Manor Lords

Manor Lords offers you complete freedom of city building – rotate and place buildings as you wish, anywhere. The construction mechanics are based on the principles of building real medieval towns and villages, when the formation and development of settlements largely depended on the landscape and the location of important trade routes.

• Start with a central market and gradually expand, completing residential, commercial and industrial areas, taking into account the natural landscape. Build farms on fertile soils, choose hunting grounds in wild animal habitats and ensure access to wood and other resources necessary for construction and further development.
• Design residential areas and watch as villagers begin to build their homes in full accordance with the historical feudal land lease system. Each region will be further divided according to the location of roads and allocated space, and houses will be placed in them accordingly.
• Build additions to the back of your larger homes to provide a source of income and resources that you can’t get in any other way. Homeowners don’t just pay taxes – they grow vegetables, raise chickens and goats, and provide for themselves and their neighbors in addition to what your farms, pastures, and manufactories produce.
• Each season brings new opportunities and new challenges: help your people with the harvest after the abundant spring rains and with the preparation for the harsh winter cold.

From boots to barley, from hides to honey, Manor Lords offers a huge variety of products and goods that are appropriate for their era. Materials must be transported and processed, and production chains must be established to produce goods. Be prepared to decide what is more important to you: satisfying the basic needs of your subjects or creating luxury goods, producing goods for export or weapons and armor for military campaigns.

• Resources are scattered across the map – and to get to them, you will have to expand your holdings and establish specialized settlements. Mining colonies will provide you with valuable ores, and villages specializing in agriculture, cattle breeding and hunting will bring you grain and meat.
• At the same time, uncontrolled expansion will have negative consequences for the environment. Under the pressure of civilization, herds of deer will leave their forests, insufficient crop rotation will make the soil less fertile, and too much tree cutting will result in your lands being deforested.
• Sell surplus goods to traveling merchants or create your own trade routes. Producing and exporting quality goods will provide you with the means to develop your city, pay taxes to your lord, hire mercenaries, and discover technologies to create new industries, goods, and tools.