Development cards

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**Development Cards** fall under a number of categories and can be played in a variety of ways:

* **Mini Games** are games you can play at any location for a chance to win more resources, gold and RP.
* **Community Settlement Building Cards** are used to build and upgrade structures within community settlements (public settlements). These are classified as common, uncommon and rare cards. Building Cards under the "Unlockable Buildings" can be unlocked using Research Points.
* **Special Cards** can provide boosts to your player. These include for example increased rewards and decreased cooldown times.
* **Golden Settlement Building Cards** are used to build and upgrade structures within your Golden Settlement.

## Storage Limits

For both Community Settlement Building Cards and Mini Games you have separate inventories that limit how many cards you can have in your backpack at once. These counters are shown on the top of Buildings and Minigames tabs in the backpack respectively.

The limit values:

* Buildings capacity limit has initial value 30, can be expanded to 200
* Mini Games limit has initial value 20, can be expanded to 200

Storage expansions, which carry over from season to season, can be:

* Purchased from the In-game shop from Backpack upgrades section
* Purchased from the In-game shop from Special Bundles section as part of various bundles

You'll be unable to collect more once you’ve reached your current limit. Special Cards and Golden Settlement Building Cards don't count towards this maximum number.

## Acquiring Development cards

Development cards can be acquired by:

* Discovering resource centers
* Crafting cards using resources
* Reward from daily golden dice throw
* Completing Catanian quests
* Special rewards (for example seasonal rewards)

## Building Cards

Building Cards can be played at community settlements and at personal settlement to place and upgrade buildings. Creating the building costs 1 card, then all further upgrades cost more cards to increase the building level by 1. Buildings usually cost 6 cards to upgrade, *Monument* is the one exception, with upgrades costing 5 cards instead of 6.

Settlement upgrade is a special Building Card that doesn't create buildings but is used to upgrade settlement tier. Upgrading from base settlement to village costs 6 cards and upgrading from village to town costs 11 more cards.

Each building card played rewards 1, 2 or 3 VP based on the rarity. Many cards have additional VP bonuses when a full building level is reached.

### Common (Tier 1)

Costs 2000 Research Points to unlock.
Each card played rewards 1 VP.

* Settlement Upgrade
* Monument
* Bell Tower
* Crane
* Fairgrounds
* Storehouse
* Brick Market
* Grain Market
* Lumber Market
* Ore Market
* Wool Market

### Uncommon (Tier 2)

Costs 4000 Research Points to unlock.
Require Tier 2 settlement to build.
Each card played rewards 2 VP.

* Community Center
* Farmers Market
* Library
* Plaza
* Staple House
* Tavern
* Treasury
* Weavers Shop

### Rare (Tier 3)

Costs 8000 Research Points to unlock.
Require Tier 3 settlement to build.
Each card played rewards 3 VP.

* Archive
* Festival Hall
* Brick Kiln
* Grain Silo
* Lumber Mill
* Ore Foundry
* Wool Storage