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The marketplace is the central hub of any village inManor Lords. Here, your villagers will be able to buy and sell goods, which count towards the requirements to upgrade a burgage plot. Your market isn’t as simple as it looks though, so you may need some help getting things to run smoothly.
In this guide, we are going to take a look at setting up and managing your marketplace. This will also cover how to adequately provide all the necessary resources to each burgage plot. If requirements are not met, your burgage plots will begin to lose approval, which isn’t ideal.
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How To Make A Market
To make a marketplace, head to theResidential tab of the construction menu.From here, you can simply select the marketplace option, which allows you toset the four corners of the area(similar to placing a burgage plot or field).
When the marketplace area is designated, you’re done!Villagers will begin to open up stalls here;you don’t have to manage the stalls that appear.
Who Can Set Up A Stall?
Families assigned to various jobs canopen stalls. These families will sell their goods while also working the job.
For example, above, you can see that we’ve clicked on the Apiary. When looking at the family assigned, you can see alittle stall icon. This means that in addition to working,the family owns a marketplace stall.
The Marketplace, Granary, And Storehouse
The marketplace, Granary, and Storehouse are a bitdependent on each other when it comes to the distribution of goods.The Storehouse holds things like firewood, planks, and clothes, while the Granary holds food items.
Once these items are in their storage building,someone needs to sell them;this someone is afamily worker that you’ve assigned to the building.So, in order to efficiently sell the goods that you gather, you will need toassign workers to the Storehouse and Granary.
With assigned families, they will begin to open stalls in the marketplace, selling goods that are stored in each building.
Marketplace Supply And Demand
Every burgage plotneeds certain items depending on the level.You can see these requirements below.
Requirements (Related to Marketplace)
1
1x Fuel
2x Food
1x Clothing
2
3x Food
2x Clothing
3
4x Food
When clicking on the marketplace, you cancheck out the variety of goods that are being sold.In our marketplace, we have82 percent fuel,which equates to 32 firewood. There is much more firewood in storage so in this situation, so we definitelyneed to add more workers to the storehouse to sell the excess wood.
The goal is100 percent coverage.This means that everyone in the village has all the marketplace goods that they need.
How To Provide Goods To Every Plot
To get a more detailed version of the supply, hover over one of the three vending options. For example, when hovering over the fuel supply, you can see which burgage plots have either charcoal or firewood.In our case, there are a few houses on the outskirts of the village that have no fuel. How do you fix this though?
With theForeign Suppliers development pointunlocked, you can add bread and firewood carts thatpassively create and sell these items if you have enough regional wealth.
Items arenot distributed to every plot evenly.While it’s not quite based on proximity, it may seem like it. Your villagers will ‘visit’ the marketplace and return home with their goods. So, if the village lives closer, they can make it to the market quicker.
There isno ‘range’ for the marketplace. If the area is far away from town, it can still provide goods to burgage plots. Of course, we suggest keeping it close to your village; especially the Granary and Storehouse.
Can You Build Multiple Markets?
While it’spossible to build multiple markets, it may not be worth the space if you don’t have enough resources/workers to begin with. As mentioned above,the marketplace isn’t based on proximity.If there are enough goods for the village, everyone will be satisfied.
Adding a second marketplace won’t appease plots that are far away. The root of the problem is that youneed more goods.
We’ve noticed thatinspecting the supply from two different marketplaces yields the same results.If you want to place a second marketplace, go for it, but just know that this may not help provide more goods to your villagers.Markets can be nice ‘filler’ areas to add more life to your village though;if you are going for aesthetics, place as many markets as you want!
