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Can I "Break" Longest Road? Yes! If you build a settlement in the middle of another player's road, it is "broken." For purposes of Longest Road, their road has now been broken into 2 road segments.

Roads - May the roads I build ?go through? other players' settlements and cities? No. If you build a new road, it must always connect to one of your own roads, settlements, or cities.

No. If you build a new road, it must always connect to one of your own roads, settlements, or cities. In the situation depicted above, the blue player would not be connecting his road piece to his own road but to the red player's settlement, which the rule prohibits.

The requirement is actually that two settlements cannot be adjacent to each other (yours or your opponents'). This means that you need at least two roads between your settlements but that is not necessarily sufficient if there are other settlements nearby.

An opponent's settlement at the end of your road prevents you from expanding through that settlement. This is illustrated on the official website. Even though you can keep building, your road is considered to be cut in half for the purposes of Longest Road.

This is super clear in the rules. Under Build in the Game Rules section: You cannot build more pieces than what is available in your pool?a maximum of 5 settlements, 4 cities, and 15 roads.

Each settlement needs the numbers next to food and water to be higher than the number of settlers who live there. To increase your food supply, plant crops and assign settlers to manage them. For water, build a few water pumps or ? if the settlement is on the coast or contains a large puddle ? a water purifier.