Sea3D is the best way to play online this popular game. You probably should buy the board game Settlers of Catan or at least play it before. If not you can read the rules from the encylopedia.

download sea3dall120a.zip v1.2.0a 6.94MB released May 15, 2004

If you wish to play Cities and Knights Expansion try asobrain java version.



Hotseat is playing with friends on one computer...ahhh not as fun as playing a network game over the internet with strangers.

Players start out by taking turns and placing a 2 cities and 2 roads. The board map is flat but that can be rotated, zoomed or panned.

Basically you can change view of the map whichever works for you best.
Rotate map by holding right mouse button.
Pan up,down, left, right by holding both mouse buttons.
Zoom in and out of map with scroll wheel.

When a player rolls it'll highlight the roll and show the hexagons. In this case a 4 was rolled.



Trading is a huge part of the game. You can make offers during your turn and others can Accept, Reject or Counter offer.

When you role a 7 or play a solider card you move the robber and get to steal a card from a player.

Legend you can view at anytime to remind you how many resource cards to purchase items.
1 wheat, 1 ore, 1 sheep = development card
1 wood, 1 brick = road
1 wood, 1 sheep = ship
1 wood, 1 wheat, 1 brick, 1 sheep = settlement
2 wheat, 3 ore = city



You can have the hide the toolbar if you wish for more screen space. Stats are always interesting to look at..especially the average time a person takes on their turn.

You can buy development cards and play them. Development cards can range from Soldier, Victory Point, Year of Plenty (choose 2 resource cards from bank), or Monopoly card (choose one resource and all players must surrender all cards with that resource if they have them.)

Smiley face indicates how many points player has. As you can see top player (grey) won as he reached 10 points to win (12 points actually). Grey player has 3 solider cards and thus the largest army (2 points). Orange player has 7 consecutive roads which is the longest road (2 points). Hold your mouse over the player and it'll automatically expand showing your resource cards or how many resource cards/development cards your oppents have in their hand. Settlements (small structures) are worth 1 point and Cities are worth 2 points (large structures).

General Settings pretty much self-explanatory.



Graphic settings...just about any semi-decent video card should suffice.

If I'm on top (first player) then I'll check Always show self in network games to avoid having to move my mouse over myself to see my resource cards.

Choose new game and choose hotseat (friends on one computer play against each other) or network which is over the internet.

Adding a player is easy. I recommend registering as most games are ladders (which ranks you and keeps track of your progress).

Click Find games and a list will come up. If blank just have it Auto-refresh every 30 secs and be patient.

Now best option is to host a game. Why? Well as soon as your finished you can start a new one right away without having to search for a new game of your liking.

Click Select Map and choose one.

Here's the variations but if you choose ladder game (recommended) many options become unavailable.

I'm behind a router/firewall so I need to do an couple extra things.

I login to my router and create a port forwarding rule for port 7176 to forward to my computer ip that I'll be hosting it on.

Click Advanced and put in your public ip address. Find your public ip address here. Default is 6 players so change to 4 players if your just hosting a standard 3/4 player map. Click OK and wait just a bit and players will start joining and after they all click ready just click Start Game and away you go.



There is also tons of official maps. Here's a screeenshot of Oceans IV map.

A new Cities3D is being worked on which will be cross platform Windows, Linux, MacOS. See Cities3D section of the forum for more info or Cities3D Project Homepage.



Updated Jun 27, 2006


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