Colonist Strategies: Rules, Guides, and Tips for Catan Community

How We Avoid Downtime

In this blog post, we recap Catan Universe's extended downtime and explain how Colonist avoids these issues.

Announcing New Languages

Colonist is proud to announce that we will be translating our free online alternative to Settlers of Catan into a variety of languages. This will improve the quality of our game for many players around the world.

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Interview Series 2: Catan Strategies With Treeckosaurus

Interview with Treeckosaurus about Catan stratetgy. Treeckosaurus is a Catan pro and content creator.

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Catan Strategies: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Learn strategies to improve you game! Useful tips for beginners, intermediates, and advanced players.

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Interview Series 1: DyLighted

Interview with YouTuber Dylighted. Dylighed is a Catan regional champion and content creator, and he explains the Catan strategies that put him at the top of the game.

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Colonist 101: How to Play

Whether you’re new to the Settlers of Catan board game or a veteran player new to our online game Colonist, we have you covered with this quick start guide.

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Settlers of Catan: A Chronological History

Learn the unique history of the most popular board game in the world -Settlers of Catan.

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Best Sites to Play Catan Online for Free

Today we will be listing down the best free to play Catan games on different platforms. We will also be taking a look at what makes these games good, as well as the reasons why Catan players don’t frequent them that much.

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Ranked 1v1 Strategy

Want to learn how to crush your opponents at Colonist ranked 1v1 games? Read on!

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Colonist Ranked Games: Leaderboards & Membership System

Info and answers about Matchmaking, Ranked Games, Leaderboards, Membership System. Future roadmap.

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The Trade of a Lifetime

One of our long-term players Adam proposed to his girlfriend Zoe, also a passionate fan, during a game of Colonist. Read about this magical and completely unique marriage proposal!

Colonist.io 2021 Summary

In 2019 Colonist was a niche game with a single game mode and only the most hardcore Catan players played. In 2020 Colonist had 4 expansions and was played by many casual players. In 2021 Colonist had 8 expansions, 12 maps and most of North America knows a Colonist Player.

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Cities & Knights Debated Rules

With the release of the Cities & Knights expansion, Colonist.io now allows an even wider range of strategies for you to choose from.

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5-6 and 7-8 Player Rules

Learn the unique rules for our 5-6 and 7-8 player expansion pack game modes. How large are the boards? What is the special build phase? Click to learn!

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Settling the Rules of Catan

Following on from our how-to-play Catan video, here are some rules which are often misunderstood, or omitted from the base game of Catan.

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Debugging the game & Possible Fixes

How to debug rare problems and help developers improve the game.

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Colonist.io 2020 Summary

In 2019 Colonist was a niche game. In 2020 Colonist has became a worldwide known game played from casual Catan players to celebrities and CEOs.

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Colonist is Hiring

Colonist needs fresh blood and is looking for 3 full-time team members. 1. Artist & UI Designer, 2. Web & Game Developer, 3. Backend Developer & Dev Ops

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Why we can't give feature release dates

We get the same question everyday: "When will feature X be released" We would love to tell you when, but we don’t know ourselves.

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Designing Balanced Dice

The “broken” dice algorithm is a highly debated topic. So we researched this comprehensively and we were surprised by the results!

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We're Hiring Two Developers!

Just a friendly head's up that in the next couple months, Colonist is aiming to hire two full-time people to help with backend and UI development. The best way to get in would

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An Update on Fun Maps & Expansions For Pack Owners

In the last 48 hours, we've received a number of messages from community members asking for clarification about what expansions and maps each type of pack owner will receive once the new store

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Better Timers & Longer Initial Build Phase!

Ask and ye shall receive! That's right folks, we're about to release an update that will solve three of the most voted on feature requests for Colonist.io, all around improving the game speed timers including the much requested additional time for initial build phase!

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Game Is Laggy, How Do I Fix? Enable WebGL!

95% of the time, your game is laggy because your browser does not have webGL enabled. Read on to learn how to enable WebGL for your browser.

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Guest Post: How I Created The KOC Championship 1: June 27th & 28th! (And How You Can Join!)

Tournament host Treekosaurus explains how he created the King of Catan Championship Series on colonist.io and how you can join.