This is the BIGGEST Town Level in Manor Lords! 

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Jacob can stand around. After all, he’s the senior engineer that built the city. He deserves a break.

Fun Fact about medieval farming: it was often done in the form of seilons. Each larger farm field was divided into narrow strips, each of which was owned or rented by a peasant. Each peasant could grow what crops they had available, or leave their seilon fallow. If I understand correctly, this had the advantage of every peasant family having access to every type of field around the village, and having many smaller crop plots led to a more even crop rotation. That said, it was apparently not a particularly efficient farming method. If you wanted to simulate this method in the game, I suppose you would draw several smaller plots in each crop field, and have them worked by several families. I suppose that would be pretty ineffecient, which would be pretty realistic in the context.

I would love to see a full series! This game is so satisfying to watch! I'm really enjoying the complexity of it, and I want to see the manor/castle come into play. A walled city with a castle defending against invaders on a harder difficulty would be cool to see!

A small but important nitpick. It's not that you don't _need_ so many farmhouses - it's that you really don't want it. Having multiple fields per farmhouse is how you smooth over the fact that individual fields will be fallow for much of the time. As such, you want at least three fields per farmhouse to ensure that the farm workers always have something to do...

I would surely watch a series of Manor Lords with Biffa!

Dare I say it, I enjoy this way more than City 2 vids. Please do some more :)

It would be great for all of us if you did a new Manor Lords series just like your other links, it gives everyone the ambition to watch more and learn. Keep up the good work Biffa

Just hit Large Town on my first playthrough on peaceful mode. Even without enemies to contend with it was a struggle! I blame the start location - dead centre, with abysmal fertility. Feeding a few hundred people on larders that barely kept above two month's supply for about eight in-game years straight. But I learned a lot! And even discovered traffic jams are a thing in this game - I inadvertently created a supply bottleneck near my tavern that hand carts struggled to get through. Next time, on 'normal' mode, will hopefully go much more smoothly!

You might want to add an Ox the Farms through the Farmhouse. 😂 Granary's help store and transport food and get it on the market. The families will go and empty the Farmhouse, Berry, Vegetable and Egg pantries, store it and put it on the market. It's a 1:1 ratio. 1 house - 1 item/need. If you have 50 Burgage Plots you need 50 Berries, 50 Eggs, 50 Vegetables to complete 3 different food varieties. Double Burgages count as one plot.

It's Sunday afternoon where I am. I got a hot tea, some biscuits and an hour to kill before I start working on my research again. I sit down in front of the laptop and there's a biffa video waiting for me. Bliss....

Tip: I've had some time to play the game myself and in my opinion when building burgagees(houses) make sure they have both upgrade icons, 1 allowes them either their Artisan work or food from chickens or leather from goats, they can be small, vegetables or apple orchard are recommended to be big, because they scale with size, and the other upgrade adds 1 more family, so when it reaches lvl 3 it'll have 4 families instead of 2, and if that burgage is an Artisan for example Bows, the more families the faster they create them, which is the same for all artisan upgrades. So shortly you can have a lot more Families with just a little bit bigger houses, and when having that in mind when choosing to build many houses, instead of going for the best "9" for an example when reducing the ammount their size will adjust and then show the upgrade

Biffa, my kids and I enjoy your content. You always have a happy, positive and good nature about you that makes it enjoyable to watch.

Definitely keen for a full series on this. Between you, City Planner and Geekism, I’ve watched so much & really enjoyed it. Just gutted I’m a Mac/PS5 person so no options to play…. yet!!!

Woot! New video! :D I cant wait for the next town, now that you have so many idea on how to structure things. It's going to be super cool :)

Really enjoyed this Biffa, would love to see a full series on it from you.

Truly enjoying watching this game!! It's going to be one of the best city builders there is I believe!! Houses are beautiful in the large town and still more to explore, plus more land etc. I'm not a fighter so I would be doing building only, but it's interesting having attacks come your way, because you know it truly happened. I hope everyone is having fun playing it!! I look forward to it soon if and when I get this computer fix. In the meantime, I enjoy watching you and getting my giggles in. You have great humor🤩

Yes, another series for this game plz 🙏🏽👏🏼🥳

16:01 Yess, an apiary will "bee" some food, won't it?

Im glad im not the only one who thought the game would be out in full and not in Early Access. I had assumed early access was just like that for content creators. Alas we need to wait for more xx

@17:16 & @17:50 Thanks Biffa, now I see those flying around when I play the game and that song hits🤣

I enjoyed this series. I would watch another series of this game if you made it.

Hey Biffa, I've been watching city planner play this early release as well, and he managed to get the cost at the trading post way down by using the points in the tree on the trading post. That same tree also gave a huge boost to the food and firewood in his town.

one thing i have learn - make a burbage plot as big as you can and then reduce the number of plots to minimum (usually 1 with space to add one later). I think this give it more space to grow "stuff" like vegetables (so make sure the shape of the plot is square) - they almost become mini farms. When you first start - i "THINK" that is the best way to start.

I'm hoping for a full Manor Lords series! This game is absolutely fantastic and so relaxing to watch.

Thanks for the instant gaming link! Got a bunch of games over the past year or so using that link! Great deal on Manor Lords too for sure. Thanks for playing, I feel well set for what not to do as I start 😉

This has been fun to watch, but it will be more exciting to see Biffa controlling a massive army to defeat Barons and Bandits.

But... I was supposed to do house chores. Oh, well. Biffa lording about the manor it is.

Biggest tip I've picked up. Hold TAB to see all the details of your buildings. Also don't make fields bigger than 0.4 or you'll end up with wasted crops. It only lets them use one plough at a time.

I love Manor Lord's plz continue with this game play!

Omg I think that stall move is a game changer

Dang! I had no idea you could move the market stalls around. Well that changes things!

I know it's early access and everything but I hope a lot more will be added because the game is currently limited to only level 3 building which means your village/town can't get newer milestones which also means you can't get all development points so I really hope the developer will be adding so that we can create huge medieval cities.

Loved the series Biffa! Yes please do a new one with the full game release! I literally learn form your videos on how to play it lmao

I really hope this series continues now that the game is released. Love it!

Need this as a full series!

Farmhouses: Yeah, but the more farmhouses you have, the more oxen you can have for ploughing, sowing and harvesting (if you've unlocked it). It's a balance.

Biffa - Sir I have an important tip to share with you on this game referring to two items on the development point section that you really should've gotten first at the beginning of the game and it would save you a lot of currency. At the beginning of the game you eventually earn two development points. Only spin those two development points on trade and then the other one to unlock the other part of trade. Once you have the two trade items unlocked in the development section you will see the cost of establishing trade routes to be locked in at a very low price for all of them and I will save you a ton of wealth as well. In addition the import cost for anything that you buy on the trade will also be locked in at a very low price and it will also save even more wealth as well. I think you'll find this tip very helpful at the beginning of your next new game. Also for everyone reading this there's another important tip to be aware of which is trying to keep all your industries in your town as closest possible and do not expand out beyond it. Because if you do it will work against you in a very poor way. In addition, not every region offers good farmland so farming is not 100% necessary. However I learned is actually more important to take to your Burbage plots make them very large and set them up to grow carrots since it will definitely be helpful in the long run as you're playing the game.

after some testing, i made five .4 Morgen, instead of a large field, and it worked very well. instead of a huge 1 morgen field, this way, we could could crop rotate and maintain a food supply without interrupting production. I also, from another suggestion, made a harvest day taking off all workers to put into fields, this was much faster and super useful for crops. What a great setup you have going. I hope you are enjoying the game.

Good stuff Biffa! That lacking bread thing (when pressing TAB) I think is actually just the game's way of saying that the household is lacking "food" and not specifically bread. If you click on one of your marketplaces (not a stall) it should show you which houses are being covered for what. Glad you spotted the ploughing station thing... the oxen really make short work of the ploughing!

I'm enjoying this game, and I like the fact you can upload your own shield design in a square png format. Insert tea emblem here 🛡 and then rename the new settlement to Mediteaville 😊

We definitely need more of Biffa's Manor Lords in our lives!

I definitely would like to see you do a new town in ML. This game is so gorgeous.

I have a suggestion for the next game update. The taverns in Banished allowed you to choose what to use for making drinks. You could make beer from grains, OR you could make cider from apples, peaches, plums, whatever you are growing in your orchard, OR you could make cider from the berries from your gather's hut. Very realistic. Better yet, the fact that Manor Lords has a mechanic for levels of fertility for certain grains works in favour of how Banished taverns work. Add that same fertility mechanic to what you can grow in your orchard. Then, this tavern can serve beer, and that tavern can serve cider. Again, very realistic. In addition, Manor Lords already also comes with honey production. Allow the Manor Lords taverns to use that honey, and that tavern can make mead. You can also pair this with the region system to give you a very realistic feel where each TOWN'S tavern can serve a different drink. So, you can have Honningbrew Meadery outside Whiterun, Winking Skeever Cider House in Solitude, Sleeping Giant Cider House in Riverwood, and so on, and so forth.

would def love to see more Manor Lords vids

Loving this series 😊

Your trade amounts are the surplus you'd like to maintain in storage, above the instant demand from buildings. You don't need to micro it.

Looking forward to a new series of Manor Lords.

Hey Biffa! Love your content. Quick info before your next town. While multiple farm houses aren’t necessary for every field you definitely have use for them if you invest in plows for your oxen. Only one slot per farm house. So multiple houses makes sense then because that way you can increase productivity with multiple plows ❤

YES WE WOULD 🎉

I think you are missing more storage(and people working the storage), which is causing some of the bottlenecks you’re seeing. But loving seeing you Biffa your way through this game. I hope to see more❤️

You might pick this up later in the video but taxes do not add to town wealth, it only adds into your Lords wealth. Love all your vids and followed you for years

Can't wait till you start a new town with the full released game! CS2 can take a backseat for a while lol

This has been great to watch and I’m sad it’s come to an end. I would like to see more of this please 😊

I've enjoyed this series and looking forward to a new one on hard mode!

GO Biffa, hardest mode and with military & bandits :)

Really enjoying this

@10:50 ish ... looking for Jacob. If I remember correctly, Jacob is permanently stationed at the logging area.

just something you don't need that number of houses, you need that number or bigger, so 10 level 3s, are 10 level 2s and 10 level 1s as well - read the small print it sys "level 2 or higher" :) so all level 3s count towards that total

Don't forget ,everytime you take a family out of certain jobs it also destroys the market stall that family had

Cant wait for round two baby

@biffa you haven’t answered THE question : can you fix traffic in Manor Lords ? 😂😂😂 Great series on a great game!

19:00 it’s a hay manger for feeding live stock.

The best advice I've read was to have multiple stripes of fields, and manage them with priority. It is easier to take care of and you can have fallow intervals programmed.

It is generally better to have multiple smaller fields, with different crops, that literally rotate every year. One of those fields would be empty where our cows would graze. In your case sheep.

Heck yes do more!

Just an aside: when it comes to upgrading burgage plot to upgrade the town, a level 3 homes counts for each lower level as well. Example: when it required 10 level 1, 10 level 2, and 10 level 3 you could have all your burgages at level 3 and it would count. It says level one *or higher* x/10. Having different leveled houses is not needed.

Nice Video!

Bought using your link, thank you.

Great series and game. Go for a game on the hardest level!

i really like your Manor Lords videos! it's best to get back from work and just relax a bit (: from watching the game, i think it needs a better to distinguish between buildings, maybe by design or color ? cause it looks that everyone is heaving difficulty with that.

My break from playing Manor Lords this weekend was used to watch Biffa play Manor Lords. Thank God there is a workday tomorrow. Please make more Manor Lords YT vids.

In case you have not noticed by now: You do not need to setup a trade route. You can import and export without them...

What i learned about this game is that upgrades are not automatic. You have to build or upgrade something somewhere manually. For the plough i didnt know you have to click the button in the farmhouses for it to be implemented 😭

I like this better than City Skyline 2

Surely updates will soon let you build stone walled Castles etc?

Get houses with bigger backyard to have more production

Hi Biffa! I think, you haven't added the ox to your farms livestock. I have only seen people working on your fields and not one ox! Seens you have to add it in by yourself and not only by adding the plowing ability.

rye is really good when u have a bad land for farming, because it grows in low fertility land. Then it converts into flour like wheat, so a great plant for a low fertility land like yours, but you need to unlock it in the research tree🤷‍♂️

The plow is on the farmhouse menu

Add me to the list for another 'full' series - would love to see the battle mechanic in play too

On next play through, are you going to try the military aspects as well?

19:00 But _is_ it a cart? best put it near a steeple and fill it with hay - if it truly is a cart, an Assassin will surely jump in.

Would love to see a new series, up to you whether you do it soon or let some updates come through. I think you should at least do one with some combat included.

I tried starting this game on the mode where you have to claim all the territories while that other guy is also claiming land, and I honestly can’t figure out how to progress fast enough to compete. His armies are huge, and having all of the families in the one region I actually managed to claim leave due to raiders soft locked the region forever. I saw someone say this game was easy after the first year or so no matter the difficulty, and I really want to know what the heck this person was doing that I wasn’t.

Biffa?? in the NEW episodes will Lord Hugo be gracing us with his presence ?

Can I ask? Are there lights or torches so that it looks brighter at night?

Aaaaaaah Biffa brings a new video with my newest hyperfixation. I cannot wait to buy this game. Absolutely desperate lol. Cannot wait to create my own medieval town and wreck some stuff... 😊

Saw your livestock is still stuck in the trader. Have considered demolishing the trader building to force the livestock move to the pastures and then build it again? It may work

yes

It's like a Medieval City Skylines isn't it so Yes, it would be perfect on here.

Will it be available on Xbox?

Oooo new episode. Look forward ro new series. Butni really dont care about the militia and raiders aide of it, foe what its worth.

Loved watching your town grow! Side note however I think you forgot to assign a ox to your farm after you built the plot station, or I might of missed you assign one 😂

If you are missing food, consider making some of the burgages have carrots or goats or chickens. It will take a family out of commission but it will improve food or invest in your trade development to not spend so much money on trade

You really need the import tax reduction development, importing with +10 is just too expensive

I love that you’re playing other games than Cities skylines but I kinda miss your traffic fixing vids

At 34:13 when you mentioned the windmill during the brief flythrough of the expanded town, my brain just randomly came out with the word "Teamills" as if I was making a name suggestion. Wasn't even thinking of naming conventions but it does sound like it could be a cute little addition to the Tea-themed location names that you're famous for. Great video as always!

I was on the cusp of making it to a large town, then I wasted 60 villagers by converting them into bowmen (utterly useless).

Edit: merged my other comments into once place. I started playing this and noticed a few kind of key things that you didn't quite address or made a mistake about in the video. 1. Playing myself I noticed that the new region is a new town and it has separate development points, which seem to be limited, so you want to focus on a particular branch I suspect. Since you have poor fertility, I would imagine going for any farming development unlocks is a bit of a waste, though I guess you are kind of forced to if your starting region is crap (each new game starts you in a random region) 2. You can actually trade many goods without paying for the trade route. I guess it's just to get a dedicated trade route going from the trader. 3. The resource tab defaults to showing spare resources. You can click the little bent arrow to the left of the resources to switch it to show how many resources you have in total. 4. Each house counts as every level under it. In other words if you have 10 level 3 houses, those houses count as level 3, level 2 and level 1. You probably assumed you need to replace the level 2 houses because during construction they don't count towards any level. 5. Be careful with level 3 houses. The new family must be an artisan if it's a workshop of some kind and they will start using more resources, you might eat into your raw resources fast. A single lvl 3 will get you -1 approval if you do not have enough ale and if approval is too low my understanding is that people will start leaving. 6. You don't actually need the livestock trader to get oxen, you can just order them straight out of the stable or hitching post. Same price, just limited to 1 per month, but doesn't feel like the trader is much faster. Shame that animals do not produce meat yet (or at least there is no mention)