Manor Lords Guide : How To Design The Perfect City 2.0 

Using the storehouse for measurement between roads was perfect, Looks complicated at first but i created that spiderweb road system with ease, Thx to your videos

Spent 30 hours into the game and found having high quality iron and clay source right next to each other to be the easiest start, had to reroll a new game like 50 times. This is a good layout ill try it out

omggg congrats on your 5% coming out! I'm sure that spring break was one to remember

This design using corpse pits is OP now that 965 fixed most of the issues. I tried your other builds, and I prefer the esthetics and symmetry of this design

I know it's just me but I really struggled trying to understand what you wanted to achieve in the end, until I checked your schematic in the video description (thank you).

Thank you TactiCat! I've started 5 or 6 times and was never happy with the layout. THIS is what I was looking for. The unit of measure is brilliant. Headed to start over again using this awesome technique!

In the last episode you talked about your desire, to make your towns more realistic/natural looking... ut with right angels and straight lines, you devinetly dont work into that 😂... but hey, its effective 👍

I literally got the same seed as yours on just a couple restarts lol Its called Nusslohe as well, only I have Rich Berries and Rich hunting!

absolutely love this guide. Thanks to you i got max city level and its fully autonomic by now, now i will try to expand for full map

Just did my roads like you showed at the live, took a time but now looks pretty!

Inspired by your layout I got a hexagon build with markets, tavern, well and two hitching posts in the middle.The road needs to be long enough for granary and storehouse( that is 1 side) 3 more sides with veggie burgage, 1 side for the level 2 houses, and 2 sides left, one for coops one for leather. The industrial part is between veggies and leather so the industry can easily get the food and pelts too, and got the church at the end of one veggie burgage people don't need that in the center. Had no issue with supplying houses with their needs, truly felt like it's the best design so far considering all the bugs with the granaries snatching eachothers' goods and stalls not being fed cause the road is too long

After 6 restarts (hours each) i finally got the ball rolling. I spawned with 0 fertility but an insane amount of trees. I focused on plank and sheild forging. Used my excess to make money. Then up graded my homes to have gardens and began trading anything to make with wood and started using iron. Implemented taxes ASAP and saved 2k infuence points. Its definitely not over yet but its the most solid game ive had so far.

Enjoying this very much. Have been having a rough patch later because of the traffic and routing like you did. So. Thanks for a change of perspective. Because of building congestion I've been using double roads now in some spots.

Can't wait to try this design. Crazy I say, Just crazy!!

Great to see how you created the road system! I tried it twice. First time my starting region was too small and I only realised how much space is needed after I've been halfway through it. Second time I wasn't able to place the church in the designated area. There was just a smidge of space missing although I placed my roads actually giving more space than needed. Oh well, it's all a learning curve, lol.

Imagine watching this with no context. That's what I did😂

First, thank you so much for this video. I was having a tough time with the marketplace and it reaching everyones plots. Second, As I type this I'm trying out the same design but wider. Instead of using storehouses, I'm using logging camps. Not sure how it will work out, but with this design, I'm sure it'll look fantastic either way 😊.

Oh the timing! I was looking for this!

Thank you for the video. I'm going to try to use this design to create a zone. I wish I could see a video of how you go from the end of this design to begin building. Cheers!

Dude be playing Factorio in Manor Lords. Personally I think it looks silly, but each to their own.

Great stuff, don't get me wrong. But I like the charm and rustic character and the freedom that you get of not having this perpendicular grid as so many (most) citybuilders have.

I may have figured out the best town layout... start with the well... put road around it... choose two opposite corners and draw straight roads off quite a way... then put a market each side of the well roads... I go 2 lock points past the junctions... making it kind of hexagonal... usually I get 14 stalls per side... then put roads around the markets joining to the main well road... on the middle side, so now 90 degrees from the well road, run two more roads out a ways from the middle of the markets... then put single home plots with workshop extensions around the markets... I go with 5 per quadrant... I turn the market road plots into 2 artisans and the well road plots into 2 chicken coops and 1 goat shed... ending with 8 workshops, 8 coops, and 4 sheds... then on the market roads past the plots on each side I put a warehouse and granary... finally off the well road I add the veggie patches in extra large double plots that wrap up behind the single plots meeting with the storages... I usually make 2 veg and 2 orchards... then put resource collection/industry where needed... typically I put most industry on the kings road side and most res/farm on the other side... stick the tavern on one end of the well road and the church on the other, and you're good to go... enjoy...

I followed these designs with some modifications, since I put the structures 1st then the roads after 😂😂😂. End result was really good. Thanks.

Can’t wait for the modding community to get whole of this

looking forward to seeing how this city grows

I like this idea but I think the corpse pit is superior - no resources are needed so can be used infinitely for planning, and I think it's a perfect square. so making a thing like hexagons is much easier as when it snaps it creates perfect little square grids you an link roads to, and therefore also makes the corners act as anchors for diagonals as well (because its a perfect square). I like the idea of this grid system with the important places in the center. So I used this initial idea and created a bigger inner circle. with the marketplace, but plan on using the church as the true center surrounded by markets. Then I did one pit, and then a road just as almost a ruler marker, then another pit. Inner hexagon, then a bigger hexagon (2 pits), then another (3 pits).

ur not only a gamer but a civil engenier ... 😅😅great video ty ... 👍👍👍👍👍👍

I had a weird thought to make a village in the shape of Aegishjalmor and looking at how your set up is I can go with confidence that it may actually work. And look Viking af 😂

I have ocd and I'm trying my best to make it efficient and look realistic. I have been reloading so much but it's still fun

The trees really bothers me sometimes, so i use market to clear it up. Nice video ;)

I know I'm late to the party, but for the angled roads, build them from the middle, build a second on top from the outside to where you want it to end in the middle, by market. Then you can delete the road through the market. Sorry if this has been mentioned, just trying to give you the "inmteraction" you need :)

THIS looks like just what I was talking about! If the program is looking for proximity connections, we can create a “NYC city grid” to work with that. Gg. Thanks.

I tried this out yesterday and could not fit the church in anywhere it was supposed to go in the design. So leaving that little space Tacticat talks about is important. Although today I have been trying the sheep farm instead of the storehouse, it is just slightly wider and about 1/5 longer.

95% straight on the weekends

You can just make a pasture or field between the roads to clear the trees, it's free!

Love the design but I was horrified that you didn't check soil fertility!

“Game discourages grid design” challenge accepted

I used your layout as a guide for my town. The vegetables and orchards were essential since I had terrible soil for farms. However, I found that despite having a year's supply of food with hundreds of veggies and apples plus a small supply of meat and eggs, my burgages were not being supplied well. The food was all stuck in burgages pantries and not making it to the granaries fast enough no matter how many families in assigned to them and therefore not to the market. I also had barley imports not making it to the malt house, giving constant tavern issues trying to supply beer. Despite having 90-100 families, six stables full of oxen and completely staffed was not enough to transport goods where they need to go. Any ideas how to fix the issues with goods needing transport?

If it's okay with u I'm actually just using this as a general guide on efficient building layout & placements, but i avoid the perfect modern-looking straight grid urban planning parts lol

Almost everything uses the Stables/Ox right right? I think we have to consider the access to the stables as a factor too

Where do you put the first logging camp? It didn't fit where "industries" are supposed to go, maybe I missed something?

Worked on this for a while then realized my water source was wayyy too far away for this to work on my land

i cant seem to fit the church behind the market place, does it matter if i move it back one more slot?

some of my houses all always lack of clothing, despite the fact that i do have a few type of clothes, what should i do? do i have to relocate my houses close to the market? but i don't have any spaces to fit any buildings

How do you prevent the houses away from the markets not having food stalls? I have lots of food with plenty of choices but the houses won't go and collect from market

it would be easier to include your game saved file?

I guess that's one more unit of measurement for the imperial system, the storehouse

I dont understand how do you establish your central point at the beggining... Can you explain it?

Really enjoyed this, feel free to go slower and show more I'm sure a lot of others would enjoy it too that's why we are here lol.

13:32 problem ist you cant upgrade the house in this size to + 1 person more that lives in

Where does the manor come into play later?

Found this video and now I don't feel like learning the game, just feels so complex. I just want to play blindly, but it seems like you need to follow some kind of structure to progress, or am I reading this wrong?

bro the church and tavern dont fit in that little triangle, what should i do?

my manor lord mod wish list 1 wooden parths that generate passive in come 2 a corps pit that generates 1 raw ore per 2 dead bodys buried [ a bandet got to leave a coin or a sward right 3 forced eviction mod 4 calvelry men mod 5 vilage fair mod - lasts one year then disapiers- 25 to buy mellea event [win one jester gives 1 happynes for 1 year] 50 to buy cavelry joustin event [gives hero for 1 year] 6 mariage mod for lord and tier 3 famalys 7 convert well into pond mod fish stoke cost 100 and lasts 3 years 8 JUISTING FIELD REAGANAL FAIR MOD 9 orcherd mod 10 list of tradeing famlys mod 11 turn well into pond mod [cost 50 to stock with fisg for 3 years]

Over 600 views and a handful of comments; I'm grateful, and with others were as much.

These are awesome. This game does need some sort of measuring tool, but it should Definetly be in store house lengths Also this does show that hexagons are bestagons

.....You sound like the guy from BapKat.... is Noelle participating?

The dev is laughing his butt off with this min-maxing.

Can we get a Tacticat tshirt with your face, two thumbs up saying “alright!”

you could just play Anno 1800 before forcing manor lord cities in a grid design lol

are you a freemason? cause you plan your town like one xD

Did my comment disappear ?

They should add a measurement tool or show numbers when placing roads

I really dont like the market system. There has to be a better way.

How to tell you are from American withou telling me you are from America. I am from Europe and I refuse to build like that.