The General Store can be found at the center of the city. In exchange for coins, the Merchant will give all kinds of interesting goods (see Coin Trader). Click on him, and he will offer you his goods. You can leave the building through the door.

Pets

Every citizen of the Catan Online World can buy a pet. Once purchased, the pet will follow you everywhere. It is displayed when you are in the city layout and also in the games, where it shares the emotions of its owner.

Each pet always lives until the end of the game period, and if you have the "Active Citizen" status, your pet also contributes culture points (divided by the city's "Active Citizen value") to the city's culture value.

Garden Expansion

The Merchant also offers many things you can embellish your property with. Depending on the current season (summer or winter period), you can choose between trees, flowers, and objects such as hedges or a park bench. Once you have bought them, the plants and objects last until the end of the current game period.

If you have the "Active Citizen" status, each of your plants and garden objects counts towards the city's culture value and, therefore, matters for the contest for the title "Capital of Catan" (see The Contest Between Cities - Culture Points). The increase in the city's culture value generated by the garden is derived from the sum of culture points for the plants/objects divided by the "Active Citizens factor."

In order to embellish your garden, select the item “Garden” from the Merchant menu. In the window that opens up, you can see your property. Via the buttons above the display of your house, you can switch back and forth between the three groups (Trees, Flowers, Other). You can also scroll through the items display using the arrow buttons.

Your credit and the costs of the currently placed items are shown on the left side. A total of 30 items may be accommodated.

Select the desired item by clicking on it. If you now move the cursor around within your property (marked off by the white rectangle), the selected item is sticking to the cursor and can thus be placed on the desired spot.

Important: For technical reasons, plants and objects cannot be placed within the area at the center of the property. This area appears shaded, as shown in the illustration on the right. If you build up your own house, garden object in the backyard could also be covered by the house.

You can click on “Cancel” at any time, and all changes will be canceled. If you click on “Save,” you accept the current changes; a click on “Reset” restores the original status before the last save.

Garden Master

All citizen, which have a complete (all building sites occupied) garden at the time of the scoring at the end of a game period, receives the title "Garden Master" (garden medal); they will keep it for the entire next game period.