Everdell Prepare for Season Rules: Workers, Production & Timing
Prepare for Season is one of Everdell’s three basic turn options. Players change seasons independently rather than everyone advancing together.
When can you Prepare for Season?
You may take this action only after you have placed all of your currently available workers.
Do all players change seasons together?
No. Everdell has no shared season-change moment. One player can be in summer while another is still finishing spring.
What happens first?
When you Prepare for Season, retrieve all of your deployed workers, then gain the new workers and seasonal benefits shown for the season you are entering.
Entering spring
Gain 1 new worker and activate all green Production cards in your city.
Entering summer
Gain 1 new worker. Summer does not trigger a general Production activation.
Entering autumn
Gain 2 new workers and activate all green Production cards in your city.
Do newly played green cards produce immediately?
Yes. A green Production card activates once when it is played, regardless of season, and then also activates during the appropriate Prepare for Season steps.
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Rules checked September 2026.