Viticulture: Arboriculture and Formaggio Expansions

Arboriculture and Formaggio were modules included in the original Kickstarter version of Tuscany that were eventually deemed “non-essential” for the compilation of Tuscany Essential. However, due to fan requests and curiosity, the publisher has made these modules (along with other modules) available for free in print-and-play format.

In addition, we granted a print-on-demand company, Print and Play Games, permission to make and sell a print-on-demand version of Arboriculture and Formaggio. (ships from the US).

The Viticulture: Arboriculture Expansion adds new "arbor" cards from which players can obtain olive oil, apples, and tomatoes. They are planted and harvested on the fields just like grapes, but the extra crops are processed on an extension to the vineyard mat. These additions add extra value to wine orders and can be used to improve worker morale. (The workers aren't happy that they have been given additional duties.)

This expansion essentially doubles the complexity of the game and adds about fifteen minutes to the overall playing time.

Trade for cows, make cheese, and add cheese to your wine orders for in the Viticulture: Formaggio Expansion!

This expansion comes with 18 cows and six cheese cellar tokens. Cows can be bought or sold as an additional trade option at the “trade one for one” space on the Tuscany extended game board.

The mat has three new structures:

 Cheesemonger - may sell one cheese for 1VP on the “sell one wine token”
 Affinatore - allows you to choose one type of cheese and either not age it (so it doesn’t go rotten) or age it twice.
 Formager - once per year, you may discard one cheese token when you fill a wine order to gain VP’s up to the value of the cheese token. This can be up to 4 points, so as much as a wine order.