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51 votes

Bug: Rolling 7 after having placed a knight can result in a 15 second turn

It has happened to me several times that when rolling a 7 my turn is only 15 seconds long, I believe I have tracked this occasional behaviour to happening when I ...
Suggested by: Andernut (09 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 04 Jun, '22 • Comments: 19
Done needs-reproduction
46 votes

Bug: bank won't accept 4:1 card trade

I've noticed a few times over the course of the past week or so that during certain games, the bank will not allow me to trade in 4 cards (but other players can). ...
Suggested by: B (07 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 20 Feb • Comments: 40
Not planned bug needs-reproduction trade
36 votes

Bug: Robber gets placed automatically by game on Seven when discard timer runs out

In one of my last games when I rolled 7 one person timed out for selecting the resources to discard. After the timer ran out the game discarded for this person and ...
Suggested by: noorg (17 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: 01 Sep, '20 • Comments: 12
Done bug game needs-reproduction
14 votes

Bank trading bugged

I had a port at 2:1 on wood and 3:1 on any and I was unable to trade anything with the bank which prevented me from winning.
Suggested by: Shots (29 May, '20) • Upvoted: 29 Dec, '22 • Comments: 9
Under consideration bug needs-reproduction trade
11 votes

Improve dice probability

We played 3 games and every time a specific number would get rolled more than 10 times in a row. Each of these numbers had low probability. Wondering if this may be a ...
Suggested by: Leslie (06 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 31 Aug, '21 • Comments: 3
Not planned needs-reproduction
11 votes

Bug: Assets haven't completed loading. Try again.

I tried to be ready in a game with my friends but I can't. This always pops up.
Suggested by: Bryan (18 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Dec, '21 • Comments: 3
Under consideration bug needs-reproduction ux
7 votes

Mobile bug: typing in room chat makes lose connection

This occurs mostly while playing on my phone, sometimes on the computer. When typing in the pre-game chat window I get disconnected from the page. A similar thing ...
Suggested by: Madeline Brandt (12 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 26 Nov, '21 • Comments: 4
Under consideration bug chat mobile needs-reproduction
6 votes

Karma does not increase

Karma decreases if you leave a game, but won’t increase, game after game
Suggested by: C (21 Mar, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Feb • Comments: 4
Not planned needs-reproduction
5 votes

Playing knight then rolling seven skips your turn!

Multiple times now I've played a knight then rolled a seven then my turn ends automatically!
Suggested by: Asher (06 May, '20) • Upvoted: 12 Jan, '21 • Comments: 1
Under consideration bug needs-reproduction
4 votes

Bug, Stats Dice Rolls Wrong

I just played a game where a few 12s were rolled, but after the game on the stats screen it said zero 12s were rolled
Suggested by: Muids (13 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 09 Sep, '20 • Comments: 5
Done needs-reproduction
4 votes

Bots time out when trying to use Road Builder with no roads available

When a bot has 0 roads available to build but also has a road-builder, the bot normally times out (sometimes doesn't if it uses another Dev card beforehand). I'm ...
Suggested by: Andrew Lipson (21 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: 04 Nov, '20 • Comments: 3
Done bot bug game needs-reproduction
4 votes

It doesnt load the game

It does not load the game. I don't see any game to join. It tells me "Your internet connection was broken. Refresh browser tab to rejoin" but I DO have internet.
Suggested by: Esteban (07 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 11 Feb, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
4 votes

Spelling mistake in 1v1 CPU Message

When the opponent leaves it says: You are the last player remaining. You will be awarded the win in 1 minutes if your opponenet does not reconnect. Opponenet is a ...
Suggested by: Emmett (05 May, '22) • Upvoted: 12 Jun, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration needs-reproduction
3 votes

bug counting VPs

I had 3 Cities, 2VP Cards = 8VP and built longest road by 2x road card VP counter did not update to 10 I had to build settlement to get 11 VPs updated correctly ...
Suggested by: boss (25 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 10 Jan, '22 • Comments: 2
Not planned needs-reproduction
3 votes

Roll/Finish Turn buttons are buggy

A few buttons at the bottom often don't work when I click them - has happened with settlement button before too, as well as Roll/Finish Turn. I am on iMac c2015 ...
Suggested by: Ian Stainthorp (26 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Feb, '21 • Comments: 2
Under consideration needs-reproduction performance
3 votes

island map not visible

i press play, and i only see commercials, no chat no island nothing i lost 2 karma alrdy
Suggested by: Eddy Sraiber (31 Oct, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Feb • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
3 votes

Traded card is lost to next player when they roll a 7, every time.

If you make a trade with the bank and end your turn, if the next player rolls a seven or plays a knight card, it always seems to steal the card that you just traded ...
Suggested by: Alex Bruski (19 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 08 Oct, '20 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction trade
3 votes

freezing bug at random points

Game becomes unresponsive and can only be closed and restarted losing progres. Very frustrating! Please return to stable version.
Suggested by: M (14 Jan, '21) • Upvoted: 15 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0
Under consideration needs-reproduction
2 votes

Bug with development cards knights and 2 roads.

I canot play a knight to move thieves from my hex nor cant i play 2 roads card it is bugged for me. For other players it works just fine.
Suggested by: Petar Knezović (28 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: 31 Dec, '20 • Comments: 3
Under consideration bug needs-reproduction
2 votes

Progress card not received in Cities and Knights

Suggested by: sn (04 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 12 Nov, '21 • Comments: 2
Not planned needs-reproduction
2 votes

Chat bug: words get scrambled and appear out of order

When I chat, my words get scrambled and appear out of order. It only happens when I use spaces or punctuation. I think maybe because I have a Pixel 4? I haven't ...
Suggested by: Anthony Johnston (12 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 29 May, '21 • Comments: 2
Under consideration chat needs-reproduction
2 votes

C&K Bug: No End Game Summary Screen if Game Winning Point Was Recieved Off Turn

Hi Team, I recently finished a game of Cities and Knights. I had 12 points at the end of my turn. Two rolls later, the barbarians were defeated and I was awarded a ...
Suggested by: Potter (02 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 31 Aug, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
2 votes

Username already taken

when I click on the "ready button" is says that username is already taken. I thought that was the case but I have changed to countless combinations and the same error ...
Suggested by: Orlando (05 Dec, '20) • Upvoted: 18 Apr, '21 • Comments: 1
Under consideration bug needs-reproduction room
2 votes

Fog of war port locations

the port locations in the fog of war scenario were incorrect
Suggested by: Marko (05 Dec, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Dec, '20 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
2 votes

BUG: Dice stats wrong

I just played a game where a many 9s were rolled, but after the game on the stats screen it said only 2s 9s were rolled. In the last turn or so was at least 1 nine. ...
Suggested by: BDAnchorite (11 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 12 Nov, '21 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
2 votes

New store not working in tablet

When im playing on iPad, the shop is not visible. The only thing u can see are the map expensions and how much then cost. But u cant see the other tabs and your ...
Suggested by: Spijbelaar (19 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 20 Sep, '20 • Comments: 1
Under consideration bug mobile needs-reproduction store ui
2 votes

Karma should not be affected by games without other players

I accidentally started a one person game (me) without any other players or bots. I quit it immediately after starting and it is showing as a quit game with loss of ...
Suggested by: jo111 (13 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 26 Sep, '20 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
2 votes

Unable to upgrade to city

During game on Friday I wanted to upgrade a village to a city. We were on 'very fast' game speed so I didn't have time to get the exact error message, but it was ...
Suggested by: Charlie (06 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 19 Sep, '20 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
2 votes

Bug report - General port

I had a general port but was not able to utilise it. Also my wife was not able to build a settlement although she had built 2 at two points of a coastal hex. She ...
Suggested by: John Clarke (19 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 08 Jun, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
2 votes

Bug: Trading adding a new item to offer will accept the previous one

There is a bug in the game, if you add a new item to and offer it will take it instead. It happens to me 2 times, a player says a wood for a stone and i say a wood ...
Suggested by: shacco (15 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Mar, '20 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction trade
2 votes

Bug with bot placing multiple settlements

Starting a new game, and a player disconnected, reconnected, and disconnected again. Then another player (or a bot) placed 8 settlements. Then an infinite loop ...
Suggested by: Settlerman (05 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 15 Aug, '20 • Comments: 1
Under consideration bug needs-reproduction
2 votes

Insufficient resources Bug

Not sure where to post this bug. Game had a 5 wheat and 5 sheep. A 5 rolled but there wasn't enough in the bank to distribute wheat which is fine. However, the ...
Suggested by: lupul (20 Mar, '22) • Upvoted: 22 Mar, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration needs-reproduction
2 votes

This update has some many issues

Port trades aren’t working right and you can’t see room speed. I’m so annoyed I just lost a game because I could not use my port
Suggested by: Malij555 (25 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 05 Jan, '22 • Comments: 0
Not planned needs-reproduction
2 votes

Player Trade Issue - No Embargo

Had an issue in multiple games where I cannot accept trades from a player even though there is no embargo in place. For example, when the red player offers a trade, ...
Suggested by: Lukestaa (19 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 30 Dec, '20 • Comments: 0
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

Fix design mistakes on front page (screenshots below)

- "Very fast" text doesn't fit single line on my display - the front page is no longer scrollable, last line of lobby is chopped off, and I can't get to the footer ...
Suggested by: HunterKiller (12 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 12 Jan, '22 • Comments: 3
Under consideration bug lobby needs-reproduction
1 votes

Fix v98 Pirate

v98 broke the pirate in seafarers. In many cases, user do not have option to place pirate instead of robber
Suggested by: Katanist (07 Jan, '21) • Upvoted: 07 Jan, '21 • Comments: 3
Done needs-reproduction seafarers
1 votes

Not able to trade with the bank

It happend to me in two diffrent games, that I was not able to trade with the bank, even though I had ports. it just showed the player trade option. There was enough ...
Suggested by: Daniel / Zelma5936 (30 May, '22) • Upvoted: 30 May, '22 • Comments: 2
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

Can’t steal from players that recently upgrade from village to city.

In the attached image I wanted to steal from the black player, but I couldn’t. I believe the reason is because the player upgraded from village to city right before I ...
Suggested by: Chad Richins (28 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Sep, '21 • Comments: 2
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

Year of plenty bug

YOP card is not allowing choice of resources. It will open up but will not allow the player to choose resorces
Suggested by: Also#6788 (23 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Nov, '20 • Comments: 2
Not planned needs-reproduction
1 votes

Responsiveness when splitting windows

When I do the Snap feature in Windows so I can have multiple programs open, I find that Colonist does not have responsiveness (as in it adapts to the new window ...
Suggested by: Zach (31 Oct, '19) • Upvoted: 31 Oct, '19 • Comments: 2
Under consideration needs-reproduction performance ui
1 votes

Bug: Couldn't trade with bank after monopoly

After monopoly 14 wood in my 4th placement game, I could not trade with the bank
Suggested by: Jack (05 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 05 Jul, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

BUG - End game with victory point got stuck.

Didnt prompt the modal with statistics. Got the countdown 5' running
Suggested by: Gonzalo Bide (29 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 29 Jun, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

Bug: Default color only saved for one game

I changed my default color to green, and then played game id gJzZ, where I played as green. I then played another game (game id ArNs), and nobody was green. I had ...
Suggested by: Fromper (06 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 06 Jun, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

when conlist denied

What would be the problem when my conlist approval was denied???
Suggested by: Rodessa (10 Feb, '22) • Upvoted: 10 Feb, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

Randomly losing sheep to the bank.

There is a bug in the game that has happened to me a half dozen times. When playing agains AI if one of the AI players trades sheep I lose all my sheep to the bank ...
Suggested by: Ben Turin (31 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 31 Jan, '22 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
1 votes

Trade bug: Won't let me trade with the bank

I had 4 lumber, 6 brick, a 3:1 port and a 2:1 lumber port. I was trying to trade either the 4 lumber for 2 paper or 6 brick for 2 paper and I couldn't do either of ...
Suggested by: Laura Fiuza (13 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 13 Jan, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction
1 votes

Trading 4 resources with the bank.

I'm not sure if I am the only person affected by this bug. However, the last game I played I was unable to trade 4 (like; ie: 4 sheep) resources with the bank for 1 ...
Suggested by: Tanner (06 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 06 Jan, '22 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
1 votes

Bug with robber

BUG: when robber is rolled by bot, the bot do not discard his card if he have more than the card discard limit.
Suggested by: Agathe (06 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 06 Jan, '22 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
1 votes

Bot ignore Card Discard Limit

When the robber is rolled and bots have more than the Card Discard Limit, they don't discard any VP. No matter who rolled the robber.
Suggested by: Agathe (05 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 05 Jan, '22 • Comments: 1
Not planned needs-reproduction
1 votes

Mobile doesn't show all the game

As title, even with scrolling.
Suggested by: Nath (27 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 27 Dec, '21 • Comments: 1
Under consideration needs-reproduction