Difficulty levels

You can adjust the difficulty by giving starting wealth to you or to Automa.

No

Cards played by the Pilferer do not have any abilities. They only cause a loot token to be removed from the current day (without activating any loot abilities).

Yes

The player chooses a card to play and places it on the island first. Cards played by the Pilferer and Automa are revealed after this.

The solo deck

Shuffle the solo deck and draw 6 cards from it before each voyage. It is convenient to keep your own character card deck in numerical order.

Automa icon

When playing solo, the hook, saber, amulet, and barrel loot tiles are replaced with the matching Automa loot tile replacements. Automa loot tiles are marked with the Automa icon.

Nothing happens

The Pilferer cannot gain or give loot, doubloons, or reputation. If an ability would cause this to happen, it is ignored.

Purple side up

Automa's cards are oriented so the purple flag is at the top left. When a solo card is played as a Pilferer card, it is oriented so the orange flag is at the top left.

Yes

Wind Nymph isn’t used in solo play, but you don’t need to remove it from your character card deck when playing a single player game.

End of voyage

Unless otherwise stated by a character or loot ability (e.g., the stormy side of the map tile), all loot tokens are put back in the bag at the end of each voyage.

At the end of voyage

Doubloons are added to the score dials at the end of each voyage. Once the score is added to the dial, it cannot be lost.

Reputation

Use reputation to solve equal ranks, higher reputation to the right.

4, 5, or 6 days

Libertalia is played over 3 voyages, with each voyage’s length increasing by 1 day. The first voyage is 4 days, the second is 5 days, and the final voyage is 6 days.

Use doubloons

If your score dial would exceed 99, set your score dial to 99 and use doubloons to represent additional wealth.

If tied

Reputation is used as a tiebreaker when scores on the score dials are compared.

Yes and no

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No

If you ever gain 3 or more doubloons with the Freed Prisoner's night ability in a single night, discard the Freed Prisoner. If the Witch gains 2 doubloons using her ability, that’s the Witch’s doing, not the Freed Prisoner. However, using the Witch to gain 3 doubloons by copying the Freed Prisoner's ability will still cause the Prisoner to be discarded.

The single most

It means that you need to have the single most map tiles.

No

You’ll gain 4 doubloons into your supply, then spend from your supply of doubloons. The amount you need to spend may be greater than 4.

Yes

The Treasurer says, “Gain $1 for each barrel, each amulet, and each chest token in your ship.” You would indeed gain 3 doubloons.

No

There’s your hand, the island, and your ship. Money, loot tokens, and characters you’ve removed from the island (and not discarded) are in your ship.

Graveyard

Any discard goes to your graveyard.

No

You do follow the rules of the Midshipman tile, but only when first placing the characters. In this case, there are no instructions to rearrange the characters after they’re placed, so leave them as they are.

Nothing

The Midshipman cannot give doubloons.

Take what's left

Take 0 or 1 doubloons, however many that character’s player has left.

Yes

If the new character goes in the same place as the Scout and has a daytime power, you get to activate that daytime power immediately.

2

The only reason that text is on the card is because there is a hook loot tile ability that removes the character who gains it. So the Cook is just saying that if it’s removed from the island by taking a hook token, it isn’t there to gain another token.

No

A single loot token may be discarded for 1 doubloon. When discarding multiple loot tokens, they need to be identical.