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Burgage plots serve as the homes for your villagers inManor Lords. At the start of the game, you will need to build enough burgage plots to house the five families that you start with, but as your approval rating goes up and you build more, new families will begin to move in.
In addition to providing housing, burgage plots can also beupgraded to have a production focus. For example, in the early stages of the game, you can have burgage plots that each have a chicken coop in the back, providing eggs to eat. Not all burgage plots are equal though, so let’s take a look at the best options.
Chicken Coop
The chicken coop is one of the best backyard extensions that you should invest in. At the start of the game, you will have achoice between raising chickens, raising goats, or growing vegetables.While vegetables are also a source of food, they are a bit less efficient.
Eggs alsoprovide a variety of food.When you go to upgrade a burgage plot, you will see requirements such as fuel stall supply, food stall supply, and clothing stall supply. To upgrade a burgage plot for the first time,you will need at least two types of food.
In this case, you can use eggs to satisfy one of the types. When combined with bread, honey, berries, or meat, you shouldquickly be able to fulfill all the upgrade requirements.
The vegetables will need time to grow, butchickens produce eggs quickly; there is no ‘growing time’.
Brewery
The Brewery is one of the most important structures in the game, asit’s theonly place where you can make ale.Once barley has been harvested,you will need to turn it into malt,and thenprocess the malt into ale.
Overall, ale can take a while to make, andvillagers will go through it rather quickly.Buying ale can get quite expensive, soit’s a good idea to have a few Brewery extensions set up,allowing you to quickly process any malt that is produced.
To make a sufficient amount of ale for your village,you will need to have several large barley fields.Of course, to manage these fields, you will need to have afarmhouse with multiple families assigned.Production in Manor Lords iscomplex, withmany interconnected points.
Blacksmith’s Workshop
It may be easy to get carried away building your town and perfecting the production flow. Manor Lords alsoinvolves warfarethough, so it’s important to haveenough weapons for your militia.
At the Blacksmith’s Workshop,you can make Spears and Sidearms,which areessential weapons in combat. Of course, you can also make warbows, but having an entire army made out of archers isn’t a good idea, as these units are weak at close range.
So, with a Blacksmith’s Workshop,you can make weapons with iron that your villagers have gathered.This will help lessen the cost of building your militia since buying weapons can get expensive. It’s alsocheaper than using money from your treasury to hire mercenaries.
Tailor’s Workshop
In addition to food and fuel, villagers need clothing. With a Tailor’s Workshop,you may make clothes(this is a villager clothing option that is simply called ‘clothes’) andcloaks, as well asGambesons, which are used as atype of armor for the militia.
With these three options at the Tailor’s Workshop, you canswitch between producing normal clothing and defensive gear for your militia.Because of this, the Tailor’s Workshop is rather efficient. If you do choose to have a tailor, it’s important toset up other production buildings that can process the raw materials(such as yarn and linen at the Weaver’s Workshop).
Cobbler’s Workshop
Lastly, we have the Cobbler’s Workshop. This building makes shoes, which are considered atype of clothing.This burgage plot extension can help provide additional clothing options, butshoes are also a great way to make money.
Shoes are made out of leather, which iscreated by processing hide at a tannery.Hide can be pretty unlimited, especially if you have goat extensions set up. With a lot of hide and leather, you can continuously make shoes and sell them for eight coins each.
Goat burgage plot extensions can help provide hide, butif you don’t plan on making shoes as a source of income or clothing, then it’s best to not add too many goat backyards. Additionally, these goatswill not produce meat.
