SKIP Farms! Do THIS Instead | Manor Lords Food problems 

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Short. To the point. No extraneous BS. This is how tutorial videos should be. WELL DONE, sir! More videos. please.

You dont have to trade for clothes, just build a tannery for lether and you can upgrade to Level 2. Then you build a clobber attachment, to build boots. And you'll never need any more clothes. Since 2 different supply is enough to fulfil their needs, even level 3 house

farmed are bugged atm. A large field showing a yield of hundreds only gives you like 20. And no, it was not due to weather or lack of workers, it was just a bug.

Well, I'm 5 hours in and I'm stuck! I can't progress any further in this game... Why did they have to make the coat of arms so customizable? I... can't decide on the final design...

If you export too much of something the price decreases, archers absolutely suck, and the number on the trade menu is the surplus meaning the number that you set is how many it will keep as a reserve so you basically have twice as many bows as you need

Only commenting because this video wasn't 24 minutes long with 11 ads. Well done, great video, helpful information. Love it!

You don't need a huge surplus of gear and weapons. If you set the surplus for for example ''spears'' at 200 you will always have 200 EXTRA spears on top of the ones that your army already has equipped... So no you don't need to set a huge surplus of any of the gear or weapons.

Build a 0.4 morgen two-family single burgage plot (a house + an outhouse and garden should be two house lengths, you can reduce the number of plots before pressing the hammer) Do this for 80% of the total houses you build and set them all to vegetables! I'm at 100 houses and 240+ pop and i've still got over 40 months worth of food supply, i can't get rid of food quick enough :D

So far i didn’t run into any problems, love it so far

this is something that I appreciate from a tips/guides video. No BS, straight to the point. It is my 6th or 7th playthrough that I realize the logistic of this game is not about getting more houses but to utilize a huge house to the max.

This is the video I've been looking for! Thanks for the upload! More information in this short video than some of the other people making 45 minute long videos

Most excellent. Thanks for keeping it short and SWEET

Great video man, very informative and you also included some inside funnys. Excellent work my lord. 🍵

Love this game, really scratches that Anno 1800 itch for me. Thanks for the video, very informative

Short, straight to the point, effective. Thank you!

Straight to the point, love it! Keep it up!

Subscribed, short sweet and to the point. Thank you! Loving the game, even with its early access glitches. Played as long as i could until i realized how bad i messed up at the beginning. Loving the curve.

Straight to the point - good video. TY

I've been doing since on my 2nd play through, I'm so glad to know that what I'm doing is right. Thanks!

Dude you are awesome. Your video is really cool, funny and most important you go straight to the point. Under 5 min i learnt more than from other youtubers :D

Great video! Thank you! I'm in learning stage and I found out (just last night) that the food supply chain of my village was not enough when my village has about 100 civis. Meanwhile to make breads, it requires 3 families for the chain (considering each family does 1 job). The food seemed good at first, but ofc the more villagers, the less effective of getting food from farm. Hunting seems good IMO but it depends on village's location. I found out in some matches, the perk "trap" gives me plenty of meat. From your video, I realised that I didn't use trade so effective, so I spent too many families on making stuff to upgrade (clothes, leather, ...). I always end up lacking of family to make resources :D

Finally a clear video! Thank you!

I've been thinking about doing this myself but that bow idea is def good!

The large vegetable plots saved my but. Did 3 villages trying to balance the food as a main priority but I always run out when the town gets bigger. Thanks for the tip!

WOW, I've started a couple of games and this is the first time of me knowing you can make a bigger house plot for chickens and veg. Thank you

Excellent vid, sir. Well done.

A tannery also works to fulfill clothing needs btw. You don't have to import it. Tannery+hunting camp easily fulfills the need for like 100 people with one family on each.

Thanks for the guide dude, it really helped in my gameplay. I've been trying to atleast maintain my food supply but to no avail. You're really precise. Hoping to get more tutorials from you

Thanks. That is really good point you’re making. I will give it a shot. Also the fact that it was 108 and not 102 bows and that you just rolled with it made me giggle.

What you're describing is basically how countries like the Netherlands got rich in the late medieval period(before colonialism) by making expensive manufactured goods and selling them on the international market while importing cheap food from abroad to feed thrmselves, effectively abandoning subsistence farming in favour of a market economy.

thank you so much. And straight to the point without any BS. thank you again so much

Quick,The select,Easy to understand!Thx!

In the trade post, you're aiming for a surplus, and I'm pretty sure that any weapons over the 36 that your one unit has is counted as a surplus. So, if you have a unit of archers, and you set the desired surplus to 36, you'll actually get 72 bows total, because the trade post wont sell weapons already in use. At least that's how it seems to me, I tried to sell every surplus weapon away and the total amount never reaches 0.

Thanks for the tip. Very usefull

You have saved me a lot of trouble! Thank you Sire

Interesting set up. I might try it for a starter, especially if first area is low fertility, and maybe try to get my second territory as a dedicated farm... 🤔

This also just a really good video on how to set up a trading capitol!

I have only berries, eggs and veggies. works very well. small backyard for chcikens and large one for veggies.

There is no need of holding a surplus of equipment once the army is already decked out. Also, with so many warbow producers you can easily drain your plank production, that could stall your plot upgrades. The tips of relying on plot food production are really good! Although in my experience, making the vegetable plot too big can hit a limit wherein your families wont collect all the vegetables. Also, if there is more food than pantry storage you risk losing some of your harvest to bad weather.

Yeah, I had my doubts on farms for 3 playthroughs, thank you for pointing it out and showing us the alternative. But I'm subscribing cus your accent, sir.

This was helpful. Subbed.

Nice video dude, keep up the manor lords content.

You can also get your house to level 2 by having a tanner near your hunting lodge, hell produce leather which counts as clothes for the requirement

short, clear, excellent tutorial

Great summary! Would recommend exercising plurals and countable/uncountable nouns.

this game is so fun. and its nice to have a guide like you help me.

I do it a little bit different: first buy 1 bull, then turn berries into dye, take the trade-route talent first, buy dye talent route and start selling dyes for 4. With that money you can create carrot farm and eggs, without using all your planks/wood

I came here to learn why farms were bad, instead you just explained the trading to me that I was struggling with.. I am ready to keep playing now. Thanks

F dude I thought I was subscribed this whole time 😂 fixed now love you big boy

Wow, I really needed that

The Manor Lord has spoken. Nice tut 👍

Short and sweet tutorial 👍🏻

this only works for the 1st couple years, the main issue is that backyard crops dont make it to the market unless their house pantry is full and even then only if nothing else takes priority. can have lots of carrots and eggs but it doesnt make it to the market. but one thing that helps is making your plots big enough to have 2 families.

Everyone should play this in their own way. That's what this game was made for.

I have had great food surplus (200+) with 5 huge vegetable farms, the only downside is the smaller families, take a long time to sow the backyard fields, when you would rather they be doing construction/early assigned role. 2-3 is probably more reasonable. Fields can generate a lot but, you have to micro and pull all non-essential workers to the fields during the harvest/sowing. They wait the rest of the year, so I pull the families once the sowing is done.

wow you just made life easier, i was relying on selling stones to upkeep my settlement xD

It's been a decade since any game got me this excited! Love it so far!

Nice video bro i like your videos and your yt chanel !!!!!!!!

I do a very similar thing but using iron as my base. Get 4 families mining iron at a crazy fast rate some converting that to slabs and some making weapons trade the excess and BOOM all the money needed for food

I will give this a try as I wasn't doing very well with farming. I feel like I'm learning one thing each attempt. Main issue so far is not having a militia early enough to stave off bandits, and then not having any kind of army to challenge the AI lord. The kind of money this creator has is insane! I thought I was doing well breaking the one thousand mark.

Nice strat. I went another direction, I have a lot of goats, and a tanner, this will give you clothing stalls and level 2 burgage, then i build tailor and sell their products, and buy all the food i need, my town becomes trade dependant for food but massively wealthy from all the artisans

IMHO 108 bows is needed only to raise 3 NEW archer units. Once the unit is raised, guys in it have their gear at home, which is not included in surplus. So the 108 surplus is unnecessary high, unless you want to make 3 new units, or you expect all your archers to perish in single battle... Btw orchards are better than vegetable plots, they take time to fully grow, but don't require almost any care by the villagers and yield seems to be much higher as well...

If only the vegetables didnt get bugged in the houses with none in the granaries.

Three things: 1) Agree that early on, you will need to rely on berries and hunting for food. More specifically, during the summer months, have your families work on gathering berries (get as many families in the foragery hut as soon as you can), but in the winter, only put one family on a hunting camp (unless you have a wild animal resource bonus). 2) You actually SHOULDN'T make your burgage plots for the veggie farm too big initially. I keep mine just wide enough to add a second family house on the same burgage plot, that way it will only consume one food/fuel per month (maybe two if it has two families -- I am not 100% sure yet -- still learning about the mechanics of the game), so that the people will be able to plot and harvest the farm in time. I have maybe like 10 burgage plots that are probably about 0.2 Morgen each (maybe?) and I've been able to generate HUNDREDS of units of veggies such that I have a 20 month supply. 3) Contrary to what this video states, I actually go use goats to make hides so that I can trade leather early on in the game for gold. It's an early, profitable resource. If you didn't invest in the trade route development point upgrade (which reduces the cost of setting up a trade route by half), then what I (used to) do was start trading planks first, and then once I have enough gold, then I create the trade route for the leather. And then with the gold that I get from leather, I will upgrade smaller burgage plots (JUST big enough to be able to fit two families and an upgrade) to add goats, which will produce hides, which, if you have a tannery already because of the hunting camp, you'll be able to make leather with the goat hides as well, to make even more money. But otherwise, yes, farms are really mostly useful to create the second type of food and ale for a level 2 burgage plot. Otherwise, you COULD pay to import the raw materials in and then process it yourself, but I have found that early on, where you have more people than you have gold, it's just cheaper/easier to farm it yourself, even if the yields suck. Breadmaking is also an excellent path to a good source of food, but you will need to have enough wheat plots to keep that fed. (And pursuant to another tip video that I watched, I actually tend to make my farm plots smaller so that it can be processed quickly rather than making much larger plots.) Eggs suck (as far as I can tell) as the production appears to be very limited per burgage plot.

I didn't mind the farm side had all 3 types and boosted my economy, but yeah sheepies and trade routes were key for me!

Such a good video!

Chicken farms, hunting, and vegetable hardens got me through the first few years of the game with my current village, until I had enough extra labor to start farming on a larger scale. I would definitely say farming is still worth it. You just have to time it right. It's very labor intensive, but once you've reached a certain size village, it gets harder to feed everyone without it in my experience.

You can also get a livestock trading post and sell sheep when you get close to your pasture capacity. That makes a ton of money because each sheep is worth like 30 wealth, and with sheep breeding you get tons of sheep

Thanks, that was helpful

I have a ton of plots with chickens but i never seem to have enough eggs

The problem i have is get sheep you need a livestock trading post. I build that assign a family to work there, obtain a sheep, build a sheep farm and pasture right next to it with road access, assign a family to work at the sheep farm and the sheep never moves from the trading post?!!? Left it for hours and it never gets to the farm... what am i missing?

Brilliant. I have to add one thing. It might be just a guess however it seems upgrading houses to level 3 early is a bad idea. I have noticed dramatic drop in food after starting upgrading.

I am having food issues and all of my houses have veggies or chickens. I made the plots for each house what I thought was big and even did the extra family in the hopes they would help grow the veggies

Tested. 100% true👍🏻

Cobblers make shoes out of leather which is also a very good way of getting houses to level 3 without needing to import!

So, is it cheaper to import Barley too? I never seem to have enough crops for the malt house in order to brew beer.

I hunted everything in the 1st year, and now there is nothing to hunt, lol

This is not only food but also money tutorial, thank bro.

good video, short and to the point and everything top notch mate. I am just not convinced about the eggs...you lose one employee and it never went over 1-2 eggs in my games...or am i mistaken?

makes sense, but wasn´t thinking on the fact that greater backyard equals more vegetables.

Third restart. Near perfect run by year 3. Having a market and a bug where my families weren’t assigned properly/my builders outright disappearing. Suddenly food is scarce. Tried reloading a save and I had a bandit camp spawn not long after I had already dealt with another not far from that location. This game has a steep learning curve. It can be a bit deterring and even frustrating for sure, but it’s still hella fun. Even with the amount of setbacks I’m having, I’m still enjoying it.

As soon as I have decent amount of anything and sell it the price basically instantly drops to 1. But I have a pro Hack for the beer "problem". Import 1 beer, put a worker in for a few seconds so he stores the beer, then click on the building and next to "destruct" you can pause the building basically. The beer need will always be fulfilled from here on forever. Also importing food is a complete waste of money, just start with chicken on all plots then a view big gardens and you are gucci. You just need a couple of foods in huge masses and your peeps will be completely satisfied.

Seriously nice video. I get frustrated by all the wooly talkers with 1 hour long tutorials. Watching this is just benefit :).

Good video!

Sic bro, just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in lol

A few wrong things like surplus is after use so you have 102 used bows and 102 back up which is a big waste. Also just put down loads of woodcutters and foresters with plank makers and it's infinite fast easy money to buy anything if you wanna easy mode

I know, I also use big plots for vegetables and use sheep farms foor yarn and wool, but my problem is that the global market is constantly oversupplied because of how much I export or undersupplied when I import products like food

I was selling bows but the problem is the demand drops to only $1 if you continuously sell them and will not go back up unless you take a year off

2:36 did you say denars? like from bannerlord?

I have one question. What about market surplus? Yesterday when I played I had 1 gold/item of price because I sold a lot of the same thing...I could sold it for 4 or 6 gold, but the game said NO :) Anyway, good video and a good idea, just need to test in the game.

I may have encountered a glitch. If I upgrade the house before selecting which plot I want, I can no longer have the option to add a plot

Is there a size limit for these carrot farms? I noticed that sometimes it gets buggy when I make it with apples! It seems like it doesn't plant at all. I would like to know more details about how to make the most of carrots in your home

I had the rich berriers deposit, got the upgrade to double it and have over 500 every year - most of it exported for moni

the first houses only need leather to be upgraded, only build chickens at plots with only one house because the eggs have to fill up first the house and afterwards the market

Food for me was okay but Firewood. That scared me. Always short on firewood and there are at times two families working and I am always running out.

this is a way to do it but not the best unless you want to speed build but its very costly as you see.... i have a town of 500 and am only importing about 30 barley and wheat. no need for flax for clothes when you trade sheep once you get enough

I wish all tutorials were made like this one

I literally just make 5 really long veg plots early on and them go for chicken coops after. Even with 400 villagers those 5 veg plots still give me surplus veg

The problem with trading is that prices fall when you sell too many items. I have almost the same technique, except that I sell weapons. The blacksmith can produce several products, which helps if the price drops too much.