Mini expansions
Carcassonne — The River (Carcassonne — Der Fluss, 2001)
Originally distributed for free as a give-away by the publisher at trade fairs. It was being included with many purchased versions by 2004. Early 2009 saw a slightly different version available at stores. The 2007 Xbox Live Arcade version includes a toggle option for the expansion. This expansion was added to the base game in August 2012, and also included in the 2014 Redesign of the base game.
12 River tiles that replace the single initial tile.
Carcassonne — King and Scout (Carcassonne — König und Späher, 2003)
'King and Scout' is two expansions: King for Carcassonne and Scout for Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers.
King and Robber Baron tiles used to keep track of who built the largest road and city.
5 additional tiles, with combinations that were previously missing
Carcassonne — The Cathars (Carcassonne — Die Katharer, 2004)
Originally published in the German board game magazine Spielbox, and republished in their Carcassonne almanac with an English translation.
Four siege tiles where Cathars break city walls. These halve the value of the city but double its contribution to field scores. Monasteries allow followers in cities to escape and come back to their players.
The Count of Carcassonne (Der Graf von Carcassonne, 2004)
Via new tiles, provides an incentive to complete other players' features: when a player does so, that player may place a follower in the city of Carcassonne, and then later move that follower into a feature as it completed (commonly known as "paratrooping").
Twelve tiles depicting the city of Carcassonne itself. These replace the initial starting tile and support new game mechanics.
A count figure, which can block paratrooping.
Carcassonne — The River II (Der Fluss II, November 2005)
Similar to the original River expansion, The River II tiles include features from previous expansions, for example a volcano to invoke the dragon. The 2012 Xbox Windows Phone version includes a toggle option for the expansion.
12 new tiles to create a larger, forked river
Carcassonne — The Mini-Expansion (Winter 2006)
Published in Games Quarterly Magazine, Issue No. 11,
A new spring with a road, which separates a field, thereby preventing some very large fields as allowed by the original River.
11 additional tiles.
Carcassonne — The Cult (Carcassonne — Die Kultstätte, 2007)
Published originally in Count, King & Robber, then republished as a standalone expansion in Spielbox: Hans im Glück Almanach 2008. Later available by Rio Grande Games in Cult, Siege & Creativity,
Six tiles depicting heretical shrines that can be used in rivalries with cloisters and abbeys
Carcassonne — Tunnel (Carcassonne — Der Tunnel, 2009)
Published in Spielbox: Issue 2009/6
Four new tiles and twelve chips to create tunnels
Tunnels can also be built with The Princess and the Dragon tunnel entrances
Carcassonne — Crop Circles (Carcassonne — Die Kornkreise, 2010)
Published with German versions of the Carcassonne base game.
Six new tiles depicting three pairs of symbols allowing players to add or remove followers from other tiles
Carcassonne — The Plague (Carcassonne — Die Pest, 2010)
Published in Spielbox, Issue 2010/6
Six new tiles depicting plague zones allowing players to remove followers from tiles.
Six small tiles numbered from 1 to 6
18 flea chips
Carcassonne — The School (Carcassonne — Die Schule, 2011)
2 additional starting tiles depicting a school with six roads branching off. When a road attached to the school is completed, the player claims the Teacher meeple included, and then gains the same points as the next scored feature, and returning the Teacher to the school.
Carcassonne — The Festival (Carcassonne — Das Fest, 2011) (2016 New Edition - 15th Anniversary)
Included as a bonus with the 10th anniversary edition of the base game.
Ten additional tiles (1 for each year since the game's release represent the festival) which allows players to either place a follower as normal, or take one back from any tile.
Carcassonne — The Phantom (Carcassonne — Das Gefolge, 2011)
Released as stand-alone mini expansion
Six additional followers, 1 for each color that represent phantoms and allow a second follower to be placed on a turn.
This is the first expansion that does not include tiles, and is also the first time meeples have been released in plastic. Each meeple is a see-through acrylic of a different color to represent a phantom.
0 additional tiles.
Not compatible with the 10th anniversary edition of the base game (10th edition replaced all of the wooden meeples with the same plastic meeples used in the phantom expansion, which makes it impossible to tell them apart even though they would use new rules)
Carcassonne Minis (2012)
Six stand-alone mini expansions, with each containing a tile for a seventh mini expansion.
1. Carcassonne — The Flying Machines (Carcassonne — Die Fluggeräte)
8 tiles which allow the player to "fly" to claim an unfinished feature (even if already occupied), or to "crash" by landing where there are no tiles, by rolling a die that gives only 1/2/3.
1 Custom Die
Plus a bonus Corn Circles II tile.
2. Carcassonne — The Messengers (Carcassonne — Die Depeschen)
6 new Messenger Meeple for the scorecard which allow for possible bonus points by drawing from a new stack of action tiles.
8 action tiles
Plus a bonus Corn Circles II tile.
3. Carcassonne — The Ferries (Carcassonne — Die Fähren)
8 tiles featuring roads leading to lakes. Players may place an included ferry piece to extend a road.
8 Ferry pieces
Plus a bonus Corn Circles II tile.
4. Carcassonne — The Gold Mines (Carcassonne — Die Goldminen)
8 tiles which incorporate the included gold bar pieces, which allow for bonus points at the end of the game
16 Gold Bar pieces
Plus a bonus Corn Circles II tile.
5. Carcassonne — Mage & Witch (Carcassonne — Magier & Hexe)
8 tiles which allow placement of the Mage or Witch on incomplete features. Resulting in adjusted scoring when completed.
1 Mage figure & 1 Witch figure
Plus a bonus Corn Circles II tile.
6. Carcassonne — The Robbers (Carcassonne — Die Räuber)
8 tiles which allow placement of a Robber, resulting in stealing some of another player's points.
6 Robber Meeples
Plus a bonus Corn Circles II tile.
7. Carcassonne — Corn Circles II (Carcassonne — Die Kornkreise)
6 tiles making a new Corn Circles expansion composed of each of the bonus tiles from the 6 minis.
Corn circles allow for placement of a second follower in a feature already claimed by that player, or to remove a follower from the board.
Different Corn Circle tiles from that of the previous Corn Circles expansion. (Can both be combined for more Corn Circles.)
Not available as a stand alone.
Carcassonne — The Wind Roses (Die Windrosen) (2012–2013)
6 land tiles with wind roses
Carcassonne — The Watchtower (Carcassonne — Die Wachtürme, 2014)
Released through cundco.de
12 tiles depicting watchtowers with specialized bonuses on each tile.
Players placing a meeple on the bonus feature of the watchtower tile get the bonus when that feature is completed.
Carcassonne — Halflings (Carcassonne — Halb so wild I & Halb so wild II, 2014)
24 triangular land tiles
Carcassonne — The Markets of Leipzig (Carcassonne — Die Märkte zu Leipzig, 2017)
Released through cundco.d
Includes 4 double-sized tiles that form the market town of Leipzig with 4 roads extending out to replace the starting tile.
Whenever a player scores on one of the attached road networks, they may move their meeple to one of the 4 quarters of Leipzig and potentially score additional points at the end of the game.
Carcassonne — The Fruit-bearing Trees (Carcassonne — Die Obstbäume, 2018)
Released through cundco.de
Includes 6 tiles with fruit trees on them.
When the fruit-bearing tree tile is placed, 4 tokens are stacked face down on top of it. When another tile is placed adjacent to the fruit-bearing tree tile, the player may either collect the top token from the tree and score the points depicted or sell their collected tokens at the market.
Carcassonne — The Toll Keepers (Carcassonne — Die Zöllner, 2019)
Released through cundco.de
Includes 6 tiles and 6 toll tokens (1 in each player color).
Instead of placing a meeple, you may place your toll token on an open crossroads. When a road that ends at your tolled crossroads, you score points for the travelers, farms, stables, highwaymen, and gardens on the road.
Carcassonne — Maps (2019–)
Each map sold separately.
Set of 30 chips sold separately
Map selections include France, Benelux, Great Britain, Península Ibérica (Iberian Peninsula), Deutschland (Germany), USA West und East, Taiwan, Nordics, and Ukraine.
Carcassonne — The Peasant Revolts (Carcassonne — Bauernaufstände, 2020)
12 terrain tiles with icons denoting revolt in a city, road, or cloister
Carcassonne — The Gifts (Carcassonne — Die Geschenke, 2020)
25 cards
Carcassonne — The Signposts (Carcassonne — Die Wegweiser, 2021)
"12 new land tiles, each depicting 2 of 3 different types of signposts"
Carcassonne — The Bets (Carcassonne — Die Wetteinsätze, 2022)
10 bookmaker tiles (land tile with a betting office depicted) & 36 betting chips
Mists over Carcassonne (Nebel über Carcassonne, 2023)
spin-off played as a cooperative game, or acts as a competitive expansion called Ghosts, Castles and Cemeteries (Geister, Schlösser und Friedhöfe)
60 land tiles (roads, cities, castles, cemeteries, mist), 4x4 starting tile, scoring track with 2 hound tiles (Rufus & Ronja) and 1 goal tile, 30 guard meeples, 15 ghosts