert + Cities & Knights.

How many players and which games do I need?

Each combination supports 3–4 players. Standard Catan + Cities & Knights requires CATAN and Cities & Knights; the two Seafarers combinations also require Seafarers.

What setup mode does this Cities & Knights generator offer?

The generator offers the published randomized or variable setup. It keeps the underlying board setup and adds the supported Cities & Knights starting pieces.

Which combinations are unsupported?

This generator does not yet support Cities & Knights with The Four Islands, The Fog Islands, The Forgotten Tribe, Cloth for Catan, or The Wonders of Catan. It reports unsupported combinations instead of substituting another board.

Does this page simulate Cities & Knights gameplay?

No. It prepares the starting board and setup pieces only. Knights, progress cards, commodities, barbarian movement, attacks, trading, scoring, and win conditions are outside this utility.

Source: CATAN — Cities & Knights Rules, 2025 sixth edition, pages 2–5 and 12, plus the cited CATAN or Seafarers scenario setup pages for each combination.

Source and setup limits

The combination pages cite the 2025 sixth-edition Cities & Knights rules and the underlying board rulebook pages. Published targets such as 13 VP or 16 VP are setup references from those combinations, not a gameplay simulation or a promise about a generated match.

Players: 3–4 for every listed combination.
Public setup mode: randomized or variable setup only.
Three supported combinations; other Seafarers combinations are rejected as unsupported.
The generator does not evaluate later Cities & Knights play.

Open a Cities & Knights setup

Read a combination page for its exact source references, then use Configure this setup to open the matching 4-player variable generator selection with Cities & Knights already selected.