New locations and challenges are what the land needs! Kingdom Builder: Crossroads comes with four new landscapes with two different location spaces to offer new options to shape the kingdom. The task cards challenge players to build their settlements in a specific way in order to gain even more gold at the end of the game.

Crossroads brings 8 new unique location abilities, two on each of the game board sections. The usual setup and gameplay rules apply, but new pieces are used:

Warriors - All Players get two of these in their colour. When placed with the "barracks" location ability, they inhibit all building actions on spaces adjacent to it

Wagons - 1 per player. These are placed with the "wagon" ability, and can be moved around the game board.

Ships - 1 per player. These are placed with the "lighthouse" ability, and can be moved over water spaces on the game board.

City Halls - 1 per player. These are placed with the "city hall" ability. They take up 7 building spaces, and count as 7 regular settlements for the purposes of scoring and placing.

6 task cards have also been introduced. These allow for additional ways for end game scoring. The three Kingdom Builder cards are selected as usual, and then 1 task card is randomly selected for each Crossroads game section that is in play. These show specific achievements that players get points for fulfilling at the end of the game, such as having a settlement on each of the 4 map edges.