Master Manor Lords: Essential Perfect Start Guide 

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Great way to start my morning. Grabbing a cup of coffee, then building a new city.

Great Video, some Additions: - I would place the market earlier - cost you nothing and helps with approval. - Set someone to work in the Granary and Storehouse, at least briefly, to prevent your starting resources from getting damaged in the rain. You can remove them again, after they hauled everything in. - Also you have enough Lumber to start on the houses from the beginning so you should make 50% Approval when you hit April. - No need to invest in food and firewood so early, you have 4 months of supply and your hunters will drain the local wildlife faster than it can replenish anyways. - Those massive Plots, kind of a waste, at least if you are planning to do some farming later. Reason is, those families will take quite some time in the vegetable garden in spring - same time when you need their workforce elsewhere - in that case it is better to go for some chicken coops. Remember: For everything except Vegetable and Orchards, size of the Plot does not matter, as long as it can fit an artisan extension. - Do more scouting at the beginning: Where are the aquifers, how fertile is the land so you can plan if you want to do Farming or rely on other means of food production. - If you forgot your woodcutters camp: You can cancel another building / demolish it if already build and you will get your logs back. - Way to early for the church. Better to get someone to collect some berries, food variety is enough to get over 50% for levle one plots. Only for levle two is the church required.

this game is BEAUTIFUL! I can't believe one person actually did this. Well fucking done Greg Styczeń!

That's how I start my village: • Instantly place a Granary and Storehouse to prevent supplies from getting bad • Hunting camp and Forage Hut to start food production and get leather • Logging camp, put 2-3 families until 10-12 Timber • 5 Burage Plots and Well to stop homelessness and grant water access (Forage Huts smallest possible extension slot) • Woodcutter's Lodge and Sawpit for Fire Wood and Planks • First 2 Planks to upgrade Hitching Post into a small Stable. Order another Ox for 20g • 3 Marketplaces infront of the Granary and Storehouse (The families working in there should own the market stall) • Build a Trading Post, Tannery and another 5 Forage Huts with your next 18 Timber. (You can build the Forage Huts adjecent to the others without any road connected) • Sell Planks and Leather at the Trading Post, Skill into Trade Logistics and Establish trade Routes for both asap • Use the wealth to build Goat Sheds (around 20) for even more Leather • Build a Church and start Upgrading 2 Forage Huts to Level 2 (Always upgrade the ones closest to the market) • In those Extensions build a Fletcher's Workshop, establish Trade Routes and start selling warbows • Brewery Extension for the other Level 2 • Build a Tavern and Malthouse, start establish Trade Route importing malt • Build Forage Huts with Vegetable Garden (7 slot long) and Chicken Coops in Short Extensions From there I can decide my future develepment skills (if my area has farming potential or Rich deposits) and set policies acordingly

I restarted this game 3 times in one night. Somehow my first go was my best. But every time I learn something new. Tonight I’ll prolly start another 3

My only change is I build the Granary along with the storehouse first. I know a lot of people try to skip that, but I've lost a lot of food because of thunderstorms in the first month, and I don't want to risk it anymore.

Use berries straight away together with carrots and hunters to create food happiness from the beginning. Make sure to upgrade the tents to prevent unhappiness in the first period before your houses are finished. Chicken and goats need only minimum plot size.

In addition to these things, ive found on my last couple restarts, that with 5 starting bandit camps if you get an early manor you can take your 5 retinue and militia out during the first winter, farm the camps and finish winter with 18-22 retinue (depending on losses) and enough influence to claim whatever region best supports your main.

I really like how you built your plots for the homes, I think it's an effective way to build 6 homes and have vegetables. I'll start implementing this in my game too

I upgrade the homeless tents into a camp (1 log but you get it back), this way the popularity doesn't dip and you never get below 50% and get families in faster. Love your idea of opening with trade of planks, great idea, haven't thought of that. Thanks for the video my man

if you upgrade the worker camp you get 50% approval on normal difficulty which is enough to get a new settler, also each family gets 3 people instead of 2 which gives you a production boost early on

The demo prompted the player through the initial build sequence. For some reason the early access version was less specific.

This was great, man. Concise, to the point, and not 40+ minutes long like other peoples videos. This has helped a ton. I played for 3 hours lastnight and finally got my trade down. Was banking good coin.

Once again i gotta start again. You basically answer all my questions i was having issues with ha you sir have my Sub

Save real estate... you only need large burges for carrots and orchards.size or the block effects production amounts. Goats and chickens you dont need large blocks, only large enough to get the extension option..the size of the bock wont affect the production amounts

Great guide man, your explanations are quick and to the point.

Most important thing on start is to upgrade your camp for 1 wood it gives your initial 5 families place to live so you don't get penalty for homelessness . Your approval don't fall below 50%. literally game changer.

I just started a new village using this as a guide. I didn't follow it exactly but so far so good. I was having trouble getting my trading off the ground early so this was a big help

Really fantastic and genuinely helpful. Great pace to your video and just enough explanation to stay on point while being clear and succinct. Thanks man!

You make it look so easy. I just played the game on normal setting and before I could expand my population a bandit camp appeared right in my animals and berries and my villagers stopped gathering food. Sixteen of them to ten of me I had no chance... fight and be killed or starve.

Huge help. Thank you for this. Brewing coffee right now for my Manor Lords morning.

This game is absolutely stunning. I’m excited to see how it expands from early access. Been following it for a while and bought immediately. Even in this current state, it is a treat to play and learn. THIS IS HOW GAMES SHOULD BE MADE! Great intro video for the gameplay!

Really cool video mate ! One of the better explanations for beginners. I find the tutorial is limited and this is a perfect guide. Cheers from Australia.

That hunting hut leather problem has fucked me up so many times and I had no idea what was wrong. Thanks! xD

This is actually amazing! Thanks a lot :)

I would add one thing to your list for a start. Upgrade the camp to a workers camp first before doing anything. This will keep your approval at 50% for the first month, so you can start populating the town when April comes around.

Very helpful video and comments, I'm soaking up as much information before starting my first gameplay

"I'm very keen to doing wild animals." Savage right there.

Awesome video, very helpful for me personally! I’ve restarted several times trying to get a feel for the mechanics

Awesome. Thanks for this quick tutorial!

Your guides and strats are the best for manorlords!

Thank you very much, great video because you are also briefly explaining why you are doing, what you are currently doing. Also it doesnt feel too min max, since this is still a game heavily implying on optics =D

This helps out a lot I've watched other peoples videos but was not helping me at all thank for this very useful guide 👍👍

Needed this badly, great video!

Holy tacticat this was actually such a good beginner's video. Glad to see all the views on this one!

this game is gonna blow up, this is my 2nd “city builder” after city skyline and i cannot stop playing this instead. love every aspect

nicely explained... thank you, I did max level town yesterday but learn alot watching this video.

Fantastic guide, thank you!

Very helpful thank you!

Just found your channel good content! Keep it up

Short, sweet and informative. That's how I like it.

I'm surprised at how late you built the Granary. Most videos recommend building it and the Storehouse immediately. I reached 57% Approval without a Church, but I'm struggling for cash. I'll restart using your tips. Thank you for this video.

Thanks to share this way to start, There is another way similar to get the first family moving in the first month, keeping the 50% and up so quickly. The secret is update the camp in the first step, then doing the same you did.

Awesome guide. Thank you

Nice video - well edited. First things I build: Storages - I don't want free stuff to spoil. Then Logging camp, then I have 2 logs left for either berry collector or first house. Is the second ox really necesary? Oh wait! you know you are too severe 🙂 Small tip: first make the road adjecent to a plot houses, make it curve a bit and it looks even better when you fill this up with houses - no straight curves in Medieval times. It is august when your approval rating goes up. I noticed you are a bit severe on oxen, but also workforce determines speed of building. With one free worker family it does not seem to matter much if you have 2 oxen, or not? This is a good starting strategy though!!

Thanks heaps you really do a fantastic job and really explain stuff so I'm happy to subscribed. Take care

Thanks for this! I was pretty lost when I just got into the game

Remember to use the TAB button to quickly check the stats of everything. It will make the process much faster.

Amazing ho efficient a good build like this can speed up your builds and food collection. This design got me to food sufficiency by end of the second year, great design. Thanks heaps

🎉I don't bother with family plot food sources I use berries and the hunting cabin,and a sawpit.Then I'll unassign where as needed while constructing and incense home size,by that point you have 2 settlement upgrades and a church built right on time,get a quick flood of settlers and build farms,and a trading post.i found farms to be much more efficient for food,plus once there fields are plowed you dont have to keep people in there untilbits harvesting season.during that time you crank out other resources,turn one house into a plot to make shields and within 3 years youll have like 3000 wealth from trading those

I like to pause at the beginning and mentally lay out my toen plans and layout. also I like to put my market beside my store houses so it's easier and quicker for the villagers to keep it supplied

Something I prefer to do during spring, summer and autumn is focus on berry bushes (especially rich deposits), as these resources die out during winter. They also keep growing, so you will have constant supply flow until autumn. Animals will keep reproducing regardless of the season.

Wow I didn’t know there was a way to make the logging area circle bigger lol, thank you that helps so much

I would advice to focus completely on houses for the beginning. If you manage to have 5 finished before april you wont have the before malus and therefore have 50 when required, so you can have your 6th family already in april if you manage to have 6 housing capacity

Excellent video! Subbed.

Great video! Just wanted to add that you can demolish a building and get the resources back if you make a mistake and don't build the logging camp.

my starting strat is hoarding food with low population, and focus on exporting something. usually iron slabs if lucky with a rich deposit, then using the tithe at about 25% early game with low pop and high food until i can buy a new region with influence from the tithe

Hitching post first for me. The sooner you get that 2nd ox (aka right away) the faster everything else goes.

This is VERY helpful

Best in first 5s of game to click the upgraded tents. This way approval rating will rise above 50% way quicker. Only costs 1 Lumber. Don't forget to destroy the tents once you can accommodate 5 families in houses as they won't move on their own.

Great Video my man 🎉❤

No wonder I got a huge surplus of Firewood and an assortment of equipment that wouldn't sell. I did have that notification wherein Trade Post needed to be connected to King's Road. I though simple connecting a new road would suffice. Guess it's time to restart.

Dude. Seriously. You need to be working with the dev (singular) of this game. Such a good game intro. Nice work.

Literally bought the game because of your guide. I feel ready!

What I generally do is go full on skin trade at the beginning. Upgrade two houses with goats producing skins, and get skins also from the hunters. Then full on sell those in my Trade House selecting 0 surplus. Skin sells more than planks, therefore you get more money faster. After I have 5 skin producing houses, I transition to leather export.

nice vid , i go granary storehouse hunting logging 2nd ox

This is rich deposit dependent but on this particular map, you invest into charcoal and deep mining. Clay and Iron never run out, so you can focus on selling roof tiles and producing weapons. Watch the money roll in.

this man is a life saver.

True! I had my hunting camp jammed up and couldnt figure it out. Magically, later, when I put some staff in the granary and staff and an ox on the storehouse, things cleared right up. Huh. Go figger.

A granary should be built first after the logging camp and storehouse to store the food (supplies) laying on the ground to avoid them getting destroyed by the weather .

Super informative, I went in blind and it went awfully :D

Great guides🎉❤

Love the guide, curious question though, how high do you prioritize building a granary? I tend to do it around the same time as the store house but unsure if that is a good choice?

Awesome Tacticat. Using this strategy provided good amount of shekels and logistics flow. Thanks man.

First thing I do is build a food reserve and storehouse to stop the weather from destroying them. Then wood production and housing.

I’d say you needed a granary before quite a few of those other buildings. Especially before the church or additional homes.

Before release, I decided I wouldn't watch any videos or look up anything that would help me learn the game. I soon realized that the game would be more of a learning curve than I had anticipated and that the way you start is very crucial. In the first few tries, I was trying to quickly obtain people and level up my town asap. I have recently switched that into trying to prevent people from coming as much as possible and take things much slower. As few people and housing plots as necessary. Everything as slow and only added if absolutely necessary. I have noticed much better results with this method.

Just learned a bunch of stuff and I already have a town I've invested about 6 hours into and has 40 families. I don't want to start over again haha

You should have built a granary right after the store house to collect the starting food at the beginning.

One save i didnt realize i made two woodcutter buildings instead of one logging, one woodcutter. That hurt lol

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Thx mate

I did a chill playthrough with just the bulding then jumped to the one where you're suspose to establish peace and in that playthrough my trade was super bad and food was low...all cause i didnt place the trade house on the kings road and my hunting camp got the hide bug.

I don't understand why you set up the trade route. Planks can be sold without one and they come reasonably often considering you are that early in the year etc.

i always build storages first, throw in 2 workers to pick up things. as RNG will rain fast sometimes

If you gather from Hunting Camp, it gives you hide which in turn you can make into leather?

Thanks brother this help my town suck

Hey, can someone explain why it is a good idea to set the hunting limit to half the population? (seen at 3:06) Is it so the animals repopulate quickly? I've never used the hunting camp. Thanks!

Nice start. I like the big two-family farms.

this is excelent video 🤔👍👍👍👍

i have found that if you remove a person from lets say the hunters lodge their stand becomes abandoned. better to just keep atleast one in the camp

I like hiring the cheapest merc. One or two bandit camps and you have a good amount of starting money to do whatever.

wish there was a video what to do to avoid glitches. i had villagers stuck with their carts in my store room. the only way to get my villagers free again was to destroy the storageroom. all my supplies getting destroyed by weather untill it all got brought to my new storage. then at some point my villagers stopped working all together. just all standing there staring at the same point.

Are you sure the house gardens are plowed every year? I've read or heard that this is just a one time thing after a family moved in. Can't find where I got it from. Will keep an eye on this next time I play!

What I don’t get is how this game doesn’t have a tutorial. It literally just throws you into the world and expects you to know everything. Hope that gets added in a later patch

you don’t lose if you use all your starting wood btw. anything you destroy gives you a full refund. if you make that mistake, just destroy something and build one.

if kings road is far then is it better to put trading post somwhere in between storage house and the road or far away on the road?

For chickens it doesn't matter what the burgage plot size is. Only veggies and apples

Just experienced a bug with orchards where they were stuck in pantries and not going to granary only way for me to get rid of them was through the tithe tax since they were all marked as surplus food