diff --git a/src/games/blockilization/client/concepts.ts b/src/games/blockilization/client/concepts.ts
index 2c122f4..29d698a 100644
--- a/src/games/blockilization/client/concepts.ts
+++ b/src/games/blockilization/client/concepts.ts
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ export const CONCEPTS: Article[] = [
     sub: 'Danger and reward in the wilds',
     sections: [
       { text: 'Barbarians come out of camps in the unclaimed lands and raid whoever is near. Clearing a camp brings gold, and city-states close by are grateful for it.' },
+      { title: 'Captured workers', text: 'A worker (or a settler, which becomes a worker) that barbarians catch is theirs, and is led back to their camp to wait there. Step a soldier onto it on the way, or clear the camp, to take it back.' },
       { title: 'Clans', text: 'Every camp is a clan’s, and a civilization that has found a camp can deal with its clan in the Diplomacy screen (or by clicking the camp): bribe it, and its raiders leave you and your team alone for a while; hire one of its warriors, now and then; or pay it to raid a civilization you have met, which will hear of it, and may find out who paid. Left alone, a clan grows, faster when paid and as its raiders pillage, and slower as they die. Grown, it settles down where its camp is as a new city-state, if the camp is in no one’s land and no city is close by.' },
       { text: 'Ancient ruins are scattered over the world. The first land unit to step on one gets its reward: gold, a technology, a citizen, a map of the land round it, or a unit.' },
     ],
diff --git a/src/games/blockilization/client/models3d.ts b/src/games/blockilization/client/models3d.ts
index 78049eb..b331e48 100644
--- a/src/games/blockilization/client/models3d.ts
+++ b/src/games/blockilization/client/models3d.ts
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ export function drawModels(client: Client, dt: number) {
         units.set(u.id, s);
       }
       s.seen = frame;
+      // (Whose it is now: a worker captured is the captor's, and isn't seen to die when it walks off out of sight.)
+      s.owner = u.owner;
       // Moved: it marches there, tile by tile.
       if (s.tile !== t) {
         march(s, u, s.tile, t, tx, tz, client.time);
diff --git a/src/games/blockilization/rules/barbarians.ts b/src/games/blockilization/rules/barbarians.ts
index 2cc709e..f1faf75 100644
--- a/src/games/blockilization/rules/barbarians.ts
+++ b/src/games/blockilization/rules/barbarians.ts
@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@ import { campCleared } from './quests';
 import { clanAt, clanById, clanPillaged, clansTurn, endClan, newClan, raidTarget, spares } from './clans';
 import type { Game, Unit } from './state';
 import { TERRAINS } from './terrain';
-import { UNITS } from './units';
+import { isMilitary, UNITS } from './units';
 
 /**
  * Barbarians, Civ V's way: camps appear in land nobody can see, each sends out a raider every so
  * often (stronger as the world's techs advance), raiders go for whatever's near (units, workers,
  * cities) and pillage what they stand on, and whoever clears a camp takes 25 gold (Germany, often a
- * raider who joins them too). They never take a city.
+ * raider who joins them too). They never take a city. A worker (or settler) they catch is theirs, a
+ * worker led back to the camp, where it waits for anyone to take it back (Civ V's).
  *
  * Each camp is a clan's (`clans.ts`): its raiders leave alone the civs that have bribed it, and go
  * after the one it's been paid to raid, more of them, and farther.
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ import { UNITS } from './units';
 
 export const barbarianIndex = (game: Game) => game.players.findIndex((p) => p.civ === 'barbarian');
 
+/** The barbarians' fighting units (not the workers they've taken). */
+const raiders = (game: Game, b: number) => unitsOf(game, b).filter((u) => isMilitary(UNITS[u.type]));
+
 /** The unit a camp sends out: by the most advanced civ's era. */
 function raider(game: Game): string {
   const most = Math.max(...game.players.filter((p) => p.civ !== 'barbarian').map((p) => p.techs.length));
@@ -56,16 +60,33 @@ export function barbarianTurn(game: Game) {
     const paid = raidTarget(game, clan) !== null;
     if (random(game) > (paid ? 0.2 : 0.06)) return;
     const near = within(game.grid, t, 1).find((x) => canEnter(game, { id: -1, type: 'warrior', owner: b, tile: x, moves: 0, hp: 100, xp: 0, promotions: [] }, x));
-    const around = game.units.filter((x) => x.owner === b && distance(game.grid, x.tile, t) <= 4).length;
-    if (near !== undefined && around < (paid ? 4 : 2) && (paid || unitsOf(game, b).length < maxCamps * 2)) spawnUnit(game, raider(game), b, near, { clan: clan?.id });
+    const around = raiders(game, b).filter((x) => distance(game.grid, x.tile, t) <= 4).length;
+    if (near !== undefined && around < (paid ? 4 : 2) && (paid || raiders(game, b).length < maxCamps * 2)) spawnUnit(game, raider(game), b, near, { clan: clan?.id });
   });
-  // Raiders: attack what's next to them, else head for something within reach, else wander.
+  // Raiders: attack what's next to them, else head for something within reach, else wander. The
+  // workers they've taken: back to the camp.
   for (const u of unitsOf(game, b)) {
     if (!game.units.includes(u)) continue;
-    raid(game, u, b);
+    if (isMilitary(UNITS[u.type])) raid(game, u, b);
+    else homeward(game, u);
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * A worker the barbarians have taken, led back to its captors' camp (or, theirs gone, the nearest),
+ * to wait there: beside it, if another waits in it already. With no camp left, it waits where it is.
+ */
+function homeward(game: Game, u: Unit) {
+  const clan = clanById(game, u.clan);
+  const camps = game.tiles.flatMap((tile, t) => (tile.camp ? [t] : [])).sort((a, c) => distance(game.grid, a, u.tile) - distance(game.grid, c, u.tile));
+  const camp = clan && game.tiles[clan.tile]?.camp ? clan.tile : camps[0];
+  u.path = undefined;
+  if (camp === undefined || u.tile === camp) return;
+  const to = [camp, ...neighbours(game.grid, camp).sort((a, c) => distance(game.grid, a, u.tile) - distance(game.grid, c, u.tile))].find((t) => t === u.tile || canEnter(game, u, t));
+  if (to === undefined || to === u.tile) return;
+  u.path = planPath(game, u, to) ?? undefined;
+}
+
 function raid(game: Game, u: Unit, b: number) {
   const type = UNITS[u.type];
   // (Its clan's: whom it spares, a bribe's or a raid paid for, and whom it's been paid to raid.)
diff --git a/src/games/blockilization/rules/combat.ts b/src/games/blockilization/rules/combat.ts
index faf0c6e..316d3f5 100644
--- a/src/games/blockilization/rules/combat.ts
+++ b/src/games/blockilization/rules/combat.ts
@@ -450,22 +450,34 @@ export function die(game: Game, u: Unit, by: Unit | null, how?: string) {
   cityHooks.killed(game, u, by);
 }
 
-/** A civilian taken by a military unit: settlers become workers (Civ V's), workers change hands. */
 /** Whether an enemy's civilian of this type is taken when caught (workers, settlers), not killed (great people, missionaries, caravans). */
 export const takenAlive = (type: string) => !isGreatPerson(type) && !['missionary', 'inquisitor', 'caravan', 'cargo_ship'].includes(type);
 
+/**
+ * A civilian taken by a military unit: settlers become workers (Civ V's), workers change hands. One
+ * the barbarians take is led back to their camp (`barbarians.ts`), for anyone to take back on the
+ * way there or by clearing the camp.
+ */
 export function capture(game: Game, by: Unit, civ: Unit) {
+  const name = UNITS[civ.type].name;
   if (!takenAlive(civ.type)) {
     removeUnit(game, civ);
-    note(game, civ.owner, { text: `Your ${UNITS[civ.type].name} was killed by ${game.players[by.owner].name}'s ${UNITS[by.type].name}.`, at: civ.tile, kind: 'bad' });
+    note(game, civ.owner, { text: `Your ${name} was killed by ${game.players[by.owner].name}'s ${UNITS[by.type].name}.`, at: civ.tile, kind: 'bad' });
     return;
   }
-  note(game, civ.owner, { text: `Your ${UNITS[civ.type].name} was captured.`, at: civ.tile, kind: 'bad' });
+  const barbarians = game.players[by.owner].civ === 'barbarian';
+  note(game, civ.owner, { text: barbarians ? `Your ${name} was captured by barbarians, who are taking it back to their camp: catch it on the way, or clear the camp, to free it.` : `Your ${name} was captured.`, at: civ.tile, kind: 'bad' });
+  if (game.players[civ.owner].civ === 'barbarian') note(game, by.owner, { text: `You have freed a ${name} from the barbarians.`, at: civ.tile, kind: 'good' });
   civ.owner = by.owner;
   civ.type = civ.type === 'settler' ? 'worker' : civ.type;
+  // (Taken by a clan's raider, it's that clan's, and goes to its camp; taken from them, no one's.)
+  civ.clan = by.clan;
   civ.moves = 0;
   civ.path = undefined;
   civ.work = undefined;
+  civ.auto = undefined;
+  civ.stance = undefined;
+  civ.site = undefined;
   if (TERRAINS[game.tiles[civ.tile].terrain].water) removeUnit(game, civ);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/games/blockilization/tests/cases.ts b/src/games/blockilization/tests/cases.ts
index 93ca872..593d01f 100644
--- a/src/games/blockilization/tests/cases.ts
+++ b/src/games/blockilization/tests/cases.ts
@@ -6354,6 +6354,43 @@ test('clans: one left alone grows into a city-state where its camp was, its raid
   ok(clansOf(game).some((x) => x.tile === camp3), 'an old camp given a clan');
 });
 
+test('barbarians: a worker they take is led back to its captors’ camp (not into a fight), and taken back on the way or by clearing the camp', () => {
+  const { game, at } = blank(['egypt', 'babylon'], { barbarians: true });
+  const [egypt] = game.players;
+  egypt.bot = false;
+  const b = game.players.findIndex((x) => x.civ === 'barbarian');
+  const camp = at(18, 10);
+  game.tiles[camp].camp = true;
+  const clan = newClan(game, camp);
+  city(game, 0, at(6, 10));
+  // (A soldier of Egypt's by its land: the worker, taken, once went for it as a raider would, and died.)
+  unit(game, 'warrior', 0, at(9, 12), { stance: 'fortify' });
+  const worker = unit(game, 'worker', 0, at(11, 10), { auto: 'work' });
+  unit(game, 'warrior', b, at(12, 10), { clan: clan.id });
+  barbarianTurn(game);
+  ok(game.units.includes(worker) && worker.owner === b, 'the worker is the barbarians’');
+  ok(worker.clan === clan.id && !worker.auto, 'its captors’ clan’s, and no longer at work for Egypt');
+  ok(egypt.notes.some((n) => n.text.startsWith('Your Worker was captured by barbarians, who are taking it back to their camp')), 'Egypt is told where it’s taken');
+  for (let i = 0; i < 10 && game.units.includes(worker) && worker.tile !== camp; i++) endTurn(game);
+  ok(game.units.includes(worker) && worker.owner === b, 'it’s still there, the barbarians’');
+  eq(worker.tile, camp, 'it has walked back to the camp');
+  endTurn(game);
+  eq(worker.tile, camp, 'and waits there');
+  // Caught on the way: Egypt's again.
+  const captive = unit(game, 'worker', b, at(10, 4), { clan: clan.id });
+  const rescuer = unit(game, 'warrior', 0, at(9, 4));
+  egypt.notes = [];
+  ok(apply(game, 0, { t: 'move', unit: rescuer.id, to: captive.tile }).ok, 'stepped on');
+  ok(captive.owner === 0 && captive.clan === undefined, 'taken back, no clan’s');
+  ok(egypt.notes.some((n) => n.text === 'You have freed a Worker from the barbarians.'), 'Egypt is told');
+  // The camp cleared: the worker in it Egypt's.
+  const defender = unit(game, 'warrior', b, camp, { clan: clan.id, hp: 1 });
+  const attacker = unit(game, 'swordsman', 0, neighbours(game.grid, camp)[0]);
+  ok(apply(game, 0, { t: 'attack', unit: attacker.id, target: camp }).ok, 'the camp attacked');
+  ok(!game.units.includes(defender) && attacker.tile === camp && !game.tiles[camp].camp, 'its defender killed, the camp cleared');
+  eq(worker.owner, 0, 'the worker in it taken back');
+});
+
 test('clans: a bot bribes a clan by its cities, pays one near its enemy to raid it, and hires a warrior at war', () => {
   const { game, at } = blank(['egypt', 'babylon'], { barbarians: true });
   const [egypt] = game.players;