The DiLisio Factor - Harvest Solo Play Through 

One thing I noticed that would have been enough to get you over the edge: You missed gaining coins when harvesting! Any time you harvest crops (in addition to gaining points) you gain 1 coin for each unique crop type harvested. So you actually ended up missing a whole 3 coins in Round 3 and then another 2 coins in Round 4, which probably would have been a real game-changer! There is also a slight error in that solo HARD mode that has been fixed. It should remove the income card that grants strawberries, which originally was the #6 card, but is now the #5 card. Thanks for helping us catch that!

Thanks for the catch! I'm now going to count it as a win.@@cameronart4863

Sorry, but I don't really understand the question. In the multiplayer game it works generally the same way. You have a display of 3 Sunrise cards, you get your own card, and the other player(s) would get a card. In lowest priority order, you exchange your card with one in the display. At that point, you get the boon (income and ability) listed on the new card, plus your Sunrise ability on your player board. You also will have a new initiative number which will determine the player order for the Action phase. Once player order is set, you shuffle all of the cards back together for the next round's Sunrise phase, and begin the Action phase. The cards chosen in one round will have no bearing on the second round, since they all get shuffled. It's absolutely possible to get the same Sunrise card in a consecutive round(s). In the solo game, the main difference is you deal out a card to Gairy at the beginning of the phase, and that's the card he will keep to determine his initiative for the round. Therefore you as the solo player will know definitively what the number you have to contend with is. Oftentimes, this leads to a decision of, I really like this great ability, but it has a higher number than Gairy's card, so is it worth it to go second in turn order?

When reading the rules they posted in the kickstarter, what you did doesn't seem to be what the rules are saying to do, so I just was looking for clarification. To start out, yes, it says to pass everyone a sunrise card to use for the first sunrise phase. Then it says to reveal 3 in the display, then one at a time each player trades in their current sunrise card for one in the display. Then it says once everyone has exchanged their card, it says to "shuffle the display", not including the sunrise cards people have. So then I assume for the next round, people exchange the sunrise card they had for the first round for a new one in the display for the second round. I just wanted to clarify this so that people don't misunderstand this when they play the game for themselves.

@@swimprincess2 ah, yes I see what you mean. It’s certainly possible that your interpretation is the correct one. I didn’t get any feedback from the publisher about that specifically, but I agree that it will be good to get clarification on how it’s meant to work.

Maybe Keymaster games will see this is be able to clarify for us! Thanks for your solo playthrough, it was nice to see what a game of this looks like on the table!

@@swimprincess2 Just hopping in to help clarify here as well! (I'm a developer on the game and the solo designer.) The sunrise card you have in Round 1 DOES dictate the order in which you will draft sunrise cards in the next round, so they shouldn't be shuffled back in before you draft new ones. This prevents you from being able to get the same sunrise card twice in a row and it also allows for other players to potentially draft the card you had in the previous round when you swap it into the display. When playing solo, this isn't as important, but your card still shouldn't be shuffled back in before choosing a new card so that you don't have the opportunity to end up with the same card twice in a row. After revealing a new card for Gairy, his previous Sunrise card SHOULD be shuffled back in before you reveal a new display to choose from yourself. This isn't stated explicitly enough in the rules as it stands, so I will make sure that is fixed to be more clear.

My thought exactly lol

To my understanding, When you buy a blueberry seed from the market (or elsewhere), you place the blueberry bush in your supply. When you plant a blueberry bush, it comes onto your board with a blueberry crop on it. When you harvest it, the crop comes off, but the bush stays. When you tend a blueberry bush, you place one from the supply adjacent to any other blueberry bush, and it comes with a crop on it from the supply. If a planted berry bush were to come on the board without a crop, when would the bush get a crop? If only when tending, you would never have your initial bush populated with a crop.

@@thedicetower I agree it should come with crop when planted, but rulebook is ambiguous. You’d have to tend it to get crop, though it can be tended after a harvest without new seed. I think the tending though is limited to bushes already planted getting crops, but the bushes don’t spread like other crops. The rulebook mentions a tending example where it’s says max 1 for the berry in its pic. The benefit for not spreading a bush like others is that you can tend an empty bush for a new crop on later cycle and bush is worth 2vp.

@@thedicetower if blueberry bushes both came with a crop when planted and the bush is worth 2 vp, and harvest a blueberry crop for 4 vp (6 total, and could tend more crops without new seed too), blueberries would be strictly better than pumpkins that harvest for 6 and cost more manure and clog more space. i think rulebook is unclear, but i think they come empty and dont spread myself but asked in comments of KS for clarity.

@@thedicetower fyi: i asked for rules clarity in campaign comments, and Keymaster clarified it is indeed as i mentioned: the blueberry seed becomes an empty bush when planted. When you tend blueberry bushes, you put the blueberry fruit on the bush. If you want additional blueberry bushes, you must plant them with the Plant action.

@@jamesabele Just hopping in to help clarify here as well! (I'm a developer on the game and the solo designer.) - The blueberry bush comes onto your board EMPTY when planted, tending it will give you a blueberry on top of it. So, unlike other corps, you HAVE to tend blueberries in order to get harvestable crops. However, unlike other crops, when you harvest that blueberry the bush will stay behind so that you won't have to replant it.

To me, it evokes the Little Golden books of my childhood. Personally, I love the art design on this one.

this new art looks much better.

@@AntiSocialHeroit’s so true. Reminds me of the rural hometown I come from.