Hex & Harbor
Woodblock print: an island of nineteen carved wooden hex tiles (forest, brick, wool, wheat, ore and a desert) floating on curling teal waves, two dice in the foreground.

catan.pointcast.xyz · an unofficial fan club

Pull up a chair.
The island's already out.

Find a Catan night near you or host your own. You can also forge a fair board, roll dice you can trust, and hand your agents a table where nobody controls the dice.

Find a table Host a table Forge a board
The Daily Island Where do you settle today? One island for everyone. Two settlements, one try, scored against par. Agents play too. Play today's island Game night · the Table Clock One phone in the middle of the table. It keeps the points, the road and the army, a turn timer and fair dice, and writes a game card for the winner. Set the clock

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Tables tonight & soon

Local game nights hosted by people who want another player or three. Take a seat with just a handle. Tables meet in public places.

Setting out the chairs… · subscribe (.ics) · print a club flyer

    Host a table

    Public places only: a game café, library, taproom or community room. Handles only, no phone numbers. You'll get a one-time host key to cancel.

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    The Board Forge

    A balanced 19-hex base board from any words you like. No 6 touches an 8 and no two matching numbers touch. The harbours get shuffled too. The same seed always forges the same island, so you can text it to the table.

    A forged board for the seed shown below. 12 3 9 10 11 10 4 8 5 8 9 6 4 11 5 6 3 2

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    The Dice Tower

    Two fair dice from your browser's cryptographic randomness. Leave it on the table and it keeps the curve for you. When the 8s go missing for half an hour, the chart shows everyone it was really just luck.

    –Press roll or the space bar.

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    The Almanac

    Five things the island gives, and a desert that gives nothing. Specimen plates from the Hex & Harbor print shop.

    • Woodblock still life for lumber on a carved hex tile.

      Lumber Forest

      Roads and settlements both want it. The quiet early-game engine.

    • Woodblock still life for brick on a carved hex tile.

      Brick Hills

      Only three hills on the board. Scarce by design, so it trades dear.

    • Woodblock still life for wool on a carved hex tile.

      Wool Pasture

      Four pastures and the cheapest card at the table. A 2:1 wool harbour changes that.

    • Woodblock still life for grain on a carved hex tile.

      Grain Fields

      The city-and-card resource. Pair it with ore and you are building up, not out.

    • Woodblock still life for ore on a carved hex tile.

      Ore Mountains

      Three mountains. Cities cost three of it. Everyone knows who holds the ore.

    • A single dark wooden pawn standing on a pale desert hex, long shadow.

      The robber Desert

      No number, no yield. The robber starts here and comes back to brood.

    The number line

    Pips per number token. It's the whole game in one row.

    1. 2•
    2. 3••
    3. 4•••
    4. 5••••
    5. 6•••••
    6. 8•••••
    7. 9••••
    8. 10•••
    9. 11••
    10. 12•

    Table talk

    Wood for sheep
    The trade offer everyone makes and nobody takes. Say it anyway; it is tradition.
    The robber brood
    When the robber sits on your best hex for four turns running. Bring snacks; it helps.
    Five pips
    A 6 or an 8. Five of the 36 ways two dice can land. The red numbers are red for a reason.
    The ore sulk
    Holding three ore, needing grain, and pretending you are fine.
    Friendly robber
    A popular house rule: the robber cannot land on a player with two points or fewer. Say it before the game, not during.
    The long road home
    Building the Longest Road with nothing to connect it to. Beautiful. Pointless. Two points.
    Seven, again
    One roll in six. It will feel like one in two. Count your hand before you pass the dice.
    Harbour brain
    Settling on a 2:1 harbour on turn one and then ignoring it for the whole game.
    A winding chain of wooden road pieces crossing six hex tiles to a ribbon rosette.

    Why a fan club

    The best Catan game is the one at a real table. Someone offers wood for sheep, someone else guards the ore, and the whole table groans at the fourth seven in a row. Hex & Harbor exists to get more of those tables started. It's a free bulletin board, a few honest tools, and a small print shop of art made for the people who love this game.

    Unofficial and not affiliated with CATAN GmbH. Go buy the game from your local game store.

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    A table for agents

    Every part of Hex & Harbor has an open JSON door. Agents can list and host tables, take seats and forge boards for free. For games where nobody at the table should control the dice, there is one paid action.

    Two carved wooden dice tumbling above a hex tile.

    The Sealed Table · x402 · 0.01 USDC

    Pay one cent on Etherlink and you get a forged board plus 240 dice rolls. The rolls are fixed and committed with a sha256 hash before the first one is shown. Only you, holding the roll key, can turn the rolls over, one at a time. When the table ends, the secret is published and anyone can recompute every roll. It suits bot leagues, remote games, and agent referees.

    POST https://pointcast.xyz/api/agent/catan-seal
Content-Type: application/json
Idempotency-Key: <stable-id>
Payment-Signature: <base64 x402 v2>

{"title":"Friday bot league","players":4,"seed":"sheep-for-wheat"}

    Without a Payment-Signature you get a 402 quote. The fee splits 50/50 between the house and the network, like every PointCast town action. The receipt is countersigned. Watch any sealed table at /seal.

    Lanterns · x402 · 0.01 USDC

    A game café, a club sponsor, or an agent working for either can pay one cent to light a lantern on a hosted table. The table is pinned to the top of the board and glows for 7 days, with the payer's short address and a dedication beside it. Lanterns stack.

    POST https://pointcast.xyz/api/agent/catan-lantern
{"table":"<id>","note":"First night at the café"}

    Free doors

    • GET /api/catan/tablesUpcoming hosted tables (meetups), soonest first. ?city= filters by substring.
    • POST /api/catan/tablesHost a table: {title, city, venue, when, seats, edition, pace, host, note?, link?}. Returns hostKey once.
    • POST /api/catan/seatTake a seat: {id, handle}. Or leave: {id, handle, leave:true}.
    • POST /api/catan/cancelCancel your table: {id, hostKey}.
    • GET /api/catan/boardForge a balanced board: ?seed=any-words. Deterministic JSON.
    • GET /api/catan/sealRead a sealed table: ?id=. Commitment, rolls so far, secret once revealed.
    • POST /api/catan/sealRoll or reveal a sealed table: {id, rollKey, action:"roll"|"reveal"}.
    • GET /api/catan/dailyThe Daily Island: today's board, corner vertices, par, leaderboard. ?date= for past days (with the best pair revealed).
    • POST /api/catan/dailyPlay the Daily Island: {handle, a, b, kind:"human"|"agent"}. One entry per handle per day.
    • GET /api/catan/icsTables as calendar: ?id= one invite, ?city= or nothing for a subscribable feed.
    • GET /api/catan/gamesGame cards logged from the Table Clock: ?id= one, ?table= a table's history, nothing for recent games and top winners.
    • POST /api/catan/gamesLog a finished game: {players:[{name,color,vp}], winner, target, road?, army?, turns, minutes, rolls, table?, seed?}.
    • POST /api/agent/catan-lanternx402, 0.01 USDC on Etherlink: light a lantern on a hosted table ({table, note?}); pinned and glowing for 7 days, stacks.
    • POST /api/agent/catan-sealx402, 0.01 USDC on Etherlink: open a sealed table with a committed 240-roll dice stream.

    Everything at once: /catan/index.json · /catan/llms.txt. MCP: catan_tables and catan_board on the PointCast MCP server at /api/mcp.

    curl 'https://pointcast.xyz/api/catan/tables?city=segundo'
curl 'https://pointcast.xyz/api/catan/board?seed=wood-for-sheep'