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Farming is typical in games likeManor Lords, where it is your goal to take care of a growing population. In Manor Lords though, you will need to deal with the added mechanic of soil fertility. This is a real-life issue for farmers, adding an element of realness to the game.
Here, you may learn all about farming and soil fertility. This will go over the basics of crop growing, as well as how to maximize soil fertility and farm as efficiently as possible. Overall, there aren’t the most amount of crops in Manor Lords, but times can be tough, so it’s important to farm wisely.
Manor Lords is currently in Early Access on Steam and as such, the content is subject to change. We will update these articles as required.
Crop Availability
There arefour crops that you can growin Manor Lords. Below, you can find all four, as well as what you can make with them.
Flax
Flax - Linen -Clothing
Rye only becomes available after investing in theRye Cultivation development point.It functions the same as wheat, but can be grown in places with low fertility.
How To Start Farming
To farm any crop, you will first need to place down a field. This can befound in the Farming tab of the construction menu,allowing you toplace all four corners of the field.
Remember, to farm,you need to build the Farmhouse building.Workers can be assigned from here.
When you first click on the option to place down a field, you will see afertility overlay.On the right side of the screen, the ‘Emmer Fertility’ option will be selected.Emmer is another word for wheat,so this is essentially the fertility of the land related to wheat growing.
Areas that are more green have a higher fertility,making them ideal for farmland. If you plan on growing other crops besides wheat, you can check out the fertility overlay options.
Overall,try placing your fields depending on the fertility.
How To Increase Soil Fertility
There are a few ways to increase fertility, which can be found below.
Fallow Your Fields
Byfallowing a field,you canincrease its fertility.From the crop drop-down menu, you canchoose ‘Fallow’ which essentially means nothing will grow there.By making the field have a crop rotation, you can add a fallow period in. Once the season is over, the next crop in the rotation will grow.
Try to fallow your fieldsat least one time for each rotation(which is three years).
Fertilize Your Fields
Fertilization is a development point that you can unlock(found in the top branch above ‘Heavy Plow’), which allows you touse fallowed fields as pastures.When this happens, the field willquickly regain fertility.Once the field has increased in fertility, you can select a crop to grow.
Add Variety To Your Crops
Growing thesame crop for two seasons can decrease the fertilityof a field quickly, sowe suggest growing multiple crops within a rotation.This won’t increase fertility, but it will help youavoid any unnecessary fertility loss.
