Buildings

construction menu

Buildings and construction in general are important elements in Manor Lords. Without buildings your town will not produce anything, no new villagers will arrive and in general you will not progress in any form in the game.

General

Before placing down a new building you need to have all necessary construction materials in storage. After placing down the building, unassigned people will level the construction site. After that unassigned oxen will bring the needed timber to the construction site. All other materials will be brought by your people. Once placed, each building can be given a different construction priority.

A few buildings have flexible borders, identified with a borders square in the construction menu. For those buildings you have 4 plot points, with which you can build any form you like. Some more advanced forms require roads to guide the borders along them. Many buildings can be upgraded to increase their functionality. Some upgrades require a certain origin card. All buildings can be demolished, which will refund all construction resources.

Roads

road construction

Roads are used to give your people clear pathways to move through your settlements. They can be used to connect your buildings. However, a road connection is not needed for a building to function. Roads enhance the speed of workers with handcarts. Roads don't cost any ressources and are build instantly. You can build roads by placing two or more road points. While placing the points you can adjust the curvature of the road.

Each map starts with existing roads called 'The King's Road'. These roads cannot be removed and trading posts need to be connected to them to attract traveling merchants. However, it is not necessary to build the trading post directly at the Kings Road. You can link your trading post via roads to it. Buildings will automatically snap to roads. This behavior can be disabled in the construction menu using the check box 'snap to road'.

Homeless people's tent

Every region will start with a homeless people's tent. It will disappear once all families are housed.

Upgrades

Many buildings can be upgraded, to either increase their functionality or to provide additional functions. Some upgrades create new buildings, while others expand the existing ones. Two examples:

1. You can upgrade the granary to a large granary to increases its storage capacity and number of possible handcarts.
2. You can upgrade the forager hut with an herb garden, to let it produce herbs in addition to berries/mushrooms.

Gathering buildings

Building	Cost	Description	Workplaces	Storage	Relocation	Requires Maintenance
Logging camp	2 timber	Produces timber from trees.	3	28 timber
Woodcutter's lodge	1 timber	Produces firewood from trees.	3	50 generic
Sawpit	2 timber	Produces planks from trees.	2	50 generic 5 timber
Forester's hut	2 timber	Plants trees.	2	-
Forager hut	1 timber	Gathers berries and mushrooms from nearby deposits. Can be upgraded.	4	50 pantry
Hunting camp	-	Produces small game and pelts from wild animals. Can be upgraded.	2	12 generic 36 pantry
Fisherman's hut	2 timber	Gathers carp and eel from shoal of fish in ponds and rivers respectively.	3	50 pantry
Stone gatherer camp	1 timber	Gathers rubble stone from the surface of nearby stone deposits.	4	50 generic
Quarry	2 timber 6 planks	Produces rough stone and rubble stone from the underground of rich stone deposits.	6	200 generic
Mining pit	4 planks	Produces iron ore, clay or salt from their respective deposits. Can be upgraded.	4	50 generic
Stone gatherer camps need to be placed next to the deposit. Otherwise they will destroy the surface stones. Quarries and mining pits need to be placed ontop of the deposit.

Logistics buildings

Building	Cost	Description	Workplaces	Storage	Relocation
Hitching post	-	Provides 1 stable space. Can order oxen or horses. Can be upgraded.	2	-
Granary	2 timber 10 rubble stone	Stores mainly food and crops, but also some crafting materials and commodities. Reduces food spoilage. Can be upgraded.	3	500 pantry
Storehouse	2 timber	Stores mainly construction and crafting materials, commodities, military equipment and fuel, but also some crops and food. Can be upgraded.	3	250 generic
Trading post	4 timber	Allows for the import and export of goods with travelling merchants, tradepoints and your other regions. Can order horses.	4	500 generic 500 pantry
Pack station	1 timber	Can setup a barter connection between two of your regions. Provides 2 stable space. Can order mules.	1	-
Livestock trading post	2 timber	Allows for the import and export of animals with tradepoints and your other regions. Provides 4 pasture space. Provides 2 stable space.	3	-
Food stored in the granary benefit from lower spoilage rates All items stored in granary or storehouse are protected from weather effects

Residential buildings

Building	Cost	Description	Workplaces	Storage	Flexible Plot
Burgage plot	2 timber	Provides living space for one family. Can be upgraded and/or expanded, denpending on plot size.	depending on backyard extension	depending on level and extra living house
Well	1 timber	Provides drinking water for burgage plots. Enables firefighting. Can be upgraded.	-	-
Marketplace	-	Provides space to set up food- and common goods stalls.	-	Food stall: 40 pantry Common goods stall: 20 generic
Small tavern	3 timber 4 planks	Provides ale for burgage plots. Can be upgraded.	1	15 pantry
Wooden church	5 timber 20 planks 10 rubble stone	Provides church acces for burgage plots. Provides hallowed ground to bury your deceased villagers. Can be upgraded.	1	-
Corpse pit	-	Provides space to bury deceased people.	4	-

Burgage plots

burgage plot construction

Main article: Burgage plot.

Burgage plots are the primary buildings in Manor Lords. They are flexible plots, costing 2 timber for each building that fits on the plot. Each burgage plot provides 1 Living space. If they have some space sideways they can be expanded to grant another 1 Living Space at the cost of 2 Timber. New families will only join if there is unused living space and approval is high enough. Burgage plots cannot be moved. Burgage plots start at level 1.

Upgrading

To upgrade a burgage plot you need to fulfill all residential requirements. Burgage plots at Lvl 2 and higher generate regional wealth.

• Upgrading them to level 2 costs 2 timber and 8 planks and will generate 1 regional wealth per family per month.
• Upgrading them to level 3 costs 3 timber, 12 planks, 4 rooftiles and 25 regional wealth and will generate 2 regional wealth per family per month. It also doubles the living space.

Farming buildings

Building	Cost	Description	Workplaces	Storage	Flexible Plot
Field	-	Space to grow various crops.	-	-
Farmhouse	3 timber	Employs families on the fields. Provides a place to thresh the crops after harvest. Can be upgraded.	8	1200 generic 1200 pantry
Pasture	-	Provides pasture space.	-	-
Sheep farm	2 timber	Collects wool from sheeps. Provides 5 pasture space.	3	50 generic
Windmill	2 timber 8 planks	Turns grain into flour.	3	250 pantry
Communal oven	2 timber 4 planks 10 rubble Stone	Turns flour into bread. Needs fuel to operate.	3	12 generic 50 pantry

Industry buildings

Building	Cost	Description	Workplaces	Storage	Needs Fuel	Requires Maintenance
Charcoal kiln	2 timber	Turns firewood into charcoal.	3	60 generic
Bloomery	1 timber 6 planks 1 tool	Turns iron ore into iron slabs.	2	50 generic
Smithy	1 timber 4 planks 6 rubble stone	Turns iron slabs into tools.	2	50 generic
Clay furnace	1 timber 6 planks 8 rubble stone	Turns clay into rooftiles.	5	250 generic
Stonemason's station	8 planks 1 tool	Turns rough stone into dressed stone.	2	50 generic
Lime kiln	1 timber 6 planks 8 rubble stone	Turns rubble stone into mortar.	3	250 generic
Malthouse	2 timber 6 planks 12 rubble stone	Turns barley into malt.	2	12 generic 100 pantry
Tannery	2 timber 6 planks	Turns hides into leather.	3	50 generic
Weaver's workshop	4 timber	Turns wool into yarn or flax into linen.	3	50 generic
The stonemason's station is the only industry building with free relocation.

Administration & Military buildings

Building	Cost	Description
Settlers camp	at least 250 treasury	Starts a new settlement in claimed regions.
Manor	5 timber 20 planks 15 rubble stone	Provides acces to your retinue and various forms of taxation. Grants 250 influence on first construction. Gives acces to the castle planner.
Siege camp	Work in Progress	Work in Progress

Administration buildings cannot be relocated and fulfill special gameplay needs.
The Manor for example gives acces to the castle planner:

castle planner

Cosmetic

Building/Option	Description
Shrine	Purely cosmetic content.
Remove bushes	Clears an area of small bushes and rocks that are not relevant to gameplay.