PBF Roads & Boats "A River Runs Through It" cooperative puzzle

Ok.

Donkey on northern woodcutter moves to sawmill with stone and log.
Donkey on sawmill moves to northern woodcutter
Donkey on sawmill moves gold and board to southern pasture and returns to sawmill
Donkey on sawmill collects log from southern woodcutter and returns to sawmill.
Donkey on southern woodcutter takes two gold to southern desert

Raft at mountain takes gold, undocks, moves to oil rig and collects fuel, docks at sawmill and unloads cargo.
Raft at oilrig moves to southern pasture, collects one gold and one stone, moves to southern desert, drops off stone and gold and returns to southern pasture.

put 3 boards, one stone and one fuel into brick manufacturing for the wonder.

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Turn 15
110 WP

The forum wants me to encourage everyone else to join in this conversation.

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Ok.

Donkey on northern woodcutter returns to sawmill collecting log and stone along the way.
Donkey on sawmill returns to northern woodcutter
Donkey on sawmill collects logs from southern woodcutter and returned to sawmill
Donkey on desert leaves all goods and moves to southern pastures
Donkey on sawmill moves gold to southern pasture and then returns to sawmill.

Raft on pasture drops off board and gold on southern desert and continue up the river to forest tile.
Raft docked at sawmill collects fuel from oil rig and returns to sawmill.
Build two bricks in the wonder with 4 boards and 1 fuel.

Turn 16
120 WP

Only need one brick to finish irrigation this turn.

Ok!!

Raft on woodcutter takes logs to sawmill, moves to quarry, collects stone, returns to sawmill collects 2 more stone.

Raft on Sawmill picks up one board and returns to open sea.

Donkey on north woodcutter takes log to sawmill.

Donkey on sawmill takes two boards to paper mill to make paper, returns empty hooved to sawmill.

Donkey on southern pasture moves to desert with gold.

Donkey on sawmill moves to north woodcutter.

Donkey on sawmill moves to mountain and waits.

Put board and log into the wonder.

You are one short of the number of boards necessary to build the mint.

I think I’ve amended the above to compensate for this oversight.

Turn 17

130 WP

The deserts are irrigated. Don’t forget there are still wealth points to be had for a bigger and better Wonder.

Lovely. Secondary production is to create a sheet of paper.

Northern raft moves to northern untouched pasture to build mint

Southern raft takes two fuel and board to southern untouched pasture, leaving them there for the donkey to build the mint and returning to the paper mill.

Donkey on northern woodcutter collects log and stone and returns to sawmill.

Donkey on sawmill returns to northern woodcutter.

Donkey collects log from southern woodcutter and returns to sawmill.

Donkey on mountain collects 2 gold and returns to paper mill.

Spend 2 boards on a brick.

Turn 18

160 WP

First coins minted!

I doubt it is necessary to mention, but the WP I am tracking assumes all the gold, coins, and stock will be on transporters at game end, rather than your current WP.

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Northern woodcutter donkey collects logs and stone returns to sawmill.
Donkey on sawmill returns to northern woodcutter
Donkey on sawmill collects gold from mine and waits.

Raft at papermill collects paper and one gold, goes to oil rig to collect one fuel and drops off all three at the mint.
Raft at stock exchange drops logs from southern woodcutter at sawmill and then returns to southern woodcutter.

build bricks for the wonder from 4 boards and 1 stone

Two donkeys just lazing about?

Ok. Donkey on paper mill leaves gold and returns to southern woodcutters.

Other donkey chills.

Turn 19
190 WP

Raft on woodcutter travels to mint, picks up 2 coins and one paper and takes them to mint.

Raft on mint travels to oil rig picks up fuel, travels to paper mill picks up gold.

Donkey on mountain picks up gold, travels to paper mill
Donkey on northern woodcutter collects log and stone, returns to sawmill.
Donkey on sawmill goes to northern woodcutter.
Donkey on sawmill collects log from southern woodcutter and returns.

Donkey at mint chills out.

4 boards and 1 stone in wonder.

Turn 20
260 WP

You got a stock, woot!

All the wealth is on transporters, and there’s no way to get 14 goods together to get a red brick on another layer of the wonder, so that’s a wrap.

I’m impressed. Took me quite a few tries to get this score, but you hit on what I think is the correct building layout on the first try. There is still room for improvement, as the top score is 300, but I haven’t bettered 280.

So… who is up for a game?

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Well @pillbox called it early on. One stock and one coin. Pillbox you were absolutely right.

@Captbnut made the right call on the road to the southern woodcutter. I thought we could do it with rafts, but I think it ended up being the most travelled route.

@bekyo saved us a turn on overland raft transport which we needed.

@lalunaverde was right to tell us to hurry up with wonder building.

So I call this a team effort.

Out of interest, what other setups did you try? Other than raft factory or wood burner there didn’t seem to be a lot of choice.

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I had the mine and the raft factory the other way round for a while.

I tried all sorts of dumb stuff in my first two games. Didn’t realize how many goods the wonder required, so didn’t realize the need for two woodcutters. Didn’t realize there was only 20 turns, so even researched steam-ships on my first try…

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Ah. I keep on thinking there’s a way to do this where you only research oil rigs and specialised seams and only build the mine after researching in order to get two share certificates.

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