Green Guardians Rule Book

PHASE 3 – WASTE AND POLLUTION
Place waste tokens on tiles for each act of building,
upgrading, producing and researching. Waste can
be either local (on the tile of the action), or external
(a tile adjacent to the tile of action). Waste is still
placed even if a disaster card is drawn for the action.
When a tile reaches 3 waste, the waste tokens are
replaced by 1 pollution token. No additional waste
is added to a polluted tile.
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PLACING EXTERNAL WASTE
Assign external waste by rolling the die. Each
hexagonal tile is marked with a number 1–6 on each
side corresponding to the die. External waste tokens
are placed on the adjacent tile in the direction whose
number is rolled.
If the number rolled indicates an edge with no
adjacent tile, the die is re-rolled until the number
indicates an adjacent tile. If the roll indicates a tile
which is already polluted, that waste is not added
and no re-roll is necessary.
Example, place external waste:
Player A produces in his/her workshop located on
the Forest tile, which generated 1 external waste.
Player A rolls the die showing [ 4 ]. The waste is
placed on the Ocean tile (west of the forest tile),
adjacent to number 4 on the Forest tile.
Place waste
• build a workshop: 1 local waste
• upgrade a workshop to a lab:
1 local & 1 external waste
• produce in workshop: 1 external waste
• produce in lab: 2 external waste
• research in lab: 2 external waste
Learn
You may earn multiple Research tokens each turn.
Invest 3 resources to earn 1 Research token, either:
• all of 1 type (eg. 3 x water)
or
• 3 different types
(eg. 1 water, 1 earth and 1 air)
Research tokens are placed on a lab building if one
exists, or at your Guardian location if not, until used
for learning or cleaning (Phase 4).
Also, in this phase, you can climb the Tree of
Knowledge (see pg. 14).
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RESEARCH TOKEN
Research tokens can be used to gain knowledge and
eventually breakthroughs, marked by placing
the Research token on the Tree of Knowledge. They
can also be used to clean waste and pollution (see
Phase 4: Clean).
Research tokens do not have to be used the same turn.
PHASE 4 – LEARN AND CLEAN
Clean
To clean up waste or pollution, invest 2 resources per
waste that are from the target terrain type, or invest 1
Research to clean up all waste or pollution on the tile.
Remove the pollution token from the board and keep
it to mark the point: pollution cleanup earns
1 Prosperity Point.
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CLEAN
You may clean up waste or pollution from any tile
where your Guardian is placed or where your
building are.
END OF TURN
Play continues to the next Guardian seated
clockwise. Play continues until a Guardian earns
10 Prosperity Points.
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