Ruling — Catan — RuleSage

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Catanbg-13-en-1e · Catan: Cities & Knightsbg-926-en-1e · Catan: Seafarersbg-325-en-1e

Depending on the specific ruleset being used (Cities & Knights or standard), a turn follows these sequences: **Cities & Knights Turn Sequence** 1. Each turn consists of three phases in this order: Roll Dice phase, Production phase, and Action phase [1]. 2. During the Roll Dice phase, roll all 3 dice and resolve the event die before resolving the production dice [1]. 3. If the event die shows a ship icon, move the barbarian ship along the barbarian track one space closer to Catan [1]. 4. After finishing the Action phase, if you have not won, pass the dice to the player on your left [1]. **Standard Turn Sequence** 1. On your turn, complete these three phases in order: Roll for Resource Production, Trade, and Build [2]. 2. You must roll for resource production (the result applies to all players) [3][2]. 3. You may trade resource cards with other players and/or use maritime trade [3]. During your turn, you must be a part of all trades, and other players may not trade among themselves [4]. 4. You may build roads, settlements, or cities and/or buy development cards [3]. 5. You may also play one development card at any time during your turn [3]. 6. After you are done, pass the dice to the player to your left [3][2].

[1] RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook · p.6 · Collect Your Starting Resources · TURN OVERVIEW · ROLL DICE PHASE · PLAY A PROGRESS CARD Basic City · ROLL THE DICE · Move the Barbarian Ship to mighty knights (Level 3).

[2] RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook · p.8 · Game play

[3] RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook · p.4 · turn overview

[4] RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook · p.7 · domestiC trade

Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 253 ms · ask 11598 ms · total 11861 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 11861 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Collect Your Starting Resources · TURN OVERVIEW · ROLL DICE PHASE · PLAY A PROGRESS CARD Basic City · ROLL THE DICE · Move the Barbarian Ship to mighty knights (Level 3).", "sharpsignalDocId": 217}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game play", "sharpsignalDocId": 43}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "turn overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 43}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "domestiC trade", "sharpsignalDocId": 43}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 43 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 43 boosted
layering — route: not layered — one pooled read: the books were read together and that read answered, so re-reading them one at a time would spend the same GPU to re-derive an answer already given
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 3, 2026 20:39

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	Game play	p.8	0.046883 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	KniGht Cards	p.8	0.044161 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	turn overview	p.4	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	domestiC trade	p.7	0.032002 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	b) Playing Development Cards Y	p.5	0.031498 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	217
#6	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	endinG the Game	p.7	0.030536 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	endinG the Game	p.5	0.029418 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	224
#8	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	Round One	p.12	0.028595 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	Collect Your Starting Resources · TURN OVERVIEW · ROLL DICE PHASE · PLAY A PROGRESS CARD Basic City · ROLL THE DICE · Move the Barbarian Ship to mighty knights (Level 3).	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	Game play	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	turn overview	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Catan — Rulebook (corpus doc 43)	domestiC trade	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 253 ms · first delta 9581 ms · total 11861 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 253 ms · ask 11598 ms · gateway work 11861 ms · total 11861 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2707
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 301
tok/sec: 136.7 tok/sec — 301 output tokens in 2.202 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.